The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-09-03
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A suit has been brought in Buffalo
70 recover q, 900 for alternating boys
affections from his father.
Glynn county Georgia, has woman
hermit who has only spoken to three
persons in sixteen years.
The material for IN AK head has to
be heated five times and pass through
the hands of forty workmen before it
is in proper shape.
Seals sleep upon land; they also do
90 floating upon their backs in the sea.
This habit they mostly indulge in
wheN the weather is fine and the sea
calm.
In 1891, says Stall and Eisen, Ger
many imported from Sweden and Nor
way 148, $50 tons of iron ore, of which
62.6S9 tons went to Westphalia and
65,s4l tons to upper Schleswig.
The bones of Jumbo, Barnum's big
elephant, that was killed few years
ago at st. Thomas, Canada, weighed
even 2,4o0 pounds. The total weight
Of the body, bones and all, was six
tons.
Under the conviction that the plu-
mage Of canaries can be altered in
color by varying the food DIR. Beddoe
thinks that the color of the human
hair must eventually be influenced by
particular diets.
Lady Mary Somerset says some
pleasant things of US who are so for
birth or adoption. For one thing, she
Lnft
posted on current topics than men.
There is church in the town of
Bergen, Norway. that is built entirely
of paper. 1t can seat 1000 persons in
comfort, and has been rendered water-
proof by a solution of luicklime. curd-
led milk and white of eggs.
A single seed of an Asiatic pempe-
rion planted on Trevsy grounds, Ber-
lin, propagated vine as large as a
mans body, which In nine weeks grsw
to total length Of nearly 800 feet and
Nuremburg, the great toy-making
center, has had banquet to celebrate
the completion of the 800, 0,00Oth model
steam engine by certain well-known
maker. The same factory has turned
out more than 1926, 900 magic lanterns.
There are now twenty thousand
trained nurses in England, Ireland and
Scotland. The largest hospital in Lon
don employs 250 and the seven next
in size aggregate 1000. So where
such number goes becomes quite
comprehensive.
The measles bacillus, discovered in
Berlin by DR.. Canon, varies from one
three-thousandth to one one thou
sandth Of an inch in length, and pos
sesses characteristics said to be "dif-
terent from those of any other bacillus
known"
Black glass was once used for mir
rors, as we'll as transparent glass with
some black substance on the back. 1t
is related that the Spaniards found
mirrors of polished black stone, both
convex and concave, among the natives
bf South America.
1t has been found that cattle fed on
distillery slops, which require no chew
Ing, soon begin to have diseased teeth
aud gums, and that their teeth decay
In the same manner as the human
teeth. while those that chew natural
food have sound teeth.
More first magnitude stars are in
the field of vision in winter than in
summer. Sirius, Aldebaran. Procyon,
Betelguese, Rigel and Capella are
bright stars seen in the winter months
which are not visible in the evening
hours during the summer.
Thistles, according to the London
Vegetarian Federal Union, are desira-
Die articles of human food. II boiled,
they are "like delicate turnip tops and
may BIO eaten like spinach on toast
with poached or fried eggs, and with .
little olive oil or mixed with cream"
In the Hebrides sea beans are sup
posed to be fairies eggs. Whether
this is correct belief or not it is GER
tain that oil people of the world living
near the ocean have entertained faith
that its waters were inhabited by hui
man-like creatures more or less super
natural. =