Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-02
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without repining.
Senator Ingalls, has purchased a new
homestead in the southwestern part of
Atchison. Kas.. to replace the house
that was burned afew years ago.
Philip Grenan, who left this country
forty years ago, is now at the head Of
probably the largest stevedore business
in Bombay, India, employing no less
than 1000 men.
The family of Richard Rockwell, of
Clark county, Missouri, consists of
seven children, three of them triplets,
and two of them twins. The triplets
are ten years old.
An eagle weighing nine on has ar
riven in Brooklyn from its home in the
mountains of Maine. 1t is of granite,
and will be placed over the main en-
trance of the new postoflice.
In the great Prussian Field Marshal's
own immediate branch of the Moltke
family there have been eight Ministers
OF State, four Generals and one Adj
miral, all in the Danish service.
The gifts of the family of the late
ex-Gov. Anthony Colby of New Lon.
don, \. H., and his son-in-law, James
Is. Colgate of New York. to Colby
academy amounts to 800, 900.
A young woman of Southport puts
the most deliberate method OF suicide
on record. She walked into the water
and sat down. After d while she lay
down, and the tide rose and carried
her of.
Mrs. Harrison is in receipt of nearly
thirty requests a day for pieces of her
dresses and clippings from the presi-
dents neckties. The requests come
from people who desire TO use the
pieces in crazy quilts or preserve them
as mcmentoes.
The new Chinese Minister does not
believe in love-making between Amer
lean girls and the lively young attaches
of his legation, and gave out word.
even before his departure from China,
that under his regimeh here no such non
sense will be permitted.
Tuey Gwok Wing, the new Chinese
minister to this country, is a good
looking man, about 80 years of age.
He dresses in the finest silk raimen [,
and spends a great deal of money. He
is a constant smoker, and when he is
not putting a cigarette is rolling one.
A London correspondent SAYS that
the cause of Mrs. Rives-Chanler's
abandonment of literature lies in the
fact that her success gave rise to a
school OF fiction which has produced a
large number of female writers who
have brought criticism into disrepute.
AT last Venice is to be made a sub
ject of municipal improvement. She
is going TO have new bOulevards or
new canals laid through her after the
manner of the g boulevards of Paris,
and there is a tremendous hubub of
alarm among those desiring to keep
her as she has always been.
Sir Edwin Arnold looks more favor
ably on the press of America than Mat
thew did. He is a newspaper man
himself, though we are sorry TO say he
speaks of himself as a Journalist"
and he says it is "a very serious pro-
fessionn and his delight" American
journalism he commands for ''enter-
prise, dash and yigor."
The Afghan Ameer's method Of ven-
geance on his rebel prisoners is pretty
highly developed. One batch, num-
bering 800, were put to death three a
day. One of the trio was always hang
ed dressed in yellow and green, another
was dressed in black and blown from a
gun, and the third was dressed in red
and cut up with q sword.
The largest county in the United
States is Custer county, Montana,
which contains sc, 900 square miles, be-
ing larger in extent than the States of
Vermont and Massachusetts, Connecti-
cut, Delaware and Rhode Island. One
tenth of u present population could
find a mea of livelihood in this one
county, and then it would not be SO
populous as Belgium.
An old book on the gunpowder plot,
published in London o after it was
discovered, speaks of the leaders of
that attempt as 1.-The darned c~onspira-
tors" The word darn used ia this
way has always been supposed to be a
vulgar Americanism, but il would seem
that. like many other supposed Ameri-
canisms, it may be an importation from
the mother country.
A pamphlet. thought to be from high
sources, has just been published in Ber-
lin, saying that the reasons which pre-
vented Germany during the days of
Emperor William from bringing mat
tiers to a crisis between Russia and
France on one side and the Triple AL
lance on the other have now disap-
peared, and a precipitation of the con-
test may be looked for at any moment.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps spent two
years in writing Gates Ajar,n and two
years more In binding q publisher for
It. Francis Hodgson Burnett was a
country sc~hoolteacher on a small sal
AIRY when she began writing stories.
and rumor has it that the STAMPS with
which her contribution was sent away
were bought with money obtained from
picking berries.
The shah of Persia has had a long in
terview with Hadji Hassein Ghooly
Khan abont America. The details of
their conversation are not known. but
1t is understood hat the shah's curiosi-
" regarding our country has been
reused TO a feverish heat. 1t is rumor-
ed that he is now making arrange
ments to come TO America next spring
incogUSto, though there are those who