Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
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LoweH Courier.
A Denver man has been awarded
500. 600 damages for the alienation OF
his wife's affections.
The latest story Is that Andrew Car
ncgie desires to run for Parliament in
the next English election.
''Shares Of Paradise" are alleged to
be sold by the Salvation Army through
out France at large profit.
At recent English marriage cere-
mony the bride was exactly twice the
age and twice the weight ofthe groom.
The British admiralty has resolved
to give 500 600 to Admiral Colomb for
his invention for flashing night signals.
The payments to Bret Harte by his
English publishers last year are said TO
have reached total of $15, 900. while
in America he was paid only $1,000.
A lC.year-oId schoolgirl In New
York City is unable to read unless the
print is upside down. When writing
she forms her letters and figures upside
down also.
The Coreans are the largest eaters
known. Their stomachs are generally
abnormal in size, aud the one possess
ing the largest is generally considered
the richest.
Ex-President Cleveland has rented
a cottage for he summer at Glen Sum-
NIT. LuZerne county, Pa. mountain
resort on the line of Lehigh Valley
Railroad.
Frank Ingalls,. young brother Of
The ex-Seaator, is President Of Drury
College at Springfield, Mo. He is tall
and slender. and otherwise resembles
his distinguished brother in personal
appearance.
Whittier is quoted rs saying, the
other day, that there were times when
1t seemed to him that he must take up
his pen and write. but that he felt that
he had done enough and that his work
was really completed.
A San Francisco man has peculiar
mania for opening and closing doors,
and will stand for hours at time at
one of the entrances to the post Office
opening and closing the doors for the
accommodation Of the pedestrians.
Red stockings are generally colored
from matters of aniline which contain
large quantities of antimoniac pro-
ducts. When perspiring, this matter
becomes soluble enters the pores OF
the skin. and produces violent rash.
There is spinster 10 Pitt.burg who
had marble monument for herself
made some ten years ago. 1t is kept
in the yard of the marble dealer, where
che visits it about three times week,
aud seems to lind sort Of melancholy
pleasure in being near it.
A new industry is gaining headway
in the tropics, By which bananas are
dried for shipment. The fruit In dry
Ing loses one-third of its weight, and
when dried readily sells at l6 cents a
pound. The dried fruit can be trans
ported over bad roads without injury,
and it retains its flavor.
Stanley's contract with the American
publishers of his last book called for
$50 900 in royalty. 1t is now author
itatively stated that he has received
from them the additional sum Of Sal,
600. and that Major Pond paid TO him
some 800 600 as his portion of the pro-
ceeds of the lecture tour.
Alfred Tennyson has been England s
poet laureate since 1850. longer
period than the honor was held by any
of his predecessors. Collcy Cibber en-
joyed the distinction from 1880 to l757,
and Robert Southey from 1873 to l84S;
all the others, from Edmund Spenser
down. for much shorter terms.
There are 46. 600 oil wells in the
United States representing a capital
OF 1920. 900. 0O0 with an output of 130.-
900 barrels per day. The refining
capacity of the country Is 140. 600 bar
rcls per day, while 15. 600 barrels are
consumed rs fuel. a surplus stock is
held in tanks Of more than 50. 600. 900
barrels.
Lyman S. Low, New York dealer
in medals, has among his collection
several hundred medals presented to
soldiers. in tho English army from
conspicuous bravery. With but few
exceptions they were all pawned by
their owners to meet the necessities of
life.
The gendarmerie of Budapesth sue
ceeded after several brave attempts ia
taking band of gypsy robbers num-
bcring fifty men, prisoners. Among
the captiycs are several notorious
murderers. The leader of the band,
strange 10 say. is the author OF die
tionary OF tic gypsy language, for
which Archduke Joseph wrote the pre-
face.
Mabel Hunter, 16-year-old Iowa
girl. Is the victim of peculiar habit
formed in childhood. Whenever she
is sent on an errand she walks to and
from the place backwards. Some
times sho will absent mindedly walk
right. but upon recovering her senses
will Immediately rc,racc her steps and
begin the journey over again back
wards.
1t is stated that in India soap Ia re-
-arded almost in the light OF natural
curiosity. for it is rarely, if ever. to be
obtained OF a shopkeeper there. OF
course. ii is sold in the larger towns;
but the amount used by : the natives
must be very small. seeing that the
total consumption OF soap In India last
year was only 5000 tons. This means
that the amount used by each person
for the year was considerably less than
one ounce.
In Bodiga. Cal. not long since,
man lassoed wild cow he being on
horseback. when the animal broke the
lariat and made dash for liberty.
Not far off there was n large house.
with the front door wide open. She
rushed through the door, up the front
stairs. through narrow hallway, into
bedroom. out of the window. on to
the roof OF the porch. from which she
leaped To The ground. striking with
such violence as to break her neck
San Francisco Chroniclc.
SAYS San Francisco special to the
N. Y. Tribune: TIC death of Dona
Bandiue at Los Angeles removes one
of tic last survivors of distinguished
native California family. At her
house in old San Diego generous