Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-12
INTERESTING ITEMS.

No You Don't Is the name Of new
Utah settlement.
A single white rose Is laid each day
on the grave Of Gambetta.
The rag-pickers of Paris collect
about ten thousand dollars worth
night.
The average number of American
patents issued yearly is twenty thou
sand.
The United States collects $G39 aud
spends $i6i every minute of the night
and day.
About twice as much power is re-
quired to stop an express train as to
start one.
A pair Of deaf mutes were married
the other day at Topeka. One OF the
presents WAS an alarm clock.
Tho catacombs OF Rome contain the
remains Of about six millions OF human
beings and those of Paris about three
millions.
A sensible dog at Auburn. Me-, regu-
iarly disappears in the country on July
). and doesn't come back until the
racket is over.
1t has been calculated that the actual
amount Of salt contained in the ocean
would coycran area of 8, 900, 600 square
miles with layer one mile thick.
Physicians of this country are paid
annually nearly 81. 500. 900 for medical
examinations for life insurance COM
panies. Three companies pay over
$3.50. 900 each.
John Lathrop Motley's daughter.
Lady Harcourt, lives Ia London, and
has the reputation Of being one of the
clevercst and wittiest women In Eu-
glish society. She is. also. extremely
handsome.
The New York girl who lost her en-
gagement ring In wash basin only to
lind IL two years later in the gutter,
where it had been washed from an
open sewer, had meantime been mar
ried and widowed.
George w. Hager. OF Michigan. has
secret whereby augurs will bore holes
of angular shape. He has also invent
ed lathe that will turn articles, round,
square. oval, hexagonal, concave, con-
vex or in any shape wanted.
While an Auburn (Ind. barber was
shaving a customer n boy threw a
lighted iirecracker under the chair.
The explosion startled the barber, the
razor glanced into the customers 8
throat. aud a surgeon had to be called
to sew the wound.
A French provincial newspaper has
been condemned to pay 500 francs
| damage for calling several residents Of
| its town Free Masons. To call man
Free Mason in France is to bring him
into hatred. ridiculc and contempt of
his Romau Catholic townsmen.
Il peddler arrested in Shenandoah,
Pa. for not having license said that
he had no faith in banks, and. there
fore. carried oil his money in his
clothes. His pockets were searched
before he was sent to cell and exactly
81, GAG 40 in cash found in them.
An oak named after Bob" Toombs,
the old Georgia tire-eater in Athens,
GA, is said TO be dying. Interest at
taches to it mainly because he de-
| livered underneath its branches au nd
| dress TO his fellow students which he
was not allowed to give in the college
| chapel.
A Ukiah, Cal, man. the owner Of a
| three-story hop house, recently con-
| ceived the idea of turning the building
| into mammoth incubator for the
Matching of chickens. He has given
evidences Of his faith in the practicability
of the scheme by setting hatch Of "a,
600 eggs.
The following metals will conduct
electricity ia the following proper
tions. viz: Silver. 100; copper. s6;
gold, ~, aluminium, 50; zine, 26; plati-
mum. l6; iron. Is; nickel. y; tin, IL
lead, z. OF the above, copper and
iron have the greatest commercial
value as electrical conductors.
Wah Sing, Chinese laundryman.
died the other day Mt Winfield. Kas.
He was buried by three OF his own
countrymcn, who placed in his coffin
all his personal effects, including IS in
| money, razor. n brush n knife and
some soap. The cot of the deceased
and his bed-clothes were buried with
him.
A strong solution OF extract o
licorice destroys the disagreeable taste
of aloes. Peppermint water disguise,
the uauseous taste of EPSON salts
Milk Is q good abater of the bitter taste
of Peruvian bark. and cloves that o
SIENNA. Castor oil can not be tasted j
beaten and thoroughly mixed with th'
white of an egg.
A horse in Macomb. Mich. has bee,
used to go to church every Sunda.
with his owner for years. Recently
for reasons best known to himself, h,
left the horse at home and after ser
vices went out and there stood thu
faithful animal ia his accustomed
] place. by the church. waiting for him
but without u carriage.
Mcissoncr's successor ia the Presi
deAcy Of the National Society OF Frencl
Artists. Puvis de Chavannes, is III,
antilhesis of his predecessor intellect
ually and physically. Intellectually
he is an ideallst aud poet; personally
a man Of tall figure aud snow-whil,
hair; thorough gentleman. elegan
aud fastidious. He is man we'll ad
yanced In years.
Tricks haveriseu into the dignity o
decorating dinner tables. II you soaI
terminating lettuce seed iu alcohol fol
about six hours set it on the tabl,
! planted in I'M equal mixture OF un
Stacked lime and rich soil, and at the
soup sprinkle with l. kewarm water. j
will sprout Immediately. and the let
| tuce will grow TO about the size o
hazel nuts before the time for servin!