Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-04-11
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President Carnot has an idea OF sug.
gesting the demolition of all the forti-
iications in the neighborhood OF Paris.
| In Alaska, 200 miles up the Yukon
river. the snow never melts. and In
some places 1t is said 10 ve fully two
miles deep.
Cocks combs and other parts OF the
domestic fowl are imported from
France in glass and lind favor among
American epicures.
Never mind IL you don't look like
genius. Professor Goodwin Smith says
,Iiat Macaulcy looked more like n cob
bier than great writer.
The fast driving which in London
last year resulted In 2j0 deaths and
8. 900 lesser accidents, is said to be a
direct result OF smooth, hard pave
ments.
Babies and young children dressed
in white are thought by medical men
| to be more susceptible to colds and in-
| fcctious diseases than those clad in
dark, warm colors.
At Munich there is hospital which
is entirely supported by the sale of old
steel pen-nibs. collected from all parts
of Germany. They are made into
watch springs. knives aud razors.
The poet Stedman is short and
rather slender man. He dresses like
any other Wall street broker and looks
but little like poet. His face is in-
tellectual and somewhat careworn.
Two years ago Secretary Window
was supposed TO be worth S25G. 900.
but his estate, so far as it has been
traced, Is valued at mol above $4,000.
of which $1,000 Is life insurance
policy.
John f. Parsons, the New York law
yer. is said to have received fee OF
800, 900 for legal services in organ
izing the Sugar Trust. This is believed
10 be the largest fee ever paid in this
country.
Ex-Quecn Isabella of Spain has
grown very corpulent. She devotes
much of her lime 10 works of charity
and games of whist. aud has discarded
all the vanities of the world but Paris
ian dinners.
Jay Gould says he has never had a
count for it. Ii may be that Mr..
Gould does not look natural because
something is being taken and he isn't
taking it himself.
Mrs. Rider Haggard and Mrs. San
ley think American women keep their
houses too warm. 1t cannot be possi-
BILE that any American husbands have
been telling them that they were often
made too hot for them?
Broker Robert B. Davidson of Phila-
delphia is the only surviving clerk of
the old United States Bank. He is so
years old and was employed in the
bank from 1882 to 1886. while Nicholas
Biddle was President OF 1t.
A southern farmer has produced
from cotton stalks a fabric suitable for
bagging, which may rival jute. The
problem which the inventor success
fully solved was how to separate
cheaply the material from the woody
fiber.
Lord Salisbury is said to get along
with an average of four or five hours
sleep, spending rarely less than four
teen hours daily over official affairs.
and his social duties taking up the rest
of his time. He should help along an
eight-hour law.
Prince Bismarck said lately at Ha M
burg: My ideal is TO be able TO walk
about in this large and beautiful town
without seeing single head turned to
look at me-" Ii is altogether probable
that weeks inattention would cure
him of this modesty.
the he0udiisstE Youngest EYesuicSaist m fYie rffuys-
sian army. He is assigned to the First
Regiment OF Dragons. Some branch
Of the infantry would seem more suit
able TO his age. or, il not that, ut least
tic uppers aud miners.