The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-05-13
MEN, WOMEN ANo THINGS.

MEN, WOMEN AND THINGS
A woman in Oregon has worked twenty
years ut stone cutting
Lillian Russell is said to be cnrning
something like 5000 week.
There are $500 women in England who
make living by typesetting.
ncwly.introduced white potato LAS
been named bill Nye" by its grower.
The poet, Burns, spelled his name
Burness (his fnmily nancy until the pub.
licntion of his poems in 1856
Elections In France are always held on
Sunday, In order to suit the convenience
of workingmen and peasants
Prince Bismarck insists that the races
of northern Europe need wine or spirits.
He prefers old cognnc hims.lf.
Thomas A. Garfield the only brother OF
the late President Garfield, resides on C.
little farm near Grand Rapids, Mich.
A young married woman who has found
marriage failure remarked tho other day
that "where ignorance ia bliss tits folly to
be wives"
The circulation of the leading foreign
papers, with the exception of the nrt and
fashion journals, is steadily decreasing in
this country.
Miss Moody, daughter of the we'll
known evangelist, is travelling in the ORR
ont. She writes vividly Of the scenes and
scenery of Egypt
Adelina Patti says thnt when she has
left off singing she will take to acting
Anything TO keep up the delightful "larc
we'll engagement
The average age at which women marry
is255 Married women live two years
longer than single women, although one
woman In seventy dies in Childbirth.
1hc anarchist Ravnchol, just sentenced
in Paris to life imprisonment, is a man of
very temperate habits. He does not
smoke, and his only beverage is water.
Tho archbishop of Canterbury will read
no letters on Sunday For thirty years, it
is said, his grace has refused to allow any
Sunday delivery to bo made ut his country
residence.
Mrs. Gladstone has IN orphnnagc ut
Hawnrden with thirty-fve or forty boys 5
or 6 years old in it, and she gives the lads
her personal attention. Mrs. Gladstone is
G. O. w.
I he New York Association of Working
Girls clubs has twenty different societies
with a membership OF $500. Seven So
cieties rent an entire house, twelve rooms
and one owns its rooms.
The Salvation Army publishes thirty
one weekly newspapers and five monthly
magazines In thirty-scven different col.
onies and countries, with a total annual
circulation of As, 900 copies.
The city of Cincinnati has for many
years bsen favorite abiding place of the
Jews AT recent Jewish celebration
there Rabbi Wise said that "Cincinnnti
would hereafter be the Zion of Judaism in
America"
Neal Dow has bcenimaking scrap books
for many years, and he has now twenty
three very large and thick volumes. He
proposes to bequcath them to collections
of archives to be placed in the Temper
nnce Temple in Chicago.
Miss Lalla Harrison, of Leesburg. Lou
don county, Virginia, has been selected as
the most beautiful woman in the state to
represent it as one of the original thirteen
states at the Columbian Exposition. This
Ia fair TO the fair.
Nearly 10000 pansics will bloom in the
parks and squares of New York within
the next few days. 1t takes l6J employees
of the park department some time to set
them out and then 5000 or more English
daisies will be planted.
What do you think of that artist
who PAINTED cobwebs on his ceiling SO
truthfully that the hired girl wore herself
into nn attack of nervous prostration try
Ing to sweep them down. "There may
have been such an artist, but never such a
hired girl"
The ladies of the Library association of
Otsego, Mich, needed s6)J TO clcar their
amount some of the fair ones blackened
boots, while others sold popcorn, shoe
strings and tatfy on the streets. The
monay was forthcoming.
Various Fronch railroads have offered
premiums to induce their employees to
have large families. Beginning with this
year every workman having more than
three children nnder ID years of nge, and
whose salary docs not exceed s4o7 n year.
will receive $3.50 year for each such child,
payable quarterly
AT Lapcer. on Tuesday. Walter NJ. Rea-
son, official stonographcr of the Sixth iu-
dicial circuit, wrote in one minute, from
! dictation, 324 words of unfamiliar matter,
and subsequently correctly read the same.
The test was made before Herbert w.
Smith and Howard g. Jones. 1his is at
the rate of nearly 51a words per second,
and Mr.. Reason claims the championship