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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02
The Coal Supply
cangue.

n view of the question which has
suggested itself on more than Cne oc-
casion as to how long it would be be-
fore the old-world coal deposits would
become exhausted the DeutSche Handles
Museum supplies some interesting fig
ures relating To the worlds coal-tields
outside Of the North American coati-
nent.
According TO these the low countries,
Switzerland, Denmark. Germany, and
Bohemia, possess coal mines Of q sur
face area OF about SO. 900 square miles.
Russia alone has $4,000 square miles.
The deposits of the island of Formosa
amount to scmethinglike 10000 square
miles, some of the coal veins ranging
up 10 SO feet in thickness.
The coal-feIds of Austria, Spain,
Portugal. Italy, Greece. Turkey, and
Persia cover about SO, 900 square miles,
those of India $1,000, and those of
Japan 5000 square miles, while those
of China are estimated at 400, 600 square
miles.
But these are not all, says Iron. The
Falkland islands, Patagonia, and Peru
dIt NNIN illA III CbAls hAAiS "A SSNNH
ern part Of Chilli is one immense de-
post. In Brazil veins varying in thick
ness from IL 10 % feet are found in
numbers. and in the United States OF
Colombia there is an abundance OF the
mineral Mexico and the Vancouver
islands are also well supplied. there
being probably not far from 10000
square miles, while the deposits thus
far discovered in TASMANIA, New
Caledonia. and Natal are estimated to
cover loo, 900 square miles, the larger
number of these deposits not yet hav-
ing been worked.
Without reckoning the immense
stores Of coal in the United States, and
merely relying upon those given above,
there seems to be but little prospect OF
a coal famine for some years.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02
The Song ofthe Slot.

There's a balm for every sorrow,
There's some Joy in every lot,
When a nickel you can borrow
And drop il in the slot.
When you feed yourself forsaken,
When your friendf you count as naughS
And you find your gum is taken,
Drop a nickel in the slot.
II your false friends, friendship feigning
Depress you with the thought
That you in weight are gaining,
Drop a nickel Ia the slot.
Upon ~journeying, IL the parting
Is with vague m.sgiying frsugbt,
Insure your life on starting
With a nickel in the slot.
When you're weary with HAS battle,
And the sun beats fierce and bot,
At the tank a nickel rattle
Drop IL softly in the slot.
There's no balm for any sorrow,
No joys can hidden Turk,
When the nickel that you borrow
Will not make the engine work
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02
Ghosts.

Yes-kiss my forehead where the pain
Is grinding outward FIR VI my braini
But will not pity teach Ut, zoo,
To kiss these lips no FIR burns through
These cheeks made colorless and thin
BY years you had no portion In,
These weary eyes that wake and ache
No, for your sake--not for your sake;
Kiss, child, and let your kisses see
II they can find the heart in mel
There is a heart-or used TO bel
| think the pain is growing less
Under you passionless caress-
All could you teach my lips 70 crave
Just such kisses as you gave,
And could you, treading my iife's ways,
lay these ghosts of dear dead days
That walk my world by day and night,
And bar the way OF all delight
II at your touch should waken-. Vaint
From heaven itself my soul would plain
Give me my ghosts, my ghosts again"
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

Writing of the social standing OF
women authors in England, Olive Logan
says that lit varies, one might almost
say, with each woman Some Of these
talented women are at home in the most
exclusive circles of the land, while
others-and among them several of the
richest and, in the reading sense, the
most popular-have no local status what
ever, but must find such companionship
as they desire in the pleasant coteries
of the upper or lower Bohemia. The
writing profession carries with it no In
herited stigma, rs does the stage; an
authoress is therefore untrammeled by
consideration of social downfall should
she publish over her own name. With
expresses, queens, kings, princes and
grand duchesses rushing into print or
all sides, an ordinary person need not
of necessity cover her identity with /;
nom de plume. On'the other hand, ex
cept for occasional lionizing, an author
ess whose private life is clouded canno
hope to wing a social flight in the alti-
tude Of the upper air. George Eli6t
was never received BY society, and sew
eral renowned English authorssses now
living are ignorcd.n
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02
A combination of newspaper men and

A combination of newspaper men and
capitalists, recently formed as the
transatlantic Publishing company, viii
bring out on October Is the initial num-
Der of a new paper called the Transat-
lantic, a mirror of European life and
letters. Thereafter it will appear on
the lst and 18th of the month, and viii
be a large s~ixteen-page paper, with an
artistic and striking sover sumptuousiy
printed. IL will be made up of extracts
and t~ranslations from the European
literatures, culled not only from the
periodical press, but also from the new
est hooks and pamphlets.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

Amos Haynes, of Richmond, Ind,
died Wednesday from the effects OF
humping his head in going upstairs
This was Monday night, and nothint
was thought of it next day save to langa
at II at the breakfast table. B& befoa
noon he was Frustrated as by paralyst
including his entire right side. tn
skull was not fractured, but the phys
clans say his blood vessels were unnat-
urally weak and the jar burst one in the
brain.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

u remarkable mistake Was made at
the opening of the industrial fair at
Toronto. Sir john Macdonald had made
his opening speech of congratulation,
and before calling upon him 10 press an
electric button starting the machinery,
President Withrow invited one or two
other speakers to deliver addresses.
One of them was John Legs, Nj. p. for
Toronto. He advanced to the front and
laid his heavy white hat right on topQf
the electric button. Instantly there
was a shrieking OF whistles, and the
machinery in the building began to run
The crowd roared with laughter, and
after much gesticulation and running
about the managers stopped The pro-
ceeding, and the machinery was re-
started by Sir John and Lady Mac
donald.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02
solitary C~onancmcnt.

The mental effects of solitary con-
fnement on the prisoner have been dis
cussed recently in France. Dr. DE
Petra Santa, who is well known au-
thority on hygiene, has studied the
matter at the prison Mt Mazas, and has
come to the conclusion that this form
OF Imprisonment develops a tendency
to mciancholia, with an inclination for
suicide, even where there is no snch
predisposition before the mprison-
ment begins.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02
young Renedlct.s Luck.

Galveston, Tex, News, Octobera
Certainly there is no more propi.ious
time for fortune to knock at a young mans
door, as the freshman asserts it does once
in the life Of every man, than just after he
has taken unto himself a partner to share
his veal and woe in this life A windfail
Of a few thousand of dollars at this period
OF a mans life Is very often the keystone
upon which he may erect q fortune and
achieve success, Among the rare Instances
Of this kind Of recent occurrence we may
mention the case of Mr. +. 4. Pearcsop, .
ria. ( young merchant, Of Harland, Fort
Bend county who purchased one twentieth
of ticket No. sass, which won the scconA
capital prize OF Si0o,0 coo in the drawing ~
Louisiana State Lottery on Tuesday,
September 40, lcsy, aud ss a consequences
Is today 5000 better on In this worlds
goods. Mr.. PearcJon is the son Of Colcasl
p. E. Pearson, Of Richmond, ono Of ~
most prominent attorneys Of this secti6h<
and Is . prominent nan highly eatcemed
by all his a-cquaintanccs- As PREVIOUSLY
stated Mr.. Peareson has only recens1y
been married, and his good fortune -
therefore doubly welcome.
He will utilize tho amount received 80
unexpectedly In building up his business.
The ticket WAS Dashed through Messns.
Dyer q Moore, bankers Of Richnaond-
An o~~Aufric netroit millionaire -
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

An Ohio boy Of II purposcly cut hb
loot 70 avoid being sentto school
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

IAN eccentric Detroit miliionairs -
into an argument with . womza. one II -
tenants, and shs slapped his nouth wash4
diskclotk.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02

cup OF bitterness to drink? Oh, no,
Jesus! wo will drink il dry. But how
IL Ia changedl blessed Jesus, what hast
thou put into tho cup to sweeten IL?
WHY, 1t has become the wine OF heaven.
and our souls grow strong. i come now
and place both of my feet deep down
into the blackened ashes of our con-
sumed church, and / cry out with an ex-
filtration that I never felt since the day
of my souls emancipation, "'ictory.
yictoryl through our Lord Jesus Christ
Your harps, ye trembling saints,
Down from the willows take,
Loud to the praise Of love divine
Bid every string awake.
We are also re-enforced by the Cath
olicity that | have already referred 20.
We are in the Academy today, MOI be-
cause we have no other place TO 60.
Last Sabbath morning at 8 o'clock we
had but one church; now we have about
thirty, all at our disposal. Their
pastors and their trustees say. "You
NAV take our main audience rooms, you
NAV take our lecture rooms, you may
take our church parlors, you may hap
tie in our baptisteries. and sit on qua
anxious seats" Oh! If there DO any
larger hearted minister's, or larger
hearted churches anywhere than in
Brooklyn. tell us where they are, that I
NAV 90 and see them before I die. The
miilennium has come. People keep
wondering when Il Is coming. 10 has
come. The lion and the lamb lie down
together, ard the tiger eats straw like
an OK. should like to have zen two
Of the old time 'bigots. NTH thas
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-09-04
For THE FLORIDA AGRICULTuRIsT.
To Prevent Comb from Melting.

In reply to Beekeeper's queries, will
give my experience. | have kept from
twenty-five to thirty colonies the past
two summers in an open lot with no trees
near. Iuse a shade board 2x3 feet, and
never have comb to melt down. paint
my hive white and think it is very neces-
sary to do SO. | have tried them without
paint and have had the combs to melt.
Bees need the heat OF the sun during the
winter and early spring. Iput on my
shade boards about May LIST. l think
a splendid way is to arrange the apiary
under a grape vine arbor. | shall arrange
mine so the coming season. The foliage
comes ON at the proper time to shade the
bees, and besides pays with crop of
fruit
2. / do not allow poultry to run in my
apiaries. have seen hens walk up to a
hive and eat thier fill of bees unmolested.
How may bees one such hen in an apiary
would destroy in the course Of a season
may be easily imagined.
8. Put in pot with water on the stove
and boil until all is melted; then strain
through clean piece of fine gunnysack
into a pan of clean water and allow to
cool Young G. LEE.
Charlotte Harbor, Fla.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-09-04
Strawberry Culture.

In presenting the subject of strawberry
culture in this immediate vicinity, we
have intimated from time to time that
our people have met with most remark
able success in that business, in q small
way of course, and we have given several
instances in proof. We intend to give
others as we pick them up.
MIR. Hardin NJ. Young, residing just one
mile south of Plant City, has nice little
strawberry patch, which yielded him a
snug income the past season, for small
enterprise. He has the one-sixth of an
acre planted and has it by actual count
8, 600 plants or stools. For the season
Just past, he picked and sold IN this place
only, IT'S quarts. These averaged him
in this limited market, only about 13h
cents per quart, but which yielded him
nevertheless the snug little sum of $103.-
62h This, too, with late and unfavor-
able season at the beginning, with a linn
tied market, with plenty of Strawberries
for family use, and frequent installments
to the Courier Office besides.
On this as a basis Of calculation, the
production of one acre would be 1880
quarts. bringing $62175, which isa good
outcome, even under observation-disclosures,
and especially the low price, in the aggre
gate. Mr.. Young sold his berries often
high as 30 cents per quart, but then he
sold great many at 10 cents per quart
later in the eseason.-Plant City Courier.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-09-04

cles Solomon refers to can orchard of
pomegranates with pleasant fruits.''
The fruit itself, on account of it's round,
graceful shape, formed a fayorite orna-
ment on the echapiters of thegreat temple
"And the chapters upon the two pillars
had pomegranates above and against the
network, and the pomegranates were
two hundred, in rows round about.
They were also embroidered upon the
hem of the high priests ephod, and were
everywhere symbolic of high rank.
Concluded next week.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-09-04
Tnc verdict Unanin.ous.

W. D. Suit. Druggist, Bippus, Ind. testi-
fies: II can recommend Electric Bitters as
the very best reme0y. Every bottle sold has
given relief in every case One man took
six bottles, and was cured of Rheumatism of
10 years standing abraham Hare. drug
gist, Bellville, Ohio, affirms: The best sell
ing medicine I ever handled in my 20 years
experience. is Electric Bitters." Thousands
of others have added their testimony. SO
that the verdict is unanimous that Electric
Bitters do cure all diseases of the Liver,
Kidneys or Blood. Only a half dollar a
bottle at w. A. Allen & Co. Drug Store. 2
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-09-04

Tartams
Ceres, searching the world over, finally
learned of her daughters fate from a
woodland nymph-an old friend of hers,
who had been transformed into subter-
ranean river, and running through the
realms of Pluto had beheld Proserpine.
"She was sad, but no longer showed
alarm in her countenance; her look was
such as became a queen, the powerful
bride of the monarch OF the dead"
Ceres went straight to the throne Of Ju-
piter and demanded that Pluto should re-
store her child; this Jupiter promised he
should do, unless she had partaken OF
food while in the lower world, in which
case the fates forbade that she should be
released. After this statement one might
well suppose that it was foregone con-
clusion that Proserpine had gone to Tar
tams to stay, for. how could Jupiter or
any other sensible person suppose for a
moment that the poor girl had not once
waxed hungry during all these months OF
her mothers fruitless search?
All! Jupiter was willy god, and didnot
wish to offend either Ceres or Pluto; SO
the latter was mmoned, and quickly
proved that Proserpine had acceptedfrom
his hands a pOlnegranate and had sucked
the sweet pulp from a few of the seeds. 1t
was a clear case of Ewes apple, you see,
only reversed.
(And just here let me pause for an in
stant to remark, by way of parenthesis,
that we have shrewd suspicion that the
way Eve came to taste that apple was
simply because Adam was afraid to try it
first, and coaxed her intoit to shield him
self
Well, the pOmegranate settled the mat
ter for poor Proserpine. But, following
the laudable example of modern times,
Ceres and Pluto, with Jupiter as arbitra-
tor, made compromise SO that the bone
may, girl, ,-Of contention spent half the
year with her mother and half with her
husband, Pluto.
Such is the first story of the pomegran-
ate that comes floating down to us from
the past ages. The second also concerns
the gods of "ye olden time."
A certain girl of Scythia had her head
turned by the prophesy of a diviner that
she should some day wear q crown; hence
when the god Bacchus happened along
one day and fell in love with her, she re-
ciprocated; but gods were tickle beings,
and by and BY Bacchus tired of his hu-
man play ything and threwit aside. Short
ly the poor moth died of grief; and then,
rather late in the day, Bacchus, being
touched with remorse (there was great
deal of human nature in those old gods),
bestowed upon the dead that which he
had denied to the living; he transformed
the poor dead ycasket into a beautiful
pomegranate tree and set crown on the
top of the fruit it bore; we prosaic NOR
tails call it the calyx, but that does not
detract from the gift of Bacchus. It is g.
crown all the same, just as much ais it
ever was.
Taking a long step downward to days
that were modern compared with these
queer old times, yet ancient enough to
us, we find the pOmegranate figuring
prominently among thefruitS of the Rihle
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-09-04

famed, beautiful fruit, the more cause we,
find for wonder that it's true value is not
more generally appreciated.
"TiInes go by turns; old-fashioned
things are all the rage nowadays; they
are the latest fashion, "par excel
lence''; so now let us Florida horticultur-
lists follow the worlds procession and
join the ranks of fashion, dragging out
the glorious old pOmegranate from the
dusty shelves of the 'long, long ago."
and setting it down triumphantly in the
very centre of our gardens and lawns and
fields.
Talk about old-fashioned things! Our
great-grandfathers clocks, our great
grandmothers spinning wheels and dis
tapps and quaint old tables and sofas,
and q thousand other such trivialinfants! !!
Where is their claim to antiquity when
placed in competition with the good old
pomegranate?
Reaching far back into the musty re-
gions of the past, ante-dating by cent
uries the time when the Christian religion
was sent from heaven to regenerate the
earth, the beautiful pomegranate held
sway over the affections and imagination
of men, and we lind it's story mingling
here and there with that of gods and
men, from the earliest records of the
worlds history down to the present time.
From those ''good old times, very
queenly old times were they also, when
gods and goddesses dwelt upon the earth
and conducted themselves very much like
men and women, and not always like the
best of these by any means,-from these
queenly old times the story comes down to
us Of how one day, as the great and grim
lower world) was driving over the earth
one day the Goddess Venus, resenting the
fact that he had hitherto resisted the
power of the fair sex, melted her. son Cupid
to pierce that stony heart of his with one
of those golden arrows which possessed
the quality of causing any heart it en-
tered, whether of god or man, to straight
way feel the pangs of love.
And that was just what happened to
the austere god Pluto; as Cupid launched
his dart and fed in hot haste back to his
mother, like the naughty boy he was, the
said mother sitting calmly on the top of
Mount Olympus looking down at the fun;
as Cupid fed the eyes of Pluto rested on
the beautiful young daughter of the God
dess Ceres; she was a thingo beauty and
a Joy forever" (she was immortal, you
know and as she playfully gathered flow.
ers in the field with her girl companions,
a strange t1mult arose in the heart of
grim Pluto.
1t was a case of love at first sight, just
as genuine as though the god had
been nothing but common human
being. OF course with Cupid's arrow
quivering in his heart, how could it be
otherwise?
So it all fell out just as sly, match
ing Venus had planned it, for she had her
eye on Proserpine all the while and timed
the flight of that powerful arrowso that
Pluto should see her Immediately after
might makes right" applied in those
far-away days as in modern times. So
Pluto leaped from his chariot seized
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-09-04
FoR THE FLORIDA AGRIcULTURIsT.
The Story Of the Pomegranate.
BY HELEN HARCoURT.

The wonder is, and still the wonder grows.
That FIoridas so few pomegranates knows.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1889-07-04

sat by my girl at midnight kissing
her lips by the hour; her father was
watching through the keyhole with a
visage grim and sour. l paused for
breath, in rapture my feelings wero
awful queer, when her irate sour old
father rushed in and grabbed my ear.
How often, o, how often in tho days
that had gone by. had tried the same
little caper with young girls on the
sly. But now that lie had caught me,
my ear was in his grasp; to my senses
it quickly brought me when my throat
was in his clasp; beneath my tapping
coat skirts his foot he firmly set and
sent me flying out of doors where the
grass was cold and wet. How often,
o, how often when l think of that sad
night, does my blood boil and bubble
spelling for fight. But when l still
remember the keyhole in the door and
how with kisses tender, mixed up with
body sore, took my meals while
standing for days aud weeks gone by,
l resolve to stop up the keyhOle before
| kiss on the sly.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1889-07-04

In this country, remarks an ex-
change, comparatively few people har-
Dor that troublesome parasite the tape
worm. Americans are no lovers of
raw meats-the common source of in
fection. There are number Of drul s
held to possess qualities destructive to
tapeworms, but most of them have
been proved unreliable. Attention
has been called to cocoanuis as YER
mifuge. Professor Paresi of Athens,
when he was in Aby'sinia, happened
to discover that ordinary cocoanut
possesses vermifuge qualities in high
degree. He took, one day, a quantity
of the juice and pulp, and shortly
afterward felt some gastric disturbance
which, however, passed off in a few
hours. Subsequently he had diarrhea
aud was surprised to find that there
had been expelled a complete tape.
worm, head and all, quite dead.
After returning to Athens he maee a
number of observations which were
most satisfactory. the tapeworm being
always passed and quite dead. He
orders the milk and pulp of one cocoa
nut to be taken early in the morning
fasting, no fpurgative or confinement
to the house being required. A cor
respondent writes to the Pharmaceuti.
cal Journal that the eocoanut has been
used as vermfuge in India for prob
ably 40 generations by the beef-eaters
of the country, aud is so well known
there as means of expelling the flat
worm that he cannot conceive how
information of the fact has not
reached England before. Wlen prop
erly prepared and intelligeutiy ad-
ministered, he says it is equally efh-
caclous with male fern, kousso, pome
granite root, turpentine, etc, while 1t
is as pleasant for the palate as they
are offensive.