Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-11
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the most Gyspeptlc of the year.
Canned turtle meat has come into
general us" now for green turtle soup.
viii Carleton should not forget that
nearly every man who has Iectured in
rhyme has gone over the hill to the
p~oor-house.
a Boston IA is now demonstrating
the superiority of man to the lower
animals by eating live frogs. He will
croak in time.
Minnie llauk is particular about her
opera houses. She declined TO sing at
Nebraska City. Neb., lately because
the old barn leaked.
Two Iowa girls are successful paper
hangers, and earn as high as Sl2 a day.
Woman can accomplish anything ex-
cept voting, if she tries.
Mrs. Langtry can hit a dudes eve at
a thousand yards, and she knows how
to twirl a broad.sword. The critics
have been lenient lately.
Mrs. Park, Of Liberty, Mo-, lost a gold
ring in Der garden last spring. 1t was
found the other day by her son encir-
cling the root of a big suntiower.
Alexander Of Bulgaria has the true
Aldermanic instinct. When he took
his crown he had an income of $1,000 a
year. He is now worth $35O.OOO.
Miss Lamar, daughter of the Secre-
f0rv 10 an 1rfict Of p,n-b, ,,nr,t Or
beats the Princess Beatrice on free
hand sketching. So her admirers say.
Mrs. Folsom is understood to be
pleased with the presidents new place,
Red Top, as a residence, but she would
have preferred to be near her daugh-
ter.
A citizen of Minneapolis Is building
a log house in the heart Of the city.
When he gets through he will find that
there are more draughts than COM
forts.
Carter Harrison, of Chicago, has
proved himself a wise man. He has
declined to accept a nomination for
Congress without first consulting his
wife.
Mrs. Clarissa Cox, of Wakefield,
Mass, has reached her ninety-ninth
milestone. She was a babe when
Washington took the oath as President
OF the United States.
Harvey Morgan, once one Of the
ynnof fnnnttc hnrpiotc - E,rNno
Gently died at the Pittsburgh poor
house. Europe is not SO kind to its
harpists as it was in the middle ages.
The oldest Philadelphia fireman died
ut Norristown lately at the age #
ninety three. lie MAS running with
the machine when General Braddock
was doing his b"st to cover his retreat.
An Independence (II) groceryman.
boasts of a delivery horse which knows
Ill the regular customers that trade at
his masters store, and always bows
10 them when he meets them on the
street.
The new edition Of "Pickwick,"
edited by the younger Charles Dickens,
has been designed To- mark the change
in the MANNERS, customs and places
described in the book which the pas
sage of fifty years has brought about.
One dollar at ;w~rn'y-one Is worth
el20 at ninety, aud Slol spent in fool
cry and linery before iive-and-twenty
Il 10 q; -, ala, slls hyA.,.,, ms, =, f~nn, tha%
provision which should be made for
the time when work mast he a burden.
A Boston bootliack, whose custom
ers include a large number Of lawyers,
has the following dlrnllied quotation
on his chair: "lntamInatis fulget
h~onoribuS," which beng interpreted,
means, "he shines with untarnished
honors."
In the schools of Brunswick, Eng
land all children who are found to
stammer are placed in charge Of a
physician and taught by instructors
from the deaf ana dumb aSylums with
the result that in a year most of the
cases are completely cured.
A gentleman in Davenport, Ia,
whose garden is near al electric light
tower, says his day lilies, which ordin-
| arily bloom only IN the day time, open
in the night. and that the morning
| glOries will unclose in the night in a
| few minutes after the tower lights
brighten the garden beds.
An attempt is about to be made to
raise a Russian war ship, the John
| Baptist. which was sunk by the orders
| of Peter the Great in ITO, at Revel, to
escape capture by the Swedes. Pre-
liminary ]soundings tend to strengthen
the belief that it will be found in a
state of perfect preservation in tho
sand.
The average annual wages Of en-
ployees Of rolling mills in Daupbin
county-says the Harrisburg Patriot
are $40 and those of employees of
Bessemer steel works 2l72; while the
employees Of printing and book pub
fishing houses average SiS7 per annum,
and those Of daily and weekly news
papers in Dauphin county average SAB
per annum.