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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
ONLY A MIGHTY JOKE.
The Coroner's Jury Renders n Queer Y,
dict In the Rusk Shooting.

The Coroner's Jury Renders n Queer Yer.
dict In the Rusk Shooting.
NEW York, Jan. "A sensation WAS
caused in West Chester college today
when il became known that the body Of
John Rusk, the young man who was
shot on the night Of December 10 at
Throggs' Neck, as alleged, by Thomas
Hart, had been disinterred at st. Peters
Episcopal churchyard in West Chester.
Saturday last Coroner Matthews con-
cluded the inquest in the case, and the
jury surprised everybody by rendering
the following verdict: I've find that
John Rusk came to his death from acute
congestion and edemia of the lungs,
this verdict being rendered on the evil
dence Of DR.. Mac Nichol and E. A. vii.
Hanson. We, the jury, having no evi.
dence from the witnesses before us 10
prove that Thomas Hart shot John
Rusk, therefore it is IL duty to exon.
crate the said Hart from the affair, or
of being the cause of John Rusk's
death" Immediately after the inquest
Coroner Matthews went to the White
Plains Jail and informed Sheriff Shirmer
Of the verdict found by the jury, and
suggested that Hart be released on bail.
The sheriff said that he had no author.
ity 10 discharge Hart, and that the
latter
WOULD REMAIN IN JAIL
unless the court ordered his release
District Attorney Baker was not salts.
fed with the coroner's inquest, and de-
cidcd to make an investigation on his
owr account. He accordingly employed
Isaac Butler, the sexton of st. Peters
church, to disinter the remains of Rusk.
This was done today, and Drs. Louis
Livingston Seamen. Of New York, and
+. w. Lyon, Of New Rochelle, held an
autopsy. They found that Rusk, in
stead Of dying of congestion of tho
lungs, died Of q pistol shot wound, tho
bullet having penetrated the intestines.
The sworn statements Of Drs. Seaman
and Lyon will be presented TO the grand
jury, which meets in February, when
the case Will be thoroughly investigated.
In the meantime Hart will be kept in
tho Jail. District Attorney Baber's
term expired Monday night, but his
successor. William T.. Plat, will take
up the case and secure all the evidence
possible for the grand jury. The shoot
ing of Rusk, il is alleged, was the out.
come of the "McGinty' jokes.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11

RoxE, Jan. L-Riforma says the
v5sIeace of the language used in the
rpspa;s allegation will not prevent Italy
fxsrs sring governed In harmony with
ths necessities OF progress and the
separations OF thu peeple.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11

DUBLIN, Jan. 2.-The Freeman's
Journal says it has strong reasons to
believe that Lord Salisbury will dis
solve parliament at the earliest moment.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
Found in the River.

New York, Jan. 1.-The body of Mrs.
McAuliffe, the matron of tie Tombs,
was found in tho river at the foot of
East Sixteenth street at 2 o'clock this
morning.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
Full or Ice.

DUBUQUE, Ia, Jan. 1.-The Missis-
sippi river Is full Of floating Ice and the
sloughs solidly frozen.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11

MADRID Jan. 2s-Senor Gazarre, the
tenor. who has been suffering from .
severe attack Of influenza, died today.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11

MANY . nan makes = good Sspstatioa
os what 10 noe fsxSd cot about him.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11


Oh what an humble beginning. What
a glorious ending! Throne linked TO a
Manager, heavenly mansions to a stable.
My subject also impresses mo with
the effect ot Christ.s mission upward
and downward Glory to God, peace to
man. When God sent his son into the
world, angels discovered something new
in God, something they had never seer
before. Not power, not wisdom, not
love. They knew all that before.
But when God sent his son into
this world then the Anglers saw
the spirit Of self-denial in God.
the spirit Of self-sacrifice in God. 1t il
easier To love an angel on his throne
than a thief on the cross, q seraph in
his worship than an adulteress in her
crime. When the angels saw God-the
God who would not allow the most in
significant angel in heaven To be hurt
give up his Son, his Son, his only, only
Son, they saw something that they had
never thought of before, and | do not
wonder that when Christ started out on
that pilgrimage the angels in heaven
clapped their wings in triumph and
called on all the hosts of heaven TO helE
them celebrate IL, and sang so loud thai
the bethlehem shepherds heard IL
ssGlory to God in the highest"
But II was also TO be Q mission O.
| peace to man. Infinite b-oliness-ac
cumulated d~epravity. How could the,
ever come together? The Gospel bridges
over the distance. 1t brings God to us
It takes Ms to God. God In us. and VIZ
\ In God. Atonement! Atonomentl JUS
ltice Rtisfied, sins forgiven, eternal lii,
! secured. heaven built on . manges.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
ADUITERATIoK OF CANDY.

A Manufacturer Says Harmless Articles Are
Used-HOw 10 Knt II.
New York sun.1 ~ 3
"Csndy is not unwholesome il it is made
of pure sugar and harmless coloring and
favoring," said Fulton street sugar baker.
'Sugar, you know, is very nourishing, and
if people with sweet teeth would only eat
candy as it should be eaten the dentists in
New York would have less work to do.
Candy should be absorbed not masticated,
and you can always detect Impurities in
candy by sucking it. fit is pure sugar it
will all melt slowly in your mouth, but if
any sediment remains you may be satisfied
that you have eated impure candy. How
ever, as a rule even adulterated candy is not
injurious, because -four or cornstarch are
usually the ingredients used to increase the
quantity, and, beyond destroying the
flavor, they do not materially injure the
quantity.
Always choose brown candy if you can.
1t is much more likely to be pure than the
green, or the pink or red, or even the white.
Never crush 1t between your teeth. Allow
the natural heat of the mouth to dissolve it,
and don't attempt to chew it az though it
were tough beefsteak."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
DANGER IN DELAY.
SUBSTITUTE For SILK.
Frenchman Has Benten the Silk Worm at
Its Own Game.

A Frenchman Has Benten the Silk Worm at
Its Own Game.
London Herald.1
American silk manufacturers have re-
Gently had their attention called to a new
discovery, which was represented to them as
q cheap substitute for silk and was destined
to revolutionize the silk industry. It was
the invention of the Count Hilaire de Char
donnet, Of Besancon, France, of fibre, pre-
pared by q chemical process from cellulose,
and out of which fabrics are declared to
have been woven that resemble pure silk so
closely that chemical analysis alone would
disclose the difference between them.
May z, 1889, he announced the success of
his work. He said that it became apparent
in the early stages of mis- experiments that
to produce thread similar in transparency,
texture and brilliancy to the product of the
silkworm, it would be necessary to spin it
from a liquid solution. Cellulose was
chosen as the starting point, the most con-
yenient preparation of which was made
from certain parts of young wood. With
this material a pure Observation-Disclosures was
made by treatment with nitric acid, and
then dissolved in mixture of S8 parts of
ether and AZ parts of alcohol, in proper
ton 6.5 per cent. Such q solution is called
collodion.
The collodion was placed in a retort, in
which an air-pump kept up pressure Of
several atmospheres. The collodion flows
of through tubes, at the outer ends Of which
are glass nozzles, with hairlike apertures of
sizes to suit the desired fneness OF the
thread. These nozzles are surrounded by
cylinders, in which current of cold water
is kept In circulation. As the celluloid
flows out of the nozzles in fine fibre it is con-
pealed by the water. A small automatic
machine is employed to lead the fibre
off and wind il. This thread, is,
under certain conditions, explosive, and
could not be considered a practical substi-
tute for silk under such conditions. 1t is
therefore treated with bath OF dilute nitric
acid, which removes the nitric acid from
the fiber and renders the fiber non-explosive
and not more inhammable than silk. It can
now be made up into fabrics and dyed like
real silk.
Patents were obtained by Count Chsrdon-
net in France, Germany, England, Italy,
Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, and
the United States, the latter September 3.
1t is claimed the stuff can be made from
almost any known material of 6brous char
acter, and at about 81 40 per pound. This,
at its specific gravity, will make its relative
cost to silk about s. per pound.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
Section Of CobbJe Mound.

nd are composed as may be inferred, from
he name OF rive--boulders ranging from
l pound to 800 or more in weight.
The only other works in this country ap-
preaching them in appearance are the stone
mounds of Ohio and Kentucky. These,
however, are formed of fat stones heaped
over an oblong stone cist, usually contain
ing human remains, lying in an eastern and
western direction. They are generally as
cribed to the modern Indian, but the eobble
mounds Of our valley must be of great age,
judging from several peculiarities in their
character. -.-
THE INDIAN WASN'T A WORKER.
As is we'll known, even in the records of
the early explorers, the American Indian
was not in the habit of doing anything par
taking of the nature of work. He would
hardly carry these mighty boulders to the
heights on which they are found. Again,
in others great trees are found, one nearly
opposite Brsddock having two large sasss-
fras trees growing from the center, bOtn OF
which are seemingly of great age,
Beside the cobble-mounds there are many
other curious works of prehistoric people
6ereabeuts. Some two or three years since
anyone walking along the banks of the
Monengahela, about six or seven miles from
the city, mightsJhave noticed in places
washed out by river freshets remarkable re-
mains of what seemed to be freplaces or
rude altars, some oI them ten feet below the
level-of the bottom land in which they are
;ound- They were composed Of alternate
layers o. ashes, and peculiar reddish clay,
the like Of which is not to be found in this
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09

Metropolitan Theater in Buffalo. A stern
professor followed them, sat behind them,
and when he had enjoyed nearly all the
show, led the truants out by the ears. It
was bitter experience, but it did not crush
Jean Hosmer.
She used to tell her friends that the only
stage joke Edwin Booth was ever known to
play on an actress of his company had her
9 for his victim. She was the Katherine to
his PetruchiO one night. During wait
when he was not on the stage, Booth black
ened his mustache. When he kissed Kdth-
crime in the last act be left well-marked
black streak around the shrew's nose and
mouth. The audience roared with laughter,
of course, and their hilarity was only in
creased by the absolute wonderment of the
unconscious Katherine. OF Wilkes Booth,
the actress who had PLAYED to him night
after night has said: II considered him q
greater actor than his brother. He better
represented the genius of his father, the first
Junius Brutus Booth, and he played with
such fire and Vigor that he made us in his
company actually fear him. But be did not
have the refinement, grace and crystal clear
ness of elocutiOn possessed by Edwin.
Jean Hosmer starred first as Juliet at
philadelphia in 1868. In Camille" she
was especially powerful and effective. Ma
tilda Heron once thought Jean Hosmer her
best rival in that role, and ultimately Miss
Heron sold to Miss Hosmer for S400 the
right to play the Heron version of the piece.
But Heron was . bad business woman, and
in making out the contract she inadEertent-
Iy shut herself out, for she had intended to
reserve for herself right In the piece.
When Miss Heron realized the technical ef-
feet Of her bIunder she threw up her hands
in despair and, pacing up and down the
dressing room, exclaimed tragically: ''Jean
Hosmer's bones will be cracking in hHdes
while am playing Camille in heavenP ,
But she forgave Miss Hosmer all the
same. and there was no injunction. OF late
years Jean Hosmer has not been favored by
fortune. She grew careless of herself. Lat
terly she had PLAYED in inferior companies,
and then not always with distinction. Miss
Hosmer PLAYED once in Pittsbur0.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
Atmospheric Dust.

The President of the Royal Meteorolog-
ical Society, Of London, England, DR.. Mar
Get, recently read paper on Atmospheric
Dust" which he divided into organic or
combustible, and mineral or 1ncombustible.
The dust scattered everywhere in the atmos-
phere, and which is lighted up in q sun
beam or ray from an electric lamp, is Of
an organic nature. It is seen to consist OF
countless notes, rising, falling or gyrating,
although it is impossible to follow any of
them with the eye for longer than a fraction
of a second. It is difficult to say how much
of the dust present in the air may become
source of disease and how much is innocu-
GUS. Many of the notes belong to the class
of micro-orgauisms which are frequently the
means of spreading infectious diseases. Dust
when mixed with air is liable to explode,
especially in flour mills and coal mines.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
BIustacbe Trainer.

We are accustomed to look for invention
in strange fields, but a speculator on this
subject would never have guessed that a
mustache trainer would come to be the sub
iect of patent. Such, however, is the case,
and an apparatus for controlling and cor
recting the highly-prized masculine sppen-
dage has appeared. The device is made
with an elastic, curved metallic strip OF thin
metal, at the ends of which are secured sd-
Unstable plates, faced on the inner sides
with soft cloth for the purpose of comfort
ably claspIng the face and retaining the
hold. The device being placed in position,
the mustache is adjusted IN any desired
form and held in position, and the wearer
may keep it on during the night. So snug
is the fit that the weafer is not in the least
disconnected. and the use of the contriv-
ance for a reasonable time Is said to accom-
plish with certainty the desired result.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
Frauds In Coamatica.

DR.. Albert E. Ebert, in paper on Sos
meties," shows that the public is fagrantly
swindled by manufacturers OF cosmetics He
gave as an instance the case of little pot Of
Cream" which has wonderful reputation
on the strength Of its secret formula. 1t is
sold for 81 30, and costs 10 cents, being COM
posed of common zinc oxide, ground in
equal parts of water and glycerine, and per-
fumed with rose. Another Well-knoWn wash,
which retailed at SIS dozen, was shown to
consist of water and calomel, which cost IS
cents per dozen to manufacture. The dam
gers arising from the use Of COS
meties, is according to DR.. Ebert,
greatly overdrswn. Face preparations have
u legitimate use, and properly used are no
more harmful than perfumes. Zinc, when
present in powders, possesses some curative
powers, and bismuth is only slightly injuri-
ous. The principal trouble is the continu-
Gus application OF powders and the stopping
up of the capillaries of the face. Most face
powders are only zinc, bismuth, magnesia
and chalk. Lead and mercury seldom enter
into them. These are more frequently found
in washes, which get their only merit from
the glyeerine or oil in which the elements
are ground. In all OF them there is no dit
ference except as to name. DR.. Ebert had
some figures which showed that S62, 900, 900
were spent in America each year tor eos
metics, OF which SIS, ,000, 900 were re-inVested
in advertising and that the remainder, Sl5,-
O00, 900, was profit.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09

traces are still visible. Mounds, large and
small, are to be found in every direction,
and stone graves without number. From
many of these structures, and in the vic1n-
ity of them, rude implements and instru-
ments, weapons, pottery, etc., have been
unearthed without number. The axes,
some of copper, but usually stone, are re-
markRble for their size and weight, which
warrants in a measure the belief existing in
some places that they were originally
welded by a people Of superior strength
and stature. In private collection owned
stone al very symmetrical in shape, which
weighs in the neighborhood of IS pounds,
and a reliable authority states that weapon
Of the same kind was found in one Of the
southern townships some years since which
actually weighed % pounds Many rock
paintings and carvings are also to be OBJ
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
Height of Sen Waves.

The late Captain Scoresby measured the
waves of the Atlantic from the bridge Of .
Cunarder, and he reported their maximum
elevation as being 26 feet. 1t is now found,
however, that in stormy weather that limit
is far exceeded. Not long ago the Servia
was the largest and most powerful passen-
ger steamer ahoat. Seen on smooth water
in her ordinary trim her towering height
seemed to secure her against being boarded
by any wave, yet on one occasion leaping
sea struck her with such violence that it
hattened one of her huge tunnels. The
height Of that wave must have been nearer
80 feet than 26. Very recently the Dundee
screW-liuer, Croma, arrived at New YORK IN
a sea-battered condition and reported fear
full weather. She had actually shipped .
sea down her funnel-an elevation Of %
feet above the ordinary water level. If
steamers having such degree of bnOyaney
meet with such experience, it is not to be
wondered at that heavy-eargo steamers
with decks loaded with cattle, occasionally
90 to the bottom.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
Doctors Advice.

A popular physician was recently called
on by a friend to whom, in the course Of
conversation, he said: ''There are ten simple
precautions which form an excellent rule Of
life, and, if people would but observe them,
1 should have to resort to some other means
of making livelihood" He then enumer-
ated the following: Don't read in street
cars or other jolting vehicles. Don't pick the
teeth with pins or other hard substance.
Don't neglect any opportunity to insure
variety Of food. Don't eat or drink hot and
cold things Immediately in succession. Don't
pamper the appetite with such variety Of
food that may lead to excess. Don't read,
write or do any delicate work unless receiT-
ing the light from the left side. Don't
direct special, mental or physical
energies to more than eight hours work in
each day. Don't keep the parlOr dark un-
less you value your carpet more than your
and your children's health. Don't dslude-
yourself into the belief that you are an e4--
ception so far as sleep is concerned; the
nominal average Of sleep is eight hOpES.
DON'T endeavor to rest the mind by absofutsf
inactivity; let it rest in work in other chan
nels, and thus rest the tired part Of the
brain. N iss
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
VIRTUE OF THE GRAPE FRUIT.
Its Tonic Nature Makes 1t Great Aid to
Digestion.

Its Tonic Nature Makes 1t n Great Aid 90
DfGesIIon.
When the remedial virtues of the grape
fruit of Florida are a. well known as shey
should be, says DR.. A. G. Robinson, in the
st. Louis Globe Democrat, the fruit will be
used by that large class of people who find
something of tonic nature essential to their
good digestion. No one can fail to benefit
by eating an orange before breakfast every
morning. The grape fruit has all the good
qualities of the orange in an increased de-
gree. Many people to whom have recon-
mended the grape fruit, "the quinine Of
fruits" some people call it, have complained
that the fruit is bitter to the taste. This is
because they do not know how to eat it. The
envelope of each section of the grape fruit,
which is after all but variety Of orange, is
very bitter. This should be removed, and
the Juicy part Of the interior eaten only,
and, my word for it, it will be preferred to
any other orange ever tasted.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
EVERY DAY SCIENCE.
AdVisabiIity of Cities Enforcing a
System of Architecture.
A COMPRESSED AIR CAB MOTOR.
Luminous KeyhOles to Help Those Who
larry Long at the Wine.
BEST FINE IN RAILROAD HISTORY

Readers of THE DISPATCH who desire
trial development and progress IN mechani-
cal, civil and electrical engineering and the
sciences can have their queries answered
through this column. Is
Prof. Hooper in showing how the general
architectural effect and the question Of the
greatest good to the greatest number is pre-
judicially affected by the wart Of uniformity
in the buildings Of most American cities,
puts forward a plea for some method Of Sc
curing standard, and instances the fact
that in approaching European cities from
the country, no such utter lack OF method
in grouping of buildings was found. There
is hardly city in the country to-day that
has not been disfgured, and whose growth
has not been more or less checked by the
lack of unity of design among its inhabi-
tants. A broad and sagacious policy in the
management and government of cities is
in no direction needed more than in
the beautifying of cities and making them
attractive to the eye. It is lamentable to
see how in Philadelphia, New York, Brook
lyn, Plttsburg and other Large cities mag
ni6cent structures are demeaned by their
surroundings. Paris Is constantly quoted
for the symmetry and proper architectural
effects OF its buildings, and this Is the result
of its municipal law, which is rigidly en-
forced. The ordinance requires that the
height of ehimneys and the height and pitch
of roofs shall be within certain prescribed
limits, according to the width of the street
and the height of the building itself, and it
does not permit man to put up q structure
without regard to the character and purpose
Of other buildings in the neighborhood.
Neither may he build it of any material or
in any style he may choose, regardless
Of its effect upon the market value OF
adjoining property. The detailed plans and
elevations Of every building proposed to be
erected must be submitted to the proper des-
ignated authorities. OF course, durability
and safety against fire are the primary OBJ
jects in view, but symmetry and architecture
al effects are looked after quite as carefully.
From the American point Of view, which
practically accords to everybody the night
to do pretty much as he pleases, without re-
gard to the effect upon others, some Of these
regulations seem to be arbitrary and unnec-
essary, or at least not suited to the condi-
tions Of life In this eountry;but the adoption
of some modification of them would be dis
tinctly advantageous even here. Not only
are those who have made large investments
i'll handsome buildings calculated to i'm
prove and benefit the city, entitled to this
protection against assaults upon the value of
their property, but the welfare and prosperi-
ty of the whole community would be vastly
improved thereby.