The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-07-10

for the location of the carriers which |
sometimes lodge in the underground
pneumatic tubes. Knowing that sound
travels at a spaed of, roughly, LOO feet
per second, and knowing the time mea-
sured in t~housandths OF a second be-
tween the firing OF a pistol shot in the
conduit and the arriving of the echo
at the outlet o. the tube, a simple call
cilation gives the exact location of the
obstruction. The means of five expert
nents IN the recent test gave 2.793 sec
onds, and when the sound velocity was
corTectel8for4alr temperature the OBJ
structiofiswas located at 1887 feet from
the instrument, which. was the exact
location.
The technlcality Of the criminal law
of Texas is proverbial, and is aptly il |
Illustrated by a recent decision of the
highest Criminal court In that state. |
The defendant was prosecuted for
shooting into a church. The complaint |
which he was arrested charged
him with shooting into ST. Paul's Meth
odist church. The information {or for
NAL accusation corresponding to an in |
dntment, upon which he was brought
TO erAaD charged him with shooting into
st. Paufss church, Tbe court held that
these Were two distinct names and
might be entirely different places, and
that the information ought to have
been quashed on account Of the vari-
ance
An old revolutionary soldier in Port
Ian had q small pension, of which he
was very proud, n by doing such
work as he couldsh he secured a sufficient
to provide for his modest wants.
One day he slipped at the top of a flight
OF stairs and fell almost to the bottom.
The mistress Of the house hurried to him
In great alarm n asked If he thought
he was seriously injured. ~ guess not.
ma'am," he said, rising stif1y to his
feet and gasping with fright, II don't
think I'm killed. But when I was half
way down the stairs. ma'aan, thinks I,
Tn argoing to lose my pension. sure"
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An experiment is being tried in WASH
ington which may RESULT in changing
the colors Of street letter boxes all over
this country from a grayish red to a sill
very hue. Street letter boxes are being |
painted with aluminium composition,
which, tits claimed win stand the wear
End tear of time and exposure to the
elements for at least four years without
furnishing or peeling off. Work is be-
Ing done at the owners expense. the
boxes being covered with the white
material, while across the front will be
the words ~. s. Mail" in bright red
letters.
The reasons advanced by the English
for continuing to occupy Egypt are re-
sented In a curious fashion by the pa
Nay<sE of Cairo 81 T1,a |TQririSh occo,.t fhat
the great prevalence of crime and VIC
lence renders necessary the i%nterpost-
ton of a%Fsforeign power to keep the
peace. In answer to this the Cairo pa
pers publish each morning reports, ak
en- from the London papers, Of crime in
England, and print long editorials full
Of statistics showing that al Egyptian
army ought to take possession Of Great
Britain and maintain the order which
the reports they quote seem to indicate
the British are unable to preserve
themselves.
The association of American women
Tor the presentation of q statue of
Washington to France, which has been
In existence for min years, has Just
been Incorporated and organized at the
home Of Mrs. George Hearst In Wash
lngton. 1t is the purpose to give an or
der to Daniel French, the we'll known
American sculptor, for an equestrian
statue of Washington in Bronze. to be
completed in time for erection in Paris
In 1900, the year of the French exposi-
ton. The cost Is estimated at $4,000,
of which $22, 900 has already been raised.
"A curious feature of the t~nterparlia-
tnentary chess match was that on the
boards In Washington the queen nvar-
iably stood where the king ought to
stand, and vice versa. SO 1t was in Lon
don. The explanation is that the Brit
ish players. out OF Difference to Vic
toria, have for many years changed the
piece wearing the crown from the king
to the queen. But while the two pieces
have been thus changed, the play has
When a king has reached he Brit
lsh throne the crowned head in British
chess will be atking again.
All the guns. standards and other
trophies captured by the French from
the Russians during the Crimean war
were returned to Russia more thar a
year g Emperor Nicholas promised
at the time that he would return the
compliment. But, in spite. of this assur-
ance, noSteps ave as yet been taken to
restore to France the guns NJ the
flags which she was compelled to aban-
o to the Russians during her terrible
retreat from Moscow in 1872.
Twelvethousand boys and girls were
taught W, swim in 1896 by the London
schools swimming association, which
is run IN the principle that for n
Briton mt to know how to swim is a
disgrace to his family and nation. One
Journal advances the idea that In a
country that rules the seas swimming
should be made compulsory with every
child.
TIL Egyptian government has decid-
ed, at the instance of the German dip
lomatlcsagent IN Cairo, to prosecute the
proprietor Of the Arabic newspaper
Mushir for having published articles al
legged tofbe Insulting to the German EN-
peror.
Pennsylvania produces hardware
manufactures to the value of $38S, 0G0,-
900 yearly, which is equivalent to s74
per inhabitant. the average in Great
Britain being SO and In Germany $40.
Florida has probably 100 or more sur
vivors al the Seminole wars, for whom
congress has provided d yearly pension
.sf 500 Since 1892, and The money Is APP
propriated.I Few survivors. however,
can prove their case for want Of muster
rolls. The state legislature refuses to
appropriate $1,000 to get copies from the
war department.
The German agricultural papers say
fbot thu i'm portc ~ American ppn1pS
into Germany last year were twenty
times as large as In any previous sea
son
There are three sisters living In Sa-
lem, direct descendants of John Enid
cotts the first governor of Massachu-
setts bay colony. Miss Susan Gray is
over 93.sMrs. Caroline NJ. Newhall Is