The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-08-20
Little Graphics.

10 lHe way euSs Pul ~ III Lehouc Is
land.
Seven-eights of the peppermint
used in the world is raised in Wayne
county, n. Y.
| Big social entertainment IN Denver.
5000 people turned out to see
negro hanged.
Nine one-legged men recently
played game Of base ball IN south
ern Illinois with nine one-armed men.
A woman was lately drowned in
New Jersey cheese factory by falling
in vat of whey. She went the
whey of all flesh.
A Missouri paper says that in the
war with Mexico, Missouri stands
ready to furnish all the colonels
needed by the army of invasion.
A gentleman of Plymouth, Mass,
sent his friend in England barrel of
the best Cape cranberries. The
Englishman wrote a letter of thanks,
but was sorry to state that when the
berries arrived they were all sour.
The socialists Of Chicago recently
indulged IN procession and picnic.
One of their banners was inscribed,
"Our children starve for Bread" and
the bill of liquors for the picnic
amounted to 5000.
Having been told by his mother to
pray for whatever he wanted, little
chap Of Brunswick, Me-, asked the
Lord to give him $50 brothers and
sisters. The mother was so disgusted
that she hurried the little sinner off
to bed before he could say, amen.
The vaganes of mankind are unac-
countable. Huntingdon, Conn, fur
nishes the case of a constable who is
sweltering under seven shirts during
the hot season. He has been in office
seven years and thinks it lucky to
wear shirt for each year of his
term.
| Chief Graves, of the engraving
and printing bureau, at w ashington
being asked what design would be
1 PLACED on the government oleomar-
garine stamps, said he thought ga
stuffed goat "a bogus 'butter' as it
were would be about the right
thing"
A bill was presented to the North
Carolina Legislature to extend the
municipal limits of the town of Hen
derson 1000 yards each way from
the depot. The printer made the bill
read l, 700 miles, and the mistake
beng undiscovered, it was passed in
that shape.
The difference between Boston and
Chicago glrls is thus hit off by a
correspondent at the Kaatskill noun
tain house: When climbing the
Kaatskills the Boston girl says: "Tbe
exertion essential to ascend causes
me excessive fatigue" Under the
same circumstance the Chicago glr
exclaims: "Great Scott, but Pm done
up"
A couple of stunning suits have
been made for Philadelphia nader
who is spending the season at Cape
May. One is a regular mermaid dress
of silk elastic Jersey cloth, literally
!. covered with fish scales in lrardescen,
/. hues, which show beautifully on tho
:, sea green of the silk. The other i,
of red silk Jersey cloth, embroidered
: in green.
: A Chicago milkman recently wen
g out to serve his customers. He drov,
D from door to door, without descend
ing from his wagon or making any
sound to attract the attention of tn,
f people he had been in the habit o
y q serving. A policeman seeing hin
y y sitting in his vehicle, with reins il
y hand, shook him, thinking he wa
;. sick and needed rousing. 1t wa
then discovered that the man wa
dead.
The biggest snake story of tn
IS season comes from w. Virginia, an,
e is vouched for by credible witnesses
Is While at work on the farm of Joh1
e Reece, west Of BeIlaire, G. ]. Kembl
e discovered an old female garter snake
7. under swath of rye, three feet il
y length and as thick around as a man'
arm. He placed his foot on its bod,
and by actual count just 1000 littl
t snakes about six inches long ran out
,r all of which Kemble dispatched alon,
st with the old one.
II On recent Sunday the congregs
% ton of the Christian church, at Ha,
$, mony, Ill, was driven out and VOL
e ship broken up by bees, which lnhat
e tied TIE building. Next day tn
people commenced crusade agams
the honey-makers by ripping off th
:" siding on the rear of the church fror
W foundation to roof They found
IS deposit of honey two inches thick an
n Is feet high, which was carried ava
IS in pals and washtubs and divide
g among the neighbors.
>, A Kentuckian recently visited tn,
!, far west and on his return was tellln
: some friends how "powerfnl fond
the Indians were Of whisky. By wa
of illustration he stated that an oil
IS chief in western Dakota offered hir
~ pony, saddle, bride, and lot G
u. L. other things for a pint of wbisk
II which he had with him. "And yo
u wouldn't give it to him?" quesuone
a bystander "Not much. Tha
70 was the last pint ! had left. But i
q shows how fond Indians are Of viii.
70 ky"
10 The Morris Plains, N. j., lunati
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