Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-10-17
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England has also ors anized corps
OF carrier pigeons. They will lie
tested at the naval nianeuvers.

| OF carrier pigeons. lhey VIII be
tested ut the naval niaDcuyers.
A justice of New York has inst de-
cided that you need not pay for mea
| ordered at n restaurant unless you
eat it.
A Maine farmer, who believes in :
strict observance Of the Sabbath. wenl
out and killed lamb which persisted
in blcating on recent Sunday after.
noon.
A wren built n nest on machine 10
the shops of Dawson (Ga. Manufac.
turing Company that made about 5, 0Ol
revolutions Il minute, aud raised four
birds.
A Partisan electrician has succeeded
in forcing yiolets by the aid Of his bat.
terry, aud recently sent bunch ol
these nedglings only four hours old to
the Empress Eugenie.
Tie sallicst piece OF water uuou
earth is Lake Urumia. Persia, more
than four thousand feet above the sea
level. Ii is very shallow. and no liv-
ing thing can eX ST in it.
Boston means TO have n statue of
Theodore Parker before long. but as
yet has not decided where TO erect it.
1t wants the memorial placed in a busy
place, and not secluded one.
The Adrian (Mich) Times suggests
the idea of dynamite in criminal exc
cutions. rs the condemned would not
know what hurt them, and it would
save burial expenses and coroners' in
quests.
Considerable British Indignation has
been aroused by fancy dress ball in
India, in which officers, dressed as
fends with horns and tails danced a
quadrille with eight ladies costumed as
reluctant angels"
Butter made from cocoanuts are rap
idly taking the place of ordinary IT.
ter IN Germany and Switzerland Ii
is said TO be healthful, easily digested.
as palatable as butter made from the
milk OF COWS and much cheaper.
When the Mosque of ST. Sophia, In
Constantinople was built. more than
ono thousand years ago, the stones and
bricks were laid in mortar mixed with
a solution Of musk. aud tho Dulldlug
has been fragrant w:tn the odor ever
since.
The other day in Northamptonshire,
Eng, curious wedding took place.
The groom was 6G and the bride 76
The bans had been pronounced in
church iifty-siX years ago, but they
separated and married ditTerens
people.
A cubic foot OF aluminium weighs
l57 pounds. A cubic foot of copper
weighs 55S pounds. A sheet of alum
mum, twelve inches square and one
inch thick, weighs fourteen pounds. a
bar Of aluminium, one inch square and
twelve inches loug, will weigh LIZ
pounds.
E. NJ. Haskell was buried in North
field, Mimi, twcnty-tbree years ago.
When his body was exhumed recently
a beard twenty-three inches long was
found growing from his face. The
Scientific -ADlsricaH has investigated
the case and vouches for the truth OF
the statement.
Captain Maletts. of the bark e. c.
Goss. youches for the story that one of
his sailors. japanese. fell overheard
and was swallowed by whale in the
Pacific Ocean. but was presently eject
ed-cast on deck in fact. petroleum
covered oil suit the sailor wore proving
too much for the whale.
Mr.. Labouchcrc s:ys that if a war
took place between Germany aud
France over the Alsace-Lorraine ques-
tiou, the sympathies of the English
would be ovcrw heimingly with France.
and would turn out auy ministry that
sought TO interfere. directly or indi-
rectly, in behalf of Germany.
Our esteemed colemporary. the
ZeJtuHg der DeHtcScheH EiSen6ahnUgr-
Ddttu'IgeA, SAYS that the largest loco
motive yet built in Europe is forty.six
feet over all. with total weight of
eighty-four tons. On n gradient of
one in forty the engine can. by excr-
ciSing its full traction power, move 20O
tons. 1t was built at the Hirschau
works in Munich.
Stephen Coeridge. son of the Eng
lish Chief Justice. is an artist. and his
views Of lake scenery are said TO be
very fine. Some of his choicest bits
have been found around Grassmore
Windermere and UilSwater. and in the
beautiful spots which surround the cot
tage where Coleridge. the poet. lived
and gathered around him the kindred
spirits which formed the Lake school
OF poetry.
Sir William Gordon Cummings rela-
tives aud friends are being socially os-
tracised for their loyalty To him. Lord
and Lady Middleton. the latter his sis
ter, who chaperoned Miss Garner when
she became Lady Gordon Cumming
were left out at the Marlboro House
garden party; also Sir Edward Clarke.
who defended him. aud Lord aud Lady
Ihurlow. his staunch friends through
out the trial.
This year the population of London
has increased in somewhat lower
ratio than that of England and Wales
as whole. the first time that such cir
cumstance has occurred. The popula-
lions OF the ten largest English coun-
ties are rs follows: Lancashire. 8. 926,-
19S; Middlesex. 1920. s7l; Kent. l.lI2,-
2Sl; Siafforlshire. / 0S3. 213; Durham.
lOl6 4i9; Warwickshirc. S04 070; Es-
SIX. 1S5, 399; Cheshire, 730.052.
Two widows of Revolutionary SOL
diers are living in PENNSYLVANIA and
Craving pensions for services rendered
IL &c field by their husbands One.
who was the third wife of soldier of
20 summers and bore him three chill.
dren. is now 81 years old. hops up and
down stairs with rte iivcgincss OF n /
cricket. ana declared Der Willingness
10 marry again pension or no pension.
v the right sort OF man presents
himself
There may be no such thing rs bail
luck. but it would be difficult To con-
rince an old Johnstown (pA.J carpen.
ter named ID. Warrington of the fact.
AT the time ~ the Johnstown flood he
lost one child aud all his property.
Friends made mp a purse for him and
iic went 10 Arizona. Here another
Hood washed away all of his earthly
possessions and drowned "A second
child. lie then went TO Oklahoma.
aud there The other day a third noo,l