Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-10-10
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Mr.. General Grant has an intense
love for diamonds. The stones in her
ears are as large as gooseberries aud
very iiue.
10 form an idea of the experiments
that take place from abroad ia the way
OF testing devices in warfare, the sta
tion at Liege. Belgium. consumes
nearly 400 700 cartridges and forty
tons Of powder year ia testing fire.
arms.
Walter Besant's query, where have
all our poets gomez" seems 10 have
met with n response. fhe annual re-
port OF the Norristown Insane Asylum
Superintendent SAYS that SO per cent
OF the patients there are addicted 10
writing verses.
Marion Harland is large woman.
OF matronly appearance. somewhat
above medium hei5at. Sac has
brown complexion. black hair that is
beginning TO turn grey. and Il broad
forehead. She began 10 write stories
| when a child of 6.
The ruins of the palace OF the Queen
OF Sheba have not been found in Mas
honaland, whence the wonderful gold
/ of Ophir is supposed to have come.
Lut the Zimbali ruins show that this
strange country was once the scene of
q mighty civilization.
A teacher from Kansas found in To-
ronto, Canada. tue most wonderful
four corners in the world. Tney are
| occupied by church. the Governor
! Generals palace. university and
saloon, representing education. legis-
lation, salvation and damnation."
A recent order from an Australian
firm for 90 00O 900 feet of lum Der will
require twenty-five large vessels 10
carry it. Recent extensive develop
ments in mining interests in Central
and South America have led TO large
shipments of timber from this country.
An English naturalist has discovered
proofs that the bedbug was quite COM
mon in the armies Of the world at least
| l20 years before the Christian era. and
that he was ever a sea rover, as the
| Il cts OF that day had their timbers
stocked with this breed of nocturnal
prowIers.
David Parker. of Los Angeles, Cal,
has been poisoned by ROSTERS bite
He was 4 lover of game chickens aud
surprised the poultry yard just as
| tight had been finished. Picking up
one OF the expiring cocks he received
a bite on the tip of one Of the fingers
which led to blood poisoning
Margaret S,ther. who has just re-
turned from Europe, relates with
| great gusto that sine visited Melrose
Abbey at midnight. rousing up the
dingy old keeper to let her in. and that
she is the ouly American who ever
made so curious demand aud sue
ceeded in accomplishing her purpose.
prs. Lease. of alliance fame. saws
that she has gained more suits than
any other lawyer in Kansas. ,e did
not begin the study of law until after
the birth of her fourth child. who is
now nine years old. She used To read
Blackstone while busy about the house,
hold work, with crying baby in her
| arms.
Princess Milena. wife Of the reigning
| Prince of Montenegro. has subjected
| herself 10 n severe surgical operation
in the clinic of Heidelberg. The Prn-
cess is now only 4j years old. but she
has been married thirty-one years. As
Milena Pelrowna Bukotitisch she was
called the l0yeliest aud most beautiful
woman in Europe.
In the japanese capital there is
| gigantic image OF woman made of
wood and plaster. and dedicated TO
| Hachiman. the god of war. In height
| it measures tifty-four feet; the head
alone. which is reached by winding
stairway in the interior OF the figure.
being large enough to comfortably
hold twenty persons.
A tobacco drummer who has trav-
eled all over the country SAYS that
Maine uses more tobacco per capita
than any other State in the Union.
Tobacco dealers drum the State harder
than any other. large firms keeping
one and sometimes two men continu-
| ally in Maine, while one man will look
out for the trade in several other
States.
Charles F. Lummis has discovered
Al almost virgin region of big game in
the Flagstaff country of the San Fran
cisco Mountains. Black-tail deer and
mountain hons abound. but the rugged
inaccessibility of their habitats above
the snow line is fortunately such as to
frighteu off pot-hunters and the trav-
cling foreigner with his caravan OF
guns.
The Queen of the Belgians, who
learned seight of hand from Her
mann. the European, not of the Amer
lean, is fond of travelling incognito.
Not long ago she and Princess Glenn
entine were run ont OF a railway
compartment near Ostend by fat
woman. who declared she did not
believe such plain people had first
class tickets anyhow"
In 1871 three couples were married
at the same time in homestead near
Gordon, Ga. They are still alive and
healthy, and are arranging to celebrate
their golden weddings ut the home
stead. All the descendants of the
couples are to be present, aud SO are
seven OF the niue brothers and sisters
of the contracting parties who wit
messed the triple marriage.
Uncle Dan Rice. the veteran show
man, is slightly battered. but hc is sill
in the ring. His old-fasboned circus
entepi 80 failed last spring for want OF
capital. but Uncle Dau says that he
intends to give the public another
cnance in the fall. He still has some
circus material aud stock Of old
jokes. and he feels that If he can only
get another chance he will score a hit.
William Morris. the Engli.h poet.
artist aud socialist. affects IA singulariy
s.abby and unpicturesque attire. H.
may he seen on Oxford street. in Lon
don. wearing an old black slouch hat.
an ancient sack coat. baggy trouser,
and blue flannel shirt. The necktie
is usually missing ard sometimes h.
wears no collar. But his flowing white
hair and beard make him an object ol
interest to every passer-by.
Mr.. Stockton has at last been trapped
into an indication of his own opinion
which fate the man would have been
consigned to in his story. 'rbe Lad,
or the Tiger according to the Detroit