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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31
Grain and Provisions.

CHICAGO, Jan. 20.
Flour Patents, t495@5 $40; baksrs',
"a. .5vCe4-o0; straight $s.75@i.25; winter.
"a. .35Q15.25.
Whsst--steady, cssh. sst4c; May, 9o@
9lhc; July, SSxc.
Corn--Cash, 40; May, 5lJSc.
Oats--cash. 40; May, $40.
Rye--7O(G7ie.
Bariey-75D SO.
Flax Seed---No. !, Si.l1.
TImothy--Prime,S Si.sa
Whisky --t.4.
Pork-Cash, sassy; new May el0. IS
Lard--Cash, $5.G5; May, sd.lzx.
Short Rlbs--Cash, $i.55(d6S5.
Shoulders - $5.i0(95.i5; abort clear.
Battsr--creamsry ioasoc; dairy, $50
24c.
asts. Y,s01luc; young America, l00l0>2c.
Eggs--Fresh. 2lt9ssc-
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

President Charles X. Adams, OF Cor
nell university, has just returned from
Europe, and says, after a months study
of the Oxford and Camtfidge uniycrsi-
ties, that they are not as we'll adapted
to the needs OF England as our colleges
are to the needs Of America.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31
A correspondent calls attention to Il

fact that Mrs. Harrison has made q
fresh departure in the social code OF the
white house. Last year she decreed
that at state receptions the receiving
party should march down stairs in mat
rimonial couples; each cabinet officer
escorted his own wife instead OF some
other cabinet officers wife. This year
she has decreed that Mt state dinners
she shall be escorted to dinner immedi-
ately after the president and the lady
he takes out, instead OF going out, as
other hostessesd do. after all their guests
Az this rate things will soon be so fixed
that . man will be unable 10 get away
from his vile ~ sll,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

Oniy ono MEMBER nj sns nuinerccA
family Of the Bpnapartss lives ~ Ccr-
sica, tho i,oIne of the great founder OF
tho family. This Is tho Princess Mari
anna, wife OF Lucisn BoEaparta who,
separated frots her husband, lives =
life cf ssclnsier IN tbr yillAge Of Ajac-
ola.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

One of the most parsimonious mobiles
In Europe is the French Prince de Join
Vile, who is also one of the wealthiest.
He frequently sends around the corner
to cookshop for bowl OF soup and a
plato of meal rather than waste coal in
the kitchen range of his gloomy palace
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

1t is said that Daniel Webster was the
first editor of the first college paper
published in this country, the initial
number appearing at Dartmouth in
1900. These journals now number 1910
in the United States, while but one is
issued in England.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

Mrs Thomas A. Hendricks, widow
Of the late Vice President Hendricks,
will read paper before the National
Council of Women to meet in Washing
ton Feb 90.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

We are first indebted to Herodotus
for the discovery of the pigmies, and,
secondly, to Andrew Battel of Leigh.
Then Moffatt and Livingstone intro
duced US to the bushmen of South
Africa. But the earliest knowledge of
the pigmies Of Central Equatorial
Africa was given us by Schweinfurth
and Piaggia, who had travelled to Nam
Man and Monbutta land, which coun-
tries are situated on the northern end
Of the great forest
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

The portrait that is to adorn the So
treasury note which the treasury de-
partmont is about to issue is that Of
General C. Is. Mcpherson, who was
killed at Atlanta shortly before Shoc-
man began his march to the sea.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31
sheetly's Murderer.

LINCOLN, Neb.. Jan. 24.--The c4ro-
ner's jury in the Sheedy murder ase
has brought In q verdict that the tc.
ceased came to his death through be
conspiracy gotten up by his wife. 3
Waldson, her paramour, and McFas
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31
Injury of the Sheriff.

HIGHMoRE, S. d., Jan. EOS. Ii.
Meigs, the sheriff of this county, was
quito badly injured by a vicious horse
which kicked him yesterday evening.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

Mrs, Elizabeth Fogg, who died re.
Gently in New York, left S945, 1000 in
specific bequests, Of which over 5000, 600
yoos to educational and charitable in
stituGons.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

Charles Griffith, OF Athens, Ca, has
curiosity in the shape of a pipe. Tho
bowl of the pipe is fashioned out Of
costly variety of briarwood, while the
stem was taken from the leg Of some
lordly gobbler Of the days of long ago.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

Senator Squire, of Washington, has
an income Of $4,000 month. Ho owns
great deal of real estate in Seattle.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

Mrs. Schliomln, in addition to he'
other accom- plishments, has a talent for
tapestry that would have made her a fit
companion for Penelope.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

Professor Newman, brother Of the
late cardinal, is hale and hearty at 50.
He is egetarian.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

Professor Bidwell Thompson, who
has just returned from Alaska, says that
the volcano Bogosler is throwing uD
islands
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

General Longstreet is still hard at
work on his history of the war and hopes
to have it finished this year.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

The sultan of Turkey has attached to
his body guard a soldier who is one hun
dred and ten years old.
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Cluster Chronicle.
JOSEPH KUBLER, PUBLISHER.

Stepniak is almost failure in draw.
ing power as a lecturer in New York.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31
AIIxNpApoLIs. Jan. Q6

Whsat--No. | hard. Jpauary, voe, on
so}<c, February. SIS; MAJ, 0i9lc; track,
So; No. 3 3northern, January s6ci track
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

Emile Van Marcke, who is said to
have been the most famous cattle
painter Of modern times, died at Iyeres,
on the Mediterranean sea, few days
ago. c. p. Huntington has one Of his
pictures, for which he paid l,5OO, the
highest price ever paid for a Van
Marcke.
didate for United States senator in Kan
sas, served in an Indiana cavalry regi.
ment during the war. He has a pale,
beardless face, with marked and dis
tinctiye features, something like Robe
spierre's. He believes in no God, and
is strongly inclined to socialism.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-05
THE Portage ROAD.

The entire track of the portage road
is laid from end to end, except the
trestle work at the western incline
which is being pushed raridly forward
by the bridge building crew. Laborers
are busily employed ballasting the track
and the whole presents the appearance
of being good, substantial road. In
fact it's substantially is the one feature
that struck MS most. This feature is so
marked that Major Handbuy himself
said that lighter timbers might have
been used in the trestles, but Mr. Farley
told the great man that he was building
a road to last long time as nobody
now living ever expected to see the
locks completed. We may not be an
impartial judge of Mr.. Farley's work
but we left the Cascades with the i'm
preston that the superintendent of con-
struction isG doing everything in his
power to spend the state appropriation
wisely and economically and that he is
succeeding. When asked if the ap-
preparation would hold out and be
sufficient to finish the work he replied
emphatically "I'll make it hold out, If /
have to foot the bills out of my own
pocket" Between forty and fifty men
were at work yesterday out of about six
ty men on the pay roll. Mr.. Farley has
had suit entered for the condemnation
of about three acres of land, on the
Atwell claim, near the eastern terminus.
He and the owners could not agree
about the price. This space will afford
ground for office, round house, wood
shed and other needed buildings. Three
houses which were on the grounds have
been purchased for $3.50 and carpenters
are converting them into suitable form.
About 100 feet of 81 and 2 inch pipe is
being laid from Il spring, which will af-
ford a gravity supply of excellent water
for all needed purposes. Mr.. Farley
could have pumped water from the
Columbia, but true to his old
time preferences, he chose the
gravity system as being cheaper
and better. 1t may be remarked to the
honor of Mr.. Farley that he is neither
afraid nor ashamed to throw off his coat
: and take up blacksmith's hammer
when something is to be done that needs
extra skill. But the sight of the super.
intendent of construction donning &
blacksmith's apron is a great curiosity
to Major Handbury's twelve or fifteer
dudes who are arduously engaged in tn,
laborious duty of drawing salary fol
pretending to act as clerks for about Ion
employees.
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Cooled hx a Filihnster.

A. P. Hulse. late of the custom house.
tells good story of some hhbustering
that came under his notice years ago:
In 1859 Harry Maury. midshipman.
who had resigned from the service OF
the United States government. was in
command of a brig off Mobile bay The
vessel was loaded with filibusters for
Walker and was overhauled by revenue
cutter An officer went aboard in the
night with instructions to seize the YES
sci and bring her to Mobile. Maury
who was equal to the emergency, pre-
pared himself by unshackling the anchor
from the chain and fastening lantern
to pole When the vessel arrived at
Dog River bar it was hailed from the
cutter and ordered to come to.
Then came the order, Let go your
anchorr' Maury let go. PAY out
thirty fathoms of chainr' was the next
order. Maury ran the chain through
the hawser hole and over the rail back
on deck. He was ordered next to hoist
a light. which he did by lighting the
lantern already affixed to the pole and
sticking the latter in the mud. He then,
when all was quiet, put off down the
bay, leaving the cutter watching the
light, which it did until morning.
In the meantime the officer from the
cutter, who was in charge of the filibus-
tering vessel. was down in the cabin
playing cards On arrival at the en-,
trance of the harbor the officer was
tapped on the shoulder and told of where
they were and asked if he wished to &C
ashore A boat was at his service an6
he took it. returning to the cutter il
time to share the chagrin of his mates
San Diego Sun
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E1ectricitx rhat Kills.

DIR. G.. F. Chandler of the Columbia
School of Mines says: "An interesting
Misrepresentation that exists in the minds
of good many persons is concerning
the vital dangers that lurk in the pres
sure of. say, 1000 volts. The newspapers
often tell us that a man has been killed
by such a pressure, whereas, in fact,
such pressure alone couldn't kill q
hu1nming bird. have frequently caught
in my hand sparks possessing an electro
motive force of 100000 volts without
feeling anything more than a very slight
burn.
'.The danger arises only when the
volts are REINFORCED by a good many
amperes or currents, as when one takes
hold of charged wire. Then one feels
a shock that is unmistakable, because
force of a great many currents in the
wire suddenly decompose all the fluids
in the body The salt in the blood at
once turns to chlorine gas, and the man
whose veins are charged with this deadly
poison cannot in reason be expected tc
live long
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SOCIETIES.

A ssEMBLY NO. 1927, X. OF L.-Meets in K.
IA of P. hall on first and third Sundays at
o'clock p. m.
WAsCo LODGE, NO. -15, A F. & A. M.-Meets
w first and third Monday of each month at
M
nALLEs ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER NO. g.
u Meets in Masonic Hall the third Wednesday
nf each month at P. NJ.
MODERN wOODMEN OF THE WORLD
vi Mt. Hood Camp No. SO, Meets Tuesday even
ing of each week in L. o. o. F. Hall, at 7:30 P. NJ
GOLUMBIA LODGE, NO. 5, 1. o. o. F.-Meets
~ every Friday evening at 7:30 O'Clock, in Odd
Fellows hall, Second street, between Federal and
Washington. Sojourning brothers are welcome.
fl. A. BILLS, Secy r. G. CLosTER, N. G.
FRIENDSHIP LODGE, NO. g., K: of Meets
T. every Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock, in
schanno's building, corner of Court and Second
streets. Sojourning members cordially in
vited. GEO t. THOMPSON,
D. w. VAUsE, Sec'y. &C.
WoMEN's CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE
w UNION will meet every Friday afternoon
at o'clock at the reading room. ALI are invited.
TEMPLE LODGE NO. 3, A. o. U. w Meets
l. at K. of p. Hall, Corner Second and Court
Streets, Thursday evenings at 1880.
JOHN FILLooN,
W. s MYERS, Financier. VI. w.
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A Youtbful Yankee,s ingenuity.

A boy we know had some chickens of
which he had made pets. He and his
father went to their work early in the
morning, and while the rest of the fam
lily were away for the summer it became
question how the chickens were to be
fed with proper regularity.
The boy was equal to the occasion. He
took an alarm clock and fastened it Sc
curely to one side of the barn by means
of two spikes. Next he hung a bucket
of corn to rafter and connected it with
the clock by a stout cord.
He wound up the alarm and set it at
o'clock. At that hour the alarm went
off. wound up the string and tipped over
the bucket. And SO the chickens were
fed by clockwork.-Clevela Leader.
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An Oregon Portage,

From Mr.. /. @. Nicholson, who has
just returned from trip to Sherman
county, we learn that the people over
there are dead set on having line of
railroad from Wasco to some point on
the Columbia river. They have resolved
to offer bonus of $25, 900 to any parties,
with whom they can make suitable ar
rangements, for building and equipping
the road. They figure that ten miles of
narrow track road can be built for about
$4,000 mile. They have no doubt they
can raise the $4,000 and have been en-
couraged by receiving subscriptions
amounting to $1,000 the first day the sub
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THE CHURCHES.

ENIRST BAPTIST CHURCH-Rev. o. D. TAY-
LoR, Pastor. Services every Sabbath at IL
4. II. and 7:30 P. Nj. Sabbath School ut II NJ.
Prayer meeting every Thursday evening at 7
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-Rev. w. C.
u CURTIS, Pastor Services every Sunday at IL
\. NJ and P. M. Sunday School after morning
ervice. Strangers cordially invited. Seats free.
NJ e. CHURCH-Rev H BROWN, Pastor
W. Services every Sunday morning and even
ing. Sunday School at 1212 O'Clock M. A cordial
all.
ct. PAUL'S CHURCH-Union Street, opposite
= Fifth. Rev. Eli D. Sutcliffe Rector. Services
very Sunday at IL A. NJ. and 80 P. NJ. Sunday
school 1890 P. NJ. Evening Prayer on Friday at
30
CT. PETERS CHURCH-Rev. Father BRoNs-
> GEEsT Pastor. Low Mass every Sunday at
A. NJ High Mass at 1880 A. M Vespers at
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-05
General Personal Mention.

Rudyard Kipling has begun the use of
the typewriter.
The Oldest banker in the world is a
lady-Deborah Powers, aged 80. senior
partner of D. Powers & Sons, Lausen-
berg.
Mrs. Amelia Rivers Chanler does not
figure in the will of her late uncle,
Francis r. Rives, who left an estate
valued at $3,000,00G.
Empress Frederick is fascinated by
the genius of H. Rider Haggard, and by
way OF returning the compliment he has
dedicated his last book to her.
Gladstone's best portrait is the one
which Sir Everett Millais painted thirty
years ago. 1t is now owned by Sir
Charles Tenant, who bought it of the
Duke of Westminster for $4,000.
Since his return to Italy Signor Sal
vini has turned his attention to play
writing, and one of his productions will
be given in this country next season by
his gifted son, Alexander Salvini.
King Alexander, the youthful ruler of
Servia, arrived in st. Petersburg, on the
Sd inst. on visit to the imperial family.
He was met at the railway station by
the car and several grand dukes, and
accorded all the honors paid to a ruling
sovereign.
Professor Koch has not resigned his
official positions on account of the fail
ure of tuberculine or Kochism, but be-
cause he is upon the point of accepting a
new office, that of the director of the In
stitute of Infectious Diseases, which has
been organized by the German govern
ment.
Miss Phoebe Couzins wishes it under
stood by the free millions of Americans
who have been moved by her woes, that
she is in st. Louis for rest and recrea-
tion; that she has not given up the
fight, and that when she speaks again
the worlds fair management will think
that Kansas cyclone has blown over
from the wide and windy expanses OF
the west.
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scription list was out. Many others be-
sides have promised to subscribe from
800 to $500. They are very anxious to
have railroad connection with this city
by portage on the Oregon side, and
will do everything in their power to
advance the project. All this is very
pleasant news to the people over this
way They cannot be much more
anxious to be connected by rail with
The Dalles than we are to be connected
with them. 1t will be interesting to
state in this connection that party of
Portland capitalists will arrive in this
city on Saturday evening next and leave
early on Sunday morning for a trip over
the newly surveyed road between this
city and the mouth of the Deschutes.
They will go in buggies and wagons,
and it would be well for our Sherman
county friends to meet them some where
on the road, or better still come into
this city Saturday and accom- pany them
on their trip. The prospect for road
on this side was never SO bright as it is
at this moment and we fully believe
one will be built before months will pass
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Intelieotaai Men and ouida.. NoveIs-

Intellectual Afen and Ouida's Novels
Some time ago a busy mai of the
world asked Mr.. Charles A. Dana how
he managed to keep himself mentally
SO fresh and vigorous. Mr.. Dana gave
several explanations. and among Others
he admitted that he had taken to read
ing novels Frequently Mr.. Dana il
seen riding on the elevated reading a
novel or volume of short stories, and
the smile which plays en- his face indi-
Gates how thoroughly he delights in such
pursuit. He is a great admirer of a nov
elist whom Mr.. Howells would esteem
with horror, and that is Ouida, and it is
a curious thing, perhaps that among the
many readers of this popular writer in
this city there are to be numbered 50
many vigorous intellects
Roscoe Conkling anticipated new
novel of Ouidas with as much pleasure
as a Frenchman used to look for new
installment of Alexander Dumas ro-
mances, and he regarded Ouida's Under
Two Flags as one of the best stories
which he had ever read, and even went
SO far as to recommend that grim and
dignifed justice of the supreme court
Samuel Blatchford, to read it if he
wanted a mental tonic. Congressman
Reed is great admirer of Ouida. and
Joe Choate confesses to the pleasure he
has taken in reading the works of this
woman.
Novel reading has become a passion
with many of our professional men. and
saw the other day the dignifed presi
dent of Yale college trotting across the
street to the Grand Central station with
couple of novels under his arm and an
other one in'his hand, with his fingers
inserted between the pages, as though
he had just been reading it and even be
grudged the interruption which tool
him from his hotel to the railway sta
| tion.-E J Edwards in Philadelphia
Press
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PLENTY OF ROOM FOR A STAND
ARD TRACK.

A walk from one end of the Cascades
portage track to the other failed to find
any place where standard gauge road
could not have been laid and operated
without hinderance to anybody or any
thing. Mr.. Farley however, says that
the space where the track passes under
the concrete mixer is rather confined for
a standard gauge track, but that it could
have been easily widened by removing a
couple of posts, that might have in
volved an outlay of 5000. At every
other point on the track there is all the
room needed for any kind of track.
But the great man in whose hands an
inscrutable Providence has placed the
power to say just how wide Il track he
will let us have, confined the road track
to three foot limit and the people of
the greatest nation on earth had to SUBJ
nit. The true reason for Handbury' g
cussedness, we suppose, lies in the fact
that he wanted to be able to run his
donkey engines on the portage track
when desirable.
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John Wilson. better known in litera-
ture as christopher North, was a ro-
bust walker. A forty or eighty miles
tramp was no unusual undertaking fol
him. He often walked at the rate oi
five miles an hour for whole day, and
at the end of those long walks would
write off columns of the brightest things
that adorned the pages of his Edinburgh
Review.
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Proportions of the Human Figure.

The proportions of the human figure
are six times the length of the right foot
The face from the highest point of the
forehead. where the hair begins. to the
end of the chin is one-tenth of the whole
stature. The hand from the wrist to
the end Of the middle finger is also one
tenth of the total height. From the
crown to the nape of the neck is one
twelfth of the stature. Current Litera-
ture.
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STATE OFFICIALS.

The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
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FIGURING MILL TO LEASE.

THE OLD DALLEs MILL AND WATER
i Company's Flour Mill will be leased to re-
sponsible parffes For information apply to the
WATER R.COMMISSIONERS,
The Dalles, Oregon.
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Send Them 10 New OrIeans.

ROME, Aug. 5.-Fifty-five 5. hundred
Italians sailed from Genoa for America.
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SAN FRANcIsco, Ang. 5. Wheat,
buyer 's1, l.62. Season 1888.
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$40 REV ARD.

WILL BE PAID FOR ANY INFORMATION
w leading to the conviction of parties cutting
ropes or in any way interfering with the
win poles or lamps of TIE ELEcrEIc LIGHT
Manager
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Corner Second aud Washington Streets, The
Dalles, Oregon.