Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-08-22
INTERESTING ITEMS.

MISS MARY ~ montgomery "uN
took the highest honors at the Uniycr-
sity of London. is 22 aud the daughter
of Unitarian clergyman.
The Paris garcon has won in the
struggle for his mOustache; and the
result is that the restaurants are now
manned by fierce looking band re-
sembling dragons more than waiters.
Mrs, Gen. Grant is aging rapidly.
There has been marked change both
in appearance and in her manner with
in two years. Her hair is silvered and
her slow and uneven steps bctoken her
advanced years.
A full-grown wild boy, aged about
l6 years. has been captured at Enoch's
Point, Australia. His body is said TO
be covered with hair four inches long
the hair on his head being four feet
long and his nails five inches.
Among the curiosities on exhibition
in the British Museum is Chinese
bank note issued during the reign 81
the Emperor Hung Wu. a. ID. 1868 80.
This is supposed TO be the earliest
specimen Of bank note in exist.
ence.
The Princess Stephanie is said TO I've
fast losing the beauty that made heI
famous at the Vieunese Court when
she married the Crown Prince Rudolph
ten years ago. She has never rccoy.
cred from the dreadful shock OF her
husbands suicide.
Edwin FORESTS widow, who died in
/ Mn, Xn,.lr i,, phguprttxy a.,
| three sensations i'm her life. First, by
her beauty, which was regal; second.
by her successful defense in the famou.
divorce suit which she won. and third,
by her appearance Oh the stage after.
| ward.
A Belfast, Me, man is doing quite o
business in the poultry line, having
! established duck farm where he now
has over l, 200 of the young swimmers
in various stages Of growth. lie ships
! them to Boston as fast as they are
large enough for the market and gets
fancy prices for them.
The correspondence between ex
King Milan and ex-Queen Natalie was
| published recently in Paris. King
Milan addresses his former wife
throughout as you" while Natalie
uses the familiar thou" The cx.
queen. to judge from her letters, had
great difficulty IN persuading Milan te
reply.
Seth Abbott, the father of the late
Emma Abbott, has been forced TO
assign at Minneapolis because of real
estate ENHANCEMENT. He says his
real estate was worth $50. 600 three
or four years ago. but to-day IL will
not bring more than the incumbrauce
upon it-mortgages to the amount OF
$ll, 900.
Ii has long been a custom of the
Bayard family to bury with their dead
sprigs of ivy plucked from the old
church in Wilmington. The vine was
originally planted by the ex-secretary' :
great grandmother. A spray has been
obtained to 90 abroad with the re-
mains OF Count Leweuhaupt, his
widow, and her brother, Thomas Bay.
ard. Jr., accompanying them to Stock.
holm. where the burial will take place,
One per cent of all German children
in city schools stuttcr. In Dresden
the per centagc (2) is highest. In q
military school near Berlin four cadets
in forty suffered, aud in several
civilians schools the percentage has
been found to be as large. Many Ger.
man physicians are advocating the
separation of the suffering school
children from the smooth-tougued aud
the instruction OF them in a depart.
mcnt Of their own.
Kipling's famous Plain Tales from
the Hills was rejected by Londol
publisher To whom the volume wa
offered for mere song. Gunter'
"Mr. Barnes of New York" anC
Jerome's Three Men in n Boat" me-
with similar fate the publishers
renders denouncing them rs rub
bish." Perhaps they are. but judging
from their wonderful sales subsequent.
ly it il apparent that the reading pub
lie knows better what it wants than
the publishers readers DO.
Octave Thanct, the novelist. is an
Iowa girl, her real name being Alice
French. She has been obliged to &c
away from home for material for her
stories the scenes of many of which
are laid in Arkansas and the eastern
states. 1t is certainly remarkable thai
she should have been able to overcome
the disadvantages of non-residence SC
completely as TO portray with the iidel.
ity and accuracy credited to her the
oddities and dialectic peculiarities oI
Arkansas rural life. The material for
her sketches was collected mainly
during summer outings in the Adiron.
dacks and in Canada, with an occa.
sional winter in Arkansas.
The colored bell-boys Of the Nor.
mandic, in Washington. miss Mr..
Blaine. though when he was quartered
there they stood In considerable awe
of his peremptory demands upon them.
Naturally they have many anecdote.
OF tho secretary. One frightened little
fellow who was called to the secre-
tary's room in tho early morning
found him in his night robe. walking
the floor and running his hands through
his hair in deep thought. Turning
said in stentorian tones; Boy. don'i
you ever be secretary of state" Deed
/ won't, Mars Blaine; deed | won't. y
said the little negro, his eyes rolling in
fright.
Gen. Benjamin +. Butler will cal
his forthcoming autobiography but
ler's Book" His mother was a very
religious woman. aud she struck bar.
gain with Ben by which he was TO com
nit to memory rs many verses Of
Scripture as she explained chapters o
the book TO him. Il committed e
memory" he says 'the four Gospel.
and once had recited them AT call fol
quotation in every part. l know
every word, not even excepting the
first eighteen verses of the first chapter
of Matthew. where everybody begai
everybody else" His first feeling o
hostility to slavery, he says. was gained
from parsing half-page of is lndis
Free. or Do We Grind Her Still?"
1t may interest good livers to read
that wines are used as n rule at the
table of tho emperor of Germany.
When the members Of the family eal
alone SAYS u man who discovered the
secrets of tho imperial table through
au interview with the court butler.
Rhine and Moseilc wines are served.
/ At festive dinners Madeira. port wine
| and sharrv are sarred with tha souu