The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-02-04
MISSING LINKS.
In the United States there are about
10000 oil wells, the daily output OF
which is 1860 barrels.

A little store in Philadelphia has
this sign beside the door: "Coal oil,
wood, milk and other notions"
To escape from a supposed enemy,
. frightened ostrich can travel at the
rate of twenty-five miles an hour.
The first recorded cricket match in
England took place in 1914, the year
previous to the battle of Waterloo.
The heart of the poet Shelley is pre-
served in the house of his son, Sir
Percy Shelley, at Boscombe Manor,
England.
Neatly worked darns and patches
have been discovered in the cloths used
In swathing some OF the Egyptian
mummies.
One million dollars in gold coin
would weigh 3,6s5.S pounds. The same
amount of silver coin would weigh
IS, 929 pounds.
The land in Germany devoted to the
production Of grains used in the man
ufacture of beer would support 5o,-
100000 people.
A bottomless bog exists in Malta
wamkeag, Me. Several bridges have
been built upon it, but each in turn
has sunk from sight.
There is a lighthouse to every four
teen miles of coast in England, to every
thirty-four miles in Ireland and to
every thirty miles in Scotland.
A search is being made in n court
yard of n former convent i'll the City
Of Mexico for S 3.o00.o 900 in coin, be-
lieved to have been buried by nuns.
Jane Cakebread is said to have re-
Gently made her three hundredth np-
pearance in the London police courts.
She holds the London record.
1t is said that in New York city
1000 chattel mortgages on 5000 sa-
looms are held by twenty brewers, dis
%tillers and wholesale liquor dealers.
Within three years the United States
have bought from the Indians about
10000, 900 acres of land. yet there re-
mains about five times that area.
A Rochester physician, who has
been experimenting Of the subject,
AYERS that the mosquito a readily be
aNterminated by the use OF petroleum.
There are hermits in China who tear
out their eyes in order, they say, that
by closing the two gates of love they
may open the thousand gates of Wis
dom.
saints of the most high God" a
new religious sect who indulge in feet
washing rs 4 part of their ceremonies,
are in session near Union City, Michi-
gan.
A new Norwegian version of the
scriptures has just been published, the
work of fifty years bestowed by the
most competent scholors in Nerway in
BUR day.
The Germans believe in doing things
aecently and in order. In the large
cities. before they can start for the
scene of a fire, the tiremen must salute
their commander.
The lands included in the territory
known as the Cherokee land strip were
given to that tribe Of Indians in 1921
IN exchange for their lands in Georgia
and Alabama.
The popular subscription of $4,000
raised in New York city to provide for
lick babies did q great work. Over
10000 families were visited and over
10000 sick were prescribed for.
Awcstern editor met a wcll-edncated
farmer recently and said to him that
} he would like to have something from
; his pen. The farmer sent him a pig
and charged him 1915 for it.
Dr.. Jules Rochard, i'll a paper rcaa
before the French Academy of Medi-
sine. says that prussic acid is among
.he active principles that pass into the
imoke OF a cigar undergoing COM
ouStlon.
"Wen III be gosh darned if I ever
zen n cal showed along with a fishing
pole before" said M old farmer at
Wichita the other day, US he witnessed
,or the first time the operation Of the
trolley.
Two contradictory anne aru ,nose
, If the president and the secretary OF
the national association of letter-car
G riers, which recently held a convention
: in Indianapolis. The name of the pres
ident is Dennis and the name of tho
!. secretary is Victory.
Q Colonel R. T. Auchmuty, the foundel
= Of the New York trade schools ha,
! gathered statistics to show that out o
: k2S, 900, 900 paid annually for mechan
a lcs:in the building trades of New Yori
: ritv, less than S. 900, 900 goes tt mel
v born in this country.
e One Of thc s%trangcst things in Pari
: is a club composed entirely of dea
aud dumb men. The servants. too
cannot hear nor speak. The presidcn
, Of the club is an old man who Tough
! in the Indian wars in America an,
!. whose tongue was cut of by an Indian
: who once took him captive.
> A svndicatc Of American capitalist
= il ahout TO bny Mount ~Popoeatepetl i,
+ nrl}er ia mine its SULPHUR and CONVEX
: into cold cash its jcelcovercd summit
Z. The cholera scare has made n laroel
8 Increased demand for sulphur, and tn
d ice could, of course, be readily lande
e in the markets of Mexico.
Those versions who know how I
! make cherry bounce are now sconriu
HE conntry for rine Wild cherries
When nronerlySmade. cherry bounce
: an admirable cordial to serve with co,
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