Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-14
MEN, WOMEN AND THINGS.

Ohu IN DhokOh a NcihSu h"Ohhy
years At stone cutting
Lillian Russell Is said to be earning
something like 1900 a week.
There arc $500 women in England who
make q living by typese.ting
A newly-introduced white potato has
been named Bill Nye" by its grower.
The poet, Burns, spelled his name
Burmese (his family nnme) until the pub
LEGATION of bis poems in 1856.
Elections In France are always held on
Sunday, in order to suit the convenience
Of workingmen and peasants
Prince Bismarck insists that the races
Of northern Europe need wine or spirits.
He prefers old coguac hims If
Thomas A.. Garfield, the only brother OF
the late President Garfield, resides on q
little farm near Grand Rapids, Mich.
young married woman who has found
marriage q failure remarked the other day
that where ignorance is bliss it's folly to
be wives"
The circulation OF the leading foreign
papers, with the exception of the art and
fashion journals, is steadily decreasing in
this country.
Miss Moody, daughter of the we'll
known evangelist, Is travelling in the ORR
emit. She writes wildly of the scene and
scenery of Egypt
Adelina Patti says that when she has
left off singing she will take to acting.
Anything to keep up the delightful fare
we'll engagement"
The average age at which women marry
is %. 5. Married women live two years
longer han single women, although one
woman in seventy dies in childbirth.
The anarchist Ravachol, just sentenced
in Paris to life imprisonment, Is a man of
very temperate habits. He does not
smoke, and his only beverage is water.
The archbishop of Canterbury will read
no letters on Sunday. For thirty years, it
10 said, his grace has refused to allow any
Sunday delivery to be made at his country
residence.
Mrs. Gladstone has an orphanage at
Hawarden with thirty-fve or forty boys 5
or 6 years old in il, and she gives the lads
her personal attention. Mrs. Gladstone is
q G.. q. w.
The New York Association of Working
Girls clubs has twenty different societies
with a membership of $500. Seven So
cieties rent an entire house, twelve rooms,
and one owns its rooms.
The Salvation Army publishes thirty
one weekly newspapers and five monthly
magazines in thirty-seven different col
onies and countries, with a total annual
circulation Of 45, 900 copies.
The city of Cincinnati has for many
years been a favorite abiding place of the
Jews. At n recent Jewish celebration
there Rabbi Wise aid that Cincinnati
would hereafter be the Zion Of Judaism in
America"
Neal Dow has been making scrap books
for many years, and he has now twenty
three very large and thick volumes. He
proposes to bequeath them to collections
of archives to be placed in the Temper
ance Temple in Chicago.
Miss Lalia Harrison, of L~eesburg, Lou
don county, Virginia, has been selected as
the most beautiful woman In the state to
represent 1t as one of the original thirteen
states at the Columbian Exposition. This
IL fair to the fair.
Nearly 500, 90 pansies will bloom in the
parks and squares of New York within
the next few days. II takes l55 employees
of the park department some time to set
them out, and then 5000 or more English
daisies will be planted.
What do you think of that artist
who painted cobwebs on his ceiling so
truthfully that the hired girl wore herself
into an attack of nervous prostration try
ing to sweep them down. There may
have been such an artist, but never such q
hired girl"
The ladies of the Library association Of
Otsego, Mich, needed s6oJ 10 clear their
building Of a mortgage. To raise that
boots, while others sold popcorn, shoe
strings and tafy on the streetA The
money was forthcoming.
Various French railroads have offered
premiums to induce their employees to
have large families. Beginning with his
year every workman having more than
three children nnder Ii years of age, and
whose salary does not exceed s4o7 n year,
will receive $3.50 year for each such child,
payable quarterly.
At Lapeer, on Tuesday. Walter NJ. Rea-
sou. official stsnoSrapher of the Sixth iu-
dicial circuit. wrote In one minute. from
~dictation, s24 words of unfamiliar matter.
and subsequently, correctly read the same.
The test was made before Herbert w.
Smith and Howard G. Jones. This is at
the rate Of nearly Bk words per second,
and Mr.. Reason claims the championship.