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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-12-21

OF n all restaurants give their
customers napkins. But / never could
understand why the downtown cafes
those where "A man has to wait for his
luncheon the same as he does for his
shave-should force a mar to use his
handkerchief for a napkin or return TO
the primitive custom of Arkansas-his
coat-sleeve. One of these downtown
cafes, however, has made an innovation
in this direction which is to be hoped
will spread. The proprietor evidently
understands his, business, for he has
napkins.
The question of the proper way TO
use a napkin is one that has been talked
about and written of by caterers and
people who are sticklers for table ETH
quette from the time the first napkin
was brought out. You have been told
that fashionable etiquette requires that
the napkin should be put on the knee
when not in leon the bias. / be-
licye there has been no deviation from
this rate by the upper ten. The other
day, however, French caterer toldm
that any man in q dress suit who did
not tuck his napkin under his chin,
thus shielding his immaculate linen,
was a fool. He said that it was done
by the best Pa~risians.- Chicago Tribune.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-12-21

Several years ago I had a plant.fabls
made which has proved entirely salts.
factory to myself and the plants, judg.
ing by their looks. | have never seen
one like it, and there is no patent on
it. so any one "A ''go and do like.
wise" 1t is a solid black-waInut table
simply made, with turned legs. finish.
ed with stout casters, The length.
ell by the size of your window. The
sides are eight inches deep, there Is no
top; around the bottom of the inside ~
a cleat on which rests Stats. like those
of a bedstead, on these rest a zinc pan
that juswtits the inside like a sink. the
upper edge turned over a stout wire.
The advantages of this stand over any
other that ! have seen are these: The
plants stand on a level. so all share the
sun alike; the stand is easily turned
around once n week, so the plants grow
evenly and not one-sided as we often
see them; can be easily pinned up in
newspapers on n cold night. or when
sweeping, TO keep off the dust. Mine
just goes through the door endwise.
and having stout casters can be easily
trundled to the kitchen for a weekly
bath. You can keep plants in pots.
setting the smaller between the larger
ones, some containing vines near the
edge to droop over. In this case you
will need an inch of coarse sand TO put
in the bottom of the pan to- keep them
moist. The plants can be set directly
in the soil. You do not have to water
as often, and the plants can be arrang-
ed TO look better.
You will put in the bottom of the
PEN an inch of drainage made from
pieces of broken pots, or charcoal
broken small with sphagnum moss on
top, then till in a little soil. slip the.
plants out of the pots, pick off the
drainage, and arrange as you wish. ill
in the soil carefully, pressing it into.
every crevice so no airholes are left.
Leave an inch at the top for watering.
Give a good watering and shade for a.
few days until they are settled.
You can fill this table with allifower-
ing plants, or fill Il with plants grown
for their foliage alone, and have a
handsome table all winter without q.
tlower.-Good housekeeping.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-12-21
'.All right, y said Eustace, "I'm agreea-
lla What do x,n,, want IN dnSv

'.All right q said Eustace, "T'm agreea-
bic. What do you want TO dor"
II want to give away q good sum-say,
two hundred thousand, that isn't muCn
out Of all you have-to found az institu-
ton for broken-down authors"
"All right" said Eustace; ''only you
must see about it, l can't be bothered. BY
the way" he added, waking up u little,
you remember what the old boy told you
when he was dying? / think that starv.
ing authors who have published with
Nelson's ought 10 have the first right OF
election"
81 think so, too said Augusta, and she
went to the buhl writing-table TO work out
that scheme on paper which, as the public
is aware, is now about TO prove such a
boon TO the world of ~scribblers.
81 say, Gussie!' suddenly said her hus-
band. "Pve just had a dream"
"Well!" she said, sharply, for she was
busy with her scheme; "what is ity"
II dreamed that James Short was n @.
c., and making twenty thousand a year,
and that he had married Lady Holm
hurst"
81 should not wonder II that came true"
answered Augusta, biting the top OF her
pen.
Then came another pause.
"Gussie," said Eustace, sleepily, "are
you quite happy"
Eyes, Of course l am; that is, ! should be
IL it wasn't for those footmen and the sill
yer water-jugs."
IL wonder at that" said her husband.
"Why?"
"Because"-(yawn)-'of thai will upon
your shoulders"-yawn). Il should not
have believed that a woman could be quite
happy"-yawn-"wbo couid-never go TO
court"
And he went to sleep again; while, dis
daining reply, Augusta worked on
THE END.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-12-21
Whah Work Has Done for the IIu-
man Race.

The human race has been saved by
having TO work. 1t digged its way out
OF its primeval pit by work. When ii
discovered its nakedness and had to be
clothed it worked for its raiment; when
it appreciated the responsibilities Of
f%atherhood TO be the feeding and rear
ing Of the young il worked under the
impulse Of an affection that vas refined
above the instincts Of the brute. The
relation of husband and wife was made
possible and proper only by the will
ingness to work that it might gather &c
it the neccssaries of existence and
finally be adorned by the prompting.
Of intellectual as well as physical wants
II Mother Eve is responsible for all we
lift our hat to her and offer the sin.
cerest respect to her great memory.
She did more for mankind than Adam
and all of his male descendants.-San
Francisco alta.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-12-21
The Disappearance of Deserts.

What were supposed to be desert,
are rapidly vanishing before the al
vance of civilization. There was {
time when the United States had on
of no small size, when twas considerc
that all the land west g the Missoul,
river was "A barren waste. The farmers
of Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota have
disposed of much of the great American
desert. Once upon n time q large por-
ton OF the interior of Africa were be-
lieyed to be arid and uncultivable. Now
we learn that they are fruitful and well
populated. The interior of Australia
has been held up as an awful example
OF a bowling wilderness, destitute of
water and OF animal or vegetable life.
That illusion is now being rapidly dis
PEELED. Recent explorers report that
inner Australia is no Saharan waste
and that though uninhabited, it can sup
port a large population. There are
grassy plains, large lakes, and also
traces of gold and precious stones. A
north and south railway is now being
made through the center of Australia,
and doubtless with its completion the
last trace of the desert will vanish. The
iron horse is a wonderful dispeller Of
illusions of that kind. The truth is,
that there are vast regions in America,
Asia, and Australia which are barren
from the standpoint of primitive and
ignorant agriculture, but which, when
taken in hand by the educated farm
err of the present day, with his i'm
plements, develop into fertile fields and
PASTURES.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-12-21
Sports in Scotland.

An English paper says the value to
Scotland of the opportunities for sports
is very large. The deer forests of
which there are 100, covering 5000
square miles of land useless for agri-
culture, rem for 100000 annually;
fl2, 800 of this goes to the local taxes.
If any forest fails 10 be rented the
whole neighborhood feels it greatly in
the diminished amount of money ex-
pended there. The grouse moors rent
for E440,0O o and pay Eos, 600 in takes.
Most salmon rivers are let with the
moors, but some are rented alone and
add a considerable sun to the total al
ready given.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-12-21
What n Man Eats.

A French statistician has just ascer-
tanned that a human being of either
sex who is n moderate eater and who
lives to be 40 years old consumes dur
ing 1.-The days of the years of his life"
a quantity of food which would fill
twenty ordinary railway baggagecars.
A good eater" however, may require
rs many us thirty.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-12-21
Advertising In Paris.

The latest development of the adj
vcrtising art comes from Paris. where
an e~nterprising publisher has employed
a large corps OF sandwich men to aa-
vortise a book by walking down the
boulevards and reading 1t with rapt
attention. An inquisitive gentleman,
anxious to know how far this wUald
have an educational effect upon the
readers, crept up behind one who
seemed more rapt than all tho others,
and found--that no was reading the
book upside down.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-12-21

~What Is a building, anyhow"
A New York Mail and Express reporter
was securing some facts about insurance,
and was surprised to find that q fishing
scow comes under hat heading, while q
shanty does not always.
THAT depends upon circumstances. Un-
der the rules governing insurance COM
panies a building is described briefly as
follows:
"A building or house is an edifce. erect
ed by art, composed of stone, brick, wood,
or other proper substance, fixed upon Or
over the soil, and designed for use in the
position in which 1t is fixed
"A policy upon a building simply,
without qualifications, will cover only the
buildings as therein described. But the
insurance win not include the contents
nor extend the occupancy OF the premises
beyond that described in the policy.
'If the word building be qualified by
additional words, as 'sawmill buildings
1t would then include everything appur~
tenant and necessary to fit 1t for occupancy
as a sawmin and carry with 1t the right to
be used for such pdrposes.
Fishing scows are buildings when 1t IL
proved that they are used and occupied
during the fishing season as dwellings and
places of business, and after the fishing
season as residences on land.
"a shanty is not a building when used
for storing tools, but not used for a work.
shop.
Where the several stories Of q building
were owned by separate parties it was held
that such owners are owners OF distinct
buildings. the one situated over the others,
and the owner Of the upper story must
keep the roof In repair ut his own expense;
and he cannot recover from the owners u
the stories below any portion of such OK
pense, aithough the repairs were to pro-
tact the propertY Of such oWners.n
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-12-21

Lew Wallace says the scene thai
moved him most in writing ben Hur'
was the one representing the here
sleeping on the steps hen his mother
and sister. after their release from the
dungeon, drew near and, recognized
him and yet dare not approach nearer
Two Houston rs Each 81, 500 Ahsas
Houston, Tex, Post, Noyeml or |.
While making his usualrounds yesterda
n Post representative. happened tn Ser
Raphaers cigar store. A. the two, had nc
met in some time the conversation at Lac.
drifted to Sans good fortune In. hoidin
n e-twentietho of ticket No. $500 whic
drew the $4,000 prize in the October draw
ing of the Louisiana State Lottery Natus
ally Of course, Sam seemed much pleased .
having held the winning number, out In hi
conversation and from outward appear
ance there was nothing that wonld indicat
any change In HIS usnal business routine
but on the contrary he assured the Poe
man that he would continue his bushes
en- the same scale and dexots Ais persons
attention to his trade Is formerly. In
ply TO the question as to- whcther he ha
any trouble In getting the money from tn
Lottery Company he said that Uncle 10
Baldwin, who held another twentieth c
the same ticket, and he both sent thei
tickets through the Wells Fargo Expires
company and promptly received the none
through the same company. The Post ma
then said good day, and started in search Z
Uncle Joe Baldwin, but failed to find HIN
In.repsiring m old house near Ncwper,
O., the workmen found . small box while
had bsen hidden In the top Of an Did eiotha
press or closet. Upon opening the bo
they discovered . ANAL bag containin
some $50 In gold coin. The coAn had az
parently lain undisturbed for years. M
money over to'Mrs. McRay. che owner o
the house, who made him : present Of 80
gold piece.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-12-21

der If there is any place where n could
go to smoke a pipe, or, rather, a cigar-I
suppose those fellows would despise me if
l smoked q pipe. There was no smoking
allowed here in my uncle's time, so / used
to smoke in the housekeeper's room, but I
can't do that now"
"Why don't you smoke herea-the room
is SO big 1t would not SMELL" said Angus
ia.
"Oh, hang it all, no." said Eustace;
stink of the velvet curtains. / can't sit
and smoke by myself in q room fifty feet
by thirty; / should get the blues. No, ]
shall come upstairs, too. and smoke there
And he did.
Early, very early in the morning, Au-
gusta woke, got up. and put on a dressing.
gown.
The light was streaming through the
rich gold cloth curtains. some of which
she had drawn. It Lit upon the ewers,
made Of solid silver, on the fine lace hang.
ings of the bed, and the priceless inlaid
furniture. and played round the faces OF
the Cupids on the frescoed ceiling. Au.
gusta stared at it all, and then thought OF
the late master of this untold magnif'
cence ~ he lay dying In q miserable hut
In Kerguelen Land. What's contrast wa
here!
"Eustace.n she said to her sleeping
spouse. wake up, ] want to say some
thing to you"
"Ehi what's the matteri'' said Eustaee.
yawning.
"Eustace, we are too rich-we ought to
do something with all this money"
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-12-21

One of the English regiments Is expert
menting with q machine called u centre
cycle, which has four small wheels q foot
in diameter and one large one in tho CEN
ter. 1t Is said that the invention makes
climbing q hill a. easy for . cycler g roll
ing of q log.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-18
A Heavy Judqment Against COL Boyce.

William NJ. Riddle, formerly pres
ident of the Penn Bank, of Pittsburg,
who now lives in New York, has OBJ
tanned judgment by default in the
Supreme Court against Col. Upton l..
Boyce, vice-president of the Shenan-
doah Valley Railroad, for $500, 900. In
Mr.. Riddles complaint, on which the
Judgment was obtained it is set forth
that on or about December Is, 1887, Rid
die procured a loan for Boyce of S25, 600
and also found purchaser for 81 ,2OO,-
600 of the common stock of the Gov
ington and Macon Railroad Company
at par value. Boyce is supposed to have
been interested in the railroad whose
stock he wished to sell, and Riddle
declares that for floating the stock
and procuring the loan. Boyce was to
pay him so, 900 in money, besides Civ
ing him S25O,0O0 worth of the stock at
par value. Riddle declares that he
has not yet been paid for his SER
vices, although he has frequently de
manded the money and stock. Mr..
Boyce is still in the South looking
after his railroad matters there. He
will undoubtedly attempt to have the
case opened when he returns.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-18
Resolutions Of Respect.

The following resolutions were
adopted by Mt. Nebo Lodge No. 81,
A, F. & A. NJ, at meeting on Thurs.
day evening, October 10th:
WHEREAS, Ithath pleased Almighty
God in His wise and mysterious provi-
dence to remove from our midst our
beloved brother, George T. McChan,
one of our best and most highly es-
teemed townsmen and citizens, and
an exemplary Mason, therefore be it
Rcsolred, That we tender our heart
felt sympathy to his bereaved family.
That!we shall sorely miss our brother
from our fraternity
That the usual badge of mourning
be worn by the brethren.
That these resolutions be spread
upon the minutes, that copy be sent
the family of our departed brother,
and also published in the SHEPHERDS
TOWN REGISTER.
GEo. w. BANKS,
j. q. GIBSON,
J. S. FLEMING,
Committee.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-18
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

There are more Knights Templar in
West Virginia i'll proportion to the
population than in any other State In
the Union.
Patents were granted to West Vir-
ginians this week as follows: Bert ii.
Hite, Morgantown, cornet; Samuel W..
Wilt, Clifton Mills, burglar alarm.
The usual monthly report of a
great hydrophobia epidemic in the in
terror counties this week shows that
the newspaper correspondents are
still at hard lying.
Gold bearing quartz has been dis
covered in Preston county, but the
precious metal is in so small apercen-
tage that il would cost two dollars to
extract one dollars worth of gold.
One thousand dollars for a single
tree may appear TO be Il fabulous
SUN: it is not, however, a startling
price to the lumber men of Wyoming
county, who often receive even larger
rewards. A curly walnut cut on a
branch of Pinnacle four years ago
sold for $1,000.
A man in Charleston whose chin
ney had been addicted to the vile hab-
it of smoking, got mason to investi
gate the trouble a few days ago. In
the fiue was found tin box contain
ing 5000 in cash, which some one hid
away during the war and never re-
turned to get it.
A physician of North Wheeling was
rudely awakened from his morning
slumbers by the violent ringing of his
door bell and the screams of pain
from a woman. Dressing in haste, he
discovered that the woman was suf-
fering with her ear, and an exam
ination found an immense fat bedbug
gnawing at the tympanum, which he
quickly removed.
At Rowlesburg, Preston county, at
one o'clock Saturday morning, Thorn
as Dunn shot and instantly killed
George Moore. Both men were EN-
ployes of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road. Friday night young man stole
a gallon of alcohol from the express
Office. and about half dozen road
employees began to drink the stuff.
A quarrel was the result, in which
Moore had his jawbone and colIarbone
broken before he was killed.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-18
Wheat IS Going Higher-Mnybe.

The Baltimore Journal Of Commerce,
in view of the wheat outlook, says
the foreign product is far below the
requirements, and that the bulk of
shortage must necessarily fall upon
the United States. This country, will
be called upon, it says, to the extent
of at least $4,000 quarters to fill the
European nav. Although we pro
43S, 900, 900, bushels this year, the Jour
nal says, "a considerable PORTIONS not
suitable for shipment, and with stocks
depleted as they were at the begin
ming of the crop year demand such
as the present. situation suggests, must
result in range of values consider
ably higher than the present level. "
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-18
There Are Three John Brown Jurors Liymg.


In announcing the death last week,
at Summit Point, this county, of Mr..
John G. Mcclure, who was one Of the
John Brown jurors, the daily and
weekly papers of the country stated
that but one of the jurors was living
MIR. William Rightstine. This is a
mistake. Three of the jurors are
living. They are William Rightstine,
of Shepherdstown, George W. Boyer,
of Browns Crossing, this county, and
William A. Martin, who lives near
Delaplaine, Fauquier county, Va.
These three gentlemen, although get
ting well up in years, are still hale and
hearty. and bid fair to live long
while yet. The jury was composed of
William Rightstine, George W. Boyer,
William B. Martin, George W. Tapp,
Isaac Dust, John G. Mcclure, John G.
Wiltshire, Thomas Watson, Jr., Jacob
J.Miller, Richard Timberlake, Thomas
Osbourn and Joseph Myers. All are
dead except the three first named.
Col. John E. Schley, of this vicinity,
has in his possession copy of an il
lustrated paper of the date of the
trial of John Brown, with portraits of
the judge and jury and all connected
with the famous case.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-18
A1tjetum Battlefield Notes.

The Hagerstown Herald says that
the Sixteenth Connecticut Regimental
Association wishes to purchase IA loca-
ton for a monument in Victor ii.
Newcomers field, west of the Burn
sides Bridge road This regiment
lost heavily there during the battle.
Several New Workers are negotiat-
ing for the purchase of the famous
bunker church property. They want
to obtain the building and all the
ground about it belonging to the con
gregation, with the view of erecting
large hotel. The church building
will not be disturbed, but is to be pre-
served as distinguished mark of the
battlefield.
An artist named Hope, from New
York, had very realistic picture OF
Bloody Lane on exhibition at Sharps-
burg last week. 1t is about ten feet
long. four feet wide and done in oil.
The view is that of the lane where
the dead lay thickest on the morning
after the battle. Mr.. Hope was en-
gagged in the battle and the painting is
from a sketch taken on the spot on
the morning of September Is, 1862.
He values his picture at over five
thousand dollars.
William S. Evans, a seventy.year-
old resident of Evansville, ILL.,, was at
Sharpsburg few days ago in search
of the grave of his son, who was killed
during the war when but nineteen
years old. The aged father found
the grave of his boy in Antietam
Cemetery, and ascertained that he
had been killed in the battle of July
6, 1863, at Gettysburg. 1t was an af-
fecting sight to see the old man at
the side of the grave.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-18
The Hagerstown Far.

A cold, chilly rain last Monday
gave bad start to the Hagerstown
Fair, but Tuesday the winds blew the
clouds away, and Wednesday morn
ing there was not speck to be seen
in the sky. A great many persons
went from Shepherdstown on Wednes-
day, among them being the Mana
gers of the Morgan's Grove Exhibition.
Thursday is always the big day" of
the fair, and the attendance from
here is always very large. The fair
is up to its usual standard of excel
lence-which means that it is the best
in this section. The entries Of live
stock, and in fact in all the depart
ments, are way ahead of any previous
year. Among the West Virginia ex-
hibits are the short-horn cattle Of DR..
Tanner Of this county and the fine
horses of Luther Ropp of Berkeley
COMMITTEES.