Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-05-10
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description" IA stu,rt'ttd for sale in En-
glish papers.
1t is said ,Ntt n Frsnckman has dis
covered that vs. watering dahlias with
tepid water a oel,sSus aroma is impaired
to them.
AT White HnHu a gunner fred four
teen shots at a duok before b. found out
that il was a decay paced on the water by
two schoolboys.
A a first clasJ restaurant in Phila-
delphia "A patron entering a terrapin is
shown a box full Of the reptiles and allowed
To select his minds fancy.
The Watkin tower, which will be
erected in London and overtop the Eifel
tower by 335 feet, Is 10 have six legs in
stead Of four. 1t will cost al out 81 ,20o,-
600.
Professor John S. Newberry, in q lee
ture at Columbia college, Saturday, on the
theological History Of Man" said there
are signs that man lived $1,000 years ago.
1.-THE fatal gift of teluty-wbat is itt'
said Smithers. well, I give it up unless
-un-unless IL is the Christmas present
FOUR wife gives you and you have 20 pay
for
The kangaroo is doomed 10 extinction
In Australia. The farmers object to that
animal for the reason that he eats grass
that would otherwise provide pasture for
sheep.
Queen Elizabeth's prayer book Is shown
In the Tudor exhibition in London. IL is
bound in enameled gold and printed by A
Barker in 1874, and 10 one of the clief won
iers of the Tudors shown.
1t has been discovered that tie nickel
In. the slot machine was an Cd Egyptian
device for dispensing the purifying water
In the temples. The apparatus was de
scribed by Hero Of Alexander, who lived
zoo years Il. {.
A modification Of Edison's pbonograph
In said 10 have been devised by a painterin
/ Milan. IL costs under $50 ond the wax
cylinders are reproduced in zinc by the
galvano- plastic process at a cost of 3 cents
each, selling price.
AT the sale of the late Abraham Hay
wards famous collection Of autographs in
London last week, the original draft, with
ogr phic corrections, of General Lees
last address to the confederate army was
knocked down for Sos.
The spring is full Of bloom in England;
primroses and violets are blossoming un-
der the hedges in the country, and round
about London the LANDSCAPE Is beginning
to glow with dafodils and gorse flowers,
and the air is soft and warm.
At Paris, Tex, Miss Annie Bayless
was about to marry Edgar Bruton, a rich
young man. whose suit her parents fa-
yored. At the last moment she Tilted hip,
and within an hour married james r.
Bradbury, a poor blacksmith, whom she
loved.
OF the 1900 diamond cutters at Am.
sterdam, who are all Jews, 1000 arc stated
% be now without work, 60 the principal
diamond cutting Establishments have
ceased operations in consequence Of the
enormous rise in the price OF raw dia.
modds.
An extraordinary feat In telephoning
was recently accomplished between St.
Petersburg and Bologne, a distance of
2, 46b miles. Conversation was kept up
not withdrawing a rather high induction.
The Russian engineers propose to converse
by telephone over a distance OF 1900 miles.
AT March, England, a llama or Peru
Wan giraffe gave birth to a giraffe, greatly
TO the surprise of the attendants. The
baby giraffe was able to see a few hours
after birth, and the manager expects to be
abe shortly 20 exhibit IL as the first giraffe
born in England.
A conference held in Berlin has de-
cided that in Germany children shall not
be employed under l2 years of age, and
then only six hours a day mp 10 fourteen.
Women and children not 20 be employed in
mines; and working Sunday is to be pro
bibited for women and children.
In Madrid when an actor has a benefit
dis admirers send to the theater little gifts
such as canes, slipper, game and such
tribes. Just as If IL were q donation party.
and the employees land these gifts around
among the audience for inspection, while
next day a complete list of them is printed
in the papers.
The American flag flies over the school
house at Mucklerat, Pa, in spite of the
protests of certain foreign coal miners,
who threatened all sorts of things IL any
body attempted to hoist L. A large mum
Der of the Order Of American Mechanics
marched into the town and raised the flag
without opposition.
"A step In a laudable direction has been
taken by NJ. Krupp, Of Essen, the well
known gunmaker, who has given a sum Of
700. 600 marks as a fund out Of which adj
yances may be made to workingmen who
are DESTROYS Of buying dwelling houses.
He has also established a school of house
keeping for the benefit of the daughters Of
his workmen.
La Nature gives al account OF an
alarm girdle for men-of-war or harbors,
10 protect them from the sudden attack Of
torpedo boats by night. The girdle is
made of wire with floats, and is supported
by buoys mt intervals all around the vessel.
When the enemy breaks through the line
, night light flares up and indicates the
spot.
The latest thing in canes is very huge
a thickness and has n natural wood
knarled knob-head. The ferule Is now the
most decorative feature of the walking
itck, and mayhap this is the reason that
pertain idiots are TO be met en- promenade
carrying these club-like stats end upward
and holding them rigidly at an angle of
VI degrees.
The Eifel tower, which has been
closed since the exposition, is about to be
seopened. 1t has been overhauled and re-
lifted as to its platforms and other accom-
nodations for the public, the restaurant
yervice has been reorganized and the ele
vstors nave been tested until IL is sure
that the cold weather does not affect them
i~njuriously.
anomaly of being the legal wife of two
husbands. Mrs. Allen, of Ossawatomie,
wal divorced from he hysbond and mar
ried a Mr.. Ricketts,. Her first husband
has had the decree Of divorce set aside
and now the lawyers are trying to settl,
which of her husbands shall buy hei
spring bonnet.
-Mro. n. a. weston, OF AlmeOn- Sal
had q narrow escape from suffocatiol
She was playing with a pet canary, ans
pushed the birds head into her mouth
Just then she grew hysterical and shut he
teeth together so as to strangle the bird
Her daughter pulled the canary and sew
cred its head, which got into Mrs. Weston
guilet. She was black In the face whe
the obstruction was removed.
A young physician attached to tn
Chelsea hospital for women, has invente
and used, ii IL said with success, q machin
which In cases of cancer, will direct a cur
rent of electricity against . diseased eel
strong enough 60 destroy IL and at tn
same time will not injure a healthy eel
Those that are destroyed are said to tur
into q hard substance hat remains with
out causing the patient any Inconvenience
An electrician, writing recently OF
the action Of electricity ON the human
body, says that just what takes place II
the human organization to produce dealt
from an electric current, seems to be nj
~unsolved problem. One Of the theoriei
souetimes advanced concerning IL is tina
when Q heing shffers death from electri,
shock IL Is q pure case Of internal ruptur'
or explosion from the generation of gas Of
vapor.
There can be such . thing as too mucl
natural gas, although its discovery has LEI
TO fortune in some cases. A farmer II
indiana IL in trou BILE over the matter, fol
v.s IN eacapiua All ovor his farm. A