Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-08-15


telephone line between London and
Paris, distance of 2sO miles
II has been calculated that the ac
tual amount Of salt contained in the
ocean would cover an area of 5,OOO,OO(
square miles with a layer one mile
thick -
A young man who was barely able
TO read and write when he went to the
Kansas penitentiary some years age
now teaches the highest class in that
institution.
Lawn tennis continues to lose favor
with English women. The game
among experts is now played at such o
furious rate that it is more like hard
work than play,
The English royal princesses have
set the fashion for sisters not only tC
dress alike when they are unmarried,
but TO continue to do so after becom
ing wives.
A horse belonging to John BurtleSs,
of Upton, Mich, was found to be GOV
cred with honey bees the other day
and fire had to be built to remove
them. Ihe horse may die.
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Sonoma, Cal, has no fear for heI
water supply. A subterranean river
runs under the town, and three artes-
ian wells close together yield daily
~ a npn pnn rra1l,ne
A Butte, Mont, merchant who ad-
vertised bankrupt stock of shoes was
totally unprepared for the enormous
crowd which filled his store. Twelve |
clerks were utterly inadequate TO wait
upon the rush of customers. Several |
women tainted in the crush and finally |
the doors had to be closed The mer.
chant now believes in advertising.
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A monkey in New York got a bottle |
of whisky the other day, and, after |
swallowing the contents, proceeded to |
rip things up generally, and even went |
SO far as to decline TO hand over the |
pennies that were given to him for his |
boss organ grinder, preferring to
Squander them all on himself. There |
seems to be good deal of human ma
ture in the monkey tribe.
Mr.. Romanes of London, has an ape |
that he has taught to count-not very |
far up, indeed, but as high as five. He
knows the numbers and the words that |
indicate them. His method is to take |
straws one by one into his mouth until !
one less than the required number have
collected Then, taking up an addi- !
tional straw, he hands il over, together
with those in his mouth.
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One of the earliest and most annoy |
ing of insects is that midnight ma
rauder, the bedbug. An English nat
uralist has discovered proofs that this
domestic pest was quite common in the
armies of the world at least 12O years
before the christian era and that che
was ever Il sea rover, as the fleets of
that day had their timbers stocked
with this breed of nocturnal providers.
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.urecA contract marriage took place at |
IA c@sns. Col .-'-7ovntiy, Slv briue peIng /
under age and unable to obtain the |
consent OF her parents. John Hoffman,
the man, is 20 years of age, and Flor
ence Rice, the girl, Is years and G |
months They agreed to take each
ether as man and wife, entering upon
the relation at once. II she so desires,
the womans contract may be voided
when she attains majority.
1t has been demonstrated that while
the greatest velocity impaired to IA
cannon ball scarcely exceeds 600 meters
second-about 800 miles an hour
meteors from space penetrate the air
with velocity, it is claimed, Of 40, 900,
sometimes 10000, meters per second.
This tremendous speed raises the tenn
perature of the air at once to 4, 900 or
5000 degrees centigrade, causing in
many cases the complete destruction
of the meteorite by combustion.
stray horse entered Brooklyn
candy store the other day to the great
horror of the proprietor, picked up
some candy and held 1t out to the
young woman clerk. While she was
wondering whether the animal wanted
the candy wrapped up and sent home
or not, the horses owner came in and
explained that the petted beast wanted
some one TO hold the candy while he
ate it He was used to being fed from
the hand and thought he could eat in
no other way.
A new kind of stamps will soon be
introduced in the postal telegraph SER
vice of Russia with a view to securing
the inviOlability of the privacy of let
ters, The new stamp is printed on
very thin paper and cannot be used
again if il is once put upon letter
When used wet and taken off the en-
velope it leaves an indelible impression
upon the spot where it was attached,
SO that new stamp is put upon the
same spot the impression of the first
stamp can be seen through it.
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The death of Sallie McLendon, col
ored, of Fordyce, Ark, at the claimed
age OF $50 years, calls to mind that
some years back one of her sons, then
over 20 years old, was SO sick as to
need the services of a doctor. I'm
afraid your son is in bad way,
auntie, said the DOCTOR land that he's
hardly strong enough to pull through.
"Fore de Lawd, doctor, s'pose you're
right. He was always de sickliest of
de chilluns, an / neber thought we'd
raise de poo chile"
The Spanish and Portuguese govern
ments have notified the Russian gov
ernment that at the expiration of the
present term they will discontinue