The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-05-09

SHob RulStss
1t is said shlt y Frsnckman has dis
sovered that by watering dahlias with
tepid water a oeli,,su US aroma is impaired
to them.
AT White HWY q gunner fired four
that it was a decay placed on the water by
schoolboys.
AT a first clas1 restaurant in Phila-
shown q box full Of the reptiles and allowed
to select his minds fancy.
q The Watkin tower, which will be
erected In London and overtop the Eifel
tower by 835 feet, is to have six legs in
stead of four. II will cost about 81, 200,-
COO.
Professor John S. Newberry, in a lee
ture at Columbia college, Saturday, on the
Geological History Of Man." said there
are signs that man lived $4,000 years ago.
THE fatal gift of Eeauty-what ia it7'
said Smithers. "Well, l give it up, unless
-un-unless 1t Is tho Christmas present
your wife gives you and you have to pay
for"
The kangaroo is doomed to extinction
In Australia. The armer object to that
animal for the reason that he eats grass
that would otherwise provide pasture for
sheep.
Queen Elizabeth's prayer book is shown
In the Tudor exhibition in London. 1t is
bound in enameled gold and printed by A.
Barker in 1874, and is one of the chief won
aers of the Tudors shown.
1t has been discovered that the nickel
yn-the-slot machine was an old Egyptian
device for dispensing the purifying water
in the temples. The apparatus was de-
scribed by Hero of Alexander, who lived
COO years b. c.
"A modification of Edison's monograph
Is said 10 have been devised by a painter in
Milan. 1t costs under $50 and the wax
cylinders are reproduced in zinc by the
gnlvano- plastic process at Il cost of S cents
each, selling price.
AT the sale of the late Abraham Hay
wards famous collection of autographs in
London last week, the original draft, with
autographs corrections, of General Lees
last address TO the confederate army was
knocked down for sos.
The spring is full of bloom in England;
primroses and violets are blossoming I'M
der the hedges in the country, and round
about London the landscape Is beginning
to glow with daffodils and gorse flowers,
and the air is soft and warm.
At Paris, Tex, Miss Annie Bayless
was about to marry Edgar Bruton, q rich
young man, whose suit her parents ia
vored. At the last moment she Tilted him,
and within an hour married James r.
Bradbury, a poor blacksmith, whom she
loved.
OF the $1,000 diamond cutters at Ann
sterdam, who are all Jews, 1000 ore stated
to be now without work, az the principal
iiamond cutting establishments have
ceased operations in consequences of the
enormous rise in the price Of raw dia
modds.
An extraordinary feat in telephoning
was recently accomplished between ST.
Petersburg and Bologne, a distance of
Notwithstanding a rather high induction.
The Russian engineers propose to converse
by telephone over q distance of 1865 miles.
AT March, England, a llama or Peru
vian giraffe gave birth to a giraffe, greatly
to the surprise of the attendants. The
baby giraffe was able to see n few hours
after birth, and the manager expects to be
able shortly to exhibit 1t as the first giraffe
born in England.
"A conference held in Berlin has de.
eided that in Germany children shall no,
be employed under l2 years Of ags, and
then only six hours a day up to fourteen,
Women and children not to be employed in
mines; and working Sunday is to be pro
hibited for women and children.
in Madrid when an actor has q benef,
his admirers send to the theater little gifts
such as canes, slipper, game and sucl
%triies, just as II 1t were a donation party
and the employees hand theke gifts around
among the audience for inspection, while
next day a complete list of them is printed
In the papers.
Tho American flag flies over the schoo
house at Mucklerat. Pa, in spite of the
protests of certain foreign coal miners
who threatened all sorts of things il any
body attempted to hoist it. A large mum
Der Of the Order of American Mechanic.
marched into the town and raised the flaf
without opposition.
"A step in q laudable direction has bee,
taken by NJ. Krupp, of Essen, the vel
known gunmaker, who has given q sum o.
800, 600 marks as a fund out of which adj
yances may be made to workingmen wht
are DESTROYS of buying dwelling houses
He has also established a school of house
keeping for the benefit of the daughters o
his workmen.
LA Nature gives an account of al
alarm girdle for men-of-wnr or harbors
10 protect them from the sudden attack q
made of wire with floats, and is supported
BY buoys at intervals all nroun the vessel
When the enemy breaks through the lin,
, night light flares up and indicates tn,
spot.
The latest thing In canes is very hug,
a thickness and has a natural Woo
knarled knob-head. The ferule is now tn,
Itck, and mayhap this 10 the reason tina
certain idiots are to be met en- promenade
earrying these club-like stats end upward
and holding them rigidly at an angle o
u degrees.
The Eihel tower, which has bee,
closed since the exposition, is about to b,
Jeopened. 1t has been overhauled and re
lifted Is to its platforms and other accom-
nodations for the public, the restauran
Service has been r~eorganized and the ele
tators have been tested until it is sur,
bhAt the cold weather does not affect then
~injuriously.
"A Kansas woman presents the strang
anomaly of being The legal wife of tw'
husbands. Mrs. Allen, of Ossawatomie
ried . Mr.. Ricketts,. Her first husban,
has had the decree of divorce set aside
and now the lawyers are trying to settl
which of her husbands shall buy ne
spring bonnet.
Mrs. R. A. Weston, Of Almeda, Ca
had q narrow escape from suffocatio
She was playing with q pet canary, an
pushed the birds head into her moutl
Just then she grow hysterical and shut be
teeth together SO as to stranRle the bir'
Her daughter pulled the canary and Sc
ared its bead, which got into Mrs. Weston
'gullet. She was black in the face whs
the obstruction was removed.
"A young physician attached to Il
Chelsea hospital for women, has invent.
and used, It Is said with success, . machii
which in cases Of cancer, will direct a Gu
rent of electricity against a diseased CT
strong enough to destroy It and at u
same time will not in1ure a healthy ce
Those that are destroyed are said to tut
into q hard substance hat remains wit
out causing the patient any Inconvenience
An electrician, writing recently
the action of electricity on the hum
body, says that just what takes place
the human organization to produce dear
fYem an electric current, seems to be {
unsolved problem. One of the theori
sometimes advanced concerning it is til,
when heing shfers death from electr
shock It Ia a pure case Of internal ruptul
or explosion from the generation of gas
vapor.
There can be such . thing as too mus
natural gas, although lie discovery has IL
TO fortune in some cases. A farmer
Indiana Is in troubls over the matter, f.
gas 10 escaping all over his farm.
lighted match will start . fire Of the esca,
ing gas in hundreds of places on his LAM
and even the water In his well is force
out by gas. The family are frightene
and talk Of removing to escap beir
blown mn,