The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-03-06
FACT AND FANCY.

FACT AND FANCY.
Hard coal at Halena, Montana, il
$23per ton.
Mexican chamber "maids" are al
ways Indian boys.
Hooking valley becomes in the
English press "Hockins'' valley.
The first case of cremation in Mex
leo took place on the, 22d ult. at the
City of Mexico.
A t%obacconist in Easton, Pa, re-
Gently received 5000 pennies ip pay
ment for a debt.
A strong organization of wire-fence
cutters have commenced operations
in Colfax county, New Mexico.
The families of idle mill operatives
at Paterson. N, j., r reduced to
eating cats and dogs to keep alive.
The average gold yield Of the mines
from $4,000, 900 TO 81, 600. 900 per year.
An English doctor asserts that a
person who can his ears at will
is a suspicious character and a not
be trusted.
Canadian customs officials as a
special favor permit the bringing over
of costumes for the Montreal carnival
at a duty of 10 per cent. .
The new conservatory of Mrs. E. B..
Croker, at San Francisco, is the
second largest in the country. 1t GOV.
ers $4,000 square feet of ground.
Some New York ladies who give
Sunday evening receptions have been
requested by clergymen to discon-
tinue for the sake of social, morality.
A commercial salesman says that
more cigars and tobacco are used in
Washington in proportion to popula-
ton than in any other city in the coun-
There are four thousand public IL
braries in the United States, contain
ing fifteen million volumes, toward
the support of which So, 0 900 are
annually paid.
Floating sawmills are common on
the lower Mississippi. They pick up
the drifting logs, turn them into lum-
Der, and sell the product to the plan
tiers along the shore.
During the past week about 14O
families, aggregating 700 persons, en-
tered North Carolina as settlers. The
majority were from the New England
states and Pennsylvania.
Sister Mary Cyril, of the charity
hospital, New Orleans, was last week
invested with golden crown, in COM
memoration of the completion Of fifty
years services in the order.
The living worms that have been
discovered III ice are described by
Prof. Leidy as being white or colorless
and from o~ne-quarter to one-sixth of
an inch long by seventy-ffth of an
inch in thickness, the species being
unknown.
The phosphate trade is undergoing
great development in Canada. Dur
ing the past year the shipments of the
mineral amounted to 2O,461 tons as
compared with II, 200 i'll 1883, Is, DOC
tons in 1882, 10000 tons in 1881, and
$500 tons in 1880.
The question of branding cattle is
again being considered by Montana
stockmen. A hide not branded will
bring 81 to $1.50 more than one side.
branded, and the present custom is
estimated to cost Montana breeders
alone $1,000. 900 a year.
The year 1885 finds four English
judges still actively pursuing their ju.
dicial labors after attaining the age Of
fourscore years. They are Vice Chan.
cellor Bacon, who is in his 87th year
Judge Petersdorff, in his S5; Judge
Hutton, in his SD, and Judge Bayley
of the Westminster county court, also
in his SD year.
A movement has been started tt
keep Francis Murphy in Pittsburgh as
the minister of a ''church of gospel
temperance" A fund of S., 900 has
already been raised in its support
During his late campaign of eigh
weeks in that city Mr.. Murphy obtain
ed eighteen thousand signatures to tn,
temperance pledge.
Mr.. Alexander Dumas has presented
to the Coincide Franchise the only
known example of the handwriting O
Moliere. 1t is an act of one of hi
plays, with his signature appended a
the bottom of the last page. 1t will b,
framed with this signature exposed t.
view, and placed in the green room o
the theater.
A Vicksburg, Miss, colored maj
has written and published a book witt
the odd title of "a Negroes Opinion il
a Little Book of Big Things" Th,
book refers to the condition of tn,
colored race, and, although rathe,
ambitious in style and language, con
tains many excellent and very sount
ideas.
1t being shown by test that 2S2, 24t
pounds OF coal will propel a ship ant
cargo weighing $500, 900 pounds
distance of $3.50 miles, The Raiiroat
Gasette goes to its arithmetic to SHOW
that an ordinary letter, if burned il
the ships boiler, will generate sufi
Gent energy to transport n ton o
freight n mile.
Alma Tadema's latest picture rep
resents boys and girls lying under
spreading oak and reading Horace
Speaking Of the Roman poet, the lat,
President Garfield once asked J. Ran
dolph Tucker il he knew where oul
motto, "E Pluribus Unum," wa.
found. MI. Tucker didn't. s.Well,'
said Garfield, sit comes from Horace
and he turned to a page where the
poet describes the making Of q salad,
winding up with the remark that i
was sc pluribus unun."
Mr.. Labouchere relates in Truk1
that he was at Florence when til,
grand duke was turned out. II was II
the palace" he says, "when a patriot
lie but practical Italian friend Of mine
said: ''Metternich always sent the fall
len despot some of his best wine; let u!
drink it.'' The proposal was carried
by reclamation. A trembling menial
was ordered to bring up the wine
under pain of instant execution. w
drank it. 1t was si%ngularly excellent