Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-08-13
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Artificial teeth for horses is one Of
the latest inventions.
1t is found that oil can be produced
from grape seeds, promising q per-
: mancnt industry.
But one person in 10000 attains the
age OF 100 years, according to insur-
ance statistics.
Horses are so plentiful in Queens
I4nd that a well-broken animal can be
<purchased for So.
<The Thomson-H Houston Electric COM
pApy is said TO control l,030 patents on
its Nlectrical apparatus.
TIN public park in San Francisco re-
centlS rece{yed n %cocoanut tree, weigh
ing | xYots, from Honolulu.
Tbe JSsephine caves in Oregon have
been explN5ed for about ten miles, and
they seem 20 extend far into Califor-
MIA.
Victor H~ug3sthinks "there Is no de-
: finite resting place for the mind; the
starting point never leads to a conclu-
sion"
There are ninety licensed public
gambling houses in Caracas, the capital
of Venezuela, all doing a prosperous
business.
In Paris the common public schools
are provided with medicine cases, and
instructions arc given for using the
remedies.
A law is to be passed in Costa Rica
making the sale Of Indian antiquities
TO foreigners Il crime punishable with
severe penalties.
Two hundred and forty-eight cities
and towns OF Massachusetts have free
libraries. and the state lately provided
aid for the rest.
There are 1000, 900 postal cards used
In this country every day. And women,
as n rule, dislike a postal card as much
as they do q sore thumb.
There are more bee hiyesi in the United
States, where there are $500, 00J, than
in any other country. Greece, famous
for its love of honey, has only $4,000
hives.
The queen regent of Spain has COM
muted the death sentences of nine
criminals out of the seventeen that
are awaiting execution in Spanish
prisons.
A Paris policeman begins service
with II cents n day, and after twelve
years he gets 50 cents a day. The
police have asked for 81 a day as the
minimum.
The Central London railway in Eng
land, is to run three workmen's trains
daily. the fare being only 2 cents for
six miles, the cheapest railway fare IN
the world.
A F~renchman, NJ. Brandelay, has
succeeded in making pearls by simply
boring holes in pearl oysters, dropping
in minute glass beads, and then her
metically sealing the holes.
In tearing down a house the Other
/. day in Williamsport, Pa, built twenty
five years ago q perfectly formed ant
mummiiied kitten was discovered be
tween the plastering and the laths o
the wall.
Bill Poole, the famous prize fighter
lived for davs with n bullet in hi
heart, before he died giving expression
TO the famous words: Wrap M up il
the American flag and I'll die a tru,
American"
A Gardiner. Me, clergyman allow
his parishioners to pick out the text
for his But unless he eNer
cises a veto power in some cases th
practice might give rise TO awkward
complications.
1t is claimed that the boundary I'm
between Idaho and Washington /
thirty miles out of the way, and 4 re
survey would probably place Spokan
in Idaho, increasing the population G
that state 5000.
A lifopoat Of aluminium has recen,
ly been built at Stralsund. 1t will b
matter of considerable interest to sc
how this boat will answer, whei
thoroughly tested, for it seems NOR
than likely that its obvious good point
will be countcrbalanccd by various dis
advantages.
The late General Barnum received
shot through the body during the war
which wound never healed. 1t IL
manned an open aperture. lie places
prepared cotton in a silk handkerchie
and wore it about his body. So h
lived for years, dying a few weeks az
In New York.
ENtTlOHt MAY Hpb khbN tHhb w
Bank of England notes are made iron
new white linen cuttings-neyer fror
anything that has been worn. So care
fully is the paper prcp9~ed that eve
the number of dips int he pulp mad
by each workman is registered on a dii
by machinery.
A new feat in mind reading was re
Gently performed by A. w. Scott,
Tompkinsville, Ky. He was BLIND
folded and put to work at a compositor
case to set type, which he did with &C
curacy and CELEBRITY, though utterl
ignorant of the location of the boxe
containing the various letters.
A man in Liberty, Me-, who is fiy
feet and seven inches in height, has
beard six feet and three inches j
length that is tied up in a kind Of cue
Nobody notices its length except wher
to startle strangers, he shakes out tn
reefs and lets his great beard trail upo
the ground. The beard began to gro
twelve years ago.