Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-01-02

dFa", WHEN thS party VI lHS SSCOH'
part objected, and breach of promise
suit followed
1t is only a few years ago that +. T
Dubois, now a senator from Idaho
with salary of $4,000 year, wa:
trying hard to get 81 200 clerkship il
Washington.
Esop's fables were not written by
their author. They were related and
handed down until the fourteenth
century, when they were collected and
published by monk.
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In En- 'pe red hair is associated with
deceitfutness A German provert
printed in l51? says: The short in
stature are naturally proud; the red
haired are untrustworthy."
A cribo snake is one OF the interest
Ing pets at the Central Park, New
York, menagerie. 1t has a taste fol
devouring other snakes and it is feared
by them all, even the poisonous.
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The custom of saying "God blcs,
you" when person sneezes dates
from the time of Jacob, who ordered
that when a person sneezed some one
should make pious exclamation.
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Five great English war ships are
now declared to have guns which are
unfit for service These range from
10 tons to 81 tons. The French 75-tor
guns, however, are said to be satisfac
tory.
On the old Boston and New Haver
turnpike, in the southern part of New
London county, Conn, is an old mile
atone, notched and moss-grown, that
was set there by Benjamin Franklin.
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The "cow-catcher' of the locomotive
which, by the way, has never been
patented, is the invention of d. B,
Davies, Of Columbus, Ohio.
When Rev. VI. j. Savage. the Boston
Unitarian, preached in Washington
last Sunday it was necessary TO bring
In temporary seats to accommodate
the congregation, SO great was the
rush.
The street car conductors of Berlin
receive 62I4 cents for days wages OF
sighteen hours, with a half day holi-
day once in every two weeks Moth
ing but the most absolute economy en-
ables them to live.
Brass rings, sometimes weighing
thirty pounds, are welded around the
necks of the wives of Upper Congo ma
lives The women are proud of the
ornament, believing that it enhances
their Importance and beauty.
The seat of the coronation chair of
England is made of sandstone slab
which was brought from Scone by Ed
ward |. and is said to be the stone
upon which Jacob rested his head
when he saw his famous vision.
In Washington, recently, among
specimens of vegetable products eX-
hibited were potatoes weighing from
to 64 pounds, turnips weighing %
pounds, and u beet weighing2l pounds,
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The archives of the Borghese family,
comprising 475 manuscripts, have been
bought by the pope for $50, 600 francs
They relate to the popcs at Avigron
and TO Paul V, who was n Borgbcse
The minister of public instruction
meanwhile has warned the impover-
tshed head Of the house that he cannot
legally send away any work of art in
his collection.
An association for the importation OF
song birds mas been formed in Oregon,
and u consignment of linnets, skylarks,
thrushes and bullfinches has recently
been received from Europe. There S
every prospect that the experiment
will be successful, as the climate and
forests of the northwest are pee lliarly
adapted to the needs of these del & L.
tul songsters of the woods.
The latest and rarest arrival at the
geological gardens in Regents park
London, is what is considered the only
living specimen of the hairy-eared rhi-
uoceros. There are six species of this
animal now eXtant, and Mr.. Bartlett
the son of the well-known superintend.
ent of the gardens, believes that he has
discovered seventh in the island Of
Borneo, in region comparatively un'
known to biologists.
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The ingenious novelist could not in
vent queerer hiding place for will
than one reported from real life by the
Maine Farmer. The will was tackeC
up On the partition of Il woodshed. q
piece of brown paper tackled over it,
and there it remained for years, no one
but the author surmising it's identity
After the testator died, in clearing out
the shed the brown paper was removed
and the precious document found
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The whisky made by moonshiners
seldom becomes week old and very
often it is drank warm from the still,
having the effect of broken glass on
the palate. 1t is frequently aduIter
ated, tobacco being added to make il
bite and rattleweed TO make it bead.
In the moonshinc districts almost
everybody drinls-men and women,
old and young-and the mountain boy
OF pleasure bent carries quart bottle
of the stuff, package Of snuff and g
six-shooter.
Mr.. Barrie, of Boutwell,, sporting
gentleman of we'll known standing ir
Scotland, tells curious story of an in
telligent duck at Rothsay Castle, which
carried its entire family of goslings
piQ-a- back from the castIe noat IN !,