The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-02-08

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tainly unique: it reads: "Qu-as-a-po-c-
ka and Ted, Kickapoo a brave, and No.
tosa-gua, q famous Sac and Fox scalpeE,
desire h good father to know that If
the British lion insists on q piece of Ven
eznela, they stand ready to march
through to the frozen zones of the Es-
quimo and scalp the British as they go.
/ do suggest a present OF a pair of blan-
kets, that the impending blizzard may
not chill the ardor OF their patriotic
blood
Sir JacobusAibertus de Wet, the Brit
ish representative in the Transvaal, is
a defendant of Jacobus, the Dutch ar
fist, whose son settled at the cape in
1890. He "a born at the cape over sixty
years ago, and was for many years In
business Mt Somerset, Cape Colony, as
a notary public and law agent. He was
a member Of the legislative assembly
for over twenty years, and In 1890 was
appointed the queens representative at
Pretoria, under the convention of 1884.
He was knighted on his appointment.
and is as popular with the Beers as 1t is
possible for any Africander to be who
holds authority from the queen.
A congressman was reminded of the
irony OF life on a recent colo day in
Washington. When passing along one
OF the principal streets of the city he
noticed q boy thinly clad, with no over
coat to shield him from the bitter cold,
bearing a banner On which was en-
blazoned this pathetic sentence, which
certainly appealed to every thinking
man: Blanket FOUR horses. Humane
society" The thought occurred to hin
what an awfully good thing 1t woul BID
II theH Humane society had first AXE
the pains to blanket it's banner bearer.
A petition was recently presented to
the Massachusetts state senate, signed
by 800 prominent citizens of Massachu.
sets requesting that a statue of Major
eneral Joseph Hooker, who was a native
of Massachusetts, be erected within the
limits Of the state. Accompanying the
petition was a draft of a bill appropriate
ing the sum of $4,000 for an equestrian
statue Of eneral Hooker to be executed
under the direction of the governor and
council. the statue to be placed on tho
state house grounds or elsewhere as may
be deemed advisable.
Nine, Melba's companion and secreta,
ry was married in New York last weel
to a young Englishman. The singer.
gift was a wedding breakfast and q
check for $1,000: the De Reszke brother,
sent two beautiful tea services, Mr.
Maurel q silver dessert service, and Mr.
and Mrs. Grau a silver coffee service
The impressario. Henry Abbey, and hi,
wife, gave tickets for a suit OF rooms
on the promenade deck OF the steamship
Paris, which sailed for Europe a day o.
two after the wedding.
The convict problem has been solved
temporarily at least, in Mississippi By
abolishfng the lease system Inc employ.
Ing the convicts on farms owned by the
state. The results after about three
years'trial of this method are reported
to be satisfactory in every way. The
state gets a profit from convict labor and
the convicts are in better health and un.
der better conditions generally than they
ever were when employed for private
profit.
Henry Irving is much fascinated with
the American system OF making laws,
and I'M he has been in Washington
puts in all Of his leisure time visiting
congress, where the notable statesmen
are pointed out to him by his guide.
When he heard Galusha Grow max a
great noise on the floor of the house, he
was wonderfully surprised to learn that
he had been speaker of that body thirty
years ago.
In India there Is one irrigation canal
300 miles long, $50 feet wide and fifteen
feet deep. The length Of the lateral
branches of this enormous irrigatfng
ditch Is, in the aggregate, 1900 miles.
The large area of land thus watered is
owned by the English government and
leased to the natives for periods of fifty
years. The rental exacted is one fourth
of the produce Of the lands, not to be
paid in produce, but in cash.
The foolkiller must have been off on
q vacation when a Detroit woman buried
her dog in a rosewood casket with white
satin lining. The dog died away from
home, but was met at the Detroit station
by a regular undertaken, and was con.
veyed to his establishment in q hearse,
Then when the cemetery directors re.
fused a permit to bury the animal in
lakewood, the fond heart of its owner
was torn asunder by irreconcilabIe grief.
Bowdoin college, Maine, is singularly
honored. Speaker Reed of the house,
Senator Frye, chairman pro tenn OF the
senate, and Chief Justice Fuller are all
graduates of Bowdoin. Thus Bowdoin
holds the gavel over three bodies at the
national capital.
Dean Farrar OF Canterbury thinks 1t
perfectly erroneous to talk of the fail.
ure Of missions. when they started with
120 despised Galileans, and when now
there are 1900 0 900 protestants, and
they have in their power almost all the
resources OF the world
A5circuiar has been SEM u from Sau
Francisco in reference to the plan q
erecting q drinking fountain Ii the OLD
plaza In that city as a memorial OF
Robert Louis Stevenson. "He dwelt fol
q time with us" 1t says, 'and added 3
distinction to our cosmopolitanism, to
U pict~uresqueness, by recognizing
both.
Verdi's "Falstaff' is to be revived In
New York this week, with NJ. Maurel
once more In the title role.
Queen Victoria, it is said, gave a tor
and a half of beef to the poor OF Wind.
sor on New Years eve.
DR.. Jameson. the South African ad
venturer. is well known In Montana, HI
madetHelena his headquarters durins
several visits to the northwest durins
1875 snd 1886. and at different times he
spent several weeks hunting and fishins
on Mussel Shells creek and in the Ju.
dith basin. When a young man he me,
with an accident. causing curvature o,
h spine. necessitating his WALKING
considerably n sided.
A Milwaukee furniture manufacture,
advertises that he never took a prize al
the worlds fair. His goods are un
doabtedly what he recommends them ts