Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-01-14
MEN, WOMEN AND THINGS.

in which women labor
Octave Thanet is an adept in the almost
lost art OF letter writing.
Cannibalism is still practiced in four
teen places in the world.
The new union station in st. Louis will
cover thirty-two trains and cost -, 100000.
Charles Dickens daughters taught him
to dance polka, but he couldn't master
the schottsche.
NJ. Gladstone finds in Roger Bacon
perhaps the highest British intellect of
the middle ages"
President Low announces "A gift slO, 900
to Columbia college, TO be divided between
biology and history
Only eight of the 900 Frenchmcn who
fought under Napoleon at Waterloo are
now alive and in France.
a Mexican street car can be hired for
personal use for $3.50 day, with right
to stop at any one place for two hours.
a pool room, exclusively for use of
ladies'" is to be opened in Covington,
Ky. No liquor will be sold on the prem
ises
IN th. wine districts OF France, Spain
and Italy grapes are still troddcn with
the bare feet under the idea that the wine
is better.
The late Amos Shinkle, OF Covington,
Ky, left his estate, amounting in value
to S? 100000, almost entirely TO his wife
ami son.
A book called Memories of the Profes-
sionai and Social Life of John +. Owens"
the famou comedian, is soon TO be issued
by his wife.
One or two of the older senator's ere said
to favor the idea of senator's wearing silk
gowns while in session, like supreme
court judges.
Senator Mcpherson denounces as an
infamous lie" the statement that he had
been slated as Mr.. Clevelands secretary
of the treasury.
Black patches, shaped like stars, cres-
cents, horseshoes and even like coaches
and horses were worn by the ladies OF the
the court of Anne.
General Wade Hampton, of South Caro-
lima, has just written letter freshly de-
claring that nothing can tempt him tc re-
enter public life.
/ Nine. De Lcsseps is absolutely sure of
the entire probity of her husband. She >
n good deal like tho wives of most hus-
bands who go wrong.
| According to the statistics OF the inter-
state commerce commission railway pas
senger sta ands one chance in 10,s23, 1853 to
be killed while travelling.
Mrs. Mary Ellen Leases friends now
regard her as Il sure winner in the SEN
atoral figh,. She Is already paired on
important questions-with Mr.. Lease.
Bronson Howard says that American
managers are now seeking American
plays, and that foreign dramatic works
are merely regarded as stopgaps.
A first edition OF Walton's "Cumpleat
Angler" Q65S), in the original binding,
and first edition of Cotton's Complete
Angler" QG7G), recently sold for 81 $50.
Professor Charles Sequard has been lee
turing in Philadelphia on the wickedness
of that city and Boston, and he pro-
nounced the two cities worse than Paris.
In the Austrian army suicides average
| 10000 year. This does not include
foilcd attempts, and 1t represents 20 per
cent of the general mortality among the
Austrian soldiers.
The New York Society for Ethical Gull
! ture, of which Professor Felix Adler is
president, proposes to build u hall for it.
self, to cost $500 coo, OF which about $780,
900 is already obtained
Herbert Spencer has been writing for
more than forty years, and partial es-
innate Of the profits from the sale of his
most important books shows thai they
have brought him less than 81 900 a year.
Mrs Talmage is tho fortunate possessor
of q Russian sable cloak which, when
worn, reaches down to her feet. Her hus-
band gained something more than the
friendship Of the czar by his visit to Rus.
sia.
President Harrison thinks he is physi
ognomist. He has great confidence in his
ability 10 read character through the ex'
prcssions of the human face. There Is q
fascination for him in the pursuit OF his
theoretical science.
magnate, has brought up her daughters
very sensibly. They teach In mission
Sunday schools, and one, when a student
at vassar, used her pocket money TO de.
fray the expenses Of = poor girl st the
same college.
When Governor Mckinley appeared on
the floor Of the house Of representatives.
at Washington the other day the recep.
tion he received was in striking contrast
to that extended to him last session.
Then tho republican members gathered
about him and sat at his feet as at CANA
lisl's, drinking In words Of wisdom, but
the other dsy his presence excited hardly
moro iltsrsSt than thet R any ex-meD-
bsS.