Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-10-06
Cluster Chronicle.
JOSEPH KUBLER, PUBLISHER
MISSING LINKS.

$50 years.
The residents of Vienna last year ate
Is, 2O1 horses.
Among flowers cirysanthcmums live
tie longest after Being cut.
The hatteaingof the poles of Jupiter
can be seen through the telescope.
Decapitatc a snail and put the body
in a cool, moist place aud a new hcad
grows.
A Wheeling, w. Va, man claims to
have Il canary that can whistle Yankee
Doodle"
The popular belief that May is an m
lucky month for marriages dates from
Roman times.
The luster Of morocco may be re.
tanned by applying the white OF an egg
with Il sponge,
In an Oregon town there is m octo-
genarian who is an enthusiastic rider
of the bicycle.
An elephant is fifty or sixty years in
attaining maturity, and will live a CEN
fury and a half.
The application of electricity to the
smelling OF iron IS being experimental
with in Sweden.
In the days of Columbus only seven
metals were known TO exist. Now
there are iifty-one.
The Greek church employs two rings
in the marriage ceremony -one of gold,
the other of silver.
The note OF the bell-bird sounds like
the tolling of a bell. and can be heard a
distance Of three miles.
A very small humming bird. not
much larger than a house fly, j. COM
mon in the East Indies.
Queen Victoria rules II. 1850 square
miles of the earth's territory and 37S,-
72j,Sj7 of its population.
Horses are so cheap and plentiful in
Chill aud BueuoS AyrcS that even the
beggars ride on horseback.
Ivy trained against the side of a
house absorbs dampness and tends to
keep the air dry inside the dwelling.
lhe tallcst man on the Pacific coast
is Samuel Hutchinson, of Prescott,
Wash. His height is I feet = - inches.
st. Louis has twenty-five RAILWAYS
and is n of the foremost cotton cen
tcrs, the receipts exceeding 600. 90
bales.
An elephant takes up the collection
in some of the Hindoo temples. 1t
goes around with a basket extended
from its trunk.
A money sieve has been invented by
a Brooklyn deacon. II sorts the pen
nie>, nicklcs, dimes and quarters taken
at the church collections.
In 1864 the pointed hoods worn by
the ladies often reached four feet above
the head, making the lady's face appear
about the center of the body.
\ remarkable animal is the ornithor-
hyncus paradoXus. Ii has a beak like
"A duck, "a body like an otter, is web
footed, is amphibious and lays eggs.
Electrical weaving machines are in
use in Germany. Seamless stockings
with double heels are ratified out Of each
machine at the rate Of eleven pairs an
hour.
No one has yet been able to construct
a vessel which can resist the force Of
freezing water. Twenty-pound stee!
shells have been rem as if they We're
glass.
In the Roman catacombs have been
found several sets Of false teeth, manu-
featured from ivory to repair the ray
ages sA q Ing il Sai mouths Of Roman
From 17Sl'to 1886 the style of hair
dressing in Paris changed seventeen
times. and went from the extreme Of
short curls and a skull capto a hat three
feet broad. %
4 Georgia couple have been renal.
ried, after being divorced twenty-eight
years, a. the home of a daughter who
never saw her father till the day of the
ceremony.
Experiments are being conducted at
the armory in Springfield, Mass, in the
use of aluminium for the bayOnet scab-
bards for the new rifle. While the
metal works we'll in bending and is
about 80 per cen. lighter than the steel
scabbard, no satisfactory method has
been devised for soldering the edges to-
gether.
The enormous strength of the condor
is only equaled by his voracity and
holiness. This immense bird often
pounces upon small animals, but, from
the shape and bluntuess OF his claws, he
is unable to carry anything heavy. so he
contents himself with fixing it against
the ground with one of his claws, while
with the other and his powerful beak he
rends it to pieces. Gorged with food.
the bird then becomes incapable Of
flight and may be approached. but any
attempt at capture is %furiously resisted.
The amount of energy wasted in wind
and tidal motions and in evaporation
by the sun far exceeds the Imagination
OF man. The earth is a center of enOr-
nous Energies of which an intinitesimal
part only : utilized by man-with The
exhaustion of coal will come about the
necessity of utilizing some of these
energies. The future man may eat a
meal cooked by the tidal flow, may
traverse the ocean in boats driven by
wave engines and may regard the
steam engine as a relic of a barbario
age.