Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-04-21

"A huge turnip, whiGtt has twelve
heads &C punches OF tips, is II Florida
curiosity.
A newspaper priWtrd in Gaelic. the
only II OF the kkld in the country.
has been started II Brooklyn.
An Otseco. Mich. man lost in The
woods was aEont lying down tn die
from exhaustion when Il ROSTERS crow
startled hlag nad showed hm the way
out.
A wosnsn in Philadelphia never
stops a.St$cet car To let her on OF of.
5 e c}n board II car ut full speed OF
alial,t from it with the deXtcrity of Il
man
While blowing in n cotton field the
other day, Jack Rcinhardl, of Lincoln
county, North Carolina, stumbled
upon a rich vein of gold. He has been
offered S20,00o for it, but refuses to
A chair of "Darwinism" Cor Spen-
cerism) has been founded at the Col
lege de France by the Municipal Coun-
Gil of Paris. M. Ribot. the eminent
psychologist, has been appointed the
hiD BiOASoooi'
1t is said that fully onc-half of tho
people of Maine are ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
and ouc-third of the churches in the
state are closed because Of lack of sup
port. Out of 1862 churches in the
state AIT are vacant.
The famous 30 tree under which
Buddha sat and mcditated until he be-
Ame ''enlightoucd and ovnrcame the
last temptation" is said TO be falling to
pieces. 1t is believed to be the oldest
trecin the world, being credited with
1890 years.
Helen Keller, the ci~ght-ycar-old
daughter of Captain A. III. Keller, of
Tuscumbia, Ala, is blind aud deaf,
but CT mind is wonderfully developed.
Among other thiHgs she has mastered
geometry, and demonstrates very DIFF
iicult theories with ease.
A new musical instrument. the Claw
harp. the invention Of NJ. Dez, OF
Brussels. has passed n successful pri-
waite trial. IL has a keyboard like
a piano. hut the mechanism pluckS the
strings like n harp instead of striking
them. Any plans "A play it.
Az Lebanon, Ky, a man named
Gdnkin fred "a shot with Il repeating
rifle at n muskrat swimming in the a.
ter. The muskrat vas not Int, but the
bullet struck the water, glanced up
ward, then flew across the pond and
Killed a young negro who was watch
ing the sport.
A man who had been in tie fish
1..l, -, Dat rltntD, nh;n s,,-, 49,.
fish caught th,s'c are so strongly inn
pregnated with oil that it is hard for
Che dealer To get rid Of them. Many
people will not cat them. The o is
washed FROM the Wood county fields
down the Portage Rlvcr:
Colonel L. w. BuIlitt. of Louisville.
says That il was not Daniel Boone " no
made the pioneer settlement in Ken
lucky, bat IN ancestor at his own
named Walker. la prosf of this as
sestion he shows a Ratchet with which
the said Mr.. Walker blazed a path
through tho tsacklcss wood in 1749.
Senator Ingalls, and Congressman
Sunset" Cox are vcry fond Of read
ing Homer. Before he prepares a
speech Mr.. Ingalls usually looks ever
few pages ef the old Greeks sonor-
OILS verse and treasures mp some of the
Winged words the old chiefaius were
Won't to hHl about in the yigor of their
expression.
Buenos Ayres, in the Argentine Re-
public. is now the largest city in South
Atncrica, the census of 1887 giving il
a~population of $4,000. The popula-
ninn az tho nnti.n C,urt,1- hnu ;,,,p,snI
l75 per cent in the last twenty wears,
while that of the United States in che
same period of time has increased only
70 per cent.
The results of the ''hot water cure
are said BY q physician 20 be the slim
ulatjon of the stomach ut first. but
aftcr repeated use II lessening of the
tone of the digestive tracks. which
causes congestion and dyspepsia. Hot
drinks tend To lessen bronchial irrita-
ton, and may be used protitabiy in
some cases Of consumption.
The duties of the early Justices Of
tho national Supreme Court could hard
ly be called onerous. During the first
twenty years of the court il had very
little business. Fram 1920 to 1851 the
CuStS hUDIlltttu W 70 INCIt9tu OutN
about fifty-iiye n year. After 1860 the
dockets became crowded, and now n
new case is ordinarily not heard for
five years.
A party of ladies and gentlemen
started 10 explore n cave near Clyde.
Ark. About nine hundred yards from
the mouth Of tho cavern they encount-
cred an immense army of rats, The
rats were vicious and made Il savage
attack on tho explorers. Two of the
ladies' faiused and had 10 be carried
out. Hundreds of the animals were
slain Ivy the men.
A few years ago 4 school ma'am in
Cumberland county, Maine. was pre-,
sented by her beau with deeds to some
California lands. Both considered
them worthless; but a woman hates tc
part with anything, 81 she put them
away. Recently she received IN oilcl
Of $3.50. 900 for tie land. valuable min
cral deposits having been discovered
which she promptly accepted.
William Knox. Of Santa Monica
Cal, who has become rich through
the boom ont there. wants a wife. AN,