The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-07-04

for some years property owners have
been evading taxation. The city en-
gineer has ascertained the true line and
the property above named has been in
cluded in the city limits.
Arrangements are now making to
honor John Cabot by a special
grafton at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on June
"a. 1897, the o hundredth anniversa-
~ OF his discovery of the mainland of
America. The movement is under the
auspices of the Royal Society of Cana
da, and has the active support of Mr..
Clements Markham, president of the
British Royal Geographical society: DIR.
Justin Winsor, librarian of Harvard I'M
iversity, and other distinguished Amer
leans.
Nesting in the heart of Surrey, about
three miles from Reigate, is Duxhurst,
the place where Lady Henry Somerset's
scheme for an industrial farmhouse for
female inebriates is in operation. The
purpose of the institution is the recla-
nation OF habitual inebriates, and one
of the chief means to this end is inter-
esting outdoor employment. Ample
scope for this is furnished by the $50
acres of arabic. grass and wooded land
covered by the farm.
One of the latest. tracts issued by the
British Society for the Protection of
Birds. refers to the extent that the bird
OF paradise Is being worn. During the
1896 season one warehouse alone of the
many that are engaged in the traffic so
detrimental to bird life disposed of no
less than 60,000 dozens of bird of ar-
adise sprays. An appeal is made to
civilized women throughout the world"
not to countenance the further sacrifice
OF this beautiful bird.
A strange custom is still observed in
Roumania which reminds one strongly
of Robinson Crusoe. When a servant
has displeased his or her master the
offender takes his boots in his hands
and places them before the BEDROOM
door OF his master. 1t is a sign of great
submission, and the boots are either
kicked away as an intimation hat the
fault will not be forgiven, or else the
servant is told to place them on his feet,
which shows that he Is forgiven.
SEQ
A statistlcian who has been interest
ing himself in the population of the
earth says that 49, 14 900 die annually;
that is, an average of 9S,S4O a day, 4,01C
an our and 81 a minute. The annual
number of births, on the other hand, is
estimated at S6.7s2, 900, an average of
100,S00 a day, 1900 an hour and 70 a min
ute, so that the population Is increasing
at the rate of three to the minute.
A recent issue of L'Energie Electrique
gives h following mixture for cleaning
the parts Of machinery. which it tates
attacks the hardest crust of hardened
oil: Boil the parts for three minutes in
a solution Of $50 parts of sodium carbon
ate and fifteen parts of caustic in soda
in 1000 of water, after which rinse and
dry the metal.
According to a Swiss contemporary
an engineer named TauXe has just in
vented a new process of tempering steel
by electricity which not only makes the
steel much harder but at the same time
gives 1t the proper elasticity; that is, it
is not brittle like steel made very hard
by the usual process.
"A feather bed in which they were
sleeping saved the lives of two women
at Bonne Terre, Md, last week. Light
ming struck the house. hit the bed, set
the shuck mattress in a blaze, but the
feathers diverted the electricity from
the women,
A penny was recently sold at auction
in England for $1,000. 1t was of gold,
worth 90 pence 4O cents) and was coined
In 1857 by order of Henry III. But two
other specimens are known to be in ex-
istence. They are In the British muse
um.
Madrid schools are SO bad that Ger
man residents Of the city have united to
establish a school where their children
may obtain as good an education as in
more civilized parts of Europe for a
reasonable outlay of money.
More than 10000 persons are engaged
In the manufacture of explosives in Eng
land. Last year forty persons in the
business were killed and 167 injured by
accidents.
AT the recent parliamentary election
In Trone. England, the agent of the
liberal party predicted the vote to be:
Mr.. Barlow, 1904; Lord A. Thyme. 4.s10.
The actual vote was: Mr.. Barlow,
5,os2; Lord A. lynne, 4.76s.
Elections by the dozen to the La
Plata legislature are declared to have
been fraudulent and have been an
nulled.
A radish eighteen inches in length has
oeen grown near Widan, Germany.
which is a to be in the exact form of
a baby. even to the fingers and toes.
Voters in Italy get on the average
60. cents each for their votes, and must
show by the plotting paper which they
have used for their ballots hat the vote
was cast for the right man before draw
ing their pay.
More than 100, 900 pairs OF shoes will
be saved by the changes in the British
army regulation, by which the sol
disrs may wear their shoes until used up
instead OF having a new pair issued at
stated intervals.
The total population of the Argentine
Republic on May 10, 1895, was 4,09O, 900,
the urban population being 1,646, 6s4.
One OF the first visible fruits of the
conquest OF Madagascar In Paris is a
show of specimens of some, of the tribes.
The Hovas look uncomnonly intelli-
gent and even the Antatiavas are far
from being savages.
The observatory OF Mount Blanc is
now complete, with the exception of one
large telescope which cannot be taken
up the mountain until the snow is less
deep. Regular work will therefore be
y begun this INNER
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The deepest running stream In the
world is said to be the Niagara river
tusssander the suspension bridge.