Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-26
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AS 10 her own kittens.
A Wattervillc (Me.) gardener en-
ploys new way TO raise squashes.
He vets the young plants down three
times week with skim milk.
Charles Kittelbergcr. of San Fran
cisco. was laid TO rest few days since
in coffin which was given to him four
years ago as a birthday present.
France has sixty-two Dukes. only
thirty OF whom date from the old mol-
archy. The oldest Duke is the Due de
Mortensrt, who was born in 1892.
Andrew Lang is declared to write
best in a rose garden; ToIstoi sits on
bis bed aud puts the inkstand on his
rufiled pillow; Dumas ills used an
ebony desk.
The last descendant OF the Maid of
Orleans, according to foreign papers.
died recently in France. He was an
inspector in the commissary depart
ment of the army.
The new American prima donna now
10 London, Miss Snyder, is described
as above the middle height. slender.
graceful. with pale oval face, grey
eyes aud dark hair.
The growth of horse racing in the
last ten years is illustrated by the fact
that IN 1880 the money added TO prizes
by the racing associations amounted TO
$3.50 000. Now it reaches ST. OOO OOO
A hotel in Hamburg has been built
altrp pf a.. I'll.
by the pressure to VIII ch il is subject
ed is rendered as hard rs iron, as well
as absolutely proof against the attacks
of fire.
One dollar minute is the charge for
using the new telephone line between
London and Paris. Distance about
2S0 miles. Forty cents a minute is the
price between New York and Wash
ington-about 2l0 miles.
The original letters of Goethe to
Charlotte Won Stein will he offered for
sale by grandson of Frau Won Stein.
not of Goethe. The price will be
about $4,000. They make seven vol.
umes, being LAS in number.
There are more women in British
Iudia 024000. .000) than there are men.
women and children in Great Britain.
France and Germany put together,
with the population of several minor
European States cast in as well.
The favorite page of the Grown
Princess of Sweden is little negro
boy who was imported from Egypt
He is a pretty little fellow of II years.
aud is dressed in a picturesque costume
topped of with diminutive fez.
The Shah OF Persia is an enthusiast
with the kodak. aud takes very good
pictures with it when he eondescends
10 do so. Wherever he goes lie is ac-
companied by the court photographer,
who takes views OF every thing that in.
tcrests the King.
No one will he more amused thar
Mr.. George William Curtis himself al
his slip of memory IN the Easy Chair
where he attributes 10 St. Paul the
famous definition of pure aud unde'
tlird religion. which is found in the
I Eustle OF James.
Celia Thaxter has not only done
much with her pen TO arouse public
interest in her home. the isle of Shoals.
but by her industry and taste has made
desolate old Appledorc blossoms rs the
rose. Her garden is regarded rs moth
ing less than wonderful.
c. j. Hamlin. the Buffalo hcrseman.
is said to DC without peer among
gentlemen drivers in handling TIE
reins. Last season. when in his 77th
year. he drove Bell Hamlin aud Justin
IA mile in 2;l3 Ia, and he expects some
day 10 beat that record.
A tremendous plethora of novels i,
reported in Paris. For example, 45.
600 copies OF the last production of 3
popular writer have been returned tC
the publisher. Ii is said that another
publisher has 100000 volumes Oh
hand. which are unsuitable.
Ar adopted daughter of Rev. Ell
ward Beecher received at her bap
tism the name of Voice Adams. She
was one of "A family of fifteen children,
whom her father, Il grandson of Johr
Quincy Adams. supported by lecturine
on The Voice of Nature"
The Belgian military authorize:
have discovered that various song:
used in the army are not quite proper,
and several poets aud composers hav,
been applied to to supply the army
with some unobjectionablc songs il
French and Flemish to take thcil
places.
Mrs. Senator Wolcott is acheyin.
the reputation of being the best dressed
of the Senators wives in Washington
Her dresses are selected in Paris b,
her sister who lives abroad. and las
season they were the despair and env,
OF other less favored society women 0
the capital.
The widow of Chief Justice Waite,
though IL years of age. has dark hail
aud comparatively unwrinkle,
face. Mrs. Waite. accompanied b,
her sister and daughter. has beer
journeying leisurely to the PaciIi
coast, and will stop at Salt Lake Cit,
on her return.
1t is n well known historical fac
that King Eric. of Sweden. wanted t.
marry Queen Elizabeth. 1t is not 5,
Wcii
proposal to Mary. Queen of Scots
Mary's letter. politely rejecting hi
otter. was sold in London the othe
day for about sll0.
According to Saratoga gossiper
MIR. Frank Work, though six feet big
and weighing nearly two hundre'
| pounds. has the smallest and neates
foot imaginable. He takes mnc
pride iu it. aud his shoes are kept rub
bed up to the pink of perfection by
black silk handkerchief which he car
ries in his pocket for the purpose.
The origin of "windfall.n in tn
sense of good luck" dates from tn
time Of William the Conquerer. 1t wa
then "a criminal offense TO cut timbe
in the forests. Only such could b
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