The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-01-03


f. E. Miller reports a better holiday
trade than for any previous year.
Many a woman is the cause of her hus-
bands success or failure in business.
Three hundred policeman in New York
City are down with the Russian Influenza.
l wouldn't 'swear Off il I were you; |
would just quit-and keep my mouth
shut.
Plankinton is nervous lest the legisla-
ture should close her reform school tenn
pOrarily.
The Cramer stock OF goods in the War
ner building was moved to Plankinton
last week.
1t is an old saw that if ice will bear a
man before Christmas it will not bear a
not afterward.
Hon. j. NJ. Greene, senator, and Repre-
s%entatiyes Maynard and Hilton leave for
Pierre this week.
Sitting Bull is very hot in the collar
because he was not taken to Washington
with the other Sioux Chiefs.
An Albany Wt.) man has shipped to
western markets this year 5000 tons Of
maple sugar valued at $4,000.
Jeff Davis grave is guarded night and
day by a detail of police, and the yigils
will be kept up for at least four months.
Barnum has been put on record as say
ing that "Noah's ark wasn't a bad show
in its way, but you see there wasn't any
competition"
Over 65,oOO elephants are killed every
year in Africa. The ivory obtained from
their tusks brings in the raw state some
thing like s4,oOo,00N.
Jacob Fenner has won his land con-
test against H. S. Dams, and Hans yagts
has been successful in his contest
against Samuel E. Pope.
w. G. Richards and Gus Ehrp drew
the bicycle at the drawing on Tuesday
night. Ticket No. 100 drew the prize, of
which each owned half.
A Michigan mar has distributed one
hundred tickets among women and will
draw a number and marry the woman
holding the lucky ticket.
There is a Latin name for every bird,
beast, reptile and insect, except the pol
lywog and the man who doesn't pay his
subscription to the home paper.
The readers of the GRAPHIC escape the
intliction of the usual New Years editor
ial this year. The EDITORS think tank is
clogged with a mighty hard cold.
An Ohio game protective association
prohibits hunting with a dog. Now let
them knock out the gun and may be
some good will be accomplished in the
direction intended.
An exchange observes that nowadays
the young men don't go down on their
knees before their future wives. They
hold a solitaire diamond ring above their
heads and the girls jump for it.
In the contest case of NJ. Conley vs. j.
G. Byron, on the NE4 Of section s, twp.
103, range 60, which was under contest
since Jan. q, 1882, was finally decided,
on Dec. 60, 1889, in favor Of Conley.
Saturdays storm wa general over the
Northwest. The center of the disturb
ance appears to have been at Huron, but
as no particular damage was done any
y,bnrn ff,at nstu will 1,nvn M hills 10
settle.
What Kimball wants as badly as any
thing is a kerosene inspector. Some of
the fluid that is brought into Kimball
isn't fit to illuminate a hog pen, and it
is sold at the same price as frst-class oil
NJ. C. Stewart has opened a meat mark
ct in the DunkleI building adjoining the
Farmers and Traders Bank. Mack
says he is going to keep nothing but the
very best Of meats and proposes to sell
them at bedrock prices.
The predicted severity Of the winter
has been delayed so long that the beaver
the corn husk, the goose bone and othel
pSIlOiliihV BloolltdCloI dlU LII I'LL
nent danger of being RELOCATED to til,
ranks Of the false prophets.
An announcement of the production
of Henry Dunbar" at the opera-hous,
on Friday evening of next week appear
elsewhere in to-lay's GRAPHIC. It il
possible. however, that the date may b
changed. Ii so, due notice will be given
Mrs. Chas. Sphinx, wife of a promineG
grocer IN Yankton, died last week afte
giving birth to triplets a week previous
The trio was composed of two boys weigh
ing three and Il half pounds each and /,
girl weighing four and a half pounds
all Of which were living at last accounts
There are q good many people, some q
them "old veterans" who firmly believ
that the Government has done very littl
for the soldiers. 1t has done none to
much and will do more, but it has pei
haps paid them and their dependent
more than they think-0yer a thousan
million dollars since 1861,