Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-09
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Travellers report that more Englis
is spoken on the European c%ontinen
this year than ever before.
A huge rattlesnake crawling alon,
the sidewalk was one of the sights q
Athens, Ga, the other day.
Henry NJ. Flagler, the Standard OF
millionaire, is going TO lay out an ex
t%ensive winter baseball ground il
Florida.
Oliver Wendell Holmes recently re-
marked that death bears as pleasing a
face to an old man as sleep to n who
is tired.
Mr.. James f. Murdoch, the distin-
guished actor and reader, viii hence
forth live in Boston, where he will open
q school of oratory.
King Dinah, of Africa, who has made
a sensation ia Paris, has received an
offer from an American dime museum
proprietor to travel in this country.
Ex-Gov. Pinchback pulls no blanks
from the southern lottery in which
"he draws" s25, 600 a year from the
funds, it is stated, irrespective OF how
the wheel goes.
Max Strakosch, who brought some
of the most brilliant singers TO this
country that ever left the other side of
the Atlantic. is in the Home for Cura-
bles at Fordham, n. Y, a paralytic.
A statue of the late Louisa NJ. Alcott
is to be modelled by Frank f. Elwell, a
Concord sculptor, an intimate friend
Of the authoress. There is a rumor
that the statue may be placed in the
Free Public Library of Concord.
John Burns, the London labor agita-
tor, uses no tobacco o strong drink.
He has collected a fine library OF
standard works. largely on political
and social economy, and be has a
superb voice for public speaking.
Mrs. Leyland, formerly Miss Jennie
Chamberlain. is said TO possess a most
exquisite complexion and marvellous
eyes. These constitute her main
charms, but n be reproduced in
her photographs, which therefore con-
yey no idea of Ter real beauty.
Lord Mulgrave, eldest son OF the Mar
guis of Normandy. is about to visit
America. He is a man of strongly re-
ligious ideas, and has serious thoughts
OF accepting a commission in the Sal
walton Army. He frequently conducts
missions in the London slums.
Edmund G. Ross, once United States
senator from Kansas and later Govern
or of New Mexico, who has recently
been setting type in the Office of the
Santa Fe AeW MericdH, has been chosen
by the company owning the Deming
Headlight as editor OF that paper.
Johns Hopkins, the founder of the
university that bears his name liz Balti-
more, entered the same city az the age
OF 10 with 81 II cents in his pockets,
and died worth $1,000, OC0. He work
ed harder to make the first $1,000 than
be did TO make all the rest. The bU K
of his wealth was made as a private
banker.
Emily Paxton of Pike county Mis-
souri,, has permission from the Gov
ernor of that state to wear n mans
dress anywhere in Missouri outside
of cities OF 1000 inhabitants" She
works on q farm and her fayorite oc-
cupation is breaking horses TO harness.
OF these she herself owns three and
has charge OF thirteen.
The sporting men have a new fad.
II is a harmless one, for IL consists
only Of wearing a trout Fly Is a scarf
pin. The effect is pretty. The best
contrasts are a brown hackle on a pink
tie. a white miller on a brown tie, OF
a black gnat on a white tie. The hook
is caught in the center of the scarf
and the shell is drawn beneath it.
Mr.. Hugh Farrar McDermott has
contributed a poem entitled Life
Divine" to the Westbrook (Ae.)
Chronicle, which has so excited the
admiration OF the editor of that
periodical that he predicts it will shine
beside the works Of Milton and Dante.
mot with light reflected, but with
golden sunshine of its w internal
Mster.-
The Rev. E. ID. Hammond three
years ago became pastor OF a Baptist
church in Pittsburg. Since then he
has largely increased the membership
OF tie church and has built a $3.50
edifice. But some of the members re
Gently discovered that he was a smoker,
and the discovery SO impaired his use
fulness that he has deemed it expedient
to resign.
Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe was poor
when she wrote Uncle Toms Cabin"
The last chapter was written in the
efice of her publisher in Boston. Ii
was q cold winter morning. and she
arrived at the store half frozen She
stood over the stove half an hour be-
fore she was suficiently thawed 20 hold
her pen. Three months from that
time she received a check for $1,000
as the first payment on the sale OF
Uncle Toms Cabin
A large public bath win soon be
erected in Philadelphia from money
left by Benjamin Franklin and John
Scott Franklin left in his will. dated
April %. 1890, 5000 TO be used in
Philadelphia in such a way hat after
the lapse OF a century the principal and
interest should amount TO O sum large
enough 10 make valuable public inn
pr0vemcnfs. In 1916 John Scott
added $4,000 to this sum. The princi-
pal 10 amounts altogether to about
&110.000 Ten thousand dollars of this
win be laid aside for another century,