The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-08-30
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Tho Eifel tower is indeed finished.
A swallow has built her nest on its til
top.
4, celored Boyin Jefersonville, Ind,
swallowed a lead pencil. The pencil
and the BOY were saved, but it tool
several hours to do it.
A business man at Portland, Ne.
lost a $40 gold piece while on his way
to his office, anu on his way hopHs
found the coin on the pavement, where
it had lain unnoticed all day.
Mayor Gum of San Diego is a re-
peater in the matter of appointments
to office. Que of his appointees fol-
member of the Board of Public WorkS
Was four times rejected by the City
| Council.
A brilliant Austrian general pro.
poses that, III order to prevent the
enemy from accommodating the movs.
iiients Of troops, the uniforms of SOL
diers shall be made similar in back
and front.
Mr.. Adolf Sutro is travelling about
tho world getting ideas and plans for
the great public library building which
he proposes TO put UP in San Francis
co. Ee will give the building and hid
1000 600 volumes to that city.
Gen. Sheridan's monument will be
completed before the cornerstone of
the Grant shaft is laid. Mrs. Sheridan
wisely determined to erect it herself
instead Of waiting for the slow move
ment OF q mendicant municipality.
A wide-awake Oklahoma pilgrim
who knew that people would have to
cross a river made an impromptu
bridge by cutting down n tree which
grew on the bank and mailing boards
to it. He charged 10 cents toll and
made lots of money.
A comparison of the American and
European contributions at the Paris
exhibition is said to develop two points
that the American constructive sense
is superior to the European, and that
the American decorative sense is in
ferior to tho European.
For forty-eight years there was not
q law case in the town of Meddy-
bemps, Me-; neither was there a law
yer. But two weeks ago a lawyer
hung out his sign in this primitive
paradise, and now two citizens are
going to law owe a fence line.
NJ. Henri Rochefort Jr., who recent
ly killed himself in Algeria, was only
20 years old, but had led a most adj
venturous life. He had been witt
Oliver Pain in the Soudan and with
M. de Brazza on the Congo. He had
also travelled much in South America.
Johannes Brahms, the composer,
has had the freedom of the City of
Hamburg conferred upon him. The
honor is an unusual one, only three
men besides the musician having had
the distinction in the course of Il CEN
fury. Two OF these are Bismarck and
Moltkci
A Kansas paper relates that u man
i'll Saline County during the dry years
sowcd wheat on the same land fol
three successive years without getting
a head of grain. A few years after
the wheat began to grow. and he har-
vested immense wheat crops three
successive years without ever piowing
or sowing,
The Empress Frederick is entirely
rebuilding the house OIL her recently
purchased estate at Kronburg, in the
Taurus, which is within q drive oil
HomhuIg, and a new wing is to be
fitted up for the exclusive use O
npnnn Victrrtn r,hD Inc ,>n,y,s,nI "a II
being well, to pay her daughter an
annual visit.
The ingenuity of the '.heathen
Chinee" is unsurpassed. The native
contractors for closing the breach Oh
the Yellow river, which has caused
so much ruin, when the stream be-
came frozen e laid planks on the
ice and covered them with millet
stalks and earth. They then reported
the breach us closed.
At Scranton recently a parrot had a
very lively tussel with 4 bat. The bal
got in the birds cage and couldn't gel
out. Then it began attacking the par.
rot, diving at her and biting. Polly
yelled: "Gracious, how that hurts!'
and pitched into the bat. The bird
used wings and bill, and soon tore the
little intruder limb from limb.
John Wanamakcr conducts his big
Philadelphia house o the protit-shar.
ing principle. He recently made his
semi-annual dividend, distributing
$l4, 1872 among the 400 employees en-.
titled to share. The amount divided
during the year was S104, 900. 1t is
not believed that he will conduct the
Washington establishment on the same
plan.
A Connecticut gardener stepped on
a needle twelve years ago and it en-
tered his foot. Sunday night he felt n
sharp and severe pricking sensation
in the hip near the joint, and examin-
alton revealed the end of Il needle Just
under the skin. With a small pair OF
pliers it wa drawn out, and with i,
nearly six inches of blue silk thread
which had been in the needle when he
stepped on it.
Tho other day Il child Of John Gen
thcr, OF Kcarney. Neb., was bitten on
the hand by a snake over six feet
long. The child's hand Immediately
o"SiiSu UP ouu uHC IdGuCl CAlIlClCu
three teeth of the snake which were
imbcdded in the flesh of the boys
hand. The boy was given a big dose
OF whisky and put to bed and recover
ed from the bite. The snake was what
is called a bull snake.
A novel way of %defrauding u rail
road company has just been discover
ed by Conductor Baxter, of the Erie.
Ho did not like the looks of the COM
mutation ticket of a youth who lived
iii Ridgewood. and an examination
showed that twenty-oLe dates punched
out by the conductor had been plug
ged and repunched, that is to say, had
been travelled on twice. The young
man had in each case picked mp the
piece of card dropped from the con-
ductor's punch and neatly replaced it.
Tho wearing of the green" is not con-
fined to the millinery and dress goods
of the girl of the period. The fashion
able precious stone at present is the
emerald, though it has only secured
third place in popularity. The diamond
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