Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-26

uSeu annually IN OnDatlnS mdlaEld
fever.
There arc 10000 women studying ir
the various colleges of America. And
yet it is only twenty-five years since
the first college in the land was opened
TO women.
The treasury department has beer
informed that attempts will be made
on the Mexican frontier to smuggie
large quantities of lottery tickets into
this country through the mails.
The farmers in the PalouSc country,
Washington, have straw roads, which
are pronounced excellent. They take
the straw after it is thrashed and
scatter it over the roads, and, after
awhile, when il settles down, it makes
road like papier mache, smooth and
dustlcsS
Puget Sound and Commencement
Bay are literally full of salmon. Moth
ing like the run has ever been seen be
fore. There are 50 many fish that the
wheels of the steamers actually Kill
them. Old Indians say that not in
their memory have salmon appeared
in such numbers as this season.
1t appears that the Dutch East
Indies are much less prosperous thar
formerly. On account Of bad seasons
md deficient harvests the coffee planta
tions have ceased to yield the great
crops of previous years, and it seems tC
be impossible to find Il crop which car
readily be substituted for coffee
William Oberman, n fisherman, Will,
drawing a pond in Raritan Bay, \. j..
the other morning, hauled up an i'm
mense stingarce. After he had thrown
the fish into the boat it made a lean
and struck him on the leg, near the
knee, nearly severing it. lie tainted
from loss of blood. and at last accounts
was in u dangerous condition.
.
All EsquimauX are superstition
about death, and, although they hol,
festivities in memory of departed
friends, they will usually carry a dy
ing person to some abandoned hut
there to drag out his remaining day
without food, medicine, water or at
tendance. After the death of a hus
band or wife the survivor cuts the
front hair short and fasts for twenty
five days.
1t is estimated that the British mines
will be exhausted in less than COO Oh
500 years. IT is further calculated that
drawing upon only one Of her fields
the Westphalia, Germany will not eX
haust that before the end of the TWEEN
ty-seventh century, but that by the be
ginning of the year 1000 the big Goa
fields of Bavaria and Aachen and The
Silesian district will be entirely
used up.
The splendid Mozart centenary fes
tival at Salzburg recalls to the memory
how the great composer died in De
cember, 1901. He finished his days il
the top fiat of house in one Of the
poorest streets of the city. He left G(
florins in money, and the sale Of hi'
effects realized about S0 He was laiC
in paupcr's grave, marked by plaiI
wooden cross and nobody knows nov
where that grave is
The largest sum ever paid for sin
gle novel is said to have been 5000, 90,
TO Alphonse Daudet for 'Sappho, pub
lished in 1854. Eighty thousand dol
lars was received by Victor Hugo fo
Les Miserablcs' qs62), published il
ten languages. Lord Beaconsfeld re
ceived 100000 each for "Endymion'
and "Lothair." George Eliot receiveC
$40, 900 for "Middlemarch, " and Charlie
Dickens S37, 500 for Edwin brood"
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Among the unusual inventions pat
ented by-women, are improved bottle
stopper, improved method OF fastening
door knobs to their spindles, an appli
ance for plucking hair to be used il
the dressing of furs, improved methoc
of preparing leather for the soles O
boots and shoes, for improvements il
electric arc lamps and for more relia
bic indicators, specially applicable fo
use on the rolling stock of railways.
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About thirty-four years ago n vesse
called the Sally, while coming up tn,
Solway, was wrecked opposite Carse
thorn. Curiously enough, within tn,
last few days the mast of the yesse
has appeared above the sand, and nov
there is a considerable portion of tn,
hull in sight. The reason assigned fo
this is that the channel has shifted, a.
it frequently does in the Solway, anC
has caused the vessel to silt up through
the sand. 1t will, of course, be grea
danger to shipping in the district.
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The Tenville (Ga. Error claims that
the following is no error" "a few
nights ago young man called on q
young lady of this place, and, as the
young lady did not care much about
him, she had not a. great deal to say
but rested her head on her hand and
listened to her youthful caller dis.
course until late hour. Finally she
became drowsy, and the next morning
she and her caller were found hard and
fast asleep in, their respective chairs.
This is a positive fact
The Merced, Colo, Sun has visions OF
glory for the community in which il
shines, videlicet "Merced, the starlit
city of amphibious commerce--in sum
mer II paradise and in winter a flower
garden-possessed even now of the
bones and sinews and arteries of a
mighty city-the pride of the state and
the apple of every eye-shall assume
all the charms of rarest beauty with
the power and luxury that wealth can