Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-10-22
Onster OhronitIe.
JOSEPH KUBLER, PUBLISHER

JOSEPH KUBLER, PUBLISHER
The silky little King Charles spaniel
is an expensive luxury, because pup
pies a month old easily fetch SGT
apiece, and, when half grown, 500
Lutctia, " the ancient name of Paris
means in effect midtown" the city
when the Romans found 1t, being
chiefly composed of mdd-built houses
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More than u fourth of tho gold and
more than n third Of the silver pro
luced throughout the world in the
year 1891. was mined in the United
States.
A Kennebunk lady has made pets oil
eve field crickets Each has Il name
and seems to know it when spoken,
They are peculiarly sensitive TO music,
always chirping while any musical in
strument is in use.
A traveller who was doing Naples
had his attention called to a placard
posted on the door Of n little shop in
the Via Toledo and informing the pub.
tic that the title Of duke is offered
for sale; inquire within"
Earrings are no longer fashionable
and tho best dressed women appear
now at the opera and ball without
even tho solitaire pearl or turquoise
screw which was the gradual abandon.
ing of the ornamental earbobs.
The sea water originally put in the
great aquariums at the crystal palace,
Sydenham, in 1854 is still used there,
having been used over and over since
that time, a record without parallel in
Tho history Of similar institutions.
The most powerful electric light in
the world is at IIantsholm, on the
coast Of Jutland. in Denmark, where,
from the lighthouse situated at that
place there is flashed nightly an cleo.
trio light of 20, 900, O0O-caudle power.
r The announcement of n forthcoming
wedding contains tho request that the
old custom Of throwing rice and flow
ers should be dispensed with. Throw
ing a slipper after the bride is an old
Saxon custom, but throwing rice is or
iental and in England dates only from
the time Of the Indian Nabobs.
Insects generally breathe through
special pores in various parts Of their
bodies and II these pores are closed by
oil they are suffocated. Anyone may
test this by dropping sweet oil on the
thoraX of a wasp; it very soon dies
For this reason oil has been found one
of the best things to use for the de.
struction of insects.
The only college in Scotland for the
university education of women is
Queen Margaret college, founded in
1888. The buildings are the gift of
Mrs. Elder uThese and the endow.
men will be reserved for the exclu-
sive education of women, but the col.
lege will be Incorporated with Glas
gov university as It's department for
women.
A Florida lady was spending tho
summer in Maine and one day hap.
pened to be with her children and
nurse in Portland. A policeman was
very polite to the lady and assisted
her and her children in getting across
a muddy street to a car. A few days
ago the policeman received from the
lady's husband a letter Of thanks and
Il check for $3.50,
NJ Adam Paulson, OF the Royal Dan.
lsh academy, has been conducting a
series of experiments to measure tho
heights of the aurora borealis. At
Godthaab the approximate height was
from one to four miles, at Cape Fare
well from one to ten miles, at Spleen
burg from one-third of a mile to eigh-
teen miles, The measurements were
made with theodolites.
Strawberries are fruit, so are toma-
toes melons and crcumbers. One sug.
gested distinction between u vege-
table and a fruit is that the latter may
be eaten raw, while the former must
be cooked, but that doesn't hold
always. Technically, a fruit iucloses
the seeds of the plant and is matured
o~verground; plant growth matured
underground is a vegetable.
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A man in the N~ishnabotna valley,
Iowa, has made a record of n corn
crop, grown and ripened in eighty
days from the time the seed was put
Into the ground. The yield of corn
will be seventy five to 100 bushels per
acre. The ground upon which the
corn now stands was covered with
water until June 10 From n part of
it the water did not recede until
June Is.
General Booth, Of the Salvation army,
has IL, 900 officers under his command,
with eighty-six training g~arrisons,
twenty-five homes Of rest, and 2Oj So
cial agencies ut work They occupy
thirty-eight countries and colonies,
and preach salvation in twenty-four
languages The annual circulation
Of their newspapers and magazines is
~, 900, 900 copies, or nearly 1000, 900
q week.
Mr.. Livermore, n negro of Goshen
Pass, Va, recently ate at a single meal
two large loaves OF bread, fifteen bis
cults, regulation size, two pounds OF
bacon, a fried chicken, whole, with
bread dressing and the gravy thereto,
two enormous glasses of b%uttermilk, n
cup OF coffee. a glass Of sweet milk,
four good sized potatoes and a dish OF
cabbage. with u pan of corr bread in
addition. This is his ordinary ration
with breakfast and supper besides.
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