Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-11
Tnster Chronicle.
JOSEPH KUBLER. : PUBLISHER
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The little toe is said to be disappear-
Ing from the human foot.
a SPIDERS eyes are not in his head
put IN The upper part of the thorax.
A long, strong thumb always indi-
Gates great will power and force of
character.
In 1926 the United States had three
inhabitants to the square mile of area:
In 1890 there We're twenty.
The total amount of bog land in w.
land is 2,S30,00J acres. The average
depth OF an Irish bog is twenty-six
feet.
Roman colonial coins bore a Der
OF corresponding to the num-
Der OF the legion whose veterans had
occupied the country.
In 1883 Henry VII. built the ROYAL
Harry, considered to be the beginning
OF the modern English navy. This
vessel was Of 1900 tons.
The Indians of the Ohio valley made
coins OF anthracite coal. These tokens
were always engraved with figures
supposed to indicate the value.
No representation of the face of a
man was ever stamped on a coin until
sttsfthe death Of Alexander the Great.
WHO vas regarded as a divinity.
Roland's Breach, the natural mount
ain pass leading from France into
Spain through the Pyrenees, is 200 feet
broad, 800 feet high and 90 feet long.
The first European coinage was is
sued by Pheidon, King of Argos, who
a.snn1 Ax.N4 ..l ..1,a, ~ 49,.
authorities place his reign at b. G. 7S3.
The piece of money taken by Peter
from the mouth of the fish in order to
pay the government poll tax was an
imperial slater Of silver worth about
% cents.
The shell coins used by the Indians
were manufactured in such enormous
quantities by the Dutch at New York
that the value of the currency was
greatly deprecated.
Germany has 5000, 900 depositors in
savings banks; France, 4,450, 600; Great
Britain, $3.50, 900; Italy, 1870, 0OO;
Austria, 1850, 900; Switzerland, 1.600,-,
900; Sweden and Norway, 1870 900.
an frog cannot breathe with its mouth
open. Its breathing apparatus is so
arranged that when its mouth is open
its nostrils are closed. To s~uffocate a
frog it is necessary only to prop its
jaws so that they cannot shut.
In Hillsborough COUNTY n. H., there
is a solid rock with n channel 20 feet
deep and 80 feet wide cut through its
side. A flight of rude natural steps
leads to the top, where there is d nat
ural pulpit and pool for baptism.
In Holland a woman is n secondary
consideration--and a poor considera-
ton at that. No Dutch gentleman
when walking on the sidewalk will
move out of his way for a lady. The
latter Turns out invariably, however
muddy or dangerous the street.
A new material is proposed as a sub
stitute for leather: 1t is called "ilexus
libra" and is derived from flax, suita-
bly prepared and oiled. 1t has the
! same appearance as leather, is p%artic-
ularly supple and takes a polish equal
ly we'll with the best kinds of calf.
Among solids, glass is apparently
perfectly elastic. A plate of glass
asa. under pressure and allowed to
remain under stress for twenty-five
years, when released and carefully
Atested for any permanent set was
found to have returned to exactly its
Ac~iginal shape.
NaN 1916 the first presumption right
Set( on public lands was passed
kess, not, however, without
,5bsiticn. This act allowed
bn the public domain the right
base 320 acres. This was the
kof a long series of similar enact.
The Inhabitants of this earth have
never seen but one side of the moon.
Tho explanation is this: The moon
makes one revolution on her axis in
the same period of time that she takes
up in revolving once around the earth,
thus the same geographical region of
the lunar surface is always toward us.
The shoTtest line that can be drawn
upof ."',''s surface one end being
In the the Mississippi liver
noon. at Pekin, China, will
but no gratis. If you doubt
- @uyaN dressed sc n large globe and
n piece or string and make
measurenesits TO suit yourself.
be old English pound sterling was
Jed from the weight of Z, $50 grains
|und wheat from the middle of the
hnd well dried.
he steam engines Of the world re-
tsent the work OF 1000, 900, 600 men,
more than double the working
bulation of the earth.
The Imperial Roman coins always
contain on the diverse the portrait and
name of the emperor; on the reverse
q representation of some event con-
nected with his reign. The coins OF
Titus showed the Coliseum, those Of
Trajan triumphal arch, those of
Vesrasian a picture of Jerusalem.
Old castles are a drug in the English
market. Any rich American who
wants TO buy Rockingham, in Essex,
for instance, said to be the finest Nor
man keep in the world. can get it
cheap, for there was no bid when it was
offered auction the other day. Stud
lev. In Warwickshirc. with a fine old
sosvver ninety feet high and $500 acres,
also went begging.
Highly arched eyebrows are said to
denote viyacity and brilliancy; level
brows, strength and inteile .; regular
ly curved eyebrows express cheerful
ness; square ones. deep thought; ir-
regular ickleness. versatility, excita-
bility; raised at the inner corne
melancholy; joinedl over the nose, an
unsettled mind. Thick and bashy eye
brows denote physical strength.
A scientific writer says that night is
the time which nature ~utilizes for the
growth Of plants and animals; children
grow more rapidly during the night.
In the daytime the system is kept busy
disposing of the wastes consequent ON
activity, but while asleep the system
is free to extend its operations beyond
the mere replacing Of WORKOUT parti-
cles. hence the rapid growth. This is
why invalids need SO much rest and
sleep.
An English has employed
thirty-tive poor Irish women since 1885
In IN ing a copy of M old piece Of
Bayou. apestry. The linen and silk
were woven and dyed especially for it