The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-07-28

many and Russia. They are paid each
$4,000 Il year. Those sent to Austria
and Italy get s12,00 Ministers are
paid from $4,000 to $4,000. The Brit
ish ambassador to Washington gets
$4,000. or $4,000. AT Paris the Brit
ish ambassador is paid $4,000, or S45,-
900; at st. Petersburg, G7,500. or $751;
500; Berlin n Vienna. 9S,0OO. or
600. In every case the British govern
ment Owns its embassy buildings,
while the United States has none. but
is forced to rent,
1t was n popularity of the late Bal
DUN Mollhausen that in nearly all his
novels the scene is placed partly in
Germany, partly in America. He was
extremely prolific, his stories and travel
sketches making up nearly 200 vol
umes. He spent many years in the
western prairies and the Rocky noun
tains before he became librarian at
Potsdam. His S0th birthday was cele-
brated last January. To the last he
kept his enthusiasm for the west. He
left to a Berlin museum four albums
containing pictures OF America las nc
one will ever again see it,"
After serving the United States as
postmaster longer than any other man
in Illinois, Captain Fred Dig has just
turned oNer the Mascoutah Office to his
successor, John Flotho. He had been
in charge since 1869, with the exception
Of the two terms of President Cleve-
land. Captain Dig also carries off the
honors as a Memorial day orator of the
state, by reason of having spoken at
avery observance since the day was es-
tablished. Born in Kircheim-Bohlan-
den, Germany, February 3, 1S41, he
came to America with his parents in
1874.
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The capitalization a mile of American
railways is abou &12,000 against G47,-
300 a mile in the United Kingdom, but
1t should be pointed put that in Amer
lea there is a preponderance of single
line, whereas In these islands ar av-
srage mile of railway represents two
n ~one-quarter miles of track, so that
instead of being o times as great a
mile as in the United States. the capi-
al of u railways is really rather
more than twice as heavy a mile of
track, including rolling stock.
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Mayor Mcclellan. of New York, has
leased for a term of four years the
house he now occupies in Washington
square. -Four years is the term of Of
iice for the mayor Of New York under
The new law. A day or two ago
citizen of New York was expressing
wonder why the mayor did not buy a
home instead of renting. Because he
can't afford it," said am intimate friend
Of MI. Mcclellan. 'He could have been
rich years ago but for the fact that he
happens to be an honest man,"
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The tea used in the immediate house
hold of the emperor of China is treated
with the utmost care. 1t is raised in q
garden surrounded by a wall, so hat
where near the plants. At the time of
h harvest these collecting these leaves
must abstain from eating fish, hat
their breath may not spoil the aroma
Of the tea; they must battle three times
a day, and, in addition, must wear
gloves while picking the tea for the
Chinese court.
h united Hungarian societies of
Cleveland, where there are over 80, 900
Hungarians. have decided to prepare q
memorial setting forth what the Hun
gartans have contributed in good citi-
Zenship to this country. The memorial
will be presented to the authorities at
Washington M given wide publicity.
Thts the Hungarlans consider the best
answer they car make to the asper-
sions of those who would limit Austro-
Hungarian immigration.
The Oldest architectural ruins in the
world are believed to be the rock-cut
temples at 1psambool, on the left bank
Of the Nile in Nubia. The largest of
these ancient temples contains eleven
apartments hewn out of solid stone.
The largest single stone used in this
work is one which forms a veranda-like
projection along one side of the main
temple. 1t is 81 feet long, SO feet broad
n 17-one account says 9-feet thick.
On the tin roof of an eight-story
double building in New York, occupied
by a firm making a speciality of an
t1que furniture, a familiar sight is fur
n1shed to occupants Of n~eighboring
structures. Dozens of unstained rock
Ing chairs stand on the ROOT. These
rattan and wicker rockers gradually
take on the right antique complexion
by being exposed for several days.
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Father Albert Negahnquet said to be
the only full blooded Indian priest in
the United States has beer transferred
from Eufaula. I. T., where he has been
for two years., to Antlers. At Antlers
his parishioners will be mostly Italians.
Father Negahnquet was educated in
Rome, and the fact hat he speaks
italian fluently is the cause of the
change.
A record consignment of cheese was
recently dispatched from Liverpool to
London. 1t consisted OF 5000 cheeses,
weighing 200 tons, n was consigned to
Ole peTSOH, Il LONDON merchant. Inc
whole of the cheese was Canadian. It's
value was about s45, 900. Some thirty
two railway trucks We're required for
the carriage of the cheese.
The longest span of any bridge yet
erected will be placed in the cantilever
bridge, now under construction across
the st. Lawrence river at Quebec. This
bridge is being constructed with two APP
proach a of 210 feet each, two shore
arms 500 feet in length, n a great gen
trail span of 1900 feet. which is the long
est yet built by ninety feet.
Rufus Choate once tried to get a Bos-
ton witness to give his idea of absent
mindedness. "Well,' said the witness,
who was a typical New England Yam
kee. II should say that a mar who
thought he'd left his watch to hum,
and took 1t out'n his pocket to see if
he'd time to go hum and git it. was a
leetle absentminded."
Young Chinese who have some smat-
tering of English are opening what
thew call plo-C cchoo1s, In