Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-24
Chronicle.

Cluster Chronicle.
JOSEPH KUBLER, . PUBLISHER
A curious new industry is reported
from Paris, where the demand for small
logs is being met by rearing the pups
on an alcoholic diet, which prevents
their growth.
In China 1t is not customary to give
credit. Money is obtained from lenders,
who exact an interest OF s To II per cent.
Business is nearly always conducted
on a cash basis.
The advent of boomers has caused an
old law to be dug up in Georgia which
prohibits men from wearing women's
dresses and women from wearing mems
clothes.
Bicycles are said to have seriously
affected the sale of pianos in England
The reason given is that when a girl Is
asked to choose between the two fol
"A present she invariably selects thu
wheel.
1t is estimated that 80 per cent of the
iron manufactured by Tennessee is
sold outside OF the southern states. 1t
is said to be the favorite iron with pipe,
plow and stove makers In the east and
north.
The largest sailing ship atiOat has just
been completed at Bremen. She is
called the Potosi, is a five master, 39i
feet long, 30 feet broad, with a draught
of % feet and a carrying capacity OF
$3.50 tons.
1t is proposed by means Of the cleo
trophone TO conncc London's churches
and chapels with the hospitals, 50 that
the m preached each Sunday may
be heard by the patients without leav.
ing their beds.
Lord and Lady William Beresford
(the latter formerly the dowager Ouch
ess Of Marlborough have been fishing
for salmon in Norway. 1t is said that
they paid 1900 for a salmon stream ana
caught only two fish.
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The average value of an irrigated
acre in the arid region of the United
States is $50. H.. V. Hinckley, a scion
fist of Topeka, says 1000 900 acres may
be successfully and prottably irrigated
In western Kansas alone.
Electric power. compressed air steam
power and the cable are displaciHg the
horse as a motive power on the street
lines of Paris. No less than six differ
ent methods OF traction are employed
in different parts of the city.
A life size painting of Benjamin Har-
rison was received at the white house.
1t cos $500 and is pronounced an eX-
cellent likeness. 1t completes the gal
lery Of presidential portraits and will
set the country to specializing as to who
will sit for the next picture.
In 1850 the total wealth Of this coun-
try was 81, 1876, coo, 600, about $30S per
capita; in 1860 it had risen to $%l6,l60,-
600, 900. or about 1914 per head; in 1870
It was $50, 069. 900, 900, or about $3.50 per
head; in 1880 it had risen TO $43, GAP, 00O,-
600, or $50 per head, and in 1890 to $62,-
600. 900. 900. or $1,000 per head.
Max Nordau. the author Of "Degencr-
alton" tells a Paris interviewer that he
has travelled all over Europe, and that
he began to write at the age of thirteen.
Lighting trains by electricity on the
New York Central, the supply of which
is furnished by the revolution of the
aXles, as far as tested, has proved very
satisfactory.
In the last number Of Meehan's
Monthly the editor tells of being sum
moned to hold an inquest over a dead
sugar maple tree. IL was supposed to
have been destroyed by "A leak in the
city gas main, near the roots, but an
examination convinced Mr.. Meehan
hat the tree had died literally from
sunstroke.
Jacob Fjelde. the Norwegian sculp-
tor Of Minneapolis, has been selected to
design a statute Of Ole Bull, the famous
violinist. N~orwegians all over the
United states will be askrl to subscribe
to q fund to meet the expense of erect
ing the memorial, which will be Of
bronze, ana will probably be placed in
Minnehaha park, at Minneapolis.
A Vienna correspondent writes: Ev-
cry one who has spent a few nights in
a German town OF village must nave
been amused by the strange and orig
inal cries of the Watchmen who goes
his rounds with cape and helmet, Ian
tern and spear and has a different
rhyme for every hour of the night.
These watchmen are fast disappearing.
A large office building is now being
erected In San Francisco which will be
devoted exclusively To offices for doe
tors, dentists, oculists AMI aurlsts. Ii Is
to be fitted with every convenience for
the use of the specialists who are eX-
pected to coup ii. In addition to re-
ception rooms, cabinets for private ex-
animation and microscopic tests there
will be one Of the finest medical libraries
on the Pacific coast. There will also be
an annex, which will contain a restau.
rant and several apartments.
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Berlin seems to be greatly exercised
over the problem of rapid transit. The
city is provided with a metropolitan
railway, a network of tramways and
also with omnibuses, but these are no
longer capable of handling the con.
stantly increasing amount of traffic.
The civic authorities have carefully in.
spected the transportation facilities Of
other European cities, and now intend
to carry on experiments with the most
modern systems of electric tramways
There is a great diversity of opinion.
however, as to the comparative advant.
ages of overhead and underground
cables for conducting the electric cur.
rent. The former will probably be EN-.
ployed for the less frequented streets
and the latter for the great thorough.
fares.
The ~antitobacco reformers do not
seem to be keeping up with the process
sion even. to saying nothing of making
Roadway. The consumption of tobacco
In It's various forms shows "A steady in
crease. During the month of July. ac-