The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-01-08
All Sorts of Paragrahs.

Kate Field says: Matthew Arnold
may talk about Che superiority Of
American women over men, and know
better. Don't quote a foreiguer-man-
to me. All a man wants from woman
usually is receptivity. American women
are more sympathetic to him than men,
hence in his estimation superior. Don't
talk to me of the superiority of my sex.
When women are SUPERIOR to men they
will demand the suffrage, and several
other things"
American women owe bow to the Pail
Mail Gazette, which says American
girls have q deserved reputation for gen.
eral courage above all their sisters else
where"
A German doctor says: "Melt some
suspected butter, soak worsted or a
wick in 1t. when cold light it like a can
die. blow it cut; if it Is olegmargarine, it
will smell like blown-out candle: if it
is butter, it will smell like BUTTER
The total number of children of
"school age" which varies in each state
from four to sixteen, is estimated at 49,
152 ,2s3; the school rolls for 1882 show a
membership of 8, ISL .53l, however, and
daily average attendance Of 5,705 ,342. !,
The furniture interest in this country
is enormous. Three years ago it
amounted in New York to 300 families
and product ofnearly l0,O00,000. Gin
cinnati had 1l9 factories, with profit of
81 500, 900. Chicago turned out above
Sc ,Q00,000; Philadelphia, s., 100000, and
Boston, 81 100000.
According to the last statistics there
are in Paris, l9l 800 dwellings Inhabited
by rica or well-to-do people, amounting
to 5OO. 900 individuals. and 472, 900 houses
for 100000 workmen or poor people.
About 2n0, 900 human beings are living
in ,753 "garnis" or second.class tene-
| ment houses.
The Baltimore Sun says: "Woman is
luxury-loving and generous buyer,
and it is to her demand for beautiful
fabrics that the manufacturer, under the
| new social conditions OF the last two CEN
turies, has looked with most confidence
for his reward. This demand did not
exist to anything like the same extent a
hundred years ago. when woman, being
regarded in the ordinary walks of life as
a somewhat inferior creature, was re-
stricted in her liberty, her expenditure
and her discretion as to number Of
things, dress included, affecting her
happiness"
Queer old China is the only civilized
country in this world which has not re-
sorted to gas as a means Of lighting, and
even among the rich the methods of il.
Illuminating are primitive in the extreme
though kerosene oil is now rapidly COM
tt,sv Il Al Il
of the treaty ports
A foolish man in San Francisco ad.
vertised for 1920 red-headed girls; must
be good looking" and notsone response
was received. At the suggestion of his
wife. who is red-headed, he advertised
for 1920 golden-hair beauties" and be
fore the paper was out two hours thu
street in front of his Office was crowded
with Just the style OF beauty he desired
The Mobile Register says if intelligen
northern people would visit the soutl
during political campaign and election
they would ''no longer express surprise
that race so ignorant and unframed a
the negro can not withstand the arts ant
devices of superior race."
The New Orleans Picaynne says tina
on Sunday mornings the French marke
in that city is visited by an unusuall
large crowd Of strangers who do tn
market. taking coffee, ETC., attend th
fine services at the Cathedral, and wjn'
up with breakfast at some quaint, out
ot.thc-way little french restaurant.
The last census gave Texas total por
ulation of 1,59l,749, of which 1878
were males and 753, 900 females. Native
born, lat, 1888; foreign.born, 1l4,6lt
whites. l,l97,237; colored s94 5l2. Th
area Of this state includes 1885, 423, II
acres of which only 6,S4l ,7a5 acres al
under cultivation, and 46,302, 800 NJ
covered Nth timber. In 1850 thel
were under cultivation, in corn, 5000
600 acres; in cotton, 2,sl0,I13 acres; j
in wheat. 400, 900; in sug,r. cane, 1sl s!
acres. Ofthe religious sects the Roma
Catholics are the strongest, having
: membership Of 10000 in the state; ne:
are the Methodists, S2,939; then tt
Baptists, 76,S59.