Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-08-08
INTERESTING ITEMS.


County. Ga.
New York City employs S,5.o pub
lie school teachers.
DIR. McGlyun Is still a familiar fig
ure about New York.
Some genius has discovered that
the ordinary watch gives ll6, l44, 600
ticks year.
The citizens Of Green Cove Springs,
Fla, raised a subscription and pur-
chased a hearse.
At Birmingham, Ala, there Is an old
hen which kills sparrows. She coaxes
them up with bait.
II the Mediterranean were lowered
660 feet Italy would be joined to AT.
rica and three separate seas would re-
main.
The Queens head piper. William
Ross. died recently in Windsor. aged
80. lie bad piped for Her Majesty
since 1854.
Richard Tells, who lives near Cliff
ford. Mich. served ia thirty-sIx en-
gagements during the war aud never
lost drop of blood.
The limited mail on the Pennsyl-
vania Line between Columbus. Ohio,
aud Indianapolis is said to be the fast.
est railroad train in America.
The explosion of q dynamite car
fridge to blo~ up an old ship near
Mobile sent to the surface fish that
weighed more than two hundred
pounds.
The church Of England is turning
out curates three times as fast as u IS
forming new cures, and there has been
a society formed TO promote the use
of additional curates.
King Humbert's son, the Crown
Prince, threatens TO upset all royal
conveutIonalities and marry the girl
Of his heart, the daughter of an English
clergyman who is living in Italy.
1t is said that In Munich, which con-
sumes mores beer than any other Ger
man city, tho family allowance of the
amber fluid amounts to 565 quarts a
year for every man, woman and child.
Generosity is national trait OF the
Chilians. and the American tramps
who drift into Santiago are reputed 10
make from ten to twenty dollars a day
by begging at the doors Of the wealthy.
Electric light has been employed ad-
vantageously on board OF a West In
dian steamer crossing the ocean to
keep alive and fourishing certain
plants which were being transported
for acclimatization.
Two Milwaukee girls In their teens
climbed by means Of outside ladders 10
the top Of the tallest chimney in that
city, waved their handkerchiefs to the
crowd and descended on the ladders.
The chimney is 225 feet tall.
Ia the towns and cities OF Chill all
the shopping OF any consequence is
done in the evening. In Santiago the
stores are open till midnight, and dur
ing the hot afternoons, when everybody
takes siesta. they are locked -
The Oldtown Indians in Maine have
a law that forbids palefaces to be on
their island later than certain hour
in the evening. A white man who re-
mained until past the hour recently
took swim in his clothes 10 the main
land rather than fall into the cluches
Of the red constable.
The smallest "moonshine" distillery
ever captured by the revenue officers
was found recently in Atlanta. Ca,
and sent to Washington as 4 curiosity.
Its capacity Is about three gallons, 1t
is constructed so as to be operated on
an ordinary cooking stove and it is
complete in every detail.
The painting OF the burial OF Christ.
aiscowsrsa I'm " nI,ls church ut "rzlue-
zuntzau, Mexico, last year. and sup
posed to be a Titan. has been pro-
Gouuced the work Of Bathasar do
Echave by DR.. Nicholas Leon, director
of the Michoacan Museum. Several
American artists went to see it.
John Kolp, of Lintield, Pa, having
been dismissed by his sweetheart, Mary
Detweiler, gave her gumdrop on the
occasion of his farewell visit. She did
not eat the candy, but showed 1t to 4
physician. who said it was loaded with
n deadly poison. Then she caused the
issue of q warrant for Johns arrest.
A 10-year-old boy in an Arkansas
town has been detected in stealing let
ters from the post-oftice box by means
of string and a grasshopper. The
grasshopper was tied TO the string and
let down into the box through the
aperture. When the insect got let
ter in its pinches, he hauled Il up and
took the letter.
j. w. Dodds, of Melton. GA, Is six
ty-oue years old and has been using
the same razor strop forty-three years.
1t is the only one he ever owned, aud
1t is almost as good as new, never hav-
ing the mark OF razor on it until one
day last week, when. while sharpen
ing his razor. Mr.. Dodds cut very
small piece Of the strop.
A positive nuisance has grown out
of new advertising trick by which
certain companies. notably in Boston
and Chicago, are pushing their wares
by getting little boys TO act as peddlers
and agents in the hope of getting a
bicycle free" Those companies sell
books, baking powders and lawn-mow-
ers in this way. demanding a large
sale in return for cheap bicycle. The
trick is practiced to such an extent
that the average neighbor's child is ten
times more Of terror than nature
made him.
The favorite midsummer midday
lunch Of ex-Congrcssman John s. Wise.
OF Virginia. Is tomatoes and onions,
and he invariably invites all his friends
TO try the same dish at the same time.
Dick Wintcrsmith once partook of this
dainty dish at one OF the most expen-
sive hotels in Observation-Disclosures
Inns. Il wish" said he 10 Henry
Watterson. who was one of the party.
That could get something to cure
my breath after this delightful repast.n
Have you paid your bill yet at this
hotel?" asked Watterson. "No." said
in surprise. Then ask
for it at once" rejoined Watterson.
and when You get It it win take your
breath away"
In ancient Egypt marriages between
children OF the same parents was ac-
auiesced in and approved. The wives
81 nearly all the Pharoahs were their |
,wn sisters. The Persian Kings since
The time OF Cambyses married their |
,wn sisters. They even married their
,wu daughters. Among the West