The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-08-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

W EMS OF lNIEHEST.
Anew York firm IL manufacturing
self-winding clock
Artificial teeth for horses is one Of
the latest inventions.
Il Is found that oil can be produced
from grape seeds, promising 9 per-
manent industry.
But one person in 10000 attains the
age of 100 years. according to insur-
Ance statistics.
Horses are so plentiful in Queens
land that well-broken animal can be
purchased for IS.
The Thomson-Houston Electric COM
pany is said to control 1,030 patents on
its electrical apparatus.
The public park in San Francisco re-
Gently received q cocoanut tree, weigh
ing six tons, from Honolulu.
The Josephine caves in Oregon have
been explored for about ten miles, and
lhey seem to extend far into Califor-
MIA.
Victor Hugo thinks "there is no de-
finite resting place for the mind; the
starting point never leads to conclu-
sion"
There are ninety licensed public
gambling houses in Caracas, the capital
Of Venezuela, all doing prosperous
business.
In Paris the common public schools
are provided with medicine cases, and
instructions ass given for using the
remedies.
A law is to be passed in Costa Rica
making the sale of Indian antiquities
to foreigners crime punishable with
severe penalties.
Two hundred and forty-eight cities
and towns of Massachusetts, have free
libraries, and the state lately provided
aid for the rest.
There are 1000, 900 postal cards used
in this country every day. And women,
as a rule, dislike postal card as much
as they do sore thumb.
There are more bee hives in the United
States, where there are 2,8O0,000, than
in any other country. Greece, famous
for its love of honey, has only $4,000
hives.
The queen regent Of Spain has COM
muted the death sentences of nine
criminals out of tho seventeen that
arc awaiting execution in Spanish
prisons.
A Paris policeman begins service
with ~ cents day, and after twelve
years he gets 85 cents day. The
police have asked for 81 a day as the
minimum.
The Central London railway,in Eng
land, is to run three workmeh's trains
daily, the fare being only 2 cents for
six miles. the cheapest railway fare in
the world.
A Frenchman, NJ. Brandelay, has
succeeded in making pearls by simply
boring holes in pearl oysters, dropping
in minute glass beads, and then her.
metically sealing the holes.
In tearing down house the other
day in Williamsport. Pa, built twenty
five years ago perfectly formed and
mummitied kitten was discovered be-
tween the plastering and the laths OF
the wall.
Bill Poole, the famous prize fighter,
lived for days with bullet in his
heart, before he died giving expression
to the famous words: Wrap me up in
the American flag and I'll die true
American"
A Gardiner, Me-, clergyman allows
his parishioners to pick out the texts
for his sermons. But unless he exer
cises a veto power in some cases the
practice might give rise to awkward
complications.
It is claimed that the boundary line
between Idaho and Washington i:
thirty miles out of the way. and re
survey would probably place SPOKANE
in Idaho, increasing the population o
that state $4,000.
A lifeboat of aluminium has recent
ly been built at Stralsund. 1t will b,
matter of considerable interest to SEE
how this boat will answer, when
thoroughly tested, for it seems more
than likely that its obvious good points
will be counterbalanced by various dis
advantages.
The late General Barnum received q
shot through the body during the war
which wound never healed. 1t rc
mained an open aperture. He placed
prepared cotton in silk handkerchief
and wore it about his body. So he
lived for years. dying few weeks age
in New York.
Everyone may not know that the
Bank Of England notes are made from
new whitc linen cuttings-never from
anything that has been worn. So care
fully is the paper prepared that ever
the number of dips into the pulp made
by each workman is registered on dia
by machinery.
A new feat in mind reading was re-
Gently performed by A. w. Scott, o1
Tompkinsville, Ky. He was blind
folded and put to work at compositor's
case to set type, which he did with &C.
curacy and celebrity, though utterly
Ignorant of the location of the boxe.
containing the various letters.
A man in Liberty, Me-. who is five
feet and seven inches in height, has {
beard six feet and three inches il
length that is tied up in kind Of cue
Nobody notices its length except when
to startle strangers. he shakes out The
reefs and lets his great beard trail unol
the ground. The beard began to grow
twelve years ago.
"A hive OF 5000 bees will produce nbou
h1ty ponnds of honey annually.