Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-10-24
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Dir. Z. &. Wood has contributed
1925 600 to the Young Womau's Chris
lian Association of Brooklyn.
Archdeacon Farrar maintains that it
is only an ignorant theology that can
ligion.
About half the railroad wl,ich is 10
connect JaiTa with Jerusalem has been
completed The remainder will be
finished within a year.
A Burlington (Vt.) barber recently
beat all records by going out and get
ting married while waiting customer
was getting lathered by his assistant.
Whatever DO the state of colored
photography process for photograph
ing in colors has been patented IN
London. and the company is about 10
begin business.
Anton Rubnstein is said to be en-
gagged on two important new works.
One is an oratorio on the subject Of
Moses, and the latter Of an opera on
Russian theme.
The steam power of the world is
placed at 40, 900 900 horse power. This
is equivalent 10 the working capacity
Of / 900 600 900 men, which is more
than double the total working popula-
tion.
Mrs. General Grant is aging rap
| idly. There has been n marked change
both in her appearance and manner
within two years. Her hair is silvered
and her slow and uneven step betokens
her advanced years.
A farmer near Amite, La. owns q
| horse that will not drink from the
watering trough if any of the mules
/ drink first. He does not seem to OBJ
! ject 10 drinking after other horses, but
/ draws the line at mules.
! The Shah of Persia has been in re-
! tirement lately because by mistake he
] used a rheumatic lotion instead of hair
dressing and turned his hair beauti-
/ full myrtle color. He must have been
dreadfulIy Shah greened.
Admiral Gervais, who made the
curious mistake at the Portsmouth
banquet of drinking to his own health,
is the youngest Vice Admiral in the
French navy. lie is 81 and entered
the service at ID as midshipman.
Statistics show the American to be
the greatest traveller. The record of
railway trips taken by each nationality
/ gives The following proportions: Ameri-
/ cans, 27; English, 10; Belgian, IL:
( French, 5; Turks, Swiss and Italians, l
! each.
Here is the prayer of the minister of
/ the Cumbrays, two miserable islands
| in the mouth Of the Clyde: 20 Lord,
! bless aud be gracious 10 the greater
and the lesser Cumbrays, and in thy
mercy do not forget the adjacent
islands of Great Britain and Ireland" I"
Since Brazil became a republic it
| has vastly increased in favor for field
for German immigrants. Of whom L.
927 have gone there during the first
| six months Of the present year as COM
| pared with 2, 1872 during the whole of
| last year. while in 1889 there were only
| 22S.
In connection with the centenary of
! the birth OF the famous German writer
| Baron Won BuuScn. it is recalled that
! his first chance in life after going as IA
| poor student 10 Gottingen was when he
was appointed tutor to Mr. Astor, son
| OF the founder of That American mil
lionaire family.
One OF the train-dispatchers in the
service Of the Georgia Southern Rail-
road is a woman, Mrs. Coey. 1t is a
! remarkable Innovation in railroading,
and it shows that woman is gradually
| proving herself capable and willing in
winning her bread in almost any en-
| ployment that calls for service
A curious memorial stone has recent
" been placed in an old cemetery at
Kingston, Mass. 1t is a rough block
! OF granite. live feet high. into which is
sunken large slate tablet bearing a
genealogical inscription of the Drew
family, the founder of which. it is said,
was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in
1889.
A novel method of fishing Is being
used off San Diego, Cal. lncandescent
electric lights are lowered into the
water at night and large net is
| placed below them. The fish are at
iracted by the glare, and are plainly
visible. When sufficiently numerous
the net is hauled up. The catches are
enormous.
Charles I. Lummis has discovered
an almost virgin region of big game in
the Flagstaff country of the San Fran
cisco Mountains. BIacktail deer and
mountain lions abound, but the rugged
inaccessibiity of the habitats above
the snow line is fortunately such as TO
frighten off pothunters aud the travel
ing foreigner with his caravan OF
guns.
Miss Lenore Snyder. the young
primadonna who has been so success
full in pleasing London audiences is au
Indianapolis girl. and. like Geraldine
Uimar. Emma Abbott aud other noted
Stage singers. is graduate of church
choir. When only ii years old she
sang solos in the Presbyterian church
in indianapolis where President Har.
rison attended.
Alexander Hudnut is now Euro
pean fixture. having sold for n large
sum his well-kuown estate at Orange
Mountain, near the residence of Gen
eral Mcclellan and Dr. +. L. Marcy.
He owes his prosperity to his early
friend. James Gordon Bennett, The
elder. They were fellow Scots. and
the latter became much attached to the
geuial druggist.
The beautiful Princess of Monaco is
one of the fair blue stockings of
Europe, with II passion for books and
music. She has an extensive coterie
of literary friends including our own
Blanche Roosevelt. Who gather about
her rouud-table aud play at literary
criticism in winter while her husband
gathers the elite of Europe about his
green tables 10 play for more remuner-
uliyc stakes.
When Fruits Grow.