The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-05-11
MISSING LINKS.
Lewis Newman, of New York, ha
had one of his arms broken fourteen

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park with 1000 prairie dogs.
The Metropolitan Railway Company,
of London, is going to try electricity
US a motive of power.
A Baltimore company proposes to
sharpen the SHOES OF car horses in icy
Weather BY means Of electricity with
out removing them from the stable.
Syrian Arab m~edicants are flocking
to this country in large numbers:
Nearly 5000 are already here. and
they are coming in steadily increasing
numbers.
There is n New York mar who FREE
quently gets into difficulty through C.
habit Which he has, when hard up, of
pawning his wife's cork leg for money
to buy drink.
Parrots are fashionable pets in Pills
delphia. One young woman has a
parrot named Dude" who salutes
gentlemen visitors by shouting out,
"Hello, chappie!"
Busts of President and Mrs. Cleve-
land, made of pulp, to which $50, 900
of tattered currency has been reduced,
are for sale in the corridors of the
Capitol at Washington,
A New Orleans woman was awaken.
ed by the heavy breathing of her babe.
and, upon looking, discovered a largo
weasel on the breast Of the child, who
was nearly dead from sutfocation.
"Weight Sociables' are the latest
raz at Yankton. The gentlemen
pick their ladies. take them to the
scales, pay q quarter of a cent a pound
INTO the general fund, and then escort
them to supper.
A Kansas preacher in his sermon
one Sunday morning said that mo-
body not an idiot would play progress
sive cuchre." The collection for de-
fraying incidental expenses of the
church" amounted that morning to II
cents.
alt looked like n fish, but had four
legs attached and its ears were pro-
tected on each side by four stems of
what looked like some vegetable
growth" Such is the description
which a southern paper gives of a
"varmint' which a negro boy found in
the Yazoo river.
Brownsville, Ala, has a corpse or
rather skeleton that will not stay
buried. 1t is that of Henry Luring-
ton, who was killed by the Wilson
raiders, April Is, 1865. Three differ
ent times it has been washed from its
resting place by freshcts, and as often
has been reburied.
Patrick Daley, of Meriden, Conn,
10l years old has just made a contract
with his daughter, Mrs. George Huser,
to pillow her garden in the spring. He
is strong and hearty and can eat 4
big dinner of pork, corned beef, and
cabbage, washing it down with cop
ious draughts of hard cider.
Extended observations at Paris and
at Munich indicate that the sanitary
condition of ~ae1ocality depends upon
the amount of water contained i'll the
ground. The years in which there
has been Il large quantity of ground
water present have invariably been
the healthiest, while those in which
there has been n smaller quantity
have invariably been the unhealthiest.
A traveller in Japan says that one of
the ways to worship Buddah in the
temple of hioto is to chew the PRAYER
paper, and, when soft, throw it in the
form of 4 pellet ut the god, through a
wire screen. If it goes through and
sticks on the god the prayer will be
answered. If it hits on the screen it
is no good. Some of the gods are
thickly plastercd with this school-boy
missile.
The residents of Jacksonville, Ind,
were startled a few days ago, it is re-
ported, at sight of a strange being
passing through the town. The
freak was II negro, who walked on all
tours, and whose body in many re-
spccts resembled that Of some animal.
His hands and feet looked like hoofs.
lie could not talk so u one could
understand him, and was supposed to
be bound for Cincinnati.
The "enchanted rock" in the San
Saba CTeNas) Valley, rises 200 feet
from the plain, and can be seen for a
distance of several miles. In the
moonlight it presents a striking re-
semblance to an immense castle with
its many windows lighted, this effect
being caused by the reflection of the
moons rays from numerous polished
surfaces Of quartz and pyrites of cop
per. The Comanches believei it to be
one of the abodes of the Great Spirit,
and regard it with much reverence.
Young Prince Barclay was dismissed
from the Russian army because his
youngest son was christencd in the
Lutheran faith. His father the we'll
known general, was severely rcpri-
manded for not having prevented it,,
and recently delegates from the Holy
Synod, accompanied by the police,
visited the young Princes house and
announced that-thc child would be
taken from its mother, as she opposed
the fresh christening of her son ac-
cording to the orthodox rite.
The country around Enon, Ga, is
prolific with stories of buried treasures.
1t was in that vicinity that the Con
federate treasure train was captured
while jeff Davis was on his fight
south. a hole eight feet long, four
feet wide and fifteen deep was found
i'll the garden of Il plantation just va
Gated by a colored family. 1t is firmly
believed by the meighbors that the
$40, 900 gold chest, which it is claimed
was buried by some Federal soldier,
has been taken from it.
At Sullivan, on Frenchman's BAY,
opposite Bar Harbor, they dig a she'll
fish which some of the natives declare
superior to scollops. 1t is called
razoriish, from the fact that the shell
is shaped like q razor handle. The
she'll is of u dark blue color, and It is
quite difficult to open it with n knife.
These fish are found in the mud, like
clans. They are very acute of hear
ing. and disappear quickly when dis
turbed, SO that any body who wants to
get Il mess of them Las to dig pretty
lively.
Not the Kind to Swear BY.
Oakland Echoes: u swear by those
tall elms of yonder park" he com
mcnced, but she interrupted him.
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