The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-07
Cnndeusations.

LIE Petit Journal of Paris has adaily
circulation of 100000.
According to a late decision OF the
Illinois supreme court, "a hoe, in legal
signifcatisa, is q deadly w~eapon--as
maeh so as a loaded pistol.pr an. axe"
it having been shown that a man was
killed with an article of that kind.
Thirty years ago st. Louis had sixty
large steamers III the Cincinnati and
Pittsburg trade, and almost as many
between that point and New Orleans.
Now st. Louis has not a single packet"
and the total arrivals at the leyees are
not over forty a week.
A Providence grocer who sold an ar
ticle on credit and forgot who was the
purchaser sent the bill to six different
customers in the hope of finding the
delinquent, four of whom paid the bill,
which they did not owe, without ques-
ton. There are great possibilities sug-
gested in this fact.
Members of congress receive mileage
in going to and from Washington dur
ing the session, or if on committee work
during a recess. The Fortv-third con-
gress abolished mileage and increased
the salary, but later theaeNd order Of
things was restored and the salary again
made $1,000 per year.
How hard the times have been in
Paris is most clearly indicated on the
accounts of the theatres. These show
that in December and January the re-
ceipts We're 900, 900 francs less than in
! the corresponding months of lSS3-S4.
The first English settlement in the
North west was made at Marietta, Ohio,
on the 7th day of April, 1888. The
pilgrims landed on the site of hat city
from a boat they called the Mayhower,
in honor of the vessel which brought
their ancestors to Plymouth in 1920.
A movement is being made to provide
for the appropriate celebration of the
day as a Western Forefathers' Day
three years hence.
The manufacturers OF barbed wire
have agreed to advance the price Of Il
one-eight Of q cent on one kind and one
fourth on another, and the indications
are that there will be another advances
made in April.
Some people are born exceedingly
lucky, as is shown in the case of q mar
from Hartford, Conn.,, who about five
years ago, with a few hundred dollars,
went to Kansas City and bought a small
strip of land which afterwards proved
to be a sand bed. He bought a horse
and cart and hired some shoyelers; to-
day his fortune is over a quarter OF
million dollars.
"Now Johnie," said the teacher" iii
your father borrows 800, and promises
to pay Sl0a week, how much will he
owe in seven weeEs?' "Oue hundred
dollars" said Johnnie. ''I'm afraid you
don't know your leseon very WE'LL" re
marked the teacher. 81 may not know
my lesson very we'll" Johnnie frankly
acknowledged, ''but l am acquainted
with pa."
A more remarkable OF unique race.
says a traveller, does not exist on the
continent of Africa than the Nasal
They are magniiicently modelled sava
ges, beautifully proportional, and char
acterized by the smooth and rounded
outline of the Apollo type. The won
en- are very decentiy dressed i'll bul
locks hide. They wear, by way of or
nament, from twenty to thirty pounds
Of thick iron wire coiled round the
limbs, arms and neck, besides a great
assortment of beads and iron chains.
At the great Mini Novgorod fair
the sales last year amounted to sizes,
% 5000. The goods came from the
manufacturing countries Of Europe.
from China, India, Persia, Bokhara..
aud khiva.