Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-12-20

hat ran for president a while ago.
Anyone who would rob her, him or it
must be the meanest sort Of a rogue.
1t is only within a few years that pho.
Biography has been applied to the inves
tigation of the heavens with SO much
success as to make it one OF the most
powerful means Of research in astron.
Omy.
Emperor William, Of Germany, has
issued a book Of regulations ordaining,
among other things, that 1.-The distance
between the lows of gold lace on a field
officers sleeve shall be .27T559 Of an
inch"
A carload Of Indian ponies from the
Snake River country passed through
Athens, Ore, last week en- route for
Missouri. They were purchased for $13
per head on an average and sell from
$40 to $50 per head.
1t is not so we'll known as it might be
that Cincinnati has ar industry which is
now the largest of its kind in the world,
viz, that Of woodworking machinery.
The products Of the various firms en-
gagged in it are shipped to every cline
and nation.
Mrs. John ID, Rockefeller, wife OF the
richest man in America, is a model
houttkeeper, unpretentious and exact.
looking after everything, and keeping a
book account Of all expenditures. The
ladies should found Mrs. Rockefeller
housekeeping societies.
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Kate Field is authority for the state
men that women spend 500, 000, 600 a
year for cosmetics to make themselves
beautiful. Men spend a great many
times as much as that painting their
noses, which makes them ugly as sin"
both in complexion and temper.
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Mr.. Gladstone is the owner Of the
largest lead pencil in the world. 1t is
the gift Of a pencil maker at Keswick
and is ~thirty-nine inches in length, In
place OF the customary rubber cap it
has a gold cap, It's distinguished
owner uses it for a walking stick.
II Mrs. Dorothy Tenant Stanley had
not already a reputation as a good
artist che would make an impression IS
a writer. Her London Street Arabs"
which nave been collected from various
periodicals and published in book form.
with pen sketches by the "RagamuHin"
artist, are bright, attractive and enter.
tanning.
The Syracuse Herald AGkZzEtnLemark
hIaJ~ tue grdUlCude or women 10 Mrs.
Willard for her work in behalf of heI
sisters should find expression in endur.
ing MARBLE If this refers to Frances
j., Willard the Herald should be in
formed that she derives her name from
her father, not from a husband. She
still glories in the prefix of Miss"
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Carpenter mentions the case Of a SON
nambulist who sat down and wrote with
the utmost regularity and uniformity.
Not only were the lines we'll written.
and at the proper distances, hut the is
were dotted and the It's crossed, and in
one instance the writer went back half
a line to rake a correction, crossing off
a word and writing another above it,
with as much caution as If he had beer
guided by vision"
Tho sufferings and death Of Osiris
we're the great mystery of the Egyptian
religion; and some traces of it are per-
ceptible among other people OF antiq-
uity. His being the divine goodness
and the abstract idea OF good, his mani
festations upon earth like an Indian
god, bis death and resurrection, and his
office as Judge Of the dead in a future
state look like the early revelations Of
a future manifestation OF the deity, con-
verified into a NEUROLOGICAL fabl lie, etc.
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A new and valuable practical appli.
cation of carbolic acid has been made
in Central America, where it has been
used with gratifying success against the
le%af-cntting ants, whose ravages upon
cultivated trees in that country are so
destructive. The acid is mixed with
water and poured down the ant-burrows
~whereupon the ants desert their abode:
and by persistent resort to this method
OF attack they may be expelled from
the neighborhood OF cultivated plants.
a large pumpkin was recently exhib-
tied in a store window in Cleveland, and
a prize offered to he person guessing
the number Of seeds it contained.
Over 10000 guesses we're made and
three persons named the exact number,
l,OT7. The guesses ranged from no
seeds to 20, 900, 900.
General Lew Wallace is writing with
elaborate care a story OF tho of
Constantinopie by the Turks in 1854.
He intends II to be as good in its way as
ben Hur."
The widow OF Gibres, the celebrated
French halter, after whom crush hats
were named, died recently at Versailles.
1t was she who measured the heads OF
bis customers. She said that NJ. Gut
zots head was not at all like the girth
OF that Of his illustrious rival, Theirs.
All the sons of Louis Philippe, except
the due d'Aumale, had small heads.
Napoleon III did not need a big hat.
OF all Gibres' customers Victor Hugo
and the duo de Praslin, who murdered
his wife, had the largest heads. Kos
suth and Count Cayour had very large
and high heads.
In order to tell the day OF the week of
any date take the last two figures OF the
year. add . quarter to this, Disregard.
ing the fraction; add the date OF the
month, and to this add the figure in the
following list, one figure standing
for each month: 3-6-6-2-4-O-2-5-1-3-8.i.
Divide the sum by 8. and the remainder
Will give the number OF the day IN tho
week. and when there is no Remainder
the day will be Saturday. As An eY.
ample a k March 10, 1890. Take o0
add 20. add 10, add Q. This gives 1s7
which, divided by z. leayea a ramaioa.,