The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-06-13
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II q 8 somewhat remarkable fact thai


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Ii is a somewhat remarkable fact that
the presidents OF the United States ave
had few male children. Some had none at
Aii, others daughters only, while, sadder
sttIl, the sons of several were taken
away by the grim angel early IN life.
and the longing ambition of their fath-
ers for an extended family tree was
bias Washington, Madison. jack
eon and Polk had no issue. Jefferson.
Monroe, Fillmore and Johnson mad no
sons. Buchanan was a bachelor.
Plerce's two children. both boys. dled
before reaching maturity, Two sons OF
Abraham Lincoln died young. leaving
Robert, who also lost a boy, but has an
other living. Benjamin Harrison,s son
has a daughter, and his daughter has a
son, but there Is no male child to per-
petuate his name. George Washlns-
tons desire for a son must have cost him
great disappointment. In his waning
years he gratlhed parental longings by
adopting the grandchildren of his wife.
These were gorge Washington Parke
Curtis and Nellie Curtis. But even
Washington's adopted son a no male
1SSuC, anu lbs Oilly SIllA was AZ y
to General Robert E.. Lee.
Anew Invention of interest to railroad
men is an electrical weeder, which Will
run at an Express speed and cut down
all weeds that line h track. An ordi-
nary fiat car is equipped with metal
brushes. which extend out over each
side Of the car. TheIr height is regu-
lated SO hat they will brush the top OF
the weeds as the cars move along. "A
dynamo on the car, run while the train
is In motion, is connected with the met
allfo brushes, which receives the full
force of the current. The circuit is then
grounded through the wheels to the
track. When the current Is turned on II
passes from metal brushes through the
weeds to the ground, thus completing
the circuit. The current is so powerful
that the weeds, which serve as a con-
ductor, are Instantly shriveled up. 1t
is necessary to wet the weeds in order
to make them good conductors, so the
owe wait until a rain.
A unique law is still in force at Star
gard, in Prusslan Pommerania. A para
graph of the police regulations Of 1910,
which Is still being enacted, reads:
Smoking in the streets or promenades
of this town is positively prohibited, vlo-
lators of this law being punished by a
fine, or eventually by a number of lash
cs with q switch equivalent to the num-
Der Of marks the fine amounts o." Upon
the strength of this law some reaction
airy friends of the blue laws have recent
ly hauled a number of respectable ci.i-
gems before the courts. The magistrate.
y = y ,t- - 80 1I11 L. "A - l,,n ~ n
Of h accused parties, because they all
freely admitted Of having smoked in
the streets.
A venerable mud turtle was found In
Woodstock, Mich, a few days ago. His
shellship had evidently been seen before
and had been in the hands of the en-
graver, who had cut upon the roof OF his
habitation the inscription, u. B., 1860"
This was not all. as the shell was em-
bellished with a cut representing the
square and compasses, as constituting
a Masonic emblem. 1t is not recorded
that the turtle had visited any Of the
lodges in that vicinity, however. George
Bowen, It's finder, kept the reptile until
he ascertained that 1t did not now how
to Hstep off" as a Master Mason, when
he headed him toward the prohibition
headquarters and turned him loose.
e-
Americans are more generous, as a
class, than the English, but they prefer
to be generous to their liking rather
than in recognition of a claim upon
them. A rich woman died the other day,
a childless widow, and left $50, 900 to a
woman's college. although nearly re-
lated to her are two young girls who
are crying their pretty eyes u because
they cannot have a college education.
1t did not even occur to this really kind
hearted relative that h might have at
tached two temporary scholarships as
conditions to her handsome bequest. and
thus helped In two ways, although the
circumstances of the case We're well un-
derstood and more than once deplored
by her. I,
The newest idea in locks is one with
out a dial and which is opened by the
use OF the fingers n the sense of feel
ing or that of hearing. The action OF q
frame dropping into a number of CORFU
cations and manipulated by the knob
can be heard and felt, and it Is by these
sounds that the manipulation is guided
In throwing back the lock. The knot Is
turned to the right and to the left again,
dllu ll1lally d. luEl HlCn III dWS Ddkh liC
bolt. The lock is capable of 800 combi-
nations. and the combinations can be
changed at any time.
A Pasadena woman is devoting a
large part Of her time t. making MARINA
a d from a species Of orange cultivated
for that purpose-the Sevillian. A Red
lands man is making syrup from orange
juice. vinegar from the pulp, oil from
the rind, and selling candied peel and
dried rind. These are but examples Of
the ~multifarious possibilities OF the
orange, which, as yet. is scarcely appre-
cia.ed In California. and thought of
merely as a refreshing fruit.
The English government has recently
assumed control of all the trunk line or
long distance telephone business in the
United Kingdom. For this purpose $5,-
900, 900 has been appropriated by the
house of to purchase existing
lines and an additional sum Of ST. 500, 900
MAS since been appropriated for the cree
Mon of additional lines.
Mrs. u. s.. Grant, wife of the general,
has written a letter to Senator Squire,
thanking him for the resolution which
he has introduced in the senate provid-
ing for a Grant statue. II have long
looked and hoped for an expression of
some kind from the government says
Mrs. Grant, and think your thought, II
carried out, would be a grand fulfillment
of that hope. I thank you, senator"
Macbeth's duel with Macduff had Sc
rious consequences at a performance at
Chatham, in England, lately. Gordon
Craig. Ellen Terry's son. who was act
ing Macbeth, broke his word and gave
Macduff a bad cut on his hand. The
curtain was ru1g down, when a rope
broke. and the curtain hit a scene shift
er on the head, knocking him senseless.
A petritied nan was found the other
day In a forest near Columbus, O., but
most of the other male residents of that