The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-08-06
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The little island of Jnmaica sells an
nually to the United States banana.
exceeding in value the entire apple
peach and cherry crop Of this coun.
try.
greyhound mothor ut Nevada,
Mo having had two pups carried OF,
hunted them up. carried them home,
dug q hole under this house and hid
them.
Paper quilts are becoming popular
In Europe. They are cheap and
warm They arc composed of Sheet.
OF perforated white paper sewn to
gether.
The speaker of tho house Of com.
mons receives salary OF $4,000 o
year, and when he retires he is ralsed
to the pccrage with an annual PEN
sion OF 81. ooo
Tho little one.story house of Pau, in
which Marshall Boz nodotte, the first
King OF Sweden, was born, Is still
standing, and was recently offered
for sale.
A farmor near Martinsburg. Mo-,
plowed up perch in his field some
time ago. and whom no placed it in o
tub OF water 4 revived and swan
about as lively ns any fish.
The Bridge of tho Holy Trinity,
Florence, was built in 1869. It is 32a
feet long, of white marble and is even
now rcckonod MS being without rival
as specimen of the bridge building
art.
we are pleased to learn that w. Fl.
Whitlccl, one Of the boys who attended
Ell1ott's business College, Burlington,
L., now has an excellent position in
Chicago ut 81 200 o year.
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-Four cows belonging to D. P. Hous.
ton, farmer near Youngstown, O.,
got into big can of dynamite and ate
their fill of it No explosion occurred,
but oil the animals died from the ef.
fects OF their feast
One of the most eloquent preachers
In Canada is Dr. George Douglass,
whose arms are pnralyzed and who is
totally blind. His arms hang helpless
by his side and his voice seems to come
from dead body.
A heavy plate glass shade, orna.
mented with gold and securely locked
to three staples set in the marble tor
OF q pulpit in church in Brussels, 1,
said to cover one of the thorns which
formed part of the Savior's crown.
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The superintendent OF the archDolo.
gical survey, Madris has reported an
important discovery he has made Of
another cnsket, some relics and in.
scriptions In buddhist stupa at Bhatu.
prolu in the Kisma district
The largest return of jewelry made
to the tax assessor by any private citi.
zcn OF Atlanta is that of negro. The
books of the Atlanta tax receivers
show . phcnominal lncrease in the
wealth of negroes residing in that city.
Cocaine sometimes kills This fact
was forcibly demonstrated in the case
of Benjamin NJ. Noe. at bellevue hos
pital New York, recently Death came
almost as soon as the drug was admin
istered, and the doctors do not doub,
that cocaine was the fatal agent
In India huge funnel of wicker.
woris is planted in stream below q
waterfall, and every fish coming down
drops into it, the water straining on,
and leaving the Hopping prcy in tho
the receptacle nll ready to be gath
ercd in
There are 100000 bicycle riders In
Great Britain, and they all banded to.
gether in the recent elections to vote
for no candidate for parliament who
would not pledge himself to vote in
favor OF making the carrying of lights
by all vehicles at night compulsory.
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Tho photographic bureau at Wash.
ington for two years hos been trying
to learn something of the Characters.
tics OF the Atlantic ocean as great
moving body Of water by bottleA Al
aresult the whole Atlantic is shown
to be slowly circulating round. and
round, like an enormous pool:
A Havana, Cuba, dispatch says: .'The
continuous rains all over the island
have had the effect, of cutting down
the sugar crop to 900. 600 tons, which /,
100000 tons less than the January !
estimate. Other damage by the rains
was great"
The first day of the Chinese new
years foast is called Birds Day
dlay Yat), and is supposed to bring to
mind the-utility of tho feathered tribes
as food. On this day the orthodox
Chinese abstain from eating flesh, and
they sometimes observe it as day o,
fasting.
There are said to be numerous de
eccndnnts Of tho ancient Swiss nobilit,
still existing. some of whom, as the
Berneso family, trace their pediRre.
back to the Romans Others owe theil
distinction to the dukes of Austria, {,
the founders Of Berne and Fribourr
or to the dulecs of Burgundy. More