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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
Notice Of Application Tor Letters Of Admin
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Ss8&sYs
In the County Court Of the County OF Custer.
State Of South Dakota.
In the matter OF the estate Of Charles A. Balck,
Deceased.
Notice OF Application for Letters Of Admin
istratton.
Notice Is hereby given that Frederick O. Balck
has nled with the clerk Of this court a petition.
praying for Letters OF Administration OF the
estate OF Charles A. Balck, deceased, and that
Monday. the 9th day ~ January, A. ID. 1870, al
10 o'clock a. IA. OF said day, being d day of a term
OF this court. f0-wit., OF the January term, A. ID.
eighteen hundred and ninety, M the court house
IN Custer City. In the county Of Custer, aud
state OF South Dakota. has been set for hearing
said petition, when and where any person In
teresfed may appear and show cause why the
said petition should not be granted,
ALFRED FEAY,
County Judge Of Custer County.
Dated January 7th, 1850.
EDMuND SMITH,
BUEL n. WoOD,
First plofcatson, January II.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11

The Locke, Pirre's new $4,000 hotel,
was opened on Saturday. 1t costs three
dollars a day and upward to hang up
your hat in bat gorgeous carayansary
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11

The North Dakota legislature recon.
vened on the 9th inst, after a three
weeks vacation.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
SATURDAY JANUARY IL, 1890.

The present session of congress prom
ises to be unusually brief.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11

Seven persons were recently killed in
a snow-slide near Sierra City, Califor
MIA.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11

The Crawford, Ne5., ~postofice was
advanced to the third class on January
LIST
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11

La Grippe and McGlnty are now max
ne a tour Of the United States.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-09-25
Original Form of the Horse.

The wild horse of Dzungaria is an
animal the size of the hemione and more
robust in its proportions, in which it res
embles the pony. Its head is large, with
ears smaller than those of the hemione,
the shoulders thick, especially in the
male, the limbs robust and stubbier than
those of the hemiones and the asses. The
name is short and straight, and the mod
erately long tail is terminated by tuft
of long hairs in much more abundant
supply than in the tail of the hemiones.
1t has warts on the hind legs as well as
on the fore-legs-a popularity of the
horse, distinguishing it from the other
species of the genus, which have warts
only on the fore-legs. The hoof, are
full like those of the horse, and not COM
pressed as in other species; and the low
er parts of the legs are furnished with
long hairs falling to the crown of the
hoof, feature which the hemiones lack.
Likewise characteristic in the color of
the pelage, pale gray, almost white,
passing into dun on the head and neck,
and blending insensibly on the TANKS
with the pure white of the belly and
limbs. The name, the brush of the tail,
and the long hairs of the lower legs and
hoofs. are black. There is no trace of
the dersal stripe running from the name
TO the tail which is characteristic of the
hemione. The hairy covering is long
and undulating, especially in the rigorous
winter of that northern country.-lPop-
ular Science Monthly.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-09-25
A Quaint Church in Heligoland.

The whole church is queer and quaint
with flavor OF the sea about it. Its
arched and ceiled roof is painted in con-
ventional design, and in the centre the
Danish shield, from which depends full
rugged ship-the gift of former COVER
nor of the island. Great transverse beams
support the roof. Across the sides and
rear gallery runs, and in panels entirely
surrounding its base may be seen the
pictured story OF the Bible, from Genesis
to the Gospels, painted in an emphatic
and realistic style by Andrew Amelink,
in colors that have defied the ravages Of
two hundred years. To one subject, es-
pecially, is the strangers attention di-
rected, in which the DEVILS cloven foot is
represented by "peg-leg, which would
have been the envy of Silas Wegg At
the eastern end of the church shallow
chancel rises a step above the floor, and
is fianked by two glass-covered box pews,
set apart for the use of the government
officials. Behind the altar, with its cruel
fix and candles, and above it, there is a
tall wooden structure like a screen, from
the centre of which juts out a small
curved and highly polished pulpit, which
the pastor enters by parting the curtains,
as he asccnds unseen from the robing
room in the rear. A fine portrait of
Martin Luther surmounts one OF the
state pews, and a small ship spreads
every sail over its neighbor. Other por-
traits occupy the spaces between the win
dows-and such windowsl Beginning
with Gothic intention, they terminate
abruptly in an arch; adding to the squat
effect of the church, and giving it maui
tical appearance when seen from within.
The pews are divided into several sit
tings, each painted to suit the individual
owner, and marked with his name, which
is an equitable arrangement, since 1t is
reckoned as part of his personal effects,
and may be Transmitted like other prop
erty-[ Scribner.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-09-25
ventor is buried beneath one Of these

ventor is buried beneath one Of these
towers.
Abraham Lincoln patented. in 1s49, a
device for lifting vessels over shoals. The
model is still in the Patent Office. An
other well-known name represented in
the Patent Office is that of Harriet Hos
mer, the sculptress. She made an appli-
cation, nearly forty years ago, for pat
ent on perpetual motion machine. She
has never filed a working model. DIR.
Mary Walker, the irrepressible, took out
patent many years ago for device for
educating children by the use of refuses
and conundrums.
A Connecticut man not long ago pat
ented collection box, designed to pre-
vent stealing on the part of the deacon or
the congregation, and intended to cover
the scoffer with ignominy and shame.
Whenever coin is dropped in to this box
it falls through trap in the bottom
with resounding rattle. The man
who puts his hand out over the
box as though depositing money in it,
with intent to deceive, will get no re-
spouse; while the man who puts his hand
in the box, with view to 'srealizing,"
will find it quite empty. Another
device, which has caused some trouble
in church circles, is one for drawing a
chalk-line around table-leg to prevent
ants getting to it. A minister and one
of his flock made application for patent
ON this some time ago, both claiming
priority of invention Their claim is that
the ant develops formic acid, and that
when he comes in contact with the chalk
chemical combination is formed, which
results in an explosion and the immediate
extinction of the ant.
Another inventor presents the claim
that fish, if Theoretically sealed in jar of
water. will remain alive for an indefinite
period. The fact that FISH left in the
same water unsealed will die in a COM
paratively brief time, is one not referred
to by the applicant. and he makes no ex-
PLANTATION of the phenomenon which he
has discovered. -lOnce Week.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-09-25
American Fables.
TIE PEASANT AND THE CROW.

One cold day in the Fall Peasant who
was laboring in his Field discovered a
Crow who was almost dead with Hunger,
and who Piteously asked for Corn.
"Ah but | have nothing to give" re-
piled the Peasant, tand the Crows are to
blame for it. Last Spring, when Plant
ed my corn you Persisted in digging up
the seed. Each kernel you then ate
would have given you hundred this
fall, but you refused to wait. You not
only Robbed me of my Crop, but cut off
your own Food supply as WELL"
Moral-Neighbors have to borrow now
and then, but don't borrow the crow
bar, piano, hired girl, horse and buggy,
fat-irons, front-door bell, sugar-box, tea
canister and sideboard all at once.
THE CHAP WHO MISSED IT.
A Beggar, who was making his way
along a Lonely Highway in the Evening,
was stopped by a Foot-Pad, who De-
manded his Wsalth. The Beggar soon
gave him true Understanding of how
Matters stood, and the Foot-Pad cried
out in his Sorrow:
't!Alas but have been Defrauded OF
my Rights"
GLOW so2"
"Why. the Traveller with Fat Purse
whom expected to Pass this way must
have taken Another Route, and will now
be Robbed by Someone elsew
Moral-Theres something funny in
hearing the Coal Man call the Ice Man an
Extortioner.
THE TRAMP AND THE LADY.
A Tramp having called at house and
stated the Fact of his Hunger and Dis
tress, the good Lady prepared him a
Noble Feast, and when he had Finished
he Stole the AK and Buck-saw and was
making off, when she cried out at his
Ingratitude.
.tAh Madam, you do not know what
YOU saw he replied. II did intend to
steal the Piano, but, overcome with your
Kindness, have contented myself with
these poor Tools"
Moral-she Apologized, Of course.
THE DOG AND THE SAGE.
A Dog was Barking at the Moon,
when a Sage inquired why he did SO,
adding that he could not Possibly affect
the great Luminary one way or the other,
and that it seemed Useless Waste OF
Energy.
''Oh, it isn't that it makes any
difference with the Moon" replied the
canine, ''but | want the Other Dogs in
this Neighborhood to Know that I'm not
Dead
Moral-We never Know that some
men have been Buried until after we
Miss their Bluster. Detroit Free Press.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-09-25
Don't Fool with Precipitation.

Considering all that has been written
and published this year about sunstroke,
and the danger that arises from dry,
non-perspiring skin, it is really amazing
how many people call for preparations to
prevent perspiration. There are several
of these, and they are all effective, the
main ingredient in each being the same.
The effect is not only to stop perspiration
wherever the preparation is applied, but
also to increase the temperature several
degrees and seriously injure the skin.
Ladies, of course, use such complexion
preservers more than men, but there are
not wanting young men who, to keep up
a spotless appearance, will subject them
selves to annoyances and take dangerous
chances. The only legitimate manner to
check perspiration is to keep quiet and
avoid excessive exercise. lGlobe-Demo-
crat.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-09-25
How to Count Bank Bills.

srThere are two kinds of bank bills, F"
said man who has handled a good many
of them. "There are the national bank
bills and the Government notes. The
former have vignettes on each end, the
latter on the left-hand end only. The
Treasury Department made mistake in
putting the vignette on the left end OF
the Government note, for this reason
Take a bundle of these bills in bank ;
the bank clerk in counting such a bun
die places his left hand on the left end
of the bundle and counts the right end
with his right thumb and finger. The
yignette is the most difficult thing to
counterfeit, and for that very reason 1t
is counterfeited most. In counting such
bills as have been speaking about this
yipnette is not seen by the bank clerk,
and he is more liable to count In a
spurious note than if he saw the vignette.
The expert knows a bad vignette almost
at a glance. / think if the Treasury
Department had thought of this the Wig
nette would have been put on the right
end of the bill. !"
This was told to the cashier Of Dear
born street bank. He smiled when he
heard it. 'In the first place." he said,
1bank clerks do not count bills in the
way YOU mention. If they do they vio-
late orders. The instructions are that
thew shall handle the bills so that each
one will come entirely within the range
of the eve. presume there are viola
tious of this rule in every bank. Even
so. an expert has other means of detect
;no bad bill than looking at the Wig
nette. However, l am of the opinion
that the vignette would be an additional
safeguard if it were on the right end OF
the note. "-[Chicago Tribune.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-09-25

CHICAGO is likely soon to find a for
midable rival in Nitsch, Servia. Every
thing is being done by the servian gov
eminent to develop the pig trade. A
contract has just been signed by which
a well-known English firm is Dound 70
slaughter 100, 900 pigs at Nitsch during
next wear. and $50, 900 in 1892, and the
number is to go on increasing until 1895,
when 800. 600 are to be killed there.
servia already swarms with swire.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-09-25
little FURTHER ON.

-. ve'ge sought for all these years.
p ss,toms we have chased, the pow n
y ,.5den lie, the glit'ring gold,
',siors we've sighed for shall be ours
little further on.
!. .hall smile on us and come
~ their trophies ut our feet,
.esr all our vain attempts,
= iors we've sought SO long well meet
~ A little further on.
.h.-i.bed hopes of by-gone years,
Z, castles reared high in the air,
= ,o,o.lost friends we too shall meet.
,,5rest in peace from toll and care
A little further on.
-[Burt Fowles, in Texas siftings.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-09-25

our old friends would be Mortified te
know that we are in such an occupation.
They used to applaud Eds cleverness al
evening parties, when we were in more
fortunate circumstances, hut it's differ
ent when he makes money cut of it, you
know"
She was interrupted by the entrance OF
her brother. He had delayed coming in
order to lock up the cabinet, and to
place other apparatus beyond the reach
OF any too inquisitive supernumerary.
Clymer's wonted clf-possession had re-
turned by this time, and he hardly wait
ed for the formality of an introduction
before he plunged into the subject near
est his heart.
Professor. am sorry to interfere with
your plans, but your able assistant here
has previous engagement to which she
shall be vigorously held, no matter if it
blocks the wheels of the national gov
ernmentm
The professor looked from the deter
mined face of Clymer to the downcast
eyes of Amy, and threw up the case.
Amy" said Clymer, on returning
from his next trip, " Halpert thinks he
has solved the mystery. He says there
must have been a double back to the
cabinet, with door opening inside, and
that you were there. How's that n
Amy only smiled. = Detroit Free
Press.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-28
Rye Coffee.

We have'stil a tolerably vivid impress
sion OF the "haTd times" which followed
the financial crisis of 1917, and continued.
at least, until 1920, and most especially the
advent of rye coffee. Roasted rye was
brought by the merchants from Philadel-
phia and Baltimore by the barrel, and
more or less OF it was consumed by almost
everybody. It became, in measure, a
standard Of financial ability, if not of re-
spectability. There were probably few
in the community who did Lot use it at
all; but many used one. quarter one-half or
three-quarters rye; but the larger number,
the pure unmixed rye. 1t was "wretched
stuff, and many persons could not or
would not become accustomed to il; others
preferred water. Of course, roasted chest
nuts, in some instances acorns even. and
chicory, were used as substitutes.
Finally species of sorghum was intro
duced, commonly called Chocolate corn"
and soon many poor families bad their
patch of chocolate corn. 1t had short,
compact head and produced round seeds,
something like millet seeds, OILY much
larger. These seeds, when roasted and
ground, produced beverage that in looks,
taste and smell approximated the common
chocolate OF commerce. 1t soon became
popular and displaced the obnoxious rye.
At that time no one thought of making
sugar out of the juice which the canes
yielded, and hence when good times" re-
turned, this sorghum was brushed aside
and was only reinirodueed many years
thereafter for its saccharine qualities This
has been so lopg ago that we cannot say
positively that the chocolate corn of that
period was the same species as that now
cultivated for sugar. There are many va
rietles OF sorghum, under various names.
all OF which yield more or less sscchsrine
matter; and, therefore, the people of the
early DAYS alluded to missed the opportu-
nifty OF making provision for foreign sugar
At the same time they were supplying the
place OF foreign coffee.-Americaas Notes and
Queries ~''es
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-28
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.

Emperor William is an ardent amateur
photographer.
The Hon. Potiphar Peagreen is one of
the celebrities of the Georgia Legislature.
Miss Belva Lockwood has decided that
she does not want to be a candidate for
President.
Professor Sumner, of Yale, is an Episco-
pal clergyma though few people are
aware of it.
Robet Dale Owen is to be honored with
$40 GOO statue on the Smithsonian
grounds in Washington
The Duke Of Cumberland possesses one
OF the largest and finest collections of gold
and silver plate and jewels in the world.
Edwin B. Winans. the Democratic Gov.
ernor.elect of Aichigan, is seriously i'll
with pneumonia and nervous prostration at
his residence in Hamburg.
General Booth is authority for the state
ment that there are 36S corps of the Saliva.
ton Army in America, with 81 outposts
and LOGS officers in active service.
Lady Flprencs Dixie the London "blue. y
is more than popular. She il the rsre.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-28
THE OLDEST CHURCH.
The First in This Country Erected by
Notwithstanding People.

English-Speaking People.
About 200 miles south of the city o.
Washington, in the county of Isle Of
Wight, Va, stands the Oldest buildina
erected on this continent by English.
speaking people, says the Washington
Star. 1. is built entirely of brick and called
st. Lukes' and Old Smithfeld Church. D
while its historic name is THE Brick
Church."
This venerable church was built in 1882
1C0 years before Washington was born and
only twelve years after the landing of the
Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. The antiquity
is proven by two deeply marked date
bricks that came down with the east wall
in the year 1887, when the original top fell
in.
The church having been abandoned as a
house of worship in 1886, in the year 1885
Rev. David Barr, then rector of the church
at Smithfeld, Va, and now the assistant
minister of the Church of the Epiphsny
Washington, d. c., undertook the work OF
hav:rg the old church put in perfect and
complete order.
In the restoration twelve of the small
windows composing the east window, the
nave windows and the vestry room win.
COWS are to DE memorials. In the east
window will be one each to Washington
lthe only memorial window to him in the
United States) Lee Bridges, the builder OF
the church; Rev. Mr.. Hubbard, the last
colonial person of the church (up to 1902,
when he died.; Bishops Madison. Moore,
Meade and Johns, Virginia's four de.
ceased chief pastors: Sir Walter
Raleigh, Captain John Smith, John Rolfe.
husband of Pocahoatas, and Rev. DR..
Blair, founder of William and Mary Col
lege.
The southwest corner window in
the nave will be memorial of
Pocahontas, provided principally By
her descendants, and the two CD
posite ones are memorials of Parsons
Hunt and Whitaker, first and second
chaplains with Captain John Smith in the
Virginia colony. Whitaker baptized
Pocahontas and married her to Rolfe.
The first roof was put on the church in
1858, the second in 1877, and the third
about 1921, and the present new one in
1887.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-28
AN ANCIENT PROBLEM SOLVED.
Baron Won Muller and the Cure
Snake POISONING

DdAoh tou muller ana the Cure nj
snake Poisoning.
The Governor General of India has re.
ceiyed communication from Baron yor
Muller, an eminent scientific AUTHORITY Of
Melbourne, announcing that he has dis
covered the real cause and effective cure OF
snake poisoning.
Hitherto the mode in which the venom
OF serpents produced fatal effects has been
mystery. The elaborate series of exper,.
ments carried out By the Victorian sayapt
have, he states, not Only rendered it clear
how the poison operated in producing
death, but have pointed out a remedy
which, when applied in time, will save the
life of the patient.
According to Herr Won Muller the venom
OF serpents does not destroy the tissue of
the body. but has merely dynamic effect.
suspending the action of the motor and
yaso-motor nerve centers. This discovery
at once indicated that the proper kind of
antidote would be something that would
stimulate and increase the functional &C.
ilvlty OF these nerve ceDters."
The remedy is supplied by strychnine.
which is directly antagonistic in its action
to snake poison. Herr Won Muller has ap-
pileo strychnine upon large number of
persons bitten by tiger snakes and other
Venomous serpents, and with invariable
success.
The way in which he employs it is to
insert len TO twenty minims of the drug
under the skin of thu patient and repeat the
operation every fifteen minutes until slight
muscular spasms are produced, these being
an unfailing sign that the patient is out of
danger. Large doses of s:r5chnine NAV
De injected into the blood of person
without producing any injury until it has
completely neutralized the effect of the
snake poison.
The importance of this discovery, if con-
hrmed, can hardly be overrated. In India.
where 5o.OO0 persons are killed by poison
Gus serpents every year. Baron Won Null
ler communication has naturally been re.
ceived with the deepest interest.