The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-01-07
MEN, WOMEN AND THINGS.

There are 450 industries in New Orleans
in which women labor.
Octave Thanet is IN adept in the almost
lost art of letter writing.
Cannibalism is still practiced in four
teen places in the word.
The new union station In ST. Louis Will
cover thirtytwo trains and cost 81, 500, 0Oo.
Charles Dickens daughters taught him
TO dance polka. but he couldn't master
the schottsche.
Mr.. Gladstone finds in Roger Bacon
''perhaps the highest British intellect of
the middle ages
Only eight of the G9,O5O Frenchmen who
fought under Napoleon at Waterloo are
now i've and in France
a Mexican street car can be hired for
personal nse for $3.50 day, with right
to stop at any one place for two hours,
A pool room, exclusively for use OF
"ladies, is to be opened in Covington,
Ky, No liquor will be sold on the prem
ises.
In the wine districts of France, Spain
and Italy grapes arc still trodden with
the bare feet under the idea that the wine
is better
The late Amos Shnklc, of Covington,
KY, left his estate, amounting in value
to s2.0oo,Coo almost entirely to his wife
and son.
a book called Memories of the Profess
sioiial and Social Life of John E. Owens,'
the fame il comedian, is soon to be issued
by his wic
One or two Of the older senators arc said
to favor the idea of senator's wearing silR
gowns while in session, like supreme
court Judges.
Senator Mcpherson denounces as an
.'infamous liea the statement that he had
been slated as Mr.. Glevelapds secretary
Of the treasury.
Black patches, ,:.upcd like stars, cres-
cents, horscshocs and even like coaches
aud horses were worn by the ladies Of the
the court of Anne
General Wade Hampton, Of South Caro-
lima: has just written a letter freshly'de-
clarlng that nothing can tempt him to re-
cnterp public life.
Nine. DC Lcsseps is absolutely sure q.
the entire probity of her husband She =
Il good deal like the wives Of most hus-
bands who go wrong.
According to the statistics OF the inter-
state commerce commission railway pas
be killed while travelling.
Mrs Mary Ellen Leases friends now
regard heras a sure winner in the sem
atorial figh.. She is already paired on
rtanequestlons--wit Mr.. Lease.
Bronson Howard says that American
managers arc now seeking American
plays, and that foreign dramatic works
are merely regarded rs stopgaps.
a first edition of Walton's aCompieat
Angler" (l653j, in the original binding.
and first edition of Cotton's complete
Angler fl676l, recently sold for 81 $50.
Professor Charles Seluard has been lee
turing in Philadelphia on the wicl<edness
of that city and Boston. and lie pro-
7rounccd the two cities worse than Paris.
In the Austrian army suicides average
l0,G01 a year. This does not include
foifed attempts, and it represents 20 per
cent of the general mortality among the
Austrian soldiers.
The New York Society for Ethical Gull
turc. OF which Professor Felix Adler is
president, proposes to build hall for IT.
self, to cost s4o0 900, (which about $780,.
coo is already obtained.
Mrs. Talmage is the fortunate possessor
of u Russian sable cloak which, when
worn. reac,es down 10 her feet. Her hus-
band gained something more than the
friendship Of the czar by his visit to Rus.
sia.