The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-06-10

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KIMBAIL GRAPHIC
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KINBALL SOUTH DAKOTA
American agricultural implements
are imported into Mexico, at least
along the border, without competition
have a clear field and a market to
themselves. In addition to this adj
vantage the demand for United States
agricultural machinery is steadily In
creasing. In the first place, imple-3
ments for tilling the soil are better in.
the United States han those made in
any other country. Our manufacture
,ers have the advantage of quick trans.
portation and moderate freight rates
and oil agricultural implements
shipped into Mexico are entered free
of duty at the custom houses.
A curious attempt to raise q ST sill
e certificate to the SIS denomination
was discovered the other day ut a Bos-
ton bank. On the face of the bill We're
twenty-seven different places where
changes or deliberations had been
made, and on the reverse there were
fourteen more. No attempt had been
made to change anything but the nu-
merals and the word One wherever
1t occurred. First, the ones were
obliterated by erasure and then VS.
We're drawn in very fine tissue paper
and pasted on. About $40 worth of
labor must have been expended in the
preparation of this clumsy 81 swim
die.
The recent protest of j. Sterling
Morton, of Nebraska, against the cut
ting of Christmas trees is warmly COM
mended in the west. In his protest he
said: The trees selected for slaugh-
ter on this anniversary are always the
straightest and most symmetrical.
There We're last year more han co.
100000 Of Christmas trees cut down
and put on the market. The absurd
ity of celebrating the birth of the Sa-
vior of the world by a wanton waste
and extravaganza which %jeopardizes
the welfare of millions of human be-
ings yet unborn is obvious to every
thinking man,"
aElN tHt1r -, --- CsA,,S,H
new public library building, the Con-
vention hall, the other day, 1000 pres
ents were distributed to the holders of
lucky numbers in a mammoth prize
drawing. The gigantic rattle was got
ten up to help pay for the Convention
hall, and 100000 tickets had been sold
at 25 cents each. The prizes ranged
in value from q 1O-cent sheet of music
to q $4,000 house and lot. More money
was raised by the sale at 81 each of
thousands of Convention hall buttons,
each'of which entitle the holder to one
share Of stock in the building com.
pany.
Queensland is inaugurating a new
departure in the fruit trade, says I4on-
don Invention. 1t is found that dried
LaNC JIG HliSC I'll 4dloliio Ia
buildings very well, and an enterpris-
ing Arm in Queensland has sent to the
agent generals Office, in Victoria
dried bananas, with the object of open
ing up a market for them in England.
AS o as the public have tested for
themselves the agreeable flavor which
dried bananas give to buildings there
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New York is to nave cheaper ice this
summer. "A fight against the ice trust
and ice trust prices will be begun by
the erection of an immense ice manu-
featuring plant on Staten island. 1t
will have a capacity of 1000 tons q
day and will be by far the greatest
icemaking establishment in the world.
The company that will enter into such
active competition on the field now oc-
cupied by the Consolidated Ice com
pany, is the General Commercial COM
pany, and Its capital is $1,000
which may be increased to $4,000, 900.
A nan high up in life insurance cir
cleS is authority for the statement that
the big insurance companies are pay.
ing out enormous suicide claims just
now. "The public has no apprecia-
tion," he said, "of the magnitude of
business lone by these gigantic cor
poratiOns. The number of deaths re-
sulting from suicide last year is great
err than ever known in the history of
life insurance. l estimate the pay
ments last year on suicide claims alone
reached an average of nearly 81, 500, 900
to each n of the big companies"
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Marie Bashkirtsef, the remarkable
young Russian woman who died at the
early age of 26, has just had a singular
memorial erected to her in Paris. 1t
takes the form of a hotel, built in Rue
de PROXY, and is n veritable marvel of
taste and comfort. 1t was formally
opened and occupied last week. 1t
contains, among its attractions, a
number of paintings, the work of this
p~recocious young woman, taken from
the walls of the superb studio which
she founded for herself on the Quai
Malaquis.
a skull-cap discussion has sprung up
in Hartford. An officer in a court
room requested a clergyman to retire
for wearing n skull-cap in the presence
OF the Judge. oae ofthe Hartford pa
pers makes an earnest plea for the
recognition of the skull-cap, claiming
that it's use saves hundreds of lives,
especially at funerals. To many whose
hair is scanty it is Il necessity, and it
is seen more and more frequently in
church and at open-air meetings.
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The house in London i'll which-if
we may believe the testimony of n let
ter in the handwriting of Charles
Dickens himself-the inimitable Sal
rey Camp once lived is about to van
ish from the map. 1t is in kingsgate
street, Holborn, which used to be a
royal road.
Earl Agnew, a private in a regiment
in Manila, writes: 'The inhabitants
here wear simply n smile, while some
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