The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-09-07

flOt1c organizations which were brought
into existence as a result of the patriot
ism awakened by the Philadelphia Cen
tennial exhibition. Realizing that Mar
ietta Is rich in historic associations
which should not be allowed to die out,
this society has so far erected five me-
mortal stones in that city. One marks
the spot on which a stockade erected
during the French and indian war
stood; a second marks the site of Fort
Harmar; still another the spot on which
General Arthur st. Clair was inaugu-
rated governor of the territory: n fourth
designates the portion of the river bank
where forty-eight pioneers landed in
17SS, and a fifth stone commentaries
the landing of the pioneer families of
the h company.
One of New York's life insurance
companies. which advertised that 1t
would pay the policies of suicides as
readily as those of any other insurers,
has withdrawn its offer. This does not
mean, of course, that no policies of sui
ctdes will be paid, as the companies
cannot always do as they please on hat
score, but 1t Zoe mean that this par
ticular company found it Improbable
business to advertise for suicides
claims. Zoo many people, strangely
enough, We're found apparently willing
to accept the chance of getting out of
the world while leaving means Of sup
port behind to their families.
A noticeable feature in the hard wood
operations of the lumbermen and manu-
facturers Is the strict economy observed
in the use Of materials, in marked con-
trast with the methods that used to pre-
vail In the pine mills. Nothing is al
lowed to go to waste, and the dump
pile lis unknown. The sawdust is used
for fuel. and the timber that cannot be
used is converted into tirewood, in
which form 1t finds n ready market at
profitable prices. No kind of timber
that grows is looked upon as worthless,
and my kind of a log the farmer brings
In has a value and will bring cash at
the mill or railroad station.
Leonard w. Volk, the well known
sculptor, died on Sunday last at osce-
ola, Wis. Mr.. Volk was born in Wells
burg. N. Y, in 1928. and went to Chi
cago In 1867. He was one of the most
famous of American sculptors, his bust
of Lincoln being conceded to be the
best In existence. Among his other no.
table pieces are the Douglas monument,
In Chicago; the statuary of the Henry
Keep monument, at Waterfowl, N. ";
Lincoln, in the state house at Spring
field, ILL.,, inc busts of Henry Clay,
Zachariah Chandler, DR.. Daniel Brain
ard, Bishop Fowler, David Davis.
Thomas B. Bryan, Leonard SWEET, Eli
hu B. Washburn and others.
1t Is well known that the thickness of
the layer of fine sand in flltering beds
cannot be reduced beyond a certain
point without endangering the quality
of the water that filters through. DIR.
kurth of Bremen has found in examin-
ing water altered through a layer not
sufficiently thick that the number of
bacteria was greatly increased, owing
to the presence of a special microbe that
could not be found in the water before
it entered the filter. These microbes
must, therefore, have existed in the FL
terfng material and have been devel-
oped by the passage of water through it.
1T is said that a pretty girl recently |
gave Governor Stone of Missouri a les
son In etiquette. 1t was at a convention
held at Pertle Springs, Mo. The gov
ernor sat at the front of the platform.
on which We're a number of women. He
was smoking a cigar. The young
woman leaned over from behind him
and said: Governor Stone. don't you
think you are setting d bad example by
smoking? There are many aides pres
ent." Il guess you're right said the |
governor, without turning round, and
he tossed away his cigar.
At one time the duke of Wellington's
extreme popularity was rather embar-
RAISING. For instance, on leaving home
each day he was always intercepted by
an affectionate mob. who insisted on
hosting him on their shoulders and ask
ing where they should carry him. 1t
was not always convenient for him to
say where he was going, so he used to
say: Garry me home. carry me home"
and SO he used to be brought home half
a dozen times a day a few minutes after
leaving his own door.
1t is understood that Public Printer
Benedict has made arrangements to
have the Congressional Record set en-
tirely on linotype machines, which will
be purchased outright. Not less than
thirty will be used to take the place of
the 100 compositors employed every
II OA IL EIAtCoIu. "a 7liltle Is no
show on earth of shutting off the supply
or oratory in congress. the only alter
native left to the government is to have
1t embalmed at as little cost as posi-
BILE.
According to a report to the depart
ment of state by Consul Eugene Ger
main, at Zurich, the destruction of
vineyards in Italy by an insect COM
monty now as the vine louise has been
enormous. Since the appearance of the
insect in that country 1t has totally
ruined 2s2, 500 acres of vineyards and
1885, 100 acres partly. Sicily has been
and Is still the greatest sufferer from
the pest. The vineyards ruined on that
island cover an area of 229. Sol acres,
md 156,323 are partly destroyed.
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A splendid structure is the royal pal
ace at Madrid, but the bobtail mule
cars run by the front gate of the palace
and the new railway station is just be-
him the back yard. a crowd of the
common people must always be dis
persed when the queen goes out riding
with her little son and the hoodlums
crack jokes at the expense of the royal
equipage.
Arizona is looking up as a honey pro-
ducing territory. The shipments of
that sweet product from there th:s sea-
son will. it is 'stimated, be not less than
t23 tons.
A Russian geographer is said to be
preparing an atlas on an entirely new
principle. The places on the map will
be put down not according to actual
distance from a standard point, but ac-
cording to the cost of transportation.
New York. for instance, will be nearer
London han Rochester, in Kent, as it
costs less to ship goods across the At
tantic than to send them twenty-eight
miles by rail to London.
Governor Morton INDUCES in only two
or three cigars a day, and these very
mild ones. He Is abstemious in the use
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