Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31
INTERESTING IIEM&

Ihey are now raising English wal.
nuts out in California, and single trees
yield $20 worth OF nuts, which Is far
better than can be done in England.
An indianapolis man has construct.
ed bicycle OF steel tubing and alumi.
mum, which though exceptionally light,
is claimed to be practically unbreak.
able.
Bodemanche and John Davenport
two Indians VI the Ceur d'AIene,
Washington, reservation, last season
raised and sold for cash 5000 bushels
OF oats.
Fireworks were not known TO an.
tiqulty. They are a modern invention,
fever the ancients employed fires at
their festivals 1t was only for religious
purposes.
Ihe monkey-wrench is not called SO
on account OF its fancied or actual re-
semblauce TO u monkey, or because IL
Is handy tool to monkey" with, but
simply because it Is the invention OF
Charles Monckay, of Kings County,
N. Y.
The question OF what shows the real
gentleman is under discussion In the
society journals, But the old, terse
definition OF the Kentuckian still abides.
viz; "A gentleman Is the man who
turns bis back while his guest pours
out the whisky"
The story from Southern town that
the Indian chief Red Cloud is really a
white man is very vigorously denied
by people who know the savage. He
is magnificent specimen OF the Sioux
warrior, and there Is no cloud on his
title to the reddest OF red Indian blood.
Victorien Sardou, the French play
wright, is entering his Goth year In ro-
bust aud vigorous health. He has new
er been i'll and attributes his i'm
munity from disease TO the fact that he
takes eight hours sleep every night
and is never bothered by his digestion.
G. T.. Ryckman of Brockton, N. Y,
has beat the record in grape culture,
last year, and II wasn't good year for
grapes either. From half an acre of
ground he has picked IL, Cos pounds Of
Niagaras, which he sold for 81, 266. so.
OF this sum, probably 81, 600 was clear
profit.
Can we look forward to a time when
lhe chemist will manufacture our SUI
gar, when the sugar cane aud the beet
root will cease to be planted because
their products can be more cheaply
manufactured from coal or wood2 Re-
suits apparently as improbable have
happened
Among historic rings Is one said to
be Shakspeare's signet. Upon the
seal, eutwined with true lovers knot,
are the initials w. s. 1t was lost be.
fore his death and found many years
after by laborers wife, near STRAIT
ford Churchyard. This is the only au-
thentic piece Of his personal property
known to be in existence.
Frank De Witt Talmage, son of the
famous Brooklyn preacher, is lecturing
in Western cities. He is a young man
of "a. of dark complexion and some
what resembles his father ic facial ex-
preston. He shows evidence of hav-
ing been carefully trained In oratory.
but his delivery is crude and his
gestures are not spontaneous.
A rich man in st. Petersburg died,
leaving orders that his sealed will
should be opened twelve months after
his death. When opened it contained
another sealed packet, with instruc-
tions that it must not be opened for o
year. The will had seven seals the
last Of which has only just been brok-
en, although the testator died six years
ago.
A nine-ycar-old lad at Jubbulpore,
Indla. is under arrest for having
buried alive his younger brother, aged
states that he and his brother were or
phans. He had to beg for living, and
as he could not take the youngster
about with him he thought much
trouble would DO saved by bprying
him.
In his long life of eighty years P. T..
Barnum has had most versatile ca
reer. Before becoming travelling
Snowman he had been successfully the
proprietor of an oyster saloon, an ed
itor. bartender. negro minstrel, a
clearinghouse keeper, dramatic critic,
preacher bank president, author. and
partner in n clock factory. He finally
found his true vocation.