The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-05-14
Current Notes.


burgh iron manufacturer, says: u
would lay it down as a maxim that
there is no excuse for q strike or a
lockout until arbitration ofdltferences
has been offered by one party II re-
fused by the other
Count de Lesseps is laughed at fo1
being sanguine that he will live till
1889 and charter a steamerS &e his
large and increasing family ottpSdren,
and, passing through the Es,ialna
Canal, return to France by way o
Suez. But the real difficulty by hat
time may be to find a steamer hat
will hold his whole family.
What He Meant: Young Reporter
'The storm king hurled his torn and
tumbling torrents over the ruins OF
the broken and dismembered editice."
Old Editor-"What's chat? What do
you mean. young fellow" Young Re.
porter-"I-e-er-the flood washed !
away Patrick McDougal's old soap
factory"
Fred Decker, better known as the
"Ossian Giant" died at his home at
SWANS, Allegheny County, Pa, a few
days ago, ut the age Of fifty years.
! During his earlier life he was Z feet
2 ID inches in height and weighed 325
pounds. AS he grew older he became
round-shouldered, and at the time OF
his death he was but 6 feet IL inches
high
Maine is probably the only State in
the Union that ever had six Governors
in a space of time less that one year.
In 1913 Governor Fairchild resigned;
Governor C~avanaugh, President ottha
Senate, died, and was succeeded by
Governor Paris, President OF the Sen.
ate. He was succeeded by Governor
Dunn, Speaker OF the House, who i'll
turn was succeeded by Governor Dana
President OF the Senate, and he was
succeeded by Governor Anderson.
elected by the people.
Mr.. Robert Bonner has sixty-one
horses in his string, among them tho
following, which have been purchased
within nine years: Maud S, POS "a;
Rarus, 1918 1-4-trial, oil 1-2;Edwin
Forrest, 2:lS-trial, 2:1l3-1; Pickard.
PAS Id; Rusella, sister OF Maud S;
Nutbourne, brother OF Nutwood, and
also out of the dam OF Maud S, and
Daybreak, out OF the dam OF Jay-Eye.
See.
A large amount of mail matter from
the steamer Oregon has been received
at the Dead-letter office at Washing
ton, and is in fairly good condition.
The newspaper mail, which is pretty
well broken up, is quite q revelation,
as gloves. ribbons, and many other
articles have been found in the papers.
The first slave ship in this country
was the ship Desire, built IN 1886, at
Marblehead, in the stateof Massachu-
sets. The first cargo Of slaves taside
from the few brought in a Dutch ship
was imported in the ship Desire, into
the harbor Of Salem, Mass, in 1898.
One hundred years afterward the Rev.
Jeremy Bclknap, in his history OF
Massachusetts, says that rum distill-
ed IN Boston was the handspring to
the slave traffic.
Never, says the Springfield Republi.
can, was railroad pass acknowledged so
5randly as that forwarded by the
Canadian Pacific to Crowfoot, tho
Blackfeet chief. This was the way he
matched Homer: Great Chief of the
Railway, w. c. Van Horn: | salute
you, Q Chief, o Great. | nm pleased
with railway key, opening road free
to me. The chains and rich covering
OF your name writing, it's wonderful
power to open the road show the
greatness OF your Chieftness. | have
done. Crowfoot.
The orange is believed to have been
cultivated in Hindustan from a re.
mote period and carried to south
western Asia by the Arabs, probably
before the Ninth Century. 1t does
not, however, seem to have been cul.
tivated in Arabia until the beginning
81 the Tenth Century, when it was
llrst planted IN Oman and afterward
carried to Mesopotamia and Syria.
In the Twelfth Century the biearade
was abundantly cultivated in all tie
i'|'uiiG countries, ana the rel urnlnU
soldiers OF the Cross brought it from
Palestine to italy and Provence. 1t
was commonly cultivated in Italy in
the sixteenth Century. The Spanish
:olonists introduced it to the West
India Islands from whence it has
found its way to Florida, where it is
making rapid progress.
"Blizzard" is a word more used IN
the West than elsewhere, and it
signifies an intensely cold, biting
wind. The word, although OF com,
paratively recent growth, it is claimed
has a respectable lineage, being diriv-
Ed from the Anglo Saxon words
"olawan,' meaning to blow, and
%"blysan,' to blaze, as applied to a
flame. The Critic, a year or two ago..
claimed to have found the word "bles,
sart,' while cropping about in the patio
is OF the French Canadian voyageurs,
and that it denotes "a north wind
that cuts like Il knife"