Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-08-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The mirss of the world produces
twenty-five ton of gold every week.
Out of 240, 900 domestic servants in
London, 10000 are always out of en-
ployment.
II Is estimated that two-thirds Of the
public money held by the London
banks does not draw interest.
The increase OF population in France
during the las; five years amounted TO
only one-half of / per cent.
One Of the London theaters admits
free TO the performance all soldiers
and sailors who come in uniform.
In Scotland the s~emi-annual fair for
hiring farm ~seryants and fixing rates
of wages is still an institution.
Jacob Seltz. Jr., of Montyille, Pa
carved an excellent likeness Of each
member of his family upon a cane.
1t is estimated that there are less
than 10000 paupers in the Japanese
empire, with its population OF 3d.
900, 600.
A letter came to the Topeka, Kan,
postoilice the other day addressed To
aGeorge w. Eightquarts." 1t was de-
liyered TO George w. Peck.
"Good-by" IS a contraction of "God
be with you" The Frence adieu means
"to God"-an abbreyiation of II com
mend you to God" or some equivalent
phrase.
The latest thing in night clocks has
an incandescent lamp over itand a
yard or so of silk-wrapped wire which
runs 10 the bed Of the person who
wishes t o know what time it is in the
dark.
In the new British pharmacopPia
the metric weights and measures will
be adopted, 10 the entire exclusion OF
the English weights and measures
hitherto used there and in the United
States.
In Kansas there is an energetic SUI
perintendent Of schools, who. when he
visits the different districts. takes with
him a box of tools, saw, hammer, etc,
and mends all the broken seats, dam
aged desks, and what not.
An exhibition called the Magic
Maze of Mirrors" has sprung up in
London. As the visitor enters the
door he sees a crowd reckoning him
from a hundred different angles-an
effect produced By one stuffed image.
The daughter OF Professor Huxley,
who is the wife of q civil engineer. is
now living in the City of Mexico, and
finds, among other English residents
OF that place, Rider Haggard aud two
great-grandsons OF the famous Lord
Chesterfield.
A writer in a recent magazine arti-
Gle declares that the day is not far dis
tant when the entire labor, from the
preparing and tilling the ground to
the transportation of the crops 10 the
railway station, will be performed by
electric motors.
A gentle Of Concord, Mass, the
heart of the pie-eating district Of New
England, boldly asserts that pie of va
rious kinds is a brain ~stimulator, and
he cites Emerson, Gladstone, Carlyle,
Moliere and others as giants who
thrived on pie.
The last occasion previous 10 this
year on which the house of commons
sat on Derby day was in 1882. The
house was then discussing the preven-
ton of crimes bill. For six and thirty
years before that the house had regu-
larly adjourned on Derby day.
II most famous NINE IN Alaska Is
the Treadwell, bought by Mr.. Tread
well for $500. Messrs. Fry, Freedom
and Hill, Of san Francisco, with sem
ator Jones, Of Nevada. became equal
partners. Eight hundred thousand
dollars have been spent in improving
tko mine. which has already yielded
IS, l09, l64 in gold bars.
Electricity is now used in a French
gun factory for tempering gun springs.
The springs consist of steel wire,
wound spirally, and when they have
been brought TO a high temperature
by the passage OF the current. the cir
cult is broken and they are dropped
into a trough Of water. 1t is stated
that by this method a workman can
temper 2,4)0 springs a day.