Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-08-01
INTERESTING ITEMS.
The fashionable word to replace
'Bwagger' is wide"

Saxony imposes tax on cats. This
Is something new in the fee line
Lot0eH Courier.
A Denver man has been awarded
el00, 600 damages for the alienation OF
his wife's affections.
The latest story is that Andrew Car
negie desires to run for Parliament in
the next English election.
Shares of Paradise" are alleged to
be sold by the Salvation Army through
out France at large profit.
At recent English marriage cere-
mopy the bride was exactly twice the
age and twice the weight ofthe groom.
The British admiralty has resolved
to give 500. 900 to Admiral Colomb for
his invention for flashing night signals.
The payments to Bret Harte by his
English publishers last year are said 10
have reached total Of $lj 600. while
in America he was paid only $1,000.
A l0.year-old schoolgirl in New
York CITY Is unable to read unless the
print is upside down. When writing
she forms her letters and figures upside
down also.
The Coreans are the largest eaters
known. Their stomachs are generally
abnormal in size, and the one possess
ing the largest is generally considered
the richest.
Ex-President Cleveland has rented
a cottage for the summer at Glen Sum-
| nit, Luzerne county, Pa, mountain
[ resort on the line OF Lehigh Valley
| Railroad.
Frank Ingalls,, a young brother OF
| the ex-senator. is President of Drury
College at Springfield, Mo. He is tail
aud slender. and otherwise resembles
his distinguished brother in personal
appearance.
Whittier is quoted as saying. the
other day. that there were times when
| it seemed to him that hH aust take uD
| his pen and write. but that he felt that
be had done enough aud that his work
was really completed.
A San Francisco man has peculiar
mania for opening and closing doors,
and will stand for hours at time at
one of the entrances TO the post office
opening and closing the doors for the
accommodation of the pedestrians.
Red stockings are generally colored
| from matters of aniline which contain
large quantities of antimoniac pro-
| ducts. When perspiring, this matter
becomes soluble, enters the pores of
the skin, and produces a violent rash.
There is a spinster in Pittsburg who
had marble monument for herself
made some ten years ago. 1t is kept
in the yard of the marble dealer, where
she visits it about three times a week,
and seems to find a sort of melancholy
pleasure in being near it.
A new industry is gaining headway
in the tropics, by which bananas are
dried for shipment The fruit iu dry
| ing loses one-third of its weight, and
when dried readily sells at Is cents a
pound. The dried fruit can be trans
ported over bad roads without injury.
aud it retains its flavor.
Stanley's contract with the American
! publishers of his last book called for
$50 600 in ROYALTY. 1t is now author
| itatively stated that he has received
from them the additional sum OF SAL
600. and that Major Pond paid 10 him
! some $50. 600 as his portion of the pro-
ceeds OF the lecture tour.
Alfred Tcnnyson has been England's
| poet laureate since 1850. n longer
period than the honor was held by any
| of his predecessors. Colley Cibber en-
| loved the distinction from 1880 TO 1857,
and Robert Southey from 1878 TO lo43;
all the others, from Edmund Spenser
| T., -, 81
Mabel Hunter. n 16-year-old Iowa
girl. is the victim of a peculiar habit
formed in childhood. Whenever she
is sent on an errand she walks TO and
from the place backwards. Some
times she will absent-mindedly walk
right. but upon recovering her senses
will Immediately retrace her steps aud
begin the journey over again back
wards.
1t is stated that in India soap is re-
garded almost in the light of natural
curiosity. for it is rarely. if ever. to be
| obtained of a shopkeeper there. OF
course. it is sold in the larger towns;
but the amount used by the natives
must be very small. seeing that the
total consumption of soap in India last
year was only 5000 tons. This means
that the amount used by each person
for the year was considerably less than
one ounce.
In Bodiga, Cal. not long since,
man lassoed a wild COW. he being on
horseback, when the animal broke the
lariat and made a dash for liberty.
| Not far off there was large house,
with the front door wide open. She
rushed through the door, up the front
stairs, through narrow hallway, into
q bedroom, out of the window. on to
the roof of the porch. from which she
leaped to the ground. striking with
such violence as to break her neck
San Francisco Chronicle.
Saws n San Francisco special TO the
n. Y. Tribune: The death of Dona
Baudine at Los Angeles removes Que
| of the last survivors of distinguished
native California family. At her
house in old San Diego generous
hospitality was dispensed in the early
| DAYS, and it was ball at this mansion
Of which Richard III. Dana wrote so
graphic description in his Two
| Years Before the Mast" She also en-
tertained Fremont aud Sherman and
| Commodore Stockton.
The plot in which Sir John Mac
| donald is buried is surrounded by
| plain. low iron fence. In the center
of it is modern red granite shaft with
the names Macdonald" aud William
son" on its base. On one side lie
father aud mother. sister. brother
and the first wife. On the other side
there is only one mound. and it is
marked with the name of Margaret
Williamson" The grave of the dead
Premier is beside that of his mother.
John Russell Young spends his Sun
days in New York and the remainder
| of the week at Atlantic City. Mr..
| Young has the distinction OF having
reported Lincoln's Gettysburg speech,
of having been trained under Greeley
| on the Tribune. OF long and brilliant
service on the Herald, Of having gone
around the world with General Grant
and of having made the most in
telligent and efficient Minister TO China
which the Government has up to date