Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-16
Custer Uhrnnlele.
JOSEPH KUBLER, PUBLISHER

III NdClllil6 Nph
pitaI. and the little mothers take their
inanimate darlings to have the sick
made we'll and the manned healed. 1t
is a beautiful thing, the instinct or
motherhood implanted in little girls.
They cannot be deceived as to their
dolls any more than a grown mother
can as to her babies, and when their ia
vorite doll is broken it is no consolation
to them that a better one is bought.
Sometimes the dolls get sick in their
little mothers estimation when they
are not broken, and they are taken 10
the hospital, but usually they have
met with an accident. and II requires the
services of a surgeon. There are not
man, doll hospitals in existence, and
when the ~cheapness OF new dolls is con-
sidered 1t speaks volumes for the natu-
raj tendencies and motherly care of lit
tie Girls that they are successful where
established.
Two good looking and well dressed
young women recently created quite a
sensation mon the commission houses
On Sixth street in Cincinnati. Each had
a small sachel hung over her shoulder,
full of shoe polish. They approached
every man in sight and asked to be al
lowed to shine his shoes. If anyone de-
INJURED the girls persisted, and almost
invariably won their point. They carr
ried no boxes and chairs were used in
stead. 1t was rather a novel experience
for most Of the men, and it was with
some embarrassment that they placed
n foot on the chair while the girls re-
moved the dust from the shoes and APP
Piled a coat of the polish. AS soon as
the operation was completed they would
SIrinp "A hattie pf tho IpliSh frpro tho /
satchel, selling it and the shine for a
quarter. The girls did a land office bust
ness, while there were more brilliant
shoes on Sixth street than ever was
known before.
The question OF using petroleum as
fuel on Russian railways remarks the
Engineering and Mining journal, us
attracting attention from the authori-
ties. Some time ago the ministry Of
ways and COMMUNICATION approved of
the Ntkolai railway at least partly sub
stituting oil for wood, and for This pur-,
pose a dozen locomotives have been al,
tered. The locomotives on the B~ologoje-
Moscow section will also be altered. An
Moscow and fewer reservoirs will be
erected for the storage OF the petroleum.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the Gejesi-
Zarizyn and the Rjasan-Ouralsk rail-
way lines are also contemplating the
adoption of petroleum as fuel. The
same fuel is used on the Trancauca-
sian and other lines and is being tried
on the ST. Petersburg-Oranienbaum
line, and ii is asserted that it can also
be used with advantage for the Siberian
railway"
James Gordon Bennett is expected to
return soon from Paris TO New York,
where business Of importance awaits
him. His immense uptown real estate
hag o,.,l,,a1,. 49,, 49, IA .--.
Iation and must either be sold or fenced
as a protection against trespassers-for
forty acres Of hill and plain are too
great a temptation for excursionists.
This forty acre tract was bought by the
senior Bennett at a very low price, be-
Ing then far out of town, but now II can
be laid out in building lots, more than
500 in number, and worth in all not less
than $1,000, coo. 1t was formerly owned
by Richard +. Carman, who thought he
did well when he sold it to Bennett for
$500
Duluth has two OF the tallest police
men In the country. Patrolman Royal
Mckenzie is six feet ten and a half
inches high, and is still growing. He Is
only &c years old and weighs 257 pounds.
He can reach a point ten feet from the
49, NtNNhA III nay al
so of Duluth, is six feet seven inches
tall. The two make a great team, n
the tough woodsmen OF the vicinity are
not inclined to he boisterous when either
is around. Superior, Wis, claims to
have a policeman a trifle taller han Nc
Kenzie, but he is past growing age, and
Mckenzie hopes to beat him before the
year is out.
brought to the traders by Alaska Indi-
ans this year. according to the estimate
of a trader just returned 10 Seattle.
Furs Of bears and foxes aggregating
many thousand dollars in value were
also brought In. re says Alaska's
wealth in furs is very gr@z.. and in
many regions is ye. practically un-
touched. The trzc. 1e-1 %@- cCck inlet
and the Yukon, Re SAYS. produces the
finest furs In the world. and only one
or two white men have ever been there.
In the Interpretation ot Macbeth,
Henry Irving regulates the idea that
the hero OF Shakespeare's bloody trag-
edy was the tool OF inordinate female
ambition, and he ~personates a character
which dominates Lady Macbeth, and is
the aggressive force in the drama Of
treason and murder. Miss Terry's Lady
Macbeth fits this idea, and conveys no
suggestion Of a woman with a mustache
and a a voice. 1t is quite doubtful
whether the advanced woman will
sanction this bold innovation.
From a certain fashionable n%eighbor-
hood in Kansas City the young people
ave been making autumn excursions
into the woods and cooking their own
suppers. The first was a potato roast
and was a great success. A fire was
built and the potatoes were baked in
the ashes. On the next trip chops were
cooked by stringing them on a wire be-
fore a pile OF glowing fagots. The bill
of fare is varied with each excursion.
and hunger supplies the sauce.
Outside the people Of scriptural re-
nown who lived to be 100 years Of age
or more, the first of whom there is rec
ord is Thomas earn, an Englishman,
who, 1t is claimed, lived to the unpar-
alleled age of POT years; next, a Rus
sian subject who was believed to have
attained the age OF 205.
One Of the last acts Of John w. Mack
ay, jr., was to bid an affectionate good
by to his ~favorite dog. The animal was
purchased in London. It's name was
Jim, and 1t was a great pet of all YOUNG
Mackay's college friends at Oxford. Mr..
Mackay took Jim with him in all his
travels and the dog is said to have
crossed the ocean many times.
Salmon packers On the Pacific coast
are worried over the report that the
Russians are arranging for the estab-
lishment of several large salmon and
herring canneries along the Siberian
coast.
Ex-Congressman r. F.. De Forest of
Yale. who lost his skull-and- bones pin
thirty-one years ago, had it restored to
him at midnight the other night by
Prof. S. s. Sanford of Yale, who hap
pened to find the pin under a stone on
the campus. 70 add zest to the return
Of the pin the professor, who is some
what Of a wag. waited until the dead
of night before restoring 1t to It's right
full owner.