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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-08-01
Married.

In this city on Sunday the 26th ult.,
by Rev. c. ii. Mckee, Mr.. ]. r. Hobson
and Mrs. Marian Maynard, both Of this
place.
The CHRONICLE unites with the many
friends of Mr.. & Mrs. H., in extending
the usual congratulations and good
wishes.
July 30th, 1891, in Custer s. d., Alfred
Q. Mansfield and Mrs. Emma Phillips,
Rev. j. V. Willis officiating.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-08-01
Hills Ball Clubs.

The standing of the Hills Ball Clubs,
as reported by the Lead City Herald. Is
as follows:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-06
The Slave Of the Acc,

From the New York Times.
There is q young fellow. well known around
uptown sporting resorts, who has q very funny
habit He is one Of those young fellows who
would be "a dead sport if it were not for the
financial limitations that surround him, He
always carries pack Of cards in his pocket.
All good gamblers are possessed Of supersti-
ton, and this would-be gambler has possessed
himself of one. as il costs nothing His SUPER
stition is that il he would have fortune smile
on him he must follow the dictates of the ace
of hearts. What the tickle ace would have him
do he learns by what he calls the 'T-will-and-I-
WON'T scheme. Whenever he is prompted TO
do anything, whether it be to take a drink.
smoke cigar or go to bed, he settles the
question by the ace Of hearts. Running across
this queer specimen at public bar the other
hight an acquaintance asked him to take a
drink. Out came the pack Of cards. He gave
them a shuttle. Then he began counting them
on, face up, in two packs. As he put a card on
one pack he said, Il will" As he put one on
the other pack he said, II won't" He sighed
deeply when the ace Of hearts came up on the
Il WON'T pack in answer to the invitation 10
drink. He was equal to the emergency, how
ever, for. turning to the acquaintance. he said
Sorry must decline that invitation. Ask
me again and 1 may have better luck"
"Oh, come of, !" said the acquaintance, i'm
patiently. Have drink
Once more the cards were shuffied and the
II will, l won't" process gone through with.
Tickle fortune smiled on her faithful son.
Thanks" he answered. "a little whisky
please"
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faded into bleached dust color by hundreds
OF years. cover the whole of the lower
part Of his face. His clothes have
long since rotted off of him and
his bare chest, slightly sunken, looks like the
parchment OF an old drum. tap it with my
pencil to test his lungs, and it gives forth g
hollow, drum-like sound Of remonstrance. His
shriveled arms are crossed and his withered
brown legs are straight As my eye travels
down them, l see that q part Of an old
boot still clings to one Of his feet. and
that the other like all the rest Of his
clothing, has rotted off long, long
a woman, whose white teeth are as well pre-
served in death as in life. She has wealth of
long black hair reaching to her waist and even
in death she shows some signs Of grace and
beauty.
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THE MUNICIPAL COFFIN.

There are no hearses in this mountain CITY,
and the town has fixed rates for the rent of its
collins. These collins are so big that another
coffin can be put inside, and they are carried
on tine shoulders Of the bearers up the steep
hill. As soon as they enter the cemetery the
collins are placed on ledge or stone table, and
are opened for the purpose. it is said, of
seeing that not more than one corpse
is buried in one coffin, and that the
cemetery gets its full fees for every corpse.
The roadway up to the cemetery has many
coffin shops, but the caskets. though expensive,
are very rudely made, and many Of those for
babies are painted light blue or grained in
oak. saw at Zacatecas boy carrying one of
these blue collins on his head, but whether he
was on his way to the cemetery or to the house
of mourning could not tell.
MEXICAN FUNERALS
The general customs of mourning in Mexico
are somewhat different from ours Mourning
is much more general and black is put on for
intimate friends and for distant relatives II
is, however, worn shorter time, but the occa-
sions for mourning dresses are SO frequent that
every lady has her mourning suit in her ward
robe. If, for instance, young lady dies, her
friends wear black for her for thirty days, and
if it is the young girls mother who
is dead, the friends will put on
black for half that time. Ladies do not
attend funerals in Mexico, but they pay
visits OF coincidence soon after the death and
such visits are made in mourning clothes
Cards and letters Of regret are always sent to
the family at the time OF death by such
friends who cannot call, and the announce
ments Of funerals are OF the most
touching and e1travagant nature. Funerals
are celebrated as a rule almost Immediately
after death. and in Mexico city as soon as pos
sible after the twenty-four hours which the law
prescribes that the dead should be kept before
interment. The coffin is procured Immediately,
the cards are sent out and the ceremonies take
place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-06

The plants developing in the water laden with
tins nutriiive material are buthed ON al sbies
with food. instead Of taking IN uouriShmvut by
roots or stems. They mul iPiy enormous y.
50 that they would soon CHOKE mp the entire
bay sere II not that they are proved upon BY
countless minute animals The oyster l. Q
creature especially adapted for living IN hays
and estuaries and gathering in their microscopic
agent SO far discovered for bringing back g. man
kind some Of the wealth which the water washes
away from the hillsides and meadows.
MODERN PRoPAGArINs METHODS.
Naturally some description should follow GO
modern improved methods for propagailng
oysters. Unfortunately science has not thus
FAR arrived at any positive conclusions tits
subject. IL Is believed that certain processes
newly devised Will accomplish all that D. de-
sired and reduce oyster culture 20 principles
OF mathematics, By which the mollusAs NAV he
multiplied for market by myrIals after the
manner % geometricul progression. lut
demonstration has Yet g. be made ~ TO these
IDEAS, one OF the most promising of which j.
Enclosure filled With spawning oysters Aui
communicating With the sea Nv n sigzAg
wooden canal. A. the tide flows IA and
out through wire gates that will add
NIT no starnsh or other tues, the shawn fertil-
ized IN The Enclosure Is carrie along the canal
over baskets filled with oyster shells. upon
which the youug mollu~ks find roosting places
10y simply removing and emptNiug the baskets
the seed thus obtained IL secured Tor plant
ing. such a process this insures the prcsor-
sauon 81 one oyster for nearly every cGg pro-
duced by each female Ia tie flooded hoN A
single such apparatus. it, product suitably at
tended 20. ought To be capable 1f supplying a.
many marketable oys."rS A. are eaten IA the
United States. How much. then. tnas be- expected
of the plan Nhcn carried out from station To -,a-
ton all along the Atlantic COAST Oystcfs
should become cheap. even 90 the poor man,
within this generation. and a new aud mex
penslve source OF food supply ought 20 offer
Itself TO the economical citizen VINO cannot
AFFORD other meat at present batchers' prices.
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STREET CARS As BEARsEs.


Mexico city is perhaps the only place in the
world where the street cars are the hearses.
There are no other kind rsed and the car lines
make good thing out of their funeral bust
ness. There are $50 deaths a day in Mexico
city and you see these cars. draped in black and
driven by drivers In mourning. spinning along
the road toward the cemetery every hour
or so during the week. The funeral
car has q raised place in its center
for the coffin. 1t is open at the sides. but has a
black canopy at the top, and its decorations are
more or less elaborate according to the charge
for the service. Behind it comes q second car
containing the mourners. and the cars go very
as the other cars, and here the dead
have to run to get out of the way
Of the living. This car service costs
all the way from 50 to s120 per funeral. and
some of the higher-priced cars are covered
with silk, and in the case of the dead being in
fants or young people are often trimmed in
white satin.
MEXICO AS HEALrHFCL CAPITAL.
The death rate of Mexico city is very high.
1t is said that 1t averages about thirty-seven in
the thousand, and the only wonder is that it is
not higher. Were it not for tho perpetually
bright sun and the high altitude the city would
be morgue-a vast charnel house-a Golgotha
"a place Of the skulls Think Of a city which
has had population of hundreds Of thou
s"iluS luz uidny generations QUILT upon
and over swamp. with no drainage whatever,
and let this city go on with its accumulated
mass Of filth increasing year by year and sink
ing down into the soil. and you have some idea
of sanitary Mexico city. A constant miasma
rises here at night and the water is only three
feet under the city. Is it any wonder that
there Is no place in the world where typhus
and typhoid fever is 80 prevalent as here and is
1t not surprising that the Mexican capital is for
many people a favorable health resort? The
climate Is so equable, the thin, dry air and the
hot sun suck up the juices of decomposition,
and such people as are careful and sleep above
the ground floor are in little danger.
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Electric shadows.

From the Boston Herald.
II YOU ever observe il the electric light is re-
sponsible for many grotesqueries nightly
painted on respectable walls and matter-of-fact
sidewalks. Shadows are only shadows, but they
give one the shivers sometimes, especially at .
late hour when honest folk are supposed 10 10
i'm bed. Giants Of despair then stretch out long
arms at the corners Of silent streetsand strange
profles are thrown against the unconscious
houses and weird traceries Of dancing branches
make the pavement rise and fall in a style that
must puzzle a person who knows be is sober.
Alone, without the presence Of humanity. these
electric shadows lend the sleeping citya mystic
animation that even conventional moonshire
fails to dispel. The sputter, the swish of the
lights. too. add to the uncsnny effect, and
their fluctuations would In time drive the
sane mad IL thought was taken Of thom-
Luckily. man can accustom himself 70 slnoa
anything.
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Outside of the city there is no danger what
ever and if it had been built on high ground it
would be the finest health resort OF the world.
As 1T is, foreigners have to be very careful
of their health here and the foreign Cemeteries
contain many occupants. The American GEM
etery contains about 1000 and il is so full
that the colony is about to purchase a
new one. Still I have met several
Americans who told me that their lives have
this country is said to be the best resort in the
world for consumptives. The great death rate
comes from the lower classes, who sleep right
on the sewer-hke ground.
FRANK G. CARpESrER.
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cArAcoNBs AND MUMMIEs,

Leaving the court / was next conducted
down into the great store house for the bones
Of the dead after their leases have expired and
they have been ousted by their landlords from
their tenements above. Going down a windin o
stair so narrow that my sides graZed the walls
as passed entered a long vaulted passage
walled with stones and paved with cement.
his passage was well lighted by OPEN
lngs fror1 above and 1t was dry and
Tree from smells Il runs clear around
and under the edge of this five acres
OF cemetery. and IL in fact walled
tunnel about twelr feet high. SIX feet wide and
more than one III pIsand feet long For ages
TINS tunnel has been the receptacle Of the bones
Of the dead Of this city. and il is now almost
nlled- Only about two hundred feet of
II remain vacant. and the entrance to
II Is IN the middle Of this stood at this point.
and looking either way 1 could see the great
Phes OF skulls and othe- pieces Of skeletons
1umoled together in all sorts Of shapes and
mixed up into one heterogeneous mass of
bones rising IN a slanting way from the floor of
the tunnel AZ an angle of fOrty-fiye degrees to
the roof Everything was jumbled together in
the great democracy Of death.
SOME DEAD AzrEcs
The mummies stood against the wall. ruarJ.
ing. as il were, the remains Of the thousands Of
broken skeletons beyond them. There were nj
least one hundred of these mummies each N
which was more horrible than ANYTHING Won
will see IN the museum Of Boulak near Cairo in
Egypt. or any OF the hOrrid examples Of South
American and Alaskan mummies which Won will
md IN our National Museum in Washington.
These mummies have been made not BY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-06

II Il , L II A " U T. > L
burying ground Of the
world is here at Guiana
huato. i have visited the
most curious grave
yards on record. but i
have never seen any
thing that compares
with what / saw today.
i have stood in the
lonely garden Of the
Wat Sab Kate in Bang
kok in Siam. where dead
humans were thrown
for burial. i have seen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-06

COMPLETE POCKET CYcLoPEpIA of Boston III.
lustrate Is issued by the United States Hotel Com
pany OF that city, which 10 the most perfect Thing
Of the kind we have ever seen. Every one should
order IL Of them By enclosing loo. in stamps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-06
A STRANGE CEMETERY
The Wonderful Graveyard Of Guiana
huato and Its Granary of Bones.
THOUSANDS OF SKELETONS.

The Dead are Kept in Pigeon-hole Vaults at
90 Much Year-The Municipal Coffin and
the Burial Court-Fivs Acres of Human
Dust-A Visit to the Great Vaults.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-06

Special Corrsspondencs Of The Evening Star.
GukSkHuAro Nav 90 10
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-06

Save us from the old family friend who knew
our grandfather when he first started in busi-
ness and tells us all about it every time We
meet him.
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THE HUMMINa BIRDS.

The diminutive ruby-throated hummine
birds, with green and gold coats. grayish- white
bellies, purple necks and long slender bills.
are familiar to all. They appear in
great numbers early in the vernal season and
feed on the insects which infest the flowers sin-
ping the while the liquid honey from the petals.
great numbers of them. They are swift fiyers
and never light on the ground. Like some
other little folk, they are quarrelsome. but
while they are very courageous in their tilt
among themselves and with other birds, strange
to say they fly in confusion before the attack
Of an ordinary humble bee. Their chatter r
quite pleasing to the ear.
THE JAYBIRD.
Physically the jaybird has few equals among
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is an incessant singer. His song is among the
first bird notes Of spring, and is continued un-
til late in the fall He climbs to the highest
branches Of the tallest trees Of the forest.
orchards and garden, from whence his sweet
carols are ever heard, even upon dark, cloudy
days when most other songsters are silent. The
principal notes resemble pewee, pea, shore,
sheine, chew-re, piwit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-06
VEGETABLE FOOD.

II there were no plants every animal would
starve Immediately. This is true of the land
creatures; it is likewise the case with those Of
the sea. The predatory and carnivorous blue
fish preys upon smaller fishes. the latter upon
fishes still smaller and some Of them upon mi
mute crustacea; these last devour still smaller
animals. which, in their turn, subsist upon the
microscopic plants that swarm at the surface
Of the ocean. However long the chain, all ami
mails Of the land or water depend upon plants
for sustenance. They only can transform in
organic matter into the shape requisite for
supporting animal life. To the ordinary
eye the plant life Of the ocean seems scant
consisting in nothing beyond few seaweeds
along the shores, but a. q matter Of fact the
surface Of the seas actually swsrms with minute
plants-strange OF form. mostly invisible TO the
naked eve, and in no wise resembling the herbs
and grasses Of the land, which. when gathered
appear to the unaided vision simply as a slimy
mass. One would imagine them too insienif-
cant to play any important part in the econ
omy OF nature, and yet the greatest monsters
of the deep, compared with which in point AZ
size the greatest land animals are pigmies. owe
their existence to these tiny vegetables.
FERTILITY OF MARINE PLANTS.
Among the plants that grow on the land corn
is regarded as an emblem Of fertility. produc-
ing. as it does, one hundred fold Of the sowing.
But q single marine germ smaller than a mns-
tard seed would I'LL all the oceans solid in less
The ''black water" Of the Arctic and Antarctic
consists of masses Of such plants, which the
right whales-most enormous Of living crea-
tures-swim among, gulping down at each
opening Of their mighty Jaws hundreds of gal
Ions Of the crustaceans and mollusks that feed
among these weeds Il is to the quantities of
certain microscopic plants which Aoat upon it
that the Red sea owes its name.
Chesapeake bay receives the drainage Of
40 600 900 acres of the most fruitful land in the
world, including one-third Of New York state
and nearly all Of Maryland, Virginia and Penn
sylvania- The most valuable part Of the soil
from this wonderfully productive area is con-
tinuAlly being carried out toward the sea by
posted in the bay for . time. where II remains
in the shape Of . black sediment called ''oyster
mud" % rich that when portion of il Il ex-
posed 10 the sun for . few hours 10 putrl6es.
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THE INDIGO BUNTING,

The indigo bunting sings its clear, pretty
notes while perched on a fence, hopping on the
ground, on the wing or from the highest top
branch of a wayside tree, as fancy moves it.
He is graceful, handsome and lively bird.
Perh.rps the most peculiar thing about him is
his plumage, which changes with age. 1t re-
qulres three years for the male to attain his full
richness of dress. During the first year he is
notified light-blue. The blue increases with
the age of the bird. In the third year the
plumage is the brightest azure, and glossy,
changing to verdigris-green in certain lights.
The general color Of the female does not
change materially, being light yellowish- brown.
1t arrives here about the LIST of May.
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BIRDS OF BEAU

The goldfnch is not only charming singer,
but it is physicallya beautiful bird. It re-
mains with US during the entire summer, and is
a universal favorite. 1t seldom lights on the
ground, except to procure water. The song of
the goldie is sung in concert from the tree top
several hocks joining in the chorus
The cardinal grosbeak, or Virginia red
bird, is noted for its vivacity and
strength and variety of song. Its rich color
high cockade and black stripe down the
face make this bird conspicuous. 1t visits us
toward the LIST Of April and frequents both
field and forest, often being seen in the CITY
parks and gardens. 1t is a beautiful, graceful
bird and one OF our best songsters.
The scarlet tanager, or black-winged red
bird, enters the District about the first week of
April. This most brilliantly attired Of all birds
Is Of a retiring, solitary disposition. Its notes
chip-churr. 1t sings with most vIgor during
the summer dog DAYS.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-18

yellow, green with yellow, gray with blue
or green, black being always introduced
with propriety if desired.
Narrow trimmings are used in skirt
trimmings, and one of the neatest is piping
If it is carefully done: small buttons are put
on by the dozens and the slashings favor
their use. The reinstatement of the redin-
cote affords fine opportunity for the dis
play of ornamentation OF front breadths
and beading. Embroidery and passemen-
terie are much used. These trimmings, as
well as fur, are used upon capes that are
worn almost universally. Among the new
garnitures for skirts is a revival OF the old
fashioned fringe, which is always graceful
and popular when fashionable, because its
gentle undulations accentuate the beauty of
the feet Broad bands OF velvet are also
seen on the bottom Of skirts and otherwise
arranged in the guise of braces, which dis
appear under the draped ceinture and then
reappear and continue to the bottom of the
skirt, there being bows on the shoulders
half way down the skirt and quite at the
bottom.
Silk is still used and is either selected in
contrast or of the predominating color of
the dress material For instance a cloth
dress with large brown plaids had high
sleeves of brown silk with cuffs of the
plaid fastened with two large buttons Of
smoke pearl, the bodice fastened with the
same buttons on the left side and grad
uated puff of brown silk extended from the
shoulder along the line Of buttons. The
skirt drapery was arranged SO that while
the plaids were straight in front the fan
plating in the back showed bias effect.
On rough goods the buttons that are most
used are large-sized metallic or colored
pearl.
October brides for evening weddings are
wearing ivory white duchess satin that has
the shiny effect deadened by liberal use
Of embroidered chiffon and lace, the chiffon
forming a full. soft putting, and the lace as
a founce falling over it. The lace reap
pears in trimming of the bodice, being
put on a bias fold of satin and crossing the
front from right to left, and beginning at
the high standing collar that is shirred or
smoked on the inner SHE; a jabot of chiffon
fills up the space at the neck, and the toilet
is completed by the traditional veil of tulle,
hemmed with floss silk and held in place by
some handsome and appropriate ornament.
In an attempt to convey some general
idea of the stylish there may be laundering,
for, as was said in the opening, the novel |
ties are not very readily discerned