Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-07-18

france, send their most attlsIlc pro
duets TO :he United States, American
taste, they cay, is the finest.
Near Buchanan, Ca. a day or two
ago, w. A. Keith found solid flint
rock near the center of the heart of .
pine tree. How the rock got there i.
a mystery
L., a.. 4..,,.,r,- anu clurcs OF Cn1le al
the shopping of any consequence l.
done in the evening In Santiago th'
the stores are open till midnight and
during the hot afternoons. when every
body takes siesta, they are locked up
A well-dressed man, wearing a dia
mond pin, got caught with four tickets
worth four cents on hand when the
Brooklyn bridge was made free to pc
dcstrians, and got very indignant be
cause an officer at the bridge refused
toredeem them.
There are two women students in
law department of the National uni
versity of Chile at Santiago, but as
such independence and progressiveness
in women are looked upon with dis
favor there the position of the senori'
tas is not entirely envinble,
The smallest ''moonshinc" distillery
ever captured 10y tho revenue officers
was found recently in Atlanta, Ga,
and sent to Washington as curiosity.
Its capacity is about three gallons, il
10 constructed so as to be operated on an
ordinary cooking stove and it is com
plete in every detail.
The painting OF the burial Of Christ,
discovered in a little church in Tzint.
zuntzan, Mexico, last year, and sup
posed TO be a Titan, has been pro
nounced the work of l}athasar de
Echave by DIR. Nicholas Leon, director
Of the Michigan museum. Several
American artists went TO see it.
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The managers Of the Brooklyn Gem,
etery advertise: Graves finely situa.
ted, surrounded by the beauties OF ma.
ture, commanding fine view of the
bay, and, in short. meeting every re-
quirement Of the human family. Peo
pie who have tried them cannot be
persuaded to go elsewhere.
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]. w. Doods. of Melton, Ga, is sixty.
one years old and has been using the
same razor strop forty three years. 1t
Is the only one he ever owned, and is
almost as good as new. never having
the mari, Of razor on it until one day
last week, when, while sharpening his
razor, Mr.. Dodds cut very small piece
OF the strop.
Ehe witnesses for the defense in q
libel suit at Montreal testified that sc
high did the character of the plaintiff
stand that it would be impossible tc
libel him. No one wouls believe his
traducers, and hence his business
standing could not suffer On this
ground the jury returned a verdict foi
the defendant.
A curious advertisement in New
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rest for the weary in a land where
three minutes from the station may be
taken as Il national motto. The adver
tisement gives the attractions: "For
Salc-a single grave in Greenwood
cemetery, three minutes walk from
the entrance
IL IL, =, H.
ing In the insane asylums of Prussia
the number of Hebrews is said to have
nearly quadrupled in sixteen years.
According TO the statistics of the Ger.
man Empire there are $50 insane He.
brews in every 100, 900 of their number,
ugainst 24l insane Protestants an ID 237
insane Roman Catholics in the 100, 900.
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Patrick Wood, patient in Bellevue
Hospital, New York, is regarded by
the doctors as phenomenon. His
skin has gradually hardened until it is
now like covering of sheet iron-not
so hard, but as unyielding. lie is as
helpless as though he were statue.
lie cannot move hand or foot. This
disease Is rare one, and has been
diagnosed as scleroderna, or hide
bound. There is no known cure for it.
An Atchison man had nightmare
after eating lunch of cheese, mustard
and dried beef. and had a disagreeablo
dream that his son was in great dan
ger, Instead of being unable to run
from ghosts, as is usually the case in
the rescue of his son. Finally he awolse
and was so impressed with the dream
that he went into his sons room. He
found him out of bed and OH the root
of the house, where he had climbed in
his sleep.
An Italian at st. Cloud, Fla, ye-
Gently bought three lottery tickets, one
for himself one for his sister and one
for his brother The brother got mad
To think of the dollar squandered
for lottery ticket, and so he
sold IL TO n German and
agreed to wait till pay day. The
Italian glorified in his good luck
In getting promise for his squandered
dollar, but after the drawing took
place the glorying was on the Germans
side, for the ticket drew s., 900 in cash.
The Italian Is now too sick To work
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Mrs. Eliza Saunders, of Texas, is the
owner of a pig that bears striking
likeness toa miniature elephant. There
were nine In the litter and the other
eight were just ordinary pigs. Here
follows a description of the strange
creature; The elephant pig Is of the
usual size, but has the skin, the feet,
the hop ears and the tusks and the
color OF an elephant IL has but one
eye IL Is apparently healthy and
suclSles in the usual manner. The eye
IA where the nose and mouth should be-
The trunk Is about two and half
inches long, the tuslss not more than q,
half inch II Is now four weeks old.