Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-25

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JOSEPH KUBLER, : PUBLISHER
A philadelphia hat dealer says his
least profit 10 in selling silk hats.
Emigration from European Russia &c
Siberia IS on the increase and reached
100, 900 in 1892.
The earthen lamp used by Epictetus'
the philosopher, was sold for 3,ooo
drachmas soon after the death of that
worthy in the year 16l A. ID.
A traveller in India attributes the i'm
nunity from fever and sunstroke dur
ing five years to having the Innings OF
his hats and caps made Of yellow mate
rial.
So rapid is the production of ship riv.
sts that one train of rolls feeds four
machines which turn ont sixteen tons
Of rivets in three shifts of eight hours
zach.
1t is stated that the Russian govern
nent has conceded a French company
he right to establish telephone com
munication between all the large Rus
ian towns.
A new system by which smokeless
combustion of coal IS rendered possible
has been adopted by the North Ger
man LLOYD and the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Packet companies.
Not less than 1900 people were
:rampled TO death in the crowds which
gathered at the fete given in celebra-
lion of the marriage of Louis WI. of
France, June 81, 1770.
A shark in Florida waters recently
undertook to swallow n 400-pound tur-
lie, tail first, but after getting his
prey down as far as the forward flip
oers, was obliged to disgorge.
The Camperdown, the vessel which
tammed the Victoria, is again cruising
n the Mediterranean in company with
The ships Of the British squadron. Rear
Admiral Markham is in command.
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There are at least six plate glass
manufacturing companies in the United
states who have an annual product OF
aearly l2, 900, 900 feet. This exceeds
the entire production of Europe fifteen
years ago.
To transact the business Of the rail!
ways there were required last year the
services Of 80, 1876 locomotives, of which
s,s4s were employed in passenger ser
vice. II, $50 in freight service and 6,72s
in yard and other service.
Lloyd's report is of special interest to
Americans this year, as it shows that
there is no nation which has made sc
rapid an increase in the tonnage Of
steamers registered during the past
twelve months as the United States.
A Hindoo baby is named when it Ia
IL days old and usually by the mother.
other name than that selected by the
mother. In hal case two lamps are
placed over the two names, and the
name over which the lamp burns the
brightest is the one given the child.
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Thu n N n - a N - NNAfn pf tho
accession by the emperors of Austria as
kings of Hungary is the identical one
made for Stephen and used at his coro-
nation over eight hundred years ago.
The whole is pure gold except the set
tings and weighs 9 marks 6 ounces, oil
most exactly IA pounds.
The report comes again from Florida
that the alligator is threatened will
speedy determination. II is estimated
that over $500, 900 of othem have beer
killed in the last dozen years or so
The alligator grows slowly, but IL
grows as long rs he lives, and it is sale
that a twelve-footer is at least Is years
Did. If let alone their average life i
longer than mans.
The proprietor of a cigar shop ii
Philadelphia died of black diphtheria
few days ago, and that the danger o
contagion might be avoided, his body
in its coffin. was placed in the shoy
window of his store during the funera
services, that his friends might pass b.
on the outside. All the neighbor
locked to see the somewhat uncann,
spectacle.
Some very industrious students G
microscopy, as applied to medical prof.
lens. have been offering pretty stron
evidence that parasites are the origi
of malignant and cancerous tumor'
20 the Pathological Society of Londo
appointed a committee to investigat
the evidence, which committee unan
mously reports that, notwithstanding
the labor expended, the point is nc
proved-the parasites are not demon
strated.
Compare the luxurious habits of tn
present legislators with those know
to have been in vogue not over a Gel
fury ago among one of the most aristC
cratic bodies in America. 1t has nc
yet been 100 years since the Pennsylvu
MIA legislative assembly passed thi
law: ''That in the future no member G
the house shall come barefoot or ca
his bread and cheese on the steps"
A canal boat now on duty on tn
the Erie canal is named the Good News
1t is covered with gospel texts. Sc
vices are held three times a day in II
cabin as it Journeys from n town
the next on its missionary trips.
fish pole with tracts tied on the end
used to reach passing boats, and lit
floats, with cardboard sails cover
with texts are sent away to do VIII;
good they may. The Information
Evangelistic association has control
this floating mission house.
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Diapers and others showing windo
goods liable to lose color by fading al
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