Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-06-06

Cluster Chronicle.
JOSEPH KUBLER, PUBLISHER.
The word preface" " used in the be-
ginning of books, was originally a word
of welcome to meal, and was equiva-
lent b Much good may it do you"
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The Springfield Republican says;
"Wachusett, the only decent mountain
down east, is about to be sold like any
parcel of level mead and WOODLAND. :"
Keene, \. H., is meditating on the
cheek of a resident who is receiving
outdoor relief from the town and who
paid tax of 50 the other day on his
three dogs.
Houston county, Georgia, claims the
youngest confederate soldier in the
person of Augustus Il. Dixon, who
enlisted in 1868 under j. years of age.
A scientist of Tennessee thinks that
the gulf stream every day passes
through thousands of miles of subtcr
ranean channel that is surrounded by q
living fire.
q The Michigan pcnitentiary has a
class of fifteen in tclcgraphy, origin
ated by one ef the prisoners. Each
convict purchased his own instrument
by working overtime.
The people of Starlight. Grundy
county, Mo, complain that the man
who carries the mail to that town puts
young pigs, etc, in the pouch along
with the love letters, etc.
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A tramp stole a razor and opened up
shop in a box car near the fire. brick
works at Mexico, Mo. He shaved
twenty-five men in half day. poclleted
$3.50 and again took to the road.
Australia has now 4.75O. .O0O of peo-
pie, 1900, 900 more than the population
of the American colonies when they
declared their independence, and the
same as Ireland at the present time.
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Every year a layer of the sea four
teen feet thick, is taken up into the
clouds. The winds bear their burden
into the land and the water comes
down in rain upon the fields To flow
back through rivers.
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In some parts of Cornwall it is con
sidered unluclly TO have any washing
done in the house between Christmas
and New Years day, the superstitious
believing that if washing takes place
some of the family will be washed out
of life.
A man walked into "A Lowell, Mass.
barroom last week bought 25 cents
worth of cigars and offered 1000
bill in payment He was somewhat
taken aback when the saloonllccper
pocketed the bill and counted out for
change 1899. 75 in silver
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Ornothologists tell us that when
feeding the stride of the ostrich is from
twenty to twenty-five inches; when |
walking but not feeding. twcnty-siA |
inches. and when terrified, from eleven
and onc-half to fourteen feet. or Mt the
rate of about twenty-five miles an hour.
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A benevolent AtchiSon. Kan. woman |
keeps bar Of soap on a board near a |
creek that runs through the town for
the use of tramps, and Il number Of
them may be seen at that place every
day washing themselves.
The Commerce of New South Wales,
one of the Australian provinces. in
proportion to its numbers is three times |
that of Canada, five times that of |
France, and eight times greater than
the trade of the United States
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Between January ! and April of
this year l,7sS bodies have been ere
mated in seventeen cities. Eighteen
Berliners have been cremated this |
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