The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-11-20

EAl0 t1aI during the last eieVen years
the average productive capacity of
American mines a ma a day has in
( creased mor than.25 per cent, while
In Germany 1t has, If anything, dimin-
ished. This act is attributed to the in:
creased use of o cutting machinery.
OF the ituminous output for 1901, 25.7
per cent. was machine mined. Notwith-
standing the fact that higher wages are
paid In America, coal is much cheaper
n IN Germany, some years 1T being
less than half the price Of German
o
Mrs. Overton, who lives near Glea-
son, Tenn, came In own the other day
for the purpose of seeing a passenger
train. She is 90 year old and has lived
within fifteen miles cf the railway near
" all her life. but had never even seen
the track up to thisztime. On hearing
the train approaching she became very
much excited and refused to go near.
the track, thinking the train a great
monster capable Of doing her harm if 1t
desired. She returned home greatly
worked up over her adventure.
With the methods now in use, seven
tenths of the force in coal is wasted. A
few years ago the waste a nine
tenths. Mr.. Edison declares that a,
bucketful Of coal should drive an X
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delphia, and a few tons be sufficient for
the largest ocean steamship, whose
bunkers now hold thousands. The
Oceanic consumes a ton of coal every
three minutes, or about 500 tons a8day.
The ship canal from Lake Huron, In
Georgian bay, almost due south to Lake
Ontario, near Toronto, upon which
work has been In progress for several
years. will shorten the lake route $50
miles. The highest point is 600 feet
higher than Lake Ontario, and ;asdrop
OF sixty feet in four miles at&Peter-N
boro, made necessary the building OF
the argos locks of the kind IN the
world. They are now completed.
Along the lines Of the southern rail-
way there have been added this wear
nineteen new cotton mills and eight
Knitting mills. which have added to
the total e]ulIipnent 20134 looms and
1871 ,358 8spindles. There are now under
construction tWenty-three other mills.
with an equipment OF 14.O25 looms and
50O.312 snindies. makingaa grand total
Al lnnnna and E a5s ann sn,na1as
When the wcrk OF draining the Zuy-
der Zee is completed 1t viii Be possible
for n to stand on a dyke with the
water Of the North sea on one side
only ten feet below him ana on 4
other side will he the farmers atIworIS
tilling soil from twenty to thirty
Earn, bn1,sasi w,,I in sona Az ss NJ h ~
low tha layrat nf9+ha u,atar ~ +,a a+bar
sida ~ tho di,sa ~
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Samuel Little. millionaire street
railway n director Of many
8of Boston,s prominent 5insti.8
buttons. was this fall unable ia cast
SsJGAt$8eEh%,
* bai1n+ 80 ai+l,ar ~ ste e. e aat1s
aIeetions ,rbts n1as d,,a - az sr;+r -
~ nc1ica IL s.n,1aotsna - ~ 80. :
noIIeaS iist Thrn1,ph sanaa arr,,r NJ
IdttleSwas overlooked
4 cubic oficer's reputation should he
1siven asgood deal Of credit for in
venting an Expressive phrase. Some
onehas lust dug ur the fact that SEN
ators Edmunds used precisely the same
words ten or q dozen years ago in de-
scrib1ng asVermont applicant for ONCE.
j. H.sHale empIoyed on his farm III
Georgia & boy manned Joe. Were
having hot weather, Joe,n' remarked
MI. Hale, n blistering day in July.
Yes, s, said Joe, rehectiyely.
@efs wuz OWN man a hot day, an
Iwouldn, know where to fo1. one
to pay him wfdi,
The Oldest college graduate
in@Massachusetts, If not in New Eng
land, DR.. Sophornia Fletcher, recently
bridge. For thirty a she was the
attending physician of Wendell Phil
slips' invalid wife and has had many
distinguished patients.
london has a new law which might
Eprinklng old buildings in process Of
demolition. It is only surprising that
the watering of such buildings during
the pulling down process to stop the
dust nuisance has not beer thought Of
hnforo