Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-09-24
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In India the native barber win shaw,
you when asleep without waking you
so light is his touch.
The Germans prepare an excellen.
substitute for tea from the leaves o
the common strawberry plant.
Bar soap when first bought should
be cut in square pieces and put in .
dry place. 1t lasts better after shrink.
ing.
The best thing to polish eye-glasse.
and spectacles with is a bit of news
paper. Moisten the glasses and rut
dry.
Salt and vinegar, applied hot. are
good for cleaning brass, which should
afterward be polished with fine ashes.
Headache almost always yields &c
the simultaneous application of hot
water 10 the feet and the back Of the
head.
In Japan, it is said. there are apple
trees growing four inches in height
which bear fruit freely about the size
OF currants.
1t is estimated that over 100, 000, 00o
OF people now speak the English
language, over 60,00O,0 900 German and
over Al, 900, 900 French.
The earth, at the equator, moves al
the rate of n mile in SO seconds. four
tenths of a second slower than the
velocity of a cannon ball.
There are $50 Sunday-schools in New
York, the episcopalians leading with
eighty : five and the Presbyterians
second with seveRty-two.
For simple hoarseness take a fresh
egg, beat it aud thicken with pulverized
sugar. Eat freely Of il and the hoarse
ness viii soon be relieved.
In the old testament, although great
numbers of women are mentioned.
there is but onc-Sarah. Abraham:
wife-whose age is recorded.
The legislative assembly OF Styria, in
Austria, has passed n law forbiddina
poor people to marry without a special
license from the authorities.
Citizens of Perry. Ga, are wondering
at a young chicken owned By one Of
them which has four legs, two of which
are where the tail feathers ought to
be.
A Judge in a Massachusetts divorce
court has laid down the law that when
a woman obtains a divorce she shall
not be permitted to resume her maiden
name.
A French chemist is reported 10
have discovered n process BY which
cotton seed oil can be so refined as 10
make il n of the best l~ubricating oils
known.
There are in Russia 3l2 match manu-.
factories. with an aggregate production
of 1S9, 1Oi,0J1 matches. OF these works
a per cent manufacture phosphorus
matches.
The teachers and school superin-
tendents of the United States receive
$50, 900, 900 annually. This amount
increases $4,000 each year, or 8 IL
per cent.
IL the hunter will lie down in the
grass and wave red handkerchief a
band of antelopes will keep circling
around until within reasonable dist.
ance for a safe shot.
The salvation army believes in the
use of printers ink. 1t publishes sixty
one weekly newspapers and five month
~ magazines with a total annual circu-
lation of 4~5,0)0.D0o copies.
Copenhagen has under consideration
a plan for a circular street railway to
girdle the city and connect with all the
other lines. The system viii be double
tracked the entire length.
Tbs odd sight Of . kittep tadpptaa. lax
ly as though the kitten was tho monk
ey's offspring can be witnessed in q
Pacific street saloon, San Francisco.
Watch crystals are made by blowing
q sphere OF glass about one yard in
diameter. after which the disks arc
cut from it by means of u pair Of COM
passes having n diamond at the eX-
tremity of n leg.
y In Mashona, when twin babies are
born, both are drowned. This is one OF
those savage customs which discour-
ages the native CELSIUS taker and makes
him a strong advocate of conversion to
christian privilege.
II is not generally known that Great
Britain, in spite of the progress of cul-
tivation. still possesses more species of
wild fowl than any other European
country, however favored by nature as
regards breeding places.
The earth's surface only exceeds the
moons by about Is l-2 times. The
moons surface is fully as large as
A fri.o aAl A,ayro1.a ...-thar aud
nearly as large as North and South
America without the islands.
a young woman In Blame, Me-,
whose father died in Andersonville
prison, draws a government pension on
that account, and she needs it. She is
only % years old, but her chest measure
is IS inches, waist 6l inches and she
weighs 4l5 pounds. She is unable TO
stand longer than a minute or two.
A p~raiseworthy arrangement has
been arrived at between all the French
railway companies. In future every
employee, of no matter what line, will
be entitled TO a return free pass once
q year to any station in France and
his family living with him to passes at
one-quartcr the usual passenger rates.
I'm Russian industrial establishments
the difference in the working honrs is
something extraordinary varying from
six to twenty. IL is remarkable that
these great Emergencies occur in the
same branches of industry within the
same inspectors district. and among
establishments whose produce realizes
the same market price.
A man in Liberty, Maine, who is
FIVE feet and seven inches in height, has
a beard six feet and three inches in
length that is tied up in a kind of cue.
Nobody notices its length except when,
10 startle strangers, he shakes out the
reefs and let's his great beard trail upon
the ground. The bears began to grow
twelve years ago.