Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-01

Franco Prussian war. The same phe.
was observed after the French
war, which ended in 1918.
Naltkentoff of Geneva, says there
are 311 900 blind persons in Europe,
mostly from ~fevers, and that rs per
cent would have kept their sight had
they been properly treated.
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The origin of the BARRIERS striped
pole goes back to the days when the
shaver also practiced bloodletting.
The pole was emblematic of a ribbon
round the patients bare arm.
In the cast-iron water pipe of Paris,
which forms n continuous tube with
only two slight crooks, the lowest
whisper at one end may be distinctly
heard ut the other, although the pipe is
3, l20 feet long.
Out in Japan the doctor never thinks
of asking poor patients for a fee. A
proverb among the medical fraternity
of Japan runs: when the twin enc
mics, poverty and disease, invade "a
home, he who takes aught from that
home, even though it be given to him,
is a robber.
The dusty old land of the Pharaohs
is stepping into line. The Ghezireh
palace on the banks of the Nile facing
Cairo, in which Khedive Ismail enter
xainal En,..a. E,,.o.,n 90 1,v;elly Sc
about to become n hotel; and there is a
project for making a tunnel under the
Nile, and also having steamers to o
vey people from Ghezireh to Cairo.
So accurate was Meissonier in mat
ters of detail that, when painting one
great picture, he bought a wheat field
and had a squadron of cavalry gallop
through ii to observe how the wheat
fell; and when studying for ''lsl@" he
engaged a battery of artillery to drive
through the snow, and sat down to
copy the tracks.
A large ~promontory IN the Egean
sea, known as Haydn Horoo, extends
1900 feet above the level of the water.
As the SUI swings around the shadow
pf this mountain touches one by one
a circle of islands, separated by regu-
lar intervals, which act as hour marks.
1t is the largest hi dial in the world.
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When the survivors of the wal steam
ship Sultana, which blew up in the
Mississippi in 1865. with the loss of
over 800 lives, held their annual re
union at Maryville, Tenn, a few days
ago, James Lawton, who was supposed
10 have been drowned in the disaster,
appeared, much to the surprise of
everybody.
A Pekin poodle which recently trav-
eled alone from China to Philadelphia
has just given birth to four little Pekin
poodles. This family includes the only
dogs of the breed in the United States.
The mother weighs seven pounds and is
six inches high. She has the puggy
nose of a King Charles spaniel, but a
thick, curly coat like "a st. Bernard.
Her tail h curls over her back; she is
so little that she can hardly walk. in
China the pups would be worth about
$4,000 each, but these four specimens
are not to be bought at any price.
' A series of experiments has demon
strated the relations of red flannel,
monkeys, beer and rheumatism. Two
groups of Gagged monkeys were abund-
antly supplied with beer by the expert
mentors, n group being clad in red
flannel the other group left naked. All
the naked monkeys contracted rheu-
matism, and all the iannel-clad monk
eys escaped. Then the experimenters,
having thoroughly cured the rheumatic
monkeys, clad them in flannel and let
the other group go bare, The supply
Of beer was continued, and the bare
monkeys were attackedwith the rheu-
matism, while the fannel-clad monkeys
recovered. The experimenters declare
the beer made all the monkeys apt sub
jects for rheumatism, but that the fan
mel by keeping off the cold air from the
joints, prevented its development.
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In the Annamese language, spoken
In Cochin, China, the same word is
given many different meanings by the
moderation of the voice. Thus the syl-
liable "ba" pronounced with a grave
accent, means a lady, an ancestor.
Pronounced with the sharp accent it
means the favorite of the prince. Pro-
nounced with the semi-grave accent it
means what has been thrown away.
Pronounced with the grave circumfiex
1t means what is left of fruit after the
juice has been squeezed out. Pro-
nounced with no accent it means three.
Pronounced with the ascending or in
terrogative accent it means a box on
the ear. Thus ''ba ba ba ba" is said
to mean. if properly pronounced,
three ladies gave a box IN the ear to
the favorite of the prince"
There are forty-seven Chinese tenn
Piles in the United States, valued at
$62, 600, claiming 100, 900 %worshipers.
Forty Of these temples are in Califor.
mia, four in New York, two in Idaho
and one in Oregon.
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The normal temperature of man Is
about 9s.5 degrees; of the snail, &c de-.
grees; oyster, s2 degrees; porpoise, 100
degrees; rat, cat and OK, lO9 degrees;
sheep, io4 degrees; hog, 1915 degrees;
chicken, Ill degrees.
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The British securities, Mt first called
exchequer bills, were invented by Mon
tague. afterward earl of Halifax, and
first issued in 1897. They were really
the governments accommodation notes,
issued in anticipation of taxes and be-
ing receivable for taxes.
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The main wheel Of a watch makes
f.460 revolutions in a year; the second
or center wheel, 8, 76O; the third Wheel.
10000; the fourth wheel. 525, 900, and
the fifth or scape wheel. 4,73l, sou. Tho
number of beats or vibrations is l4l,,
912, 900 in a year.