Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-02
Items of interest

give for readings from Boz"
In clearing out a public well in an
Illinois town an old hat, a grab hook,
a bottle of whiskey, several barrels of
dirt and eighteen old Well buckets were
found.
Southern countries - Italy. Spain,
Greece-have the largest number of
revolutions; northern countries -
Russia, Sweden, Norway have the
least.
In Springfield, Mass, there are forty
nine liquor clubs, having a member
ship of 1920, organized for the sole
purpose of evading the license law.
There are sixty licensed places in the
city.
Nine. Catalani, the most famous
singer Of her time, gave concerts In
Madrid in 1905 and 1906, at which four
ounces of gold of the value of Sl05, was
charged as the price of admission.
Some of the modern warblers are not SO
far ahead Of the times after all.
Onegets a striking idea Of the magni.
tude of this country from the state
ment of Rev. DR.. Barrows, that If the
entire population Of the globe, esti-
mated at 1~,40,COO,000, were divided
into families OF Ave, the state Of Texas
alone could give each family half an
acre of land to live upon.
In l743 Miss Lucas brought to
Charleston, 5. c., some Indigo seeds
from the West Indies, which were
used rs an experiment. This proved
50 satisfactory that several Carolina
planters turned their attention to the
cultivation of Indigo, and STUDIED the
ar, Of extracting the dye.
Nv the reign Of Dunstan of England
a great deal was made Of lucky and UNI
lucky days. There were certain days
when It Would be dangerous to bleed
people; others when it would be bad
to SOW seeds or to tame animals or to
begin any business, and other days
when it was fortunate to do any of
these things. 1t may be fairly said
that these superstitions have not n
tirely died out in our day.
Mosaics of broken glass, with putty
surrounding each piece and initiating
lead lines, is the newest device for
windows. 1t requires time, and if we
attempt to produce any design it also
requires taste and skill, but the indo-
lent content themselves with blending
colors, crazv-quiit fashion. The result
is prettier than the paper limitations Of
stained glass, and the work Is rather
amusing.
The Prince of Wales has declined to
accept a testimonial of plate valued at
$1,000 from the Commission OF the
Colonial Exhibition. Artemus Ward
reported that when he was in London
they offered him a ducal coronet. IL
declined to accept it," added Artemus.
a told them to give it to the poor
Whether or not the Prince Of Wales
requested that a similar disposition
might be made OF the testimonial of
plate Is not stated.
Spontaneous combustion is alleged
in connection with a new and plausible
explanation of the destructive fires
occurring in pine forests. The pine
resin exuding from the trees is often
of lens shape, and before it thoroughly
hardens frequently of cr~ystalli1ed clear
ness. 1t is surmised that while in that
condition a resin lens may focus the
suns rays upon some light twig OF
resinous point, and so star. a blaze
that quickly eats up a forest.
DR.. William {. WinsIcw. vice-Presi
dent of the Egypt Explorations Fund,
writes that DR.. Reginald 5. Poole, OF
the British Museum, has succeeded in
obtaining for the Boston Museum OF
Fine Arts a very valuable colossus OF
Rameses III. The colossus Is OF granite
thirteen feet high, is in excellent pre-
%servation and richly inscribed. Its
transportation awaits the rising of the
Nile, and it cannot be shipped before
February.
A strange chain of s recently
brought about the death of a little boy.
The poor Child ate during the day a
quantity of sorrel which he found near
his fathers house. III the night feel
iIg thirsty, he drank freely of some
soapy water which stood zeal his bed
side. Next day he died, and an inquest
being held, the medical evidence was
to the effect that the alkali of the soar
acting upon the sorrel had formed
oxaiic acid, a poisonous compound, by
which the boy had been killed.
There isn't such a thing as a stove
or fireplace in all Mexico. The tenn
perature remains at about sixty degrees
the year round, and. while the stranger
will complain of being chilly at first, tie
will soon become accustomed to the
atmosphere and not suffer, provided
he wears flannel undertaking and puts
on a light oyercoat If he goes out after
SHUTDOWN. The cooking is all done in
Dutch ovens with charcoal, and ranges
were never heard Of there. Coal is