Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-04-02

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""'AiNDiS OhIJ ooO HeHlDcTs, anu THIS Is
a gain of nine during the year.
Ancient monuments show that the
cultivation of wheat had been estab-
lished in Egypt before the invasion OF
the shepherds.
The jewcler has drills so small that
they can bore a hole only one
thousandth Of an inch in diameter
through a precious stone.
1t is a common sight among the Es-
quimaux, according to "a travellers
story, TO see a nursing infant with
a guild Of tobacco in its mouth.
In the last seven and twenty years
the number of students attending
Scotch universities has more thaD
doubled; for in 1899 it was 1000 odd.
Venezuela has fifty-six holiday.
every year. On these occasions the
people close their stores. and enjoy
themselves in chicken fights and other
tropical amusements.
The giraffe is now threatened with
permanent extinction. Ten years AFRO
nerds Of seventy and eighty could be
found where thirteen would be an ex.
~ceptionally large herd.
The mother of a Kansas CITY. Mo.
pay IS sixteen years old. its grand
mother thirty-three, and its great
grandmother is but iifty-two years old.
All reside in the same house.
The low volcanic island which rose
50 suddenly out of the sea near Paler.
mo, and from which fiTe was emitted.
has entirely disappeared, even the water
that covers it having ceased to boil.
The largest gas meter in the world
belongs to the South Metropolitan Gas
Company, of Salisbury, England. 1t
is about 256 feet in diameter and is
capable of holding 8,000,0O0 cubic feet
of gas.
When a Missouri cabbage was cut
open it was found that the outer coat
ing contained twenty-eight perfectly
developed little heads in a cluster,
about the size of a walnut and nearly
az hard.
AT a communion service in a Han
well pauper school q little girl who had
charge of the chalice dropped it, and
some of the wine was spilled on her
pinafore. The chaplain ordered the
~pinafore TO be burned.
A fine deposit Of asbestos has been
discovered in Jackson County, Oregon.
1t is pronounced by eastern experts to
be of the very best quality. The ma
chinery for cleaning, baling and ship
ping will soon be put in.
The new emigrants to Palestine are
worthy Germans and Jews. The
former contine themselves To cultivat-
ing the soil: the latter get the fei.a-
heen TO do their farm work and take
life easy under the shade trees.
A healthy girl Of seventeen who de-
votes herself to hospital work will die
twenty-four and one-half years sooner
than a girl Of the same age in the gen
cral population. This is supposed to
De due to her liability to tuberculosis.
The following advertisement appears
in several leading papers Of Georgia;
Wanted-A young lady for clerk Of the
County Court Of Ebert County; it will
De necessary for her To marry the
county Judge. Address County Judge,
Elberton, Ga
There is grim humor in one clause
in the will of the late Solomon Abra-
hams, of Boston. After making a num-
Der of charitable requests the t~estator
remarks: Il remember all my cous-
ms. aunts, uncles and grandiathers,
but | give them nothing"
Florida is probably the best timber.
ed state in the union. Out Of about
5000 acres only some 5000. 00U
are included in farms, the rest, nine
teen-twentieths, exclusive Of the area
covered by lakes and rivers, being
covered with heavy forests.
IL would seem that the ladies of the
harem possess a wonderful capacity
for disposing of sweet things France
acne last year exported TO Turkey
and Egypt for the harems l,000.0 900
france (f6i,000) worth of fondants,
pralines and .narrona glaces.
which succeeds better. the city or
the country ooy?" is said to be a
fayori,e question for discussion in
country c-bating societies. The gem
eral trend of opinion seems to be that
the coun = boy succeeds better, but
only aft'r he becomes a city boy.
4 North Caro,.nian of a timid nature
tried 10 r.n away from his wife, whose
sharp tongue kept the poor fellow, as
he t pressed it, ~on tenter hooks" but
he lost his way in the woods, got badly
frightened, and ret armed rs soon as he
could get his bearings to captivity.
A Califorr-a prune grower has re-
fused an offc; e'om Il Bordeaux firm
for his prune crop in sacks. They
would of course be repaeked and ship
ped as French prunes. But the Cali
f0rnian means to improve his style OF
packing and make the profit himself.
One of the missionaries OF the Sea-
mems Mission in England has during
tie wear visited 5000 vessels and read
the Scriptures in English. Danish and
Norwegian. He has distributed 2,901
New Testaments and 7G0 gospels to
English and foreign seamen and emil
grants.
The timber cGti 4 year in FLORIDA
averages a little short IF 200,000.cG
feet, which is over 3 per cent CO the
whole amount OF mercantile timber
sanding in her forests. At Ills rate
in cbout thirty Gears Florida would be
cleared of her timber Ii there was no
natural increase.
Recently a girl in n of the public
schools of s neighboring city was ask
ell by her teacher to explain tho i.ffer-
ence between the words balance and
remainder. Her answer was: you
can say a man lost his balance end
fell but YOU cannot cay y mar .ost
his remainder and ELL
The conductors Of all the street cars,
omnibnses AID other vehicles for public
accommodation i'm Warsaw, Russia, in
that part Of the city between Novaya
Praga and the suburb OF Brudn,, are
women. and are said tc fulfill their
duties moro accui ately and 10 the bet
ter satisfaction of the public than men.
Outside passengers by one of the
London road car services were recent
ly astonished to find fixed TO their
seats a funnei containing an uinureira
which might be used without extra
charge on wet days. The only con.