Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-07-14
MEN y WOMEN.

Prof. Brainard G. Smith, who Is to
manage the new department of jouriti
ism at Cornell, has had twenty years d
perience as a newspaper man.
Miss Amelia Rivers, the young author
ess, expects to spend the early part OF
next season with friends in Washington.
She will be accompanied by her younger
sister, who is said to be even more beau
tiful than herself.
Beiva A. Lockwood intends to make a
most aggressive campaign this year. She
will make a stumping tour through the
country as soon as she has obtained a
vice presidential colleague.
Capt. David Gray, a Pittsburg million
ARE, died in New York yesterday Of an
ailment similar to Gen. Sheridan's.
Edward S. Valentine will make the
Stonewall Jackson statue that is to stand
at Lexington, Va. 1t viii! cost So, 600.
John O. Gray, of Abba, To-, is said to
have served at the age Of 10 years as
drummer boy at Waterloo.
1t is stated that "A nephew of the late
King Cetewayo, after six years in Sweden
back 10 carry on mission work in his ma
tive land.
The Western Association Of Writers
Of which Maurice Thompson is president
| holds its annual convention at Indianapo
lis next month. James Whitcomb Riley
and Gen. Lew Wallace are among the
notables who will participate.
Sir Morrcll Mackenzie examined the
throat of the crown prince with an cleo.
trio lamp. The lamp is appended at the
end of what looks like IA long, slender
pen holder, and the pro%portionately small
battery which supplies the electricity is
worn about the examining surgeons
neck.
Charles Dickens nurse, May Well Glib
sen, was buried ON April Goth. She was
generally regarded as the prototype Of
Mary, the pretty house maid, in Pickwick
papers.
There are at least $50, 900 women in
Massachusetts alone who are earning a
living by industrial occupations.
London has eight homes for poor work
ing girls at which breakfast, dinner and
tea only cost a dollar a week.
Mrs. Abbie Morton Diaz, during her
recent visit to Washington, organized an
Educational and Industrial union in that
city. The president is Mrs. John A. Lo-
gan, and among the directors are Miss
Anna Dawes, Mrs. Stanford and Mrs. DR..
Newman.
Miss De Socarras and Mrs. X. S. Brun.
nerrecently graduated from the New
York college Of pharmacy. The latter
passed a splendid examination, and it is
her intention to go into business with hei
husband, a Brooklyn druggist. lIarper's
Bazaar says: There is no reason why
women should not be quite ms good phar,
macists as men. The work being en-.
tirely III doors, and requiring deftness OF
fingers as well as expert knowledge,
seem particularly adapted TO them
Mrs. Gould, of New York. is supply
ing the money TO construct the Covington
and Macon railroad in Georgia. She
finds a fascination in the details of con
struction, and has kept up with the
pioneer force all the way through. She
may be seen among the workmen inspect.
ing progress, and has OF her command a
construction engine, with which she
passes up and down the road. When the
last spike was driven which completed
the line between Macon and Madison,
Mrs. Gould was entertained by the best
citizens of Madison, and returned to
Macon delighted with her experience,