Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-10-03
MISSING LINKS.
Ex-senator ingalls, receives $500 for

ly to be published for the first time.
A Kansas City policeman's life was
saved by the star on his breast, which
stopped bullet that would otherwise
have perforated him.
The youngest United States consul is
j. l.. Doty, who is stationed at Tahiti,
and who was only 20 years OF age
when he received his appointment.
A portrait Of Gen. Stark, painted in
1910. when he was SO years old. by
Miss Anna Crowninshield. Of Salem,
Mass. will be exhibited 1T the Ben-
nington celebration.
Andrew Carnegie. in n speech at
Peterbead, prophesied that the United
States aud Great Britain would ere
long stand shoulder to shoulder for the
maintenance Of the worlds peace.
Miss Susan II. Duncklee, Of Newton.
Mass. the only woman treasurer of a
bank in that state. has resigned. after
seventeen years Of brilliant success.
aud not a trip to Canada during the
whole period.
Col. Henry lnman is busy preparing
manuscript for the history OF the old
Santa Fe trail. The book will be pub
lished in March. 1892. and will be a
graphic history of the pioneer times of
the great desert.
Edward F. Searles. who has Just in
| herited from his wife vast fortune
and larger number of palaces prob
ably than any other man in this coun-
IN II
by a leading upholstery firm in New
York.
Sir William Turner of the Univer-
sity OF Edinburg who has made care
ful study Of the whale. calculates that
one eighty feet long. in order TO attain
speed Of twelve miles an hour. must
exercise a propelling force of LIS
horse power.
DIR. William A. Hammond says that
even weli-to-do Americans require
more rest than any other people in the
world. and get less. He thinks a
human being should have a succession
OF labors and diversions AS a farm has
rotation Of crops.
The able Turkish minister Mavroy-
eni Bey, is passing the summer at Bar
Harbor, where he has been giving din
ners and making himself very agree
able. All attempts TO prevail upon
him to eat clam or get into a buck
board have thus far proved Intellectual.
1t is general complaint among
photographers that in the summer
time when days are long and the light
is good people will not have their pict-
ures taken. while in the winter, when
the conditions of good Photographic
work are at their worst, galleries are
besieged.
The French are now painting their
war vessels a dull sulphL.ous gray.
exactly the color of smoke rs It arises
from cannon. They say this color has
the advantage of being as Elusive and
indistingnishable in fogs aud sea mists
and darkness as during The smoke of
battle. 1t is more battling TO the
search light than any other tint.
Many a matchmaking Washington
mamma will feel keen regret nj the
depar ure from the capital Of NJ. Rous-
tan. the French minister. During the
eleven years OF his residence in Wash
ington he has been regarded as the
most desirable catch there. aud
many n trap has been set 10 eusnare
his affections. But be has remained
true to the memory of bis dead wife.
An English merchant aud banker
named Gresham formulated about
three hundred years ago what is known
as the Gresham Law of Finance, which
is: That if two sorts of money. one
inferior in intrinsic or representative
value to the other, but both invested
by statute with the same purchasing
power be permitted TO circulate side
by side, the inferior will ultimately
drive out the superior"
A New England editor who is pre-
pairing biography of Whittier says
he finds it hard TO get material for the
work. owing 10 the poets great diff
dence and modesty. mo sooner is he
led to reveal some interesting facts
about himself. more especially of his
early life, than he Immediately raises
gentle remonstrance: But l would
not mention that if | were thee. That
is of no importance, think"
One of Boulanger's favorites. Nine.
de Bonneman. died the other day. and
another of his fair friends. Mile.
Reichemberg. has met fate that prob
ably seems 10 her almost as bad as
death. That is, she has lost her good
looks. She is now sharp-nosed and
thin. and the only remnant Of her
former charms is her graceful figure.
Har haa mn - hos ts.,
has BoulaDger's pretensions to great
ness.
Walter Besant says that a clever
English girl of his acquaintance was
employed some time ago by a mau
who brings out cheap novelties. She
got 80 shillings for writing a novel OF
80. 0U0 words; that il TO say. penny
for every fifty words. And she was
not allowed 10 put her name to the
thing. because, "a her sweater told
her, IF you put your name the people
will ask for you aud your price vii
so up."
Mrs. Fanny Washington Finch, whosr
hJme is in the national capital. aE'
who Is a granddaughter of hall
brother of The Father of his Country
is just now visiting in Philadelphia
She is said 10 be tall, majestic in iig
ure. and gifted with features strongl,
resembling those of George Washiag
ton. Mrs. Finch has among her keep
sakes little hatchct made after hri
own design from a small silver spoon
that was owned aud used by her illus
trious kinsman.
A gentleman who recently visited
Egypt, N. c.. ran across colored
family OF six children having the fol-
lowing names: Maggie Dora Katie
Sickler Atwater. Ester Ann Cindy
Lizabeth Atwater, Roxana Baltimore
Washington City Hamburg Atwater.
Annie Maudie Rosa Lamb Irene Fanny
Moses King OF Priests Atwatcr. Rufus
Hayes Settler President of this UGited
States Sam Lee Wo Han Garfield At
water. g. 5. George Jones John the
Baptist Baptism Christianity George
Washington Atwater