Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-02-11
MISSING LINKS.
Alaska ships cranberrics to Eastern

' tise that they will purchase old sets o.
teeth.
Thomas Randolph, OF Ohio county
, Ky, &c years of age, took his first ride
on n railroad train recently.
J 1t is asserted that New Years calls
have had their day in New York, and
that the custom is beyond resusoita-
ton.
A half-brecd Normandy horse lately
drew q wagon with two men rs miles
in s hours and 81 minutes, including
an hours rest.
1t is now an imperial regulation in
Brazil that persons who die from yell
low fever SHALL be cremated, the State
bearing the expense.
Here is a bit of Chinese philosophy:
Observe not the stranger i'm thy mel
on patch too closely. ~Inattention is
often the highest form Of ciyility."
David Six. of Monongahela Town
ship. Green county, Pa, will be one
hundred years old next spring. Mrs.
Atwcll, Of that county, is one hundred
and three.
During n recent storm ct the mouth
fl the Columbia river in Oregon the
waves dashed over the top of the light
house, 1870 feet above the sea level, and
cXtinguished the light.
The cultivation of Indian corn is
rapidly increasing in Russia. 1t is
now used for fattcning hogs. Large
quantities are likely to be exported TO
Western Europe in the near future.
London has 4 5 o'clock tea school Of
art criticism. After an art lecture the
audience is provided with refresh
mcnts, yer which opinions are cX-
pressed in a discussion of the lecture.
Talking Of encyclopedias. the acad-
envy at Pekin has got up n of those
treasures of human knowledge which
leaves the Britannica far behind SO far
as bulk is concerned. being in 100, 00f
volumes.
OF the twelve men, including Will
liam Lloyd Garrison, who met in Bos-
ton on January g., 90 years ago, and
signed the constitution of the Anti
Slavery Society, only one, Oliver john
son, survives.
President Cleveland has sent his
Photograph and "A IS bill to the parents
Of n Kentucky baby that was named
for him. Babies in other States get
only the picture.
Experiments on the speed Of the
electric current prove that il n proper
conductor could be wound around the
globe n signal parting from it at any
point of it would return to the starting
point in one-half Of a second.
Ashes from the volcano OF Cotopaxi,
| which fell at a distance Of l2O miles
from the mountain, was found by an
alysis to consist of quartz. felspar.
maquetite and specular iron ore. Sill
ger was present at the rate of 200
grains per on.
At weddings the Greek Church uses
Two rings, of gold, the other Of sill
ger. In Spain and Portugal three
rings are placed upon the fingers Of
the bride ut the words: "In the name
Of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Ghost"
Mrs. James Longstreet writes to the
Atlanta Constitution declining to be
considered an object of charity, and
says that "the General, though far
" oiIl Il itI, 10 dDIC VIII Nldb lt wv IL
to live in comparative comfort the re-
mainder of his life"
A prominent society lady in New
York can not 90 to sleep without put
ing her thumb in hcrmouth. She has
tried in vain to cure herself of the
habit. She got it in childhood aud
has kept 1t in mature years, IN spite of
many attempts at II cure.
In cutting down an old apple tree in
MS ore lard Il Connecticut man found
squirrels nest and in it a watch and
chain waich lie had lost last summer.
Whether the squirrels had carried il
there or not is the question which he
is now laboring hard TO solve.
Mrs. Paran Stevens, who owns the
Victoria Hotel, in New York, was in
her girlhood n waiter girl in n Lowell
restaurant, while her husband began
life rs a stable boy. She is now worth
Sc, 900, 900, and ncr hotel is hcadquar-
tiers for the English aristocracy in this
country.
ST. Petersburg has only one steam
fire engine, and the same precautions
against fire are taken there and at
Moscow rs were in use a century amn.
Watchman are stationed Oh towers 10
or 100 feet high, and when y fire is dis
covered a signal is given and the fire
department turns out.
Pope Leo has conferred upon Mr..
Charles l.. Webster. the New York
publisher. the decoration which is worn
by the knights OF tho Order Of Plus
TX, in recognition of his services in
bringing out tho Life of Leo XIII"
The Order of Pius TX. is the highes,
order OF knighthood under the Roman
Empire.
Mrs. Margaret Conduit of Pittsburg
has just shaken OFF the shackles Of in
~agination, and Tor the first time in II
years walked Ike other women. All
these Ncars she has lain helpless upon
her bed, IA victim OF hypochondria.
and when at last she was persuaded TO
rise she had Il, DO taught to walk, like
a child.
Senator Evarts. upon seeing the new
moon for the first time. will ALWAYS
stop and gaze intcntiy ut it for a few
minutes. lie dislikes seeing the moon
over his left shoulder or through n
tree. In this respect he is not unlike
the average woman, who invariably