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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-04-26

whsn baby was sich, w gave her cAstoris,
when she was . chiid. she Dried for Casssria.
when she became Ni.=, she chung 10 castoria,
When she had chiidrsn. she gave them c~astoria
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-04-26

-Wnlker-"Good gracious, Wentman,
how you have changed-only q ghost Of
your former self. What nave you been
doingl" MISUNDERSTANDING out the
Health Hints In the newspapers.r
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-04-26

The first German Catholic church to he
lighted electrically is tho grand old
cathedral at Strasburg, Arc lights have
been used outside with fine effect, and it
Is stated that many of the noble linee Of
the architecture are accumulated by night
as they never have been by day.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-04-26

Fer agency and offers on "Tansiips
Punch scent Cigar address r. w. Tsnsili
&Co., Chicago.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-04-26

No Opium in Piso's Cure for Consump-
zion, Cures whore other remedies fail. pSa-
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-04-26

Much charity that begins at home 10 too
feeble to get out of doors.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-04-26

When the devil wants to train MP q young
man in the way he desires him to 60 he EN-
ploys idleness to loss the Job.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-04-26

hands hardened by Toll, the coarse common
Clothes, were, TO them, as dear as IL she had
been the finest lady in the land. She came
20 them laden with fruit and cakes, and she
brought them brlght-colored neck ribbons
TO enliven their sombre black uniform. She
told them her scraps Of news about tho out
side world. She walked with them In the
garden, or sat with them In the visitors
parlor, and they were utterly happy so long
as she stayed.
At last, after they had been four years
and q half In the convent, there came one
never to be forgotten Saturday on which
there was no visitor for the Demoiselles
OHara. 1t was peerless June day. and
the girls had pictured Biddy a, she walked
along the sandy road from Bruges, where
she had a hardish place as maid-of-allwork
In q Flemish tradesman's family. They
fancied how she would enjoy the sunshine,
and the hedges all In flower. and the song
Of the lark. II they could but be with her,
thought Kathleen, dancing along beside her
gathering the wild flowers! But bark!
there was the convent clock striking three
In another moment the bell would ring, the
loud harsh bell, which sounded so sweet up
on that one particular afternoon. Biddy
was the soul OF punctuality. The clock
had seldom finished striking before the bell
rang. The girls were sitting In the garden,
as near the gateway and the porter's lodge
Is they were allowed TO 60. They waited
and waited, listening for the bell. which
never rang; which never was again to be
rung by that honest hand. At last the clock
struck four, and they knew that all hope
was over for that day. From three 70 four
was the hour appointed by authority Tor
Biddy's visit. She would not presume TO
come after that hour.
.srhcre will be- letter tomorrow, per-
haps,s said Rose. with . sigh. Poor dear
Biddy! 1t Is such an effort for her to write"
But the days went by, and there was no
letter. The last Saturday In July came, and
there had been no sign ortokcn from Biddy.
The rules Of the convent school were strict,
and the girls were allowed to write 10 no
one except relations.
That last Saturday In July was 9 dull
stornY asy. . sulIen sultry day With AssYy
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The Sultan at Dinner.

The Sultan never uses plate. He
takes all his food direct from the littlt
kettles, and never uses table, and rarel
knife or fork-a spoon, his bread,
pancake, or fingers are found far han
ier. It requires just twice as ma
slaves as there are courses to serve
dinner to him.
The whole household is at liberty to
take meals where it suits him or her best,
and thus every one is served with small
tray, with a spoon, great chunk of
bread, and the higher ones only get the
pancakes.
Nearly one ton of rice per day is re-
quired for the inevitable pillaffe, 600
pounds of sugar, as much coffee, to say
nothing of the other groceries, fruit,
vegetables and meat. Rice and mutton
and bread form the greater part of the
food for the majority OF the Turks, to-
gether with fish, sweetmeats, confection-
cry, nuts and dried and fresh fruits.
That there is enormous waste and ex-
travagance in the kitchens is obvious,
and it is said that enough is thrown
away daily to maintain 100 families. AL
the water for the Sultan's use and the
drinking water for the household IS
brought in barrels, from two pretty
streams at different places in the Bos-
phorus toward the Black Sea.
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Making Soap Out of Horses,

On a recent morning the Board Of
Health, Chief Inspector Veal and DR.. Il.
G. Martin, city physician, went out to
the works of the Atlanta Fertilizer and
Glue Company in company with Messrs.
Louis Steinau and Isaac Schoen, the
proprietors, to inspect the new way of
disposing of carcasses of animals which
have died in the city.
The Atlanta Fertilizer and Glue Com
pany, which has contract with the city
to haul out the carcasses, has erected
large and commodious buildings, and
does away with the carcasses in man.
ner unsurpassed by any method. Their
method of handling dead animals is
something never before seen here. The
company has large wagon, with nothing
exposed-all under cover. Under the
contract the company is obliged to haul
all carcasses free of charge, and it is i'm.
portaut that they get them as soon as
possible.
The carcass is dissected and put in a
tank large enough to hold four horses.
There the flesh is boiled, the vapor pass
ing through pipe into water reservoir,
so that noxious gases do not escape into
the Dir. A horse when reduced makes
about 200 pounds of fertilizer and forty
pounds of soap grease. The hides are
tanned and the gelatine made into glue.
atlanta Constitution.
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Moving the Ocean to Paris.

There has long been an idea OF making
Paris port by wide canal to the sea;
One hundred millions have been expended
in deepening the Seine between Pans and
Rouen, so as to allow vessels of 500 or
700 tons to reach Paris. The depth be-
tween Havrc and Rouen is eighteen feet,
but the depth of ten feet between Rouen
and Paris is sufficient for the coastlng
trade. A French engineer has devised
an apparatus, enabling 1000-ton vessels
to come up to Paris with the present depth
of water. 4 Paris navigation company
has been formed which intends to build,
chiefly in England, thirty or forty ves-
sells of 600, 700 and 1000 tons, plying
between Bordeaux and London, South
ampton, Liverpool, Cardiff, Newcastle,
Hamburg, St. Petersburg, Naples, Cadiz,
Lisbon, Tunis and Algeria, West Africa
and Paris. Docks and warehouses will
be provided, and all arrangements for
rapid unloading.
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THE GIANT SQCrD.

turies. In fact, the professional angler
in those south seas is compelled con-
stantly to indulge a rather exciting an
ticipation of meeting one, and certain
percentage of loss of life consequent
upon these encountersls matter of regu-
lar estimate in the business, for the hum
bic toiler of the sea, while engaged IN
his peaceful employment, must be pre-
pared at any time to see a monstrous
creature with enormous goggllng eyes
rise out of the depths and fling across
his boat a gigantic tentaclc armed with
scores of suckers so powerful that moth
ing short of horse power can pull them
from the object to which they have been
once attached. For such an adventure
the fisherman has always ready at hand
keen knife with which to slash Oil the
tentacle before it has dragged him over
board in fatal embrace: He must work
quickly, for the monster has another
tentacle to help him in the attack, and
it is hardly an even fight between one or
two men and creature with an arm
reach of.100 feet.
Such and even greater are the proper
tions reached by the giant squid: which
is considered by some excellent authoI1-
ties to be in actual truth not only the
supposed sea serpent but the semi,fabu-
lous kraken as we'll. 1tinhabits all seas
thourh it is most numerously found IN
tropical waters. A full-grown specimen
weighs more than 10000 pounds, has q
body so feet in length and, besides Its
eight smaller tentacles, is armed with two
greater tentacles for purposes OF attack
each 100 feet long, the greatest dimen-
sion of the animal being therefore not
less than $50 feet. No wonder that
stories are told of its attacking ships and
even dragging them under the sea! As
for the poor fisherman. once captured and
held fast by the horrible sucking tenta-
cles he is drawn into the closer embrace
of the beasts eight other arms, which are
likewise equipped with suckers, and the
frightful creature sinks with its captive
to the bottom, where it tears him to
pieces at its leisure with its powerful
parrot-likc beak. Should it be fright
ened while engaged at its hideous meal
it discharges from an organ called its ink
bag fluid which renders the water round
about as black as night for hundreds OF
yards, thus cffcctually concealing itself.
This is the creature which not a few
men of science declare to be what those
who thought they had seen the great SER
pent of the sea have attempted to de-
scribe. The ACCOMMODATING illustrations
show 1t IN the act OF swimming in its ac-
customed fashion during calm weather,
with large part of its body elevated
above the water. Extended observations
of small specimens made in the aquarium
at Brighton, England, have demon
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Bismarck ut Seyenty-fye.

The Prince is of giant stature, and his
proud and aristocratic bearing increases
his height. Although seventy-fve years
old, the "Man of Iron" carries himself as
straight as the centenarian birch trees Of
his forests, and his corpulence is in exact
proportion to his stature: His forehead
is frowning and wrinkled, his nose we'll
formed, with large nostrils, and bends
llightly to the right. What struck me
the most in his imposing physiognomy
were his deep eyes of mountain-hke
blue, and sheltered bya forest of boldly
erect hair. The lower part of his face
hsrmonizes with the upper. His mouth
has a smile which is at once ironical and
kind. 1t opens wide enough to let pass
q hollow voice, slow and interrupt
ed. One would think it to be
the echo of solemn and distant ora
Gle. Prince Bismarck speaks French as
easily as German, but his words manifest
careful thought.-Chicago Tribune.
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A Beautiful japanese Legend.

At the time of Uda Tenno, who was
the ffty-ninth Mikado or Emperor of
Japan, between the years SSS and S97 OF
our era, about one thousand round years
ago, there lived man of great learning
and patriotism. Sugawara Michizane,
rose from simply being a tutor of the
young Mikado to be his counselor,
friend, and finally his minister, and who
exercised a most wholesome influence
upon his master. At this time the
power of the N1ikado had become much
restricted by the growing rival infu-
ence of the princely family of Full
wara, which had by various means
usurped the real power in government,
and left the bIikado to be only a doll or
show-puppet ruler. Now Michizane
sought to restore to his sovereign
his real right and power, which
the people longed to have done,
but the power of the Fujiwara family
and its influence was too great, and
finally Michizane was banished for life
to Tsukushi, a desolate place on an
island, now called Kiushiu, where after
some years he died, and it is believed
that he died of starvation. It is said
that Michizane was lamenting one day as
he remembered the dowery season of the
Sakura in his old home, that he should
never again see the cherries bloom,
when there dropped at his feet from the
sky full bloom cherry blossom. This
MGchizane took and planted, and from it
sprang the most beautiful of varieties
now known. Michizane loved children
and taught them to read and write and
to play the flute. So after Michizane
was dead the people made him a god,
and the name of the god is Tenjin, and
many temples were built and dedicated
to him in various parts of Japan. Some
of them, as that at Kyota, are very
rich.
The OK (or buffalo is sacred to Michi-
zane, and in every temple to his name
are reclining statues of the OK in bronze
or in marble. In the carvings of ivory
and in pottery it Is very common to find
the figures of an OK, with a slight rope
harness and upon which is a child play.
ing the flute. These are memorials Of
Michizane.-Detroit Free Press.
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After talking with Lenora few mo-
ments, and expressing her great pleas
ure over her narrow escape, she went
to her apartments to prepare for the
days shopping.
The preparation was quite different
from what her aunt presumed it would
be. Jeannettes visit to the sick cham
Der, and the sight OF the sweet, pale
face Of her rival. made her sli the mora
desperate. She had now twice failed
to remove the "little tramp" and in the
attempt had become double muir
deress, but she would not have cared,
had she but killed the right one.
She had been sitting by the CRATE in
her room thinking, for some time, when
she arose from her chair and began
walking up ana down the room, NUT
tering, in half-audihle tones, to her
self.
"No, no! Ny hands are now stained
with the life-blool of two innocent
persons, while she, the guilty one, still
lives. 1 have gained nothing, but have
lost my own soul: and now, if should
kill that contemplate creature, I be-
lieve the moment she died should
be struck dead. No, I must get her
out of this house in some other way.
I think I can manage it in such
way that Aunt Marguerite will send
her away Immediately, and be glad to
get rid of her; perhaps then I shall
have little rest"
She paused in the center of the room
and pressed her hand to her heart as il
to check its wild, painful throbbing,
while her great black eyes, sunken deep
in that pale, haggari face, gazed wildly
round the room.
"Ah! as luck would have it, Ray is
not a. home, and I can carry out my
plans much better when he is away.
When he returns home my cursed en-
emy will not be here"
ITo BE CONTINUED
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strated the fact that this is its favorite

strated the fact that this is its favorite
method of feeding. Inasmuch as it al
ways swims backward, making progress
by e1pclling water rearward froma big
siphon in its body, observers casually
viewing a giant s9uid at sea may have
most naturally imagined that the part 60
ing first was the head, the appearance of
tentacle appraised in the water, as in the
picture, being mistaken. for tail. Such,
at all events, is theory maintained with
great array of evidence apparently most
valuable. For the present, however, it
must remain q disputed question whether
this animal of fact is to take the place of
the sea serpent of ancient and respected
tradition. It is worth saying, by the
way, that the two great snakes which
attacked the LAGOON family may very
we'll have been the two great tentacles of
giant squid, making allowances for er-
rors of tradition.
The "kraken," which advocates of the
giant squid theory likewise indentify with
the same monster, was believed for cen
turies to inhabit the seas and fords of
Scandinavia, where it is now known that
;quids of the largest size dwell. There
seems, in truth, no good reason for
doubling that the two creatures, the one
ZEAL and the other half mythical, are one.
The famous bishop and naturalist, Pom
toppidan, member of tho Royal Academy
Of Sciences at Copenhagen, wrote that
tho kraken grew to DO hulf mile long
and was frequently mistaken while float
Ing asleep upon the surface of the. sea
for an island; SO that people landed upon
it and were engulfed in o maelstrom by
its sinking. It will be remembered that
Sinbad the Sailor is said in the "Arabian
Nights" to have had like adventure.
The kraken was big enough to lay hold
Of the largest man. of.war and pull II
down to the bottom with its arms, which
it frequently raised up as high as the
masts of ship out of the water. Pom
toppidan speaks of the manner in which
the kraken was accustomed on occasions
to discolor the water about it, and his
description otherwise proves that it and
the giant squid were thu some animal.
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readily admits the possibility of such a
creatures existence. Although the ig-
aorant arc accustomed to pooh-pooh such
notion, as they do everything which
does not come within the grasp of their
understanding, the mass of reliable testi-
mony in the sea serpent's favor is recog-
aized by those who have studied the
subject as well-nigh incontrovertible.
That some prodigious monster of actual
TACT has by its occasional appearance af-
torded basis of truth for what is gen.
orally supposed to be myth has been
entirely demonstrated, and will be suf-
iciently shown in this article. It re-
mains to be determined whether other
monsters besides this, as big or bigger,
have a share in responsibility for the
itorics.
It is rather extraordinary that tho
monster when seen is always referred to
IS the sea serpent, as if there could not
be more than one such animal in exist
snce. But surely if one exists there must
be others, else how would its kind be
oerpetuated1 1t is hardly to be supposed
hat the sea serpent has life of indef-
uitc duration and that single specimen
has been astonishing the world OF inter-
7als for thousands of years, for it must
De remembered that observations con-
,erning the beast have been made mat
Ter of written history for OF least three
thousand years. One finds in Virgils
"Enid" description Of the manner in
which two sea serpents came out Of the
ocean at the behest of an angry goddess,
md gobbled up LAGOON and his two
sons, twining about them with Shiny and
hideous coils.
Two-thirds of the earth's surface is
covered with water, the far depths Of
which, miles and miles below the waves,
have never been approached by the hu-
nan explorer. Who can say what
trightful creatures, vast and formless
Nightmares of the deep, may lurk there
in the darkness of an aqueous night
never illuminated by suns ray2 No
one has any reason for asserting that the
enormous plesiosaurus of the oolithie
age, skeletons of which are found at this
day does not still survive in the unfath-
omed caves of ocean. This extraordin-
ary aquatic reptile, which resembled a g.
cantic snake threaded through the body
Of turtle, having the head of lizard,
the teeth of a crocodile, a neck thirty
feet long like the body of a serpent, the
ribs of chameleon and the paddles OF
o whale, would answer very we'll to the
usual description given of the great sea
serpent. It is very likely, however, that
the monster which has given cause for a
majority of such stories is one Of unques-
toned existence at the present time, al
though up to very recent period, SCI
encc was not we'll acquainted with it,nor
was it known what mighty proportions
this ogre of the ocean attains.
With the giant squid, however, the
fishermen of the Indian Ocean have been
unp!easantly acquainted for many cen
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ON LEAVING IRELAND.
By g. MOORE

The nists ooscured tho mountain peaks
And hid their hosry heals,
While through the c!oud-chinks glory streak
Illumed the verdant meads
Which shone like patch WORK in the glen,
Mid feldS Of upiurned soil.
Where many group OF hardy men
Pursued their cheerful toll.
Cockrobin every now and then
Would sing his little trill,
While thrush ard blackhrd down the glen
Sung love-sonss louder still.
The noisy streamlets, in their fight
Adown the hazel dell,
Kept up hum Of sweet delight
Like to the organs swell.
Twas spring, tho time OF love and flowers
When earth Is all agiow,
AAd genial heat and gentle showers
Cause seed and plants to grow.
Che hawthorn blossom sweetiy shea
It's odors on the gale.
And Flora in protusion spread
Twas love and beauty all around,
But grief within my heart,
The morn had come and was bound
With friends ind homo to part.
Twas hard to tear my heart away
And break the magic spell
Which bound me to nv home that day
bade my friends farewell.
But why dwell on the parting scene,
The tear hssprnkled face,
Tho prayer-the look OF faith serene.
The kiss and fond embrace.
All past. yet In my memory still
Ths scene appsars as when
I took the last look rom the Dill
OF my dear native glen.
Thoush many year since then has hed,
Ard many change has oome;
Most OF the loved ones now are dead
Who rlessed my childhood's homo.
Yet still. no matter where rove,
The fairest spot on earth
Shall be that hallowed home OF love
Where received my birth.
QUEBEC, Canada
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A soUID NAVIGATING

One of the best attested sea serpents on
record was seen on the 9Th day of Au-
gust, 1S4s, by the officers of the H.M.S.
Dedalus in the North Pacific. About
sixty feet of its length was visible, and it
had all the appearance of gigantic
snake, its head and shoulders held four
or five feet above the surface of the
water, through which it swan at the rate
Of perhaps fifteen miles an hour. 1t was
viewed at quite close quarters through
ield glasses from the ships deck, and
vas observed to be of dark brown
color, yellowish white about the throat,
and with what appeared to be name.
On the oath day of February, 1o49,
about forty miles from the spot where the
serpent above mentioned was seen, Capt.
Herman of the ship Brazilian saw q
strange creature astern stretching along
the water for thirty feet or more, with
its head lifted several feet above the sur
face and name running down the neck.
A boat was lowered and the monster
was approached with harpoons. 1t was
found to be an immense piece of sea
weed, to which the swell caused by
the subsidence of a previous gale
rave o sinuous snake-like motion.
This latter story illustrates the
possibilities of optical deception
in the case of most conscientious OBJ
servers. 4 creature closely resembling
the moastrous Ichthyosaurus of anted1.
luvian times was seen in the Gulf OF
California by Captain George Hope, OF
H. NJ. S. Fly. The sea being perfectly
calm and of glass-like transparency he
beheld lying on the bottom, q few
fathoms down, an enormous animal with
the head and general figure of an alliga-
tor, except that the neck was vastly
longer and, instead of legs, it had four
large fappers like turtles. It appeared
to be pursuing some prey, and moved in
serpcntine fashion, its body having ring
like divisions. An eminent zoologist has
referred to this as the most interesting
natural history fact of tie present GEN.
tury.