The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-08-20
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The mires of the world produca
twenty-t tive tons Of gold every week.
Out of 24O, 900 domestic servants in
London, 10000 are always. out of em-
ployment.
It is estimated that two-thirds of the
public money held by the London
banks does not draw interest.
The increase OF population in France
during tho last Eve years amounted to
only one-half Of per cent.
One of the London thcaters admits
free to the performance all soldiers
and sailors who come in uniform.
In Scotland the semi-annual fair for
hiring farm servants and fixing rates
of wages is still an institution.
Jacob Scltz, Jr., of Montville, Pa,
carved an excellellt likeness of each
member of his family upon cane.
1t is estimated that there are less
than 10000 paupers in the Japanese
empire, with its population of 397,-
100000.
A letter came to the Topeka, Kan,
postoiiice the. other day addressed to
aGeorge w. Eigh1quarts." 1t was de-
livered to George w. Peck.
"Good-by" is contraction of aGod
be with you" The Frence adieu means
".to God"-an abbreviation of u COM
mend you to God," or some equivalent
phrase.
The latest thing in night clocks has
an incandesccnt lamp over it and a
yard or SO of silk-wrapped wire which
runs to the bed OF the person whu
wishes to know what time it is in the
dark.
In the new British pharmacopeia
the metric weights and measures will
be adopted, to the entire exclusion of
the English weights and measures
hitherto used there and in the United
States.
In Kansas there is an energetic SUI
perintendent of schools, who, when he
visits the different districts, takes with
him box of tools, saw, hammer, ETC.,
and mends all the broken seats, dam
aged desks, and what not.
An exhibition c;.llcd the magic
Maze of Mirrors" has sprung up in
London. AS the visitor enters the
door he sees q crowd beckoning him
from hundred different angles-an
effect produced by one stuffed image.
The daughter of Professor Huxley,
who is the wrfe of civil engineer, is
now living in the City of Mexico, and
finds, among other English residents
of that place, Rider Haggard and two
great. .grandsons of the famous Lord
Chesterfield.
A writer i'll a recent magazine arti-
Gle declares that the day is not far dis
tant when the entire labor from the
preparing and tilling tho ground to
tho transportation of the crops to the
railway station, will be performed by
electric motors.
A gentle of Concord, Mass, the
heart of the pie-eatng district of New
England boldly asserts that pie of va
rious kinds Is brain stimulator, and
he cites Emerson, Gladstone CARLYLE,
Moliere and others rs giants who
thrived on pie.
The last occasion previous to this
year on which the house of commons
sat on Derby day was in 1882. The
house was then discussing the preven-
tion of crimes bill. For six and thirty
yeale Oclonc 1lltDt tnc mouse nau feSu-
larly Adjourned on Derby day.
ine most famous NINE in Alaska IS
the, Treadwell, bought by Mr. Tread
wen for $500. Messrs. Fry, Freeborn
and Hill, Of San Francisco, with Sem
atorl Jones, of Nevada, became equal
partners. Eight hundred thousand
dollars have been spent in improving
the mine, which has already Welded
IS, D9, 164 in gold bars.
Electricity is now used in French
gun factory for temperiug gun springs.
The springs consist 1of steel wife,
wound spirally, and when they have
been brought to a high temperature
by the passage of tho current. the cir
cult is broken and they are dropped
into trough Of water. 1t is stated
that by this method workman can
temper 2,4o0 springs day.