Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-08-15
INTERESTING ITEMS.
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Secretary Blaine is good whist.
player.
Beethoven is proved TO have been
of Flemish blood.
The penuriousness of Russell Sagei is
said to increase with his years.
Joel Chandler Harris. better known
as Uncle Remus." has red hair.
The President of Mexico has Indian
blood In his veins aud Is proud of it.
Hippolyte, the Haytian tyrant, is so.
coal black, educated, and hated by the
creoles.
The Twenty-third Ward 10 Philadel-
phia is larger in area than the city OF
New York.
Over seven tons OF diamonds have
been taken ont of the South Africa
diamond field.
Miss Manette Mcdowell, a grand
daughter of Henry Clay. is one Of the
prettiest of Kentucky women.
NJ Sarccy. the French dramatic
critic has given up dining in the hope
of reducing his weight. which is enor-
nous.
The wealth OF the United States is
estimated at $7l. 800 900. 900, that OF En-
gland at $50 900 600 000 and that Of
France at 36, 000. 100000.
Emperor William has given orders
that no person shall ride free on rail-
roads unless they are actually engaged
in tho saFxrica of tho
In sale OF Wilkie Collins manu-
scripts The New Magdalen" brought
E2l; The Woman in White" GA. and
'Moonstone." clio.
The most valuable dinner service in
the world belongs 10 Queen Victoria,
and occupies two rooms at Buckiug-
ham Palace, over which two men watch
continually.
Edgar Saltus, the writer Of salacious
literature, is no longer the subject
of divorce suit, his wife having with
drawn her charges against the novel
ist and the correspondents.
A society has been organized In Cal
ifornia for the importation OF foreign
singing birds. 1t might better be en-
gagged in the protection OF our own
singing birds which are not surpassed
in the world.
Henry Mngrath, a prisoner in tho
Richmond Jail, ate the mirror in his
cell, swallowed his trousers, buttons
and all. and was about TO eat up hs
betstead when the jailor put him in
straight-iacket.
! The Gillian war has had very seri-
Gus effect on the English hat makers
who supply the majority OF Chilians.
The latter have been so busy lighting
that they have had no time to attend
/ TO their sombreros.
After the young curate of Berk-
Ihire parish became involved In social
scandal the Bishop was requested by
The rural population to purify the
church, and some sort OF a ceremony
Vas duly performed.
If q gentleman takes a gold band
rom his finger and places 1t on the third
inger of ladys hand while repeat
ing a marriage ceremony before three
Or more witnesses. the ceremony in
New York State makes her his wife.
Tsuda Sanzo, the japanese police
man wFo attempted TO murder the
Czarcwitch of Russia, has been sem
| fenced to life imprisonment Accord
ing to the terms of the law. this was
the heaviest punishment that could bo
Inflicted rpou the map.
A. ii. McGuffcy. the author of tho
famous McGuifcy's School Realer, is
still alive and is wcll-known LAWYER
Of Cincinnati. lie is modest and re-
tiring gentleman of the old school,
corrtly in his manners and we'll in
formed on all literary matters.
The word sulky, as appli ed to a
wheeled conveyance, had It's origin in
the fact that when it first appeared the
person who saw 1t considered that
none but sulky, selfish man would
ride in such an affair, which afforded
accommodation to but one person.
The Emperor of Austria has for
years past found consolation for his
troubles in the sympathetic compan
ionship of former well-known Vien-
nese actress, Catharine Schratt, whose
counsels are said to have besn of the
utmost advantage to him in many im-
portant affairs OF State.
A Talladega (Ala.) Justice has de-
cided that the issuing of store checks
in payment of wages is criminal
offense against the laws Of the State OF
Alabama. and has bound man over
TO the Grand Jury for doing It. 1t
promises to be "cause celebra." as il
will be tested in the higher courts.
A lady living in Torringtou. CT,
recently found humming bird with
its bill buried half an inch in one OF
the wooden posts of the veranda OF bel
house and quite dead. The little
thing had evidently darted al a flower
close by and struck the post with such
velocity that it could not get away.
Japau's Emperor has decreed that
every man who provokes duel or ac'
cepts challenge shall pay heavy
fine and serve from six months to two
years in the galleys. The taunting o.
a man for his refusal TO fight wheI
challenged will be regarded as SANDER
aud will be so treated by the courts.
1t is the opinion of the N. Y. Worlo
that when Mrs. Langtry. Mrs. Jane:
Brown Potter and Miss Agnes Hunt
iugdon get their new theaters in Lon
don, the actress-hating dramatists OF the
Elizabethan era will roll over in their
graves and Shakespeare himself wonder
why he never wrote play fot AM
Hathaway!
Colonel Elgar Daniel Boone. a de
scendaut of the great Kentucky ex
plorer. is lion tanner connected will
Forepaugh's circus. He is n splendi,
man of So with flaxen hair and wake,
mustache. He finds it more proiitabl,