Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-20
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Harriet Prescott Spofford is writing
\ serial story for the Philadelphia
Ladies Journal.
General Adam Badeau is a middle
aged man. short. heavy set, quick Of
movement, and with cutting eye.
Sir Charles Dukes new position will
be that OF al ilnpaid volunteer in the
news service of II of the great press
agencies III London.
statistics show that in Canada, con-
trary to the general rule. Methodism
grows faster in the cities and towns
than in the country.
DIR. Calling, the inventor of the
eating gun, lives in n unpretentious
but comfortable house near Hartford,
and goes but little into society.
General F. \. Walker declined Sena-
ter Leland Stanford's offer of the
presidency OF the university soon to
spring from Il $lOtUtON egg.
Young James \. Garfield is studying
law with Judge Boynton. OF Cleveland.
and is said To bc the most like his father
Of any of the Garfield family.
A remarkably rich gold mine is re.
ported 10 have been discovered in q
Gears den in the CHrr d .Alene country.
The mine is callal the lIllci Bear.
Augustus Jessup is the richest young
man in Philadelphia. He is twenty
four years old and has IN annual in
come of between SGOOU and $1,000
The new freshman class at Vassar
college is not only the largest that has
entered the Institution. hnt its standard
Of scholarship is pronounced very high.
1t is said that only one-half of one
percent. of New York city's population
own their homes, and half of the real
estate Of the whole country is mort
gagged.
At Reno. New, the boys follow ant
fighting for sport. A shovelful Of
ants from one hill dumped among those
If another colony will always fight to
the death.
The brute who gave an elephant
whiskey in Brooklyn was nearly killed
by the drunken AMI Infatuated animal.
When he Receivers he ought to be taken
IN hand 10y the law.
The National Laundrymen's Asso-
iation. in session ut Cincinnati, has
greed that each manufactures shall
iot sell goods To Cinnamon undnr
penalty Of 800 for each sale made.
Leonard W. .Jer m of New York,
allows his dan inter, vie Of Lord Ran
,lolph Chdrcnill. chancellor of the Brit.
ish eXchequcr, Sl5:ouU per annum
Lord Churchill's salary is $4,000 i
year.
Fay Temp.eton, the comic oper,
singer. who was last year divorce
ron William West in Chicago, In
zone to Europe with Howell Osborne
ne Of the richest young men in Wa
stree
American makers Of agricultural
implements are pushing their bushes
With such activity in foreign countries
hat the British coilSuls are compelled
TO write letters Of an alarming charac-
ter To their government
Paper manufacturers have for years
l.. .at,,.. nJ,,,t tl,.>, Co. ON, t,ntt.
material for paper making. The use
+ peat Is now IN accomplished TACT
\ machine has been made that can
turn out three tr!is an hour.
1t is Il comparatively new idea that
rattl. can lc extensively and proftably
.razed IN Can lha. While it is certain
iat they must n"ri extra care i'll win
ter, this nay b" off set 10y freedom from
diseases Incident to low II attitudes.
The colored citizens of Mobile, Ala,
held Il meeting recently and voted
to build An orphan asylum for colored
'hildren, AMI also Il house of correction
in connection herewith About $500
100 will be required for the purpose.
President Ceveland's purpose In
putting IA barbpd wire fence seven feet
nigh around his country purchase Is
now apparent. He intends to locate
his mottier-in-law on the inside and
AIRY the key to the front gate with
him.
Mr.. Jacob Romeis, of Toledo, used to
be a democrat, but turned into a green
hacker a few years ago. He was then
converted TO republlcunism. His party
o indorsas prohibition, while he owli
a VINEYARD and drinks nothing but
beer. \ committee should be appointed
to determine just where he stands.
Drinking blood has become very
fashionable in Naples. Adjoining the
lbbatoir, drinking saloons have been
'ilted up, where the fresh blood from
the reeking carcasses of the slaughtered
animals are partaken Of. Like all new
and unaccustOmel methods of cure,
wonderful effects are ascril,ed to this
remedy, and the highest classes Of So
ciety are drinking and prlising it.
Cooperative enterprises are now In
working order in many parts Of the