The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-12-19

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M apple to a section hand near %Iroquols.
The apple stuck him in the throat, and,
strange as ii may seem. nearly killed
him. Now he has brought suit against
the Northwestern for several thousand
dollars damager.
Notwithstanding an almost 10 DAYS
continuous thaw, there appears to be
about as much nov an the prairie as
originally, The sleighiGg Is the best in
the history oi the county. The weather
turned colder Wednesday, with stormy
indications since.
One Of the Oldest engineers of the
Elkhorn road died at his home in Chad
ron last week from the effects Of q run
away accident in October. 1t is a strik-
ing fact that locomotive engineers, sea
men and others who follow perilous
occupations dread the supposedly less
hazardous means OF locomotion.
Will Morris--who, by the way, is a
very successful northumberland US
in a sample dozen eggs this week laid by
his Democratic, Republican and Popuiist
hens. The big, fat eggs. he said. were
laid by his Republican hens. while the
long, lean, lank, slim ones were Demo
cratic fruit. That egg" he said, pick
ing out one with Il wringlnd end that
looked like the last lay of tie hen, SIS a
Populist egg"
Last Monday" writes the editor OF tie
EddYville Record, I'VE Went out 70 col
lect $3.50 due us from l60 delinquent sui
scribers. We put III a whole day at it.
How much does the reader suppose we
collected Not a darned cent, reader;
not a darIied cent We lave been
running a paper in this town seven
years, and we never saw time half as
hard as they are now. except the year we
had trip!ets at u house."
The department of agriculture is to
issue a dairy bulletin soon. A synopsis
of the document with reference to Sou1l
Dakota says that the creamery business
tto i"i'iS AbpAilNu ~ ~ 6lltc t'lt psSt
two years. The cooperative crcameries
have paid the best for the patrons, and il
is interesting to note, the report says
that the greatest successes in the cream.
cry ventures have been in the nnighbor.
hoods where crop failures were dis.
asterOus.
A correspondent Of the Sioux Fails
Press from Jcrau!d county tells jacl
rabbit stories, too. He says: Farmer:
coming in from the country north ant
west OF town report great drOves OF jacl
l rabbits in the corn fields. One reputabl,
| farmer here Yesterday said that b,
counted seventy-ive in one drove. An
other farmer from north of town said h
counted over one hundred while comm;
h to town. The rabbits are destroying tn
o corn pretty badly where it has been lef
G in the field"
AinputatiOn became necessary iii til
y ease of Rasmus Christensen. Dr. Will,
g did his best, but medical skill couldn'
y undo the work of Jack Frost, and I'll
e patients suiferings have been terrible
DR.. Willy amputnted both feet above tn
5 ankles Wednesday. DR.. Rogers of Whit
Lake assisted in the operation. As tol
by The GRAPHIC at the time, the unfoI
tunate man got lost on the prairie nea
his home iii Buffalo county on the nigh
Of Nov. 30 and tramped all night lune
4 The frozen nov ci!t his footwear {
pieces and froZc his feet.
h A person should always %endpavor t
make things plain IN letter writing
!, Some queer ideas often arise from
N careless statement. A Young lady {
l. Illinois who has been married Il littl
10 over a year wrote to her father at Ma
comb saying: I'VE have the dearcs
little cottage in the world. ornamentc
with the most interesting crcepers 70
- ever saw" The old man read the Iettt
and exclaimed. Twins, by thDnder.' b,
~ the old lady who had a good deal of e,
y perience, said nothing but sent h,
daughter directions to treat all crack
y in the bed with corrosive sublimate."
y Scotch journal tells of two impecl
" Nous Scho!chmcn, who, having only
y "snSpance' between them. ordered OF
"nip o whisky Ther were h~esitatin
&c who should hav,t tie first drink. wlt
'r an acquaintance joined them. Preten
f. ing that they Lad just drank. one
CO them handed the newcomer the whi.k
y. requesting him to join them in a driDi
lie and, after a few minutes of painful al
lie silent suspense, said, Now, boys. you
Il have one with mo-" "W'as ma. that we
c. managed, moH" sad one to his p
n atterward. AYE, it was" said the 9th
sOlemnIy. "but il was n dreadiu, risk"