Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-10-05

company. Al told this summer more
than fifty college students were on the
pay roll Of the company. Their earn
ings averaged about $15 a week. and as
they were able to live for about 81 a
week, most OF them have money enough
10 pay their expenses this year at col
lege.
Every old resident Of the southwest
ern corner of the United States knows
the story abou. the soldier who died at
Yuma and sent back from Hades for
his blankets. a Phoenix man has bee
giving the Journal-Miner of Prescott a
yarn which discounts the Yuma story.
He says a prominent citizen or that
place died there not long since durils
one Of the hot spells, and his body wac
taken to Los Angeles TO be cremated.
After reposing in the furnace for sew
eral hours at q temperature or o
300 degrees, the attendants opened the
doors and found the Phoenix man sitting
up in his pie pan. shivering with cold.
As the draft from The open door struck
him, he cuddled up i'm one corner and
below ed out. For Gods sake close the
door, or I'll catch my death Of cold
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Mrs. Ncwcomb MCGEE OF Washington
city, daughter OF Prof. NewcDmb, the
famous Astronomer, has the distinc'
ton of being the second m elected
a fellow Of the American Association
for the Advancement Of Science. She Is
also a member OF the Anthropolog.c3l
society. She was graduated in med!'
Gin from the Columbian university in
Washington, and Is now at work in the
Johns Hopkins hospital. in Baltimore.
Mrs. MCGEE has visited with her father
all the great ~ohsarvatOries OF Europe,
and now accompanies her husband on
his geological expeditions. On one &C.
casion they made the trip from New
Orleans to Kentucky on horseback,
The writings Of this clever woman are
numerous, and display profound
thought and careful research.
A messenger boy in Washington city
works a little business on the side which
he expects 10 make pay for the bicycle
which he rides. Being frequently asked
by belated pedestrians where they
could obtain a drink. it occurred 20 him
that he could turn an ZONES penny 10y
carrying a bottle Of sou mash in his
hip pocket. and he has found SO many
customers hat he has realized quite a
nice little sum out OF the scheme. He
will run two pockets instead of one as
soon as congress ConVencs.
ss
A dispatch from Corning, y. Y. to
the Rochester Democrat says: Mss
Emma lHaischer DID tonight at IL
o'clock from a lingering bronchial
trouble. A clock which had been pur-
,ho-al as a ~ -g.g,t iys tbA N-nr,top ~ a "
to whom she was engaged to be mar
ried was i'm the room near the bed,
and had been running regularly until
the moment the young lady died, when
the clock stopped at the minute she
drew her last breath.
It is said that the wife Of Secretary
Lamont has become quite an expert in
amateur photography, and with her
daughters, the Misses Julia, Bessie and
Frances, she greatly enjoys this pas.
time. In the course of the western tour
of the family this summer Mrs. Lamont
ara ho. A~,,-L.~~- ~--a~ ----l- --'
mantle places which they visited.
NJ. De Parville asks for the
sion of bird markets. He counted in one
Paris bird market last May 200 nightin-
gales, hundreds of pinsons. charming
little songsters peculiar to French
woods and fields, and 1000 finches.
Sh!ploads Of quails are sent from North
Africa to France for the food markets
There are only three portraits of
Robert Louis Stevenson in existence.
n Of these was never finished. 1t is
owned by the artist, w. b. Richmond,
r. A, who could not induce the great
novelist to give him a third sitting. An
other Is by Nerli, an Italian artist. This
Is the most recent.
Kate Field. who recently visited Col.
orado. recalls the time when she carried
an English bath tub all the way to Den.
yer only to find that the hotel at which
she stopped was equipped with porce.
lain bath tubs and supplied with hot
and cold water.
1t Is rather shocking to learn that
John Burroughs, the naturalist, who
Is a great lover OF birds, finds himself
compelled to shoot orioles that invade
his vineyard near Kingston-on-the-
Hudson. A small crop Of orioles, he
says, will destroy a ton of grapes.
Russia roposes to celebrate Jenne.'s
discovery Of vaccination, the Tooth an
niversary Of which occurs next year,
by offering prizes for works on vaccina-
ton, and by publishing histories Of
vaccination in Russia and western Eu-
rope.
Two human legs were found in the
belly of a shark which was caught re-
Gently off the coast of Cuba, near Ha-
anna. If this story had been published
in the bible instead of the newspapers,
nobody would have believed ii.
The motherinlaw of Princess Beatrice,
the youngest daughter of Queen Vic
toria, is dead. But the motherlnlaw of
her husband is very much alive.
Charles Ayres Whipple of New York
city has recently finished an excellent
portrait of General Nelson A.. Miles.
The picture of the general Is life size,
and represents him in full dress uni
form. He wears the sword presented tc
him by the people of Arizona for his
success in quelling Indian outbreaks,
while the medal on his breast was be.
slowed by congress in recognition OF
distinguished gallantry at Chancellors.
VILE.
DIR. Forester of Aix-les-Bains, Is of
opinion that the method of treatment
now known as massage was first in.
troduced into Europe by some of the
returning members oil Bonaparte's
Egyptian expedition of 1890.
Upon the spot in the market place in
Altorf upon which, according to the
legend, Tell shot at the apple on his
sons head there now stands a superb
bronze statue of Switzerland's hero, the
work Of Richard kissing.
The Philadelphia mint Is preparing to
e forth a flight of those golden birds
known as double eagles. When the mini
is running at its full capacity. 1t can
mint $4,000 double eagles a day.
Among the German singers engaged
for the coming opera season in Milan
ara Tala Raath tho Vianpaoa prip,a