The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-10-06
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100 years.
The residents of Vienna last year ate
10. 207 horses.
Among flowers chrysanthemums live
tie longest after being cut.
The tlattening of the poles of Jupiter
car be seen through the telescope.
Decapitate u snail and put the body
In a cool, moist place and n new head
grows.
A Wheeling, w. Va, mar claims to
have a canary that can whistle Yankee
Doodle"
The popular belief that May is au I'M
lucky month for marriages dates from
Roman times.
The luster of morocco may be re-
tanned by applying the white OF an egg
with a sponge.
In an Oregon town there is an octo-
genarian who is an enthusiastic rider
OF the bicycle.
An elephant is fifty or sixty year, in
attaining maturity, and will live a CEN
fury and a half.
The application of electricity to the
smelling of iron is being experimental
with in Sweden.
In the days of Columbus only seven
metals were known to exist. Now
there are fifty-one.
The Greek church employs two rings
IN the marriage ceremony-one OF gold,
the other of silver.
The note of the bell-bird sounds liks
the tolling of a bell, and can be heard q
distance of three miles.
A very small humming bird. not
much larger than a house fly, is COM
mon in the East Indies.
Queen Victoria rules II, ATS, o57 square
miles of the earth's territory and $751;
725.s57 of its population.
Horses are so cheap and plentiful in
Chilli and Buenos Ayres that even the
beggars ride on horseback.
Ivy trained against the side of a
house absorbs dampness and tends to
keep the air dry inside the dwelling. r.
The tallest man on the Pacific coast
is Samuel Hutchinson, of Prescott,
Wash. His height is Z feet 1-2}inches.
st. Louis has twenty-five RAILWAYS
and is one of the foremost cotton cen
ters, the receipts exceeding 800, 600
bales.
An elephant takes up tho collection
In some of the Hindoo temples. 1t
goes around with a basket extended
from its trunk.
A money sieve has been invented by
. Brooklyn deacon. 1t sorts the pen
nies, nickles, dimes and quarters taken
at the church collections.
In 1864 the pointed hoods worn by
the ladies often reached four feet above
the head, making the lady's face appear
about the center Of the body.
A remarkable animal is the ornithor-
hyncus p%aradoxus. 1t has a beak like
. duck, a body like an otter, is web
footed, is amphibious and lays Eggs. i,
Electrical weaving machines are in
use in Germany. Seamless stockings
with double heels are ratified out of each
machine at the rate of eleven pairs an
hour.
No one has yet been able to construct
Q vessel which can resist the force of
freezing water. T%wenty-pound stee!
shells have been rent as ii they were
glass.
In the Roman catacombs have been
found several sets of false teeth, manu-
featured from ivory to repair the raw
ages of time in the mouths of Roman
beauties.
From 1884 to 1885 the style of hair
dressing in Paris changed seventeen
times. and went from the extreme OF
short curls and a skull capto a hat three
feet broad.
A Georgia couple have been remar.
ried. after being divorced twenty-eight
years, at the home of Il daughter who
never saw her father till the day of the
ceremony.
Experiments are being conducted at
the armory in Springfield, Mass, in the
use of aluminium for the bayonet scab-
bards for the new rifle. While the
metal works we'll in bending and is
about so per cent lighter than the steel
scabbard, no satisfactory method has
been devised for soldering the edges to-
gether.
The enormous strength of the condor
is only equaled by his voracity and
boldness. This immense bird often
pounces upon small animals, but, from
the shape and bluntness of his claws, he
is unable to carry anything heavy, so he
contents himself with fixing it against
the ground with one of his claws, while
with the other and his powerful beak he
rends it to pieces. Gorged with food.
the bird then becomes incapable of
flight and may be approached. but any
attempt at capture is furiously resisted.
The amount of energy wastedin wind
and tidal motions and in evaporation
by the sun far exceeds the imagination
of man. The earth is a center of enor-
nous energies of which an intinitesimal
part only IS utilized by man-with the
exhaustion of coal will come about the
necessity of utilizing some of these
energies. The future man may eat a
meal cooked by the tidal flow, may
traverse the ocean in boats driven by
engines and may regard the
steam engine as u relic of u barbario
age.
The process Of stereotyping is lis
vears old