Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-06-27

spit on his boots, and be would simply
smile soft, bland smile.
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remarkable freak that is making
its way toward Paris, having organized
in Bohemia, is built on the Mile
Christine plan. 1t is two-headed
maiden, joined ut the waist, having
four arms, but somewhat handicapped
ASy having only two legs.
The largest man in the south died at
Elm Springs, Ark He was 20 year old
and weighed $40 pounds. He had his
coffin made two years ago, and has
since used it as granary. 1t held -
bushels of wheat, 1t required twelve
pall-bearers at the funeral.
The great treasury vault mt Wash
ington covers more than quarter of
an acre and is twelve feet deep. Re
Gently there was SOC. .OOO. 900 in silver
stored there-an amount that weighed
1000 tons and would load l7j freight
cars.
Professor WilliSton, of the Kansas
university, has discovered in the smoky
river valley, in Cove county, the sllele.
ton of pterodactyl whose skull meas.
ures three feet in length. This speci.
men is the most complete of any in eX-
istence.
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jeweer at Pleasanton, Cal, has a
live tarantula in glass Jar, whore he
has kept it for more than year with
out food. About two inches of dirt is
MI there is in the jar, and how the
creature lives is mystery. He seems
as frisly as ever.
An aged tramp who was admitted to
the hospital at Millersburg, O.. the
past winter, suffering from frost bites
sustained while sleeping out of doors,
was discovered, before his discharge
this spring, to be worth $4,000. lie
was compelled to pay up.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes believes
that body and mind are both affected
by the character of food consumed.
IAN exclusively pork diet gives a
bristly character to the beard and
hair, and too much food from the sea
gives the shine and motions Of fish.
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An American debutante is said TO
have distnrl.AS the, equapiuaitu &C -
EngIish royal circle this season by seiz-
ing the queens hand and giving it
hearty but unccremonious shake, after
which she floated by the other royal
ties without paying the least attention
To- them.
A new safety match has been pat
ented in England by a Belgian, who
places on different parts of the same
match two compositions, which, i'll or
dinary safety matches, are generally
placed respectively on the box and on
the end of the match. In obtaining a
light the match is broken across the
middle and the ends rubbed together
Jerry Hastings, of Covengton, Ky.
says an exchange, was hunting and
fishing in the mountains $50 miles from
there year ago this week, when ne
lost valuable dog. Wednesday the
animal, bedraggled, but in good condi-
ton came yelping and barking into
his old home For half an hour the
poor brute was frantic with joy.
Hot water for COWS" is the maxim
of the French dairy farmers in the de
partmcnt of Finisterre. They claim tc
proved by experiments that when cows
drink hot water they yield one third
more milk than when they are re.
frcshed with cold water only. The
proportions are said to be half a pail
of boiling water TO half pail Of cold.
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The Philadelphia Bulletin is author
ity for the statement that the phono-
graph has been employed in New York
TO report the utterances of monkeys.
scientific men having become convinced
that their chatte,'ing is language in
tclligiblc among themselves. Their
Photographed talk has been repeated
to the animals with startling effect.
and they have endcavorcd with their
long arms to draw ont the ape con-
cealed in the instrument
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Scarpology or the science of telling
the character of man by the wear of
the solcs of his boots, has been atten.
lively studied by Swiss doctor Of the
name of CALI. Speaking briefly, wear
ing at the back of the heels invariably
indicates conceit, pride and vanity.
Soles worn toward the toes demon.
strate deceit and even criminality,
while a sole that shows an equal
amount of wear on every part of the
surface denotes frank, upright and
fearless character
The Chinese government has issued
stringent decree against immoral lit
eraturc. 1t is ordered that 'sall gov
ernment officials who allow immoral
books TO be published within their res
pcctivc jurisdiction shall be discharged
Every private person publishing such
book shall receive 100 blows and be
banishcd from his place of residence to
u distance OF 300 lees The seller of a
obscene book shall get 100 blows.
Within thirty days from the issue of
this law all the obscene books of the
empire shall be destroyed, beginning
with those now in print"
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For many years spring OF dirty
water ran from the house of certain
M. Korotneff, in the heart of Sebasto-
pol. and caused the proprietor much
trouble. At times the spring would
cover the best street in the city with
mud. OF late the spring has become
public nuisance and the city authori-
ties compelled Nj. Korotneff TO build a
small reservoir around il and lead off
the muddy substance BY sewer pipes
hut as soon as this was done IL was dis
covered that the substance In the new
reservoir was pure naptha. For the
last three months since the discovery
was made nothing has been done to
utilize this wasting treasure.