The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1891-01-23
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The shipments of wheat from Ante.
slors Valley, Los Angeles County. for
1890 were 94.894 sacks, equal to 4. co.,
$50 pounds.
A dealer in artificial limbs says that
fully 800. 600 Americans have lost one
or both legs. and at least loo. 900 are
minus nm arm.
A little armadillo. the mulita. OF Uru-
quay. is mentioned as the living repre-
sentative OF those antediluvian giants.
the %n,ylodon, mastodon. megatherium,
etc.
There are more evictions for nom
payment OF rent in New York and
Brooklyn in one year. says a Judge of
the latter city. than in Ireland in two
years.
In one single day last summer los
Americans visited Burns birthplace.
The pilgrims during theyear numbered
10000 to the cottage and SO. 900 to the
MONUMENT.
The isolated Galapagos Archipelago
10 4 rich repository OF animal aud
vegetable forms. Its flcra differs by
one-half of its species from that of the
rest OF the globe.
Kosspth, the great Hungarian patriot
Is passing his old age in che bitterness
of poverty. He is "a years old, feeble,
s%ad-hesrted, and will not long remain
unclaimed Of death.
The u gives 600. 600 times rs much
light as the full moon. 1000, 900. 900
AltHao n r,y.t, ar tI,D b,,.,.l,Ao,k .k,, t.,
the sky, and SO, 600, 900 times as much
q. all the stars in the heavens COM
bined.
A golden eagle weighing thirty-ive
pounds was killed a short time ago on
the Sisseton reservation, Montana.
The bird stood three and a half feet
high aud measured nine feet from tip
to tip.
Uruguay has n healthy climate, and,
according to its tables Of mortality for
1882, out Of a total of 9,G40 deaths.
forty.tiye were OF persons over II
hundred years Of age. Its death rate
is only 1850 per 1000.
The Mediterranean is comparatively
shallow. Adrying up of 6G0 feet would
leave three different seas, and Africa
would be joined to Italy. The British
channel is more like a pond, which ac-
counts for its choppy waves.
Some ladies of high social position in
New York are said to have started n
society flor the advancement of pro-
priety and frugality in dress Among
the things to be avoided are decollete
dresses and sleeveless bodices.
About a century ago it was estimated
that, Paris had only about fifty pick
pockets; now the police reports show
that their number has reached 4, 900 in
the metropolis alone, and about ten
thousand in the rest OF France.
There are 16. 900 public schools in
Missouri. The new state superintendent
proposes TO introduce "A uniform system
Of instruction and II specified course of
instructions to be published in pamphlet
form and sent to each teacher of the
state.
S. +. Hershey says in a recent article:
woman lives longer than man, goes
insane less numerouslv, commits sui
eide one-thi-d as often, makes one
tenth the demand on the public purse
for support in jail, prisons aud aims
houses"
Mrs. Belle Wooster Higgins, of Sui
Ivan, Me-, has had nineteen years ot
seAslife. and has sailed to every part Of
the globe. She is an expert in navigl-
ton, and could take n ship to any port.
foreign or domestic, should it ever be-
come necessary.
Mrs. Garfield is said to be over.
0uholn,nA h, M. n,,,oe,rrIorao vnk
ters come to her from every part of the
country and on every conceivable topic.
Every communication she receives is
given careful attention, and frequently
apleasant letter of some length is sels
in answer.
The Detroit Free Press says: ..k !,
boy fifteen years of age should be lief
ten acres Of landAin Michigan, aud. hi
guardian should cover it with hickor,
trees. the income of the boy when h,
came to DO thirty years old would b,
from 50, 600 to $l1, 900 clean cash off hi
little farm.
Occasionally the return of the swal
low or the nightingale may be some
what delayed, but most sea fowls ma,
be trusted, it is said, as the almanac it
j self. Were they satellites r%evolvin:
around this earth their arrival coui,
hardly be more surely calculated by al
astronomer.
Webb c. Hayes. the ex-President'
son, lives in Cleveland, where he i
rated a keen and successful bushes
man. He is Treasurer of one corpora
ton and a stakeholder in several 9th
ers. He is a bachelor and occupie
handsome apartments in the east en-
of the city.
According to the latest issue of til
Newspaper Directory" there were n
less than 3,4S1, 610, 900 copies of mags
zines, papers and periodicals issued i
this country or a number more tina
sufficient to afford every man, woma
and child in the United States on
paper per week for n year..
The Ural Mountains were a%ncientl
the subject Of various myths. Th
Slavoninns who. in the eleventh Gel
fury frequently visited the region {
Urals for trade, described them a
mountains. reaching the sky. intel
sected by terrible precipices, and /;
being inhabited by n population of cay
jewellers.
1t has been estimated thatthc volnm
of water poured into the Rio de
Plata exceeds the aggregate discharg
OF all the rivers of Europe put togelhe
Its ordinary How at some points
100. 900 cubic feet per second. III
ordinary volume of water in the Ur,
quay River averages II. 000, 900 of cub
feet per minute.
Brigtrm Young did not possess ii
fabulous wealthtkat was credited
him. He left just 81. 200. 900 when |
died, and this sum was divided accor.
Ing 70 the strictest laws of equi,
among eighteen wives and their chi
dren. Amelia Folsom. Brigham
favorite spouse. is still alive and is
most charming
Sitting Bulls language was a cor
pound of pure Sioux and mongr
English, in which a number of Frent
words were mixed. The Inter had bee
picked up from the post traders, and
their expressions were frequently mo
%emnhafic than nolife. n tnn,lnrfont W.