The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-01-05
KIMBALI1 GRAPHIC
G. b 1ttsAN, PUBLISHER
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Until quite recently there has been a
general belief that cold ave started
at the north pole. and came sweeping
over the country, bringing the chill
and tho frost from the vast fields OF
ice and snow which they traverscd on
their way. But F%lammarion, the
French meteorotog;lS and scientist, adj
vnnces md supports the theory that
cold waves are I'M no wise connected
with tho north pole, but are direct in
f1uences from the heatless and silent
aether, which is above the blanket OF
tho atmosphere and constitutes the
medium of intcrstellar space. !
The uir constitutes a blanket, MS it
were, some forty or fifty miles in thick
ness, and above this the limitless space
is filled with what, for the want of q
better name, has been called aether.
This aether contains no calorifc plrti-
cles, aud knows no c%aloric, and the
cold, or the absence of heat, is abso.
Lutte. Flanmarion's idea, and the the
DRY is that this envelope of atmosphere
Is even moro susceptible to the attract
Ing influence OF the moon than the
waters of tho oceans, and that there
are consequently periods when this en-
velope is distorted and made thicker in
some portions aud thinner III others.
Everyone knows that the higher the
ascent in n balloon, the colder it grows,
and the reason is that the nearer one
cratc IN Tho aatInr 41a 1aru on1,rso t1,nra
is. 1t is therefore not only possible.
but probably correct, that severe cold
waves are coincident with and caused
by the thinning of the atmosphere
over the locality affected, caused by
fu.-ar attraction or ono disturbance
that acts upon the heavy mir. 1t is an
interesting and plausible theory, at all
events, although it will strike many as
strange to think of cold waves coming
from overhead, instead OF from the
north, which has always popularity
been supposed to be the starting place
of cold in any form.
In the terrible accident on the Man-
haitian Beach railroad, nearly two
years ago, William Haring lost both
his legs. He was engaged at that time
to marry the young widow Parsells
and, in view of the loss of his legs and
the sudden change in his plans, the
company was induced to give him S3O,-
900. In the course of time Haring So
cured a pair of artificial legs and soon
learned to get around with tolerablc
facility. The first use he made of his
Q legs was to hunt up the young
widow and prosecute his interrupted
suit. She smiled on the wooden legs
and the dollars and last Tuesday they
were married and started south on a
wedding tour. 1t is to the credit Of the
widow that in no way during Mr.. nar-
ing's period of affection did she mani
fest any desire to be relieved from her
former vows Of devotion, thereby re-
futing many unlsind things which nre
said from time to time concerning
widows.
Critics never tire of guying Richard
Mansfield for his whims and changes
of mind. For a long time it was a
fancy of his to come out before tho cur
tain at every opportunity and make
long speeches to the audience on every
conceivable topic. Local issues were
his hobby, and it is related that in
Harlem he pitched into tho park com
m%issioners for not lighting tho park at
night. Over Gin Elizabeth the other
night he was called out as usual and to
the great surprise OF the audience his
stage manager appeared and ANNOUNCE
cd that Mr.. Mansfield would never
Again address an audience in the COM
mo style, and that he was displeased
Mt the demnnd. "as it indicaued q lack
of appreciation of tho artistic side of
the actors vocation" The abaslled
audience t%hereunto. went home in
Parson Choclsley of the Baptist
church in Flushing, N. Y, has an
nounced to his congregation, whom he
is stirring up with n revival, that he
has changed his views considerably
since he was a young man. "At one
time" said the parson, 81 never be-
lieved that there were any such things
as devils or that it was possible for any
person to. become possessed OF such
beings. Recent developments, how
ever, have tended to illustrate the falls
ity OF my belief" This was d subtle
slap ut Deacon Thornton who wa hav-
ing some trouble with tho parson about
the organ. The deacon says he will
sue the parson for SANDER.
Gottlieb o Klackenberg, q South
African Boer, has two racing ostriches.
One of them has developed a speed of
twenty-five miles an hour and has q
stride of fourteen feet. The breeding
OF cstriches for racing purposes has
been seriously intcrfered with by the
passage Of an artibett;ng law by tho
English government.
.------~~A 49, u
Out OF every 100 families living on
farms in the United States forty-seven
are free from incumbrauce, nineteen
are mortgnged nnd thirty-four arc
rented. The mortgage indebtedness
amounts to 1888 nm acre., averaging
over all.
$. NJ. Bridgeman,:who died in Chi
sago the other day.at the age of &c,
is q man with a history. He fought in
the Mexican war and was sy~ounded.gAt
Chapultepec. In 1855 he met Allan
Pinkerton and went into the detective
service. During Tho civil wal he did q
great deal of secret service and his dis
covcrics in tho confederate lines
enabled Mcclellan to gain two notable
victories. After the war he returned
to Chicago and was pensiened three
years ago.
Palmer Cox produced the first of his
quaint brownie" pictures about ff-
teen years ago, whenrArthdr:s Gilman,
dean OF the Harvard annex, now Rad
s*rliffe college, asked him for drawings
to Illustrate q humous. manuscript.
about the alphabet.