Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-01-30
Custer Chronicle.
JOSEPH KUBLER, PUBLISHER.

VlStEI VututitItt.
JOSEPH KUBLER, PUBLISHER.
IL is a noteworthy circumstance that
all the men elected to the speakership
since the First congress were born in
one or another of only thirteen states
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The natives of Madagascar formerly
followed the moon in determining
time, but since the influx OF missiona-
ries the queen issued an edict hat the
Christian year should be followed.
But in commencing the year the first
year the date Of the first day vas set
some time in October or November.
The coats mentioned in the bible
were square garments Of fine lambs
wool, worn by every lsraelite. There
was a hole in the center for the head
to 90 through, and it hung down be-
fore and behind. It was coat by day,
a covering by night and a shroud in the
grave If seized by a creditor it had TO
be returned at sunset.
bohemian children listen anXiously
on Christmas eve for the chariot and
white horses of the "Christ-child' as
he comes flying through the mir with
his krippe full of presents; but the
Italian children go gravely with their
parents to churches and cathedrals to
see the Bambino, or saint, who pre-
Sents them with their Christmas gifts.
In selecting strong timber weight
has very little consideration. Only a
man with experience can Gull the good
from the bad timber with almost an in
tallible judgment, and probably with
out the ability to tell why he makes
his selection. Color has little to do
with it, weight something, timber
sense more.
The orang crop Of California has be-
come so large that it cannot be mar
keted at paying prices. Thousands Of
acres Of the land of California are now
bearing young lemon trees The olive
and hg crops of the state are now
profitable. Experiments in the raising
of Ceylon tea in southern California
will soon be tried
Tho ,nAaxp~ol,afn ~ Con hridna
England, have taken to drinking tea
after dinner instead of wine. But,
though novel at Cambridge, this prac-
tice has been in vogue at Oxford for
seventy years, the innovation having
been brought about by Newman and
Froude, even then famous, who in
duced most Of the other fellows Of
Oriel TO give up wine in the common
room after dinner and substitute tea.
II is compute d by leading physiolo-
gists that, since one-third Of Il second
sufices TO produce an impression upon
the brain, a mar OF 100 years of age
must have collected on or in his brain
matter 9,467, $50, 900 impressions. Or,
again. take off one.third of the time
for sleep, and we still find 6,3ll, SEQ
900. This would give 3,l55, 760, 900
separate walking impressions on the
man who lives TO the age of fifty years.
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Thomas Townsend, of Seaville, n.
j., who "a once a prominent sea cap
tain and who has experienced much
with oil in quelling the force Of high
waves, has hit upon the plan of laying
pipes along exposed portions of sea
shore resorts and in times Of storm fill
ing these pipes with oil. which will,
distribute it far enough out on the
ocean to prevent the waves from as
suming any great proportions.
The coal industry furnishes employ
ment to 300, 900 persons, TO whom
$40, 900, 900 is paid in wages, and the
capital invested is estimated at $3.50,
OOo, 600. The output of different states
is as follows: Pennsylvania, nearly
SO, 900, 600 tons; Illinois, 10, 900, 900;
Ohio, 10, 900, 900; West Virginia, 1000
900; Iowa, 4, 800, 900; Alabama, 1000, =
900; Maryland, Indiana, Kentucky and
Missouri, 1900, 900; Tennessee, 2,Ooo,.
900.
Algol, the variable star in Pereus,
has long been a mystery. It's light re.
mains constant for two and q halt
days 1t then begins to fade, and in
less than four hours dimlnishes 10 nm
insignificant star, remaining thus for
about twenty minutes, when it regains
its former brilliancy. 1t has long been
suspected that a dark body ~revolved
about Algol, and which, coming be-
tween us and hat star. intercepted
more or less CT its light.
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Thomas d. Bullinger, Of Govanstown,
is the owner Of an antique work OF
mechanism 1t is the result of years
OF labor of an old clockmaker Of Nurn-