Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-11-22
Personal Paragraphs.

John Ruskin's health is much i'm
proved within a fow weeks.
Mcissonier is painting in Venice,
whore he expects to remain for some
time.
Edward Bethany is an applicant for
membership in the Springfield Press
club.
Queen Victoria will leave Balmoral
castle this season on November 90, and
return to Windsor for the winter.
The baleful influence of the Stand
ard Oil company is seer in Iowa, where
a m has named her twin daughters
Kerosene and Gasoline.
Duchesse Dues is still a millionaire,
despite the fact that she has spent
millions in the royalist cause.
Rev. c. II. Sturgeon, the eminent
English divine, recently remarked that
as soon as a man loses his religion he
wants 10 know who Gains wife was.
General Butler owns the Craig ranch,
below Pueblo, consisting OF 100 600
1NiCo' ~ 10 hisO u ONlicI ~ kUICE-
fourths OF a COO, O0O-acre ranch in New
Mexico.
General Malone has returned To
Washington wearing a straw hat. But
this apparel is not SO inconsistent as Ii
seems. as the general is a back number
himself.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale is 6s years
old. He was q newspaper man in his
youth, and even now, IL called on he
could set type or report a fire in an en-
tirely creditable way.
Napoleon j.. Haines, OF New York, is
informed over her own signature that
Adelina Patti does not contemplate re-
turning TO this country. Nine. Patti
and Mr.. Haines' family have long been
intimate friends.
King Alfonso persists in calling his
friends by their Christian names. His
governess is trying to teach him to say
1.-The duke" or 1.-The marquis" but the
little king laughs at her, persisting
that he must say J~uanito or Xiquens.
John Habberton, who wrote .'Helen's
Babies" is very fond OF the sea, and
looks somewhat like a sailor, with his
bronzed face, shaggy hair and loose
shirt collar. He is one OF the most sue
cessful authors and newspaper writer's
Of the day.
Holman Hunt has completed the pic
ture on which he has been engaged for
the past two years. The subject is en-
titled May Morning on Magdalen
Tower" at the Oxford university. and
includes portraits OF several eminent
Magdalen Q
The wife of Speaker Reed is de-
scribsd as a perfect type Of the New
England matron. "She has a face that
beams with intelligence and motherly
sweetness" Although not very fond
of society she strictly observes her ex-
acting social duties. !.
General Buffers weather eye still has
the peculiar droop the ~cartoonists have
made famous. The optical operation he
recently underwent was not TO correct
this familiar characteristic, but was
performed on the other eye. Now they
both droop.
A correspondent who recently saw
"Ouida" described her as a $50
yellow woman, with short, obstinate
hair" who was dressed in a bonnet that
was a ''hnge bower OF green reeds and
scarlet poppies." Sheis usually accom-
panied by q couple Of dogs.
The wardrobe OF Alexander Ill, car
OF Russia, vies in extent and variety
with that Of Henry Irving. HIS imper.
ial majesty has forty-four different uni.
forms, all of which he has worn save
one-that OF o hussar field marshal.
Although the titular head of his army,
the car has vowed never to wear the
dress OF a field marshal until this rank
shall have been conferred upon him by
the other field marshais after q victor
ious war.