The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-07-18
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kIMBSLI. SOUTH DAKOTA
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O. b IMAM, PUBLISHER-
KIMBELI. SOUTH DAKOTA
Coal oil as a substitute for flushing by
Mater in public ulinals has proved high
~ successful after three years' trial in
Paris, Vienna and Berlin. The clinging
of offensive matter to the stone or ce-
ment walls is prevented by making a
fatty substance soak into the stone. The
stone work is first thoroughly cleansed
with a solution of hydrochloric acid in
water, tnen dried, ana GOAL or other min
eral otis applied with a whitewash
brush. With a renewed application Of
oil only nee In two months the place
can be kept perfectly sweet and clean.
In practice, however. In all three cities,
oil is applied every morning. The cost
in two large Institutions In France has
proved to be very slight. AT the marine
school at Bordeaux $3.50 of oil was used
In three years. while at the Rambouillet
infantry school 81 of oil sufficed for n
year. This is out Of all proportion to
the cost of water for flushing In the
same time.
The Oklahoma courts have struck a
puzzler In the Indian custom relating to
plural marriages. The law of Oklahoma
is very severe on polygamy, and Indians
on reservations are not exempt from Its
operation. The Kickapoos have an av-
erage of five squaws each. The Chey-
ennes and Arapahoes are nearly all
~polygamists. as are the Kiowas and
Apaches, Gomanches and Wichitas. 1t
is stated that the courts ave decided to
take action in the matter at once unless
~polygamous practices cease. Captain
Woodson of Anadarko agency has Is
sued orders commanding Indians on his
agency having several wives to at once
decide on the wife wanted and give up
the others, and no little uneasiness has
resulted in all the polygamous tribes, as
1t is claimed by the Indians that one
squaw cannot raise corn enough to sup
port an ax-warrior in becoming dignity.
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In Austria drunkards are treated un-
der the curatel law, that applies to per-
sons mentally afflicted and to spend
thrifts, their affairs being placed in
charge OF an administrators. A person
suffering from excessive indulgence in
drink may be brought judicially under
this law. But III Gallacia, Crawcow and
Buckowina there are special laws for
the punishment of persons drunk in
public places, while persons convicted
of drunkenness three times in one year
are prohibited from visiting public
houses. A bill has been introduced in
the Austrian reichsrath providing for
the erection OF public asylums for
drunkards, who may be detained for
two years on complaint of their rela-
tives or of the public authorities.
A curious scare ran through the prov
ince OF Assam, in India, recently, which
it tool the officials some time to under
stand. The story was that Queen Vic
torla wanted five childrens' heads from
each village. The Bangali coolies went
frantic, asking for axe and knives to
defend their families. factories We're
fortified, watch being kent all night,
and in some villages all the inhabitants
hid themselves. The heads, they be-
lieyed were wanted to put under the
foundations OF a great bridge being
built. 1t is the tradition among these
people that their ancestors placed hui
man beings under the great prehistoric
monoliths.
-fhs order to enable workers with the
balance to read the position of the point
er more accurately and readily a resort
is often had to the device of fixing a
magnifying lens before the divided
scale. Another simple continuance is
suggested by w. H. F. Kuhlmann, in
which the scale is reversed, so as to
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tache to the column that supports the
balance. The point is much liner at the
n than usual, and moves between the
scale and the mirror, in which a mag
nified image of the pointer and scale ap-
pears.
Two French medical men, NM. Car
rlon and Cantru, as the result of inves-
LEGATIONS among gaseous beverages,
which they commend for certain peculi-
arities Of digestion, speak most highly
OF. cider. In certain forms of dyspepsia
they claim it to be very desirable, es-
peelally when the process Of digestion
is too hurried, and for the govt it is
recommended as a correction of the uric
acid diatheses. Gout is held responsible
for SO large a number of ailments nova
days that cider is entitled to much ia
vor.
At a recent meeting of the Paris Acad-
envy Of Medicine NJ. Guinkoff stated
that he had successfully photographed
the interior of the eye. The advantages
of this method are important, since it
enables actual pictures of the disease of
the retina to be secured and compared
from time to time to determine whether
disease processes of the eye progress or
not. The picture is made in two sec
onds. The apparatus can thus serve as
ar ophthalmoscope, and any number of
persons can thus observe the results.
Barbadoes, where sugar once was
king, is likely to be converted soon into
one vast manjak tglance Pitch mining
concern. Since the discovery Of the as
phalt deposits large shipments have
been sent to the United States, and
American capital to a considerable ex-
tent is about being invested in mining
operations. Barbados expects tt knock
out Trinidad and Venezuela, as first
class labor is obtained for next to moth
Ing.
Visitors to the derby race course this
year say that the gypsie fortune tellers,