Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-11-21
MISSING LINKS.
Salvador ha. q telephone school.

vat thnt VIII hold j, OOO barrels.
Men of science say that the chemist
will dominate coming inventions.
A syndicate has offered 10 bur the
Washington Monument for = shot
tower.
Nicholson has calculated the veloci-
ty Of light to be 1876 $50 miles per
second.
The actual length OF the new st.
Clair tunnel Is 6.026 feet. 1t cost $l.-
400. 900.
a swarm of dies cannot travel at
any greater pace than eleven miles an
hour.
In the year 1885 n tulip bulb was sold
Ia Holland for ", 200; Is weighed but
200 grains.
The waters of Lake Erie are to be
piped into Cincinnati. taking la other
cities en- route.
Thirty barrels Of incense wero burned
during a three days ceremonial in
Siam recently.
Fashionable men Ia Paris and Lon
don are now using electricity az cure
for excessive tippIiDg.
There are 700 Americans residing In
the City OF Mexico. soms OF whom own
the houses they occupy.
An American contractor 10 to build
a railroad from the Amazon to the
Madeira, connecting Brazil with Boil.
via.
A temperature of 220 degrees below
zero has beeu produced by "A bath Of
carbon bisulphide aud liquid nitrous
acid.
The five states OF Iowa, Kansas. Ill.
inois Nebraska and Missouri produce
fully one-half Of the corn crop Of the
United States.
The largest steer ia Illinois. and
probably in the world. weighs 1000
pounds and belongs 30 a Macoupin
County farmer
Clear summer sunlight 10 said 10
penetrate the Mediterranean Sea TO q
depth Of 1900 feet; winter sunlight TO
only 600 feet.
In n certain portion OF the Ural dis
trict camels are the only working cattle
used. some large farms possessing .
hundred camels.
The constitution OF the United States
has been published in New York Ia the
Hebrew language, with explanatory
notes in Hebrew.
A cubic foot OF newly fallen snow
weighs five aud one-half pounds and
has twelve times the bulk Of an equal
weight OF water.
A female clerk at Washingtoa has q
hot-houso and last year sold 100 600
violcts She thinks of rssigning aud
becoming florist.
A funeral party in Kennett Square.
Pa. were attacked at the grave by
bees. and for time not little ex.
citemcnt prevailed.
A wild goose killed in California had
q grain Of wheat in its crop. which,
when planted. produced = variety
| hitherto unknown.
Engine No 63. on the Panhandle
Road, ran $50, 900 miles in three years
time. and was still in good condition
ut the end of her service.
A colored preacher in Kentucky ha,
made a big sensation by declaring that
the forbidden fruit" spoken OF In the
Bible is meant for watermelons.
A farmer in Jefferson County. Wis.
eonsiu. dislodged huge rock at the
bottom of his we'll when II sank out oil
sight revealing II snbterrauesn lake.
The bicycle has become almost q.
popular in Germany rs II 10 la the
| United States The German Union ol
Bicyclists now has over l. 400 members.
Waves exert force OF one ton per
square inch when they are only twenty
feet high. At Cassis France. grapits
| blocks Of fifteen cubic meters hsv,
been moved by wave force.
A man at Hazelton. Pa. is reportet
10 have been taken up by gust oi
wind during heavy storm TO a height
| of 100 feet aud landed $50 feet from
where he started without being hurA
And now cottonwood comes to tn,
front as q sugar factor. A southerr
grower says its sacchariue qualities
are fifteen times greater than suga
cane and twenty times stronger thar
beets.
The chief caterer Of fashionable
society in Washington Is woman wht
occupies most unpretentious LITTLE
shop. She has served every Prssiden
since the days Of Harrison's grand
father.
In the village Of Rio Grande, sl,
miles north of Cape May. N. j.. ther'
are two weeping trees. from the limb'
of which rain falls to the ground daily
and the hotter the day the heavier th'
fail OF moisture.
| RattlesraSes are said TO have
natural autipathy TO white ash leaves
Some naturalists assert that . rattle
snake placed in circle OF half asl
leaves and half hot Goals will cross tn
Goals rather than encounter the leaves
It Is stated that at the lower end o
the Salt0n Lake the stream 10 not owe
TWENTY-FIVE feet wide and not NOR
than two feet ia the middle. and ths
the water is subsiding. One Of Oh
largest mud volcanoes, or gcysers, ha
ceased activity.
A seemingly miraculous cure Of
malignant cancer has been made .
Chattanooga. Tom, the victim havipl
been pointed opt 10 dream to . Ger
tain herb. which he gathered and ate
and is now well. The story is vouche'
for by men OF veraciiy.
French ingenuity has eontrived a
improved stouccutting saw OF remark
able efficiency. a circular saw havini
It's edge set with black diamonds i
the same way ss the straight blades
but as the strain on the diamond 10 a
in ono direction the setting can b
much Krmer.
During the year 1890 1872 SsS me
were recruited for the German army
Out OF these 5.9l6 were not permitte
to enter, as they were in excess Of tn
number provided for by the arm
budget. They numbered II. 666. max
ing the total OF 1876 502. Of whom Az
are destined for the aect.
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