Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13
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Inc EHe Canal is damaged by musk
rats every year to the amount of $50.
w.
1t Is estimated that $4,000 tons of
coal are stolen every year from cars in
transit.
John lsaacs, aged %, hung himself to
th" outside door-knob of his residence,
Oh dorchester avenue. Boston.
"A bean pod raised at Leroy, ILL.,, this
season, Is said TO have measured two
ieet II three inches III length,
An artesian well at Aberdeen, Neb.,
throws up large quantities Of fish
resembling brook minnows from a
depth of 1909 feet.
Moret than fifty women are connected
with southern newspapers, and they
propose to form a Woman's Press
Association.
An apple tree at West Chester, Pa,
which documentary evidence shows to
have been planted III years ago, is still
in full bearing.
The marble capitol of Connecticut,
at Hartford. 300 feet high. is said by
engineers TO be three inches longer in
summer than in winter.
"A Fresno (Cal) horticulturist re-
Gently picked l,l49 pounds of apricots
from a single tree. grown on land that
hve years ago was Il desert.
Out Of 2,GGO cans Of milk examined
n day recently by the New York
health department. seventy were found
to contain adultcrated milk.
French experiments with artesian
wells in the African deserts have been
very successful. Abundant supplies of
water have been obtained and large
tracks have been converted into fertile
lands.
The Louisiana orange crop will be
almost a total failure. The freeze of
last year did terrible damage. The
crop usually amounts to between 90
10000 and 5OOpO,UOO. but this year will
hardly be 100000.
Three hundred homing pigeons flew
from London To Brussels IN five hours
and forty-Ohr minutes. although they
Encountered a storm ON the way. This
is a rate of more than Il mile in two
minutes, kept up for $50 miles.
An examination by an English
oculist of the eyes of LOO persons
who work by the in%candesccnt elec-
trio light fails to show any injurious
effects Produced by that light. The
arc light may cause eye trouble if in
too close proximity.
Marshes in Northern Indiana that
are usually covered with from one to
four feet of water have become dry,
owing to continuous drouth, and are
infested by poisonous snakes to such
an extent as to render them unsafe TO
sportsmen.
a young lady Of good family at
Southport, England, stole a macintosh
cloak from = store for a birthday pres
ent for her sister. The theft was seen
and she was required to pay a i.ne and
the costs Of prosecution. Had she
been a poor girl she would have been
at once sent to prison. This is English
justice.
The southern part OF Grant county,
Indiana, is being devastated by hog
cholera. One farmer states that in his
immediate nei-hborhOod. not less than
1000 have persisted. There are not
less than a hundred farmers in the
country who have lost from thirty to
sixty head, and hundreds Of others who
have lost smaller numbers.
The artistic effect Of Charleston
interiors promises to be excellent if
some of the new ideas of decoration
are generally carried out. To prevent
the danger Of falling plaster at the
next earthquake many proprietors are
having walls and ceilings panelied with
wood. Stucco work and other light
arrangements will be avoided.
The first railroad was built in Eng
land September -, 1925; second, in
Austria, September 80, 1928; third, in
France. October l. 1928; fourth, in the
United States, December &c, 1929; fifth,
in Belgium, May 3, 1885; sixth, in
Germany, December 6, 1895; and sew
enth, in Cuba, in 1887; and eleven years
after, October "a. 1888, was built the
first railroad in Spain.
A curious case of subterranean
dwellings and st%orehouses came to
light on the English coast this summer.
A clergyman while drawing water from
a deep well lost the bucket, which had
swung to one side half the way up from
the surface of the water. Going down 32
feet he found an opening into passages
and chambers, n passage leading
toward the shore, but not finished.
The chambers are eight feet high and
were evidently used at one time by
smugglers.
In the New York dairy commission
er's report recently issued, DR.. r. ID.
Clarke, Of Albany, argues that cleo
margarine, or artificial butter, is not a
wholesome article Of food on the fol-