Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-24
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A dealer in artificial limbs says that
fully 800, 900 Americans have lost one
or both legs, aud ut least 100. 600 are
minus an arm.
A little armadillo, the mulita. of Uru-
quay, Is mentioned as the living repre-
sentative OF those antediluvian giants,
the nylodon. m%astodon, megatherium,
etc.
There are moro eyictions for nom
payment of rent in New York and
Brooklyn IN one year. says n Judge OF
the latter city, than in Ireland ia two
years.
In n single day last summer 105
Americans visited Burns birthplace.
The pilgrims during the year numbered
10000 to the cottage and 80. 600 to the
monument.
The Isolated Galapagos Archipelago
is a rich repository OF animal aud
vegetable forms. Its fora differs by
one-half of its species from that Of the
rest of the globe.
Kossuth, the great Hungarian patriot
Is passing his old age in the bitterness
Of poverty. He is 81 years old, feeble,
~sad-hearted, and will o long remain
unclaimed OF death.
The sun gives GOO. 900 times as much
light as the full moon. 1000. 000, 900
times az much ~ the brightest star in
the sky. and So, 600. 600 times as much
AS all the stars in tue heavens com
bined.
A golden eagle weighing t~hirty-five
pounds was killed "A short time ago on
the SissetUn reservation, Montana.
The bird stood three and a half feet
high and measured nine feet from tip
to tip.
Uruguay has a healthy climate. and,
according IT, its tables of mortality for
1882. out Of y t)tal OF 9,640 deaths.
forty-iivo were of persons over one
hundred years Of age. Its death rate
is only 1G5l0 per 1000.
The Mediterranean il comparatively
shallow. Adryiug up OF $50 feet would
leave three different seas, aud Africa
would be joined TO Italy. The British
channel is more like a pond. which ac-
counts for It's choppy waves.
Some ladies of high social position in
New York are said to have started a
society TOR the advancement of pro-
priety and frugality in dress Among
the things to be avoided are decollete
dresses and sleeveless bodices.
About a century ago it was estimated
that Paris had only about fifty pick
pockets now the police reports show
that their number has reached 1000 in
the metropolis alone, aud about ten
thousand IN the rest of France.
There are 10 900 public schools In
Missouri. Theme state superintendent
proposes 10 introduce n uniform system
of instruction aud a specified course of
instructions to be published in pamphlet
form nad sent TO each teacher of the
state.
S. f. Hershey says in a recent article:
''Woman lives longer nan man, goes
insane less uumerOusly, commits sui
eide one-thigd as often, makes one
tenth the demand on the public purse
for support in Jail, prisons and aims
houses"
Mrs. Belle Wooster Higgins, of Sui
Ivan, Me. hps had nineteen years OF
sea life, and mas sailed to every part of
the globe. She is an expert in naviga-
ton, and could take a ship to any port.
foreign Of domestic, should it ever be-
0ine necessary.
Mrs. Garfield is said TO be over
whelmed by her correspondence. Let
tiers come TO her from every part of the
country and on every conceivable topic.
Every communication she receives is
given careful attention, and frequently
a pleasant letter of some length is seLt
In answer.
The Detroit Free Press says: ''E a
boy fifteen years of age should be left
ten acres OF land IN Michigan, aud his
guardian should cover ii with hickory
trees. the income of the boy when he
came to DO thirty years old would be
from 50, 900 to $l1 900 clean cash off his
little farm.
Occasionally the return of the swal-
low or the nightingale may be some
what delayed, but most sea fowls may
be trusted, ii is said, as the almanac it
self. Were they satellites revolving
around this earth their arrival could
hardly be more surely calculated by an
astronomer.
Webb G. Hayes. the ex-President's
son, lives in Cleveland. where he is
rated a keen and successful business
man. He is Treasurer of one corpora
ton and a stakeholder in several 9TH
ers. He is a bachelor aud occupies
handsome apartments In the east end
Of the city.
According 10 the latest issue Of the
Newspaper Directory there were no
less than B., iSl, Clio. 900 copies of maya
zines. papers and periodicals issued In
this country or n number more than
sufficient TO afford every man, woman
and child in the United States n
paper per week for a year.
The Ural Mountains were ~anciently
the subject of various myths. The
Slavonians who. In the eleventh cen.
fury frequently visited the region of
Urals for trade. described them as
mountains reaching the sky, inter-
sectcd by terrible precipices. and as
being inhabited by a population of a
dwellers.
1t has been estimated that the volume
of water poured into the Rio de Ia
Plata exceeds the aggregate discharge
of all the rivers Of Europe put together.
Its ordinary flow at some points is
100 900 cubic feet per second. The
ordinary volume of water in the Uru-
quay River averages IL, 000. 900 of cubic
feet per mipute.
Brie b m Young did not possess the
fabulous wealth hat was credited to
him. He left just 81. 200. 900 when he
died, aud this sum was divided accord
ing 70 the strictest laws of equity
among eighteen wives and their chill
dren Amelia Folsom. Brigham's
favofi;e spouse. is still alive and is o
most charming woman
Sitting Bulls language was q COM
pound Of pure Sioux and mongrel
English. in which a number of French
words were mixed. The latter had been
picked up from the post traders. and as
their expressions were frequently more
emphatic than polite, u tenderfoot was
apt to bo surprised, by the vigorous
meaning of his phrases.
The Prince OF Wales, it Is reported,
intends next SEASON 10 Introduce a r0.