Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-12-21
Cluster Chronicle.
JOSEPH KUBLER, PUBLISHER

JOSEPH KUBLER, PUBLssHEb
Prof. l.. l.. Dyche of the Kansas state
university Is really considering a propo-
sition that has been made to him to go
In search of the north pole. He has OBJ
served that the men who have tried this
and failed up to date have been starved
out, they have not been frozen out or
killed by violence. And so he proposes
II he goes TO take ten years provisions
along with him, although he would not
expect to be gone longer tina two or
three years. And he has observed also
that the Esquimaux travel hundreds OF
miles during the Arctic winter, so II ne
goes he will aim to make the last end OF
the Journey in winter. Dyche got
within less thar a thousand miles OF the
pole last summer without trying at all,
and he doesn't see any particular rea-
son why he couldn't go the rest or the
way.
There is a man In Muncie, Ind, who
ought TO be thankful that thieves have
not yet learned how TO carry off vacant
lots. He erected a 81, 900 hous in the
southern part OF the city and placed the
rental with a real estate agent. he
went TO see his property recently Tor the
first time in three months and was sur
prised to find that his house was gone.
An old woodshed was left, but even the
foundation of the house was taken.
He reported the matter to the ponce,
and they have since been hunting for
the house, but have failed to locate IL.
None of the neighbors know anything
about the house and how IT could nave
been stolen without anyone seeing the
work done is a mystery.
A man in Emporia, Kas., who has lost
something less than a half score Of
wives by death finally became super
stitious and sold his house, which, he
thought, might ave had something to
do with his bad luck. Then he built a
new one, and when it was completed, ne
also took a change of venue in his
search for a fresh companion and went
to a n%eighboring town for a wife. 1t is
believed, that with all of these wise pre-
cautions he will not be put to the eX-
pense Of another funeral and courtshlp
for some years to come.
Joe Howard is one Of the most dis
tinguished looking newspaper men in
the country-a man hat anyone would
pick out in a crowd; and though he Is
famed for his scrapbooks, his memory
Is, perhaps, the best record of them all.
At a thought he EAR recall any or the
stirring events of the last thirty years
and has names, dates n weather at
his fingers ends.
The pastor OF the Hamline Methodist
church at Steubenville, o., visited all
OF the saloons in that town and circu-
lated posters, giving the texts of the SER
mons for Sunday, the lesson of the day,
etc, and the result was that at the next
service the church wouldn't hold the
people. One saloonkeeper mistook the
preacher for a Cincinnati brewer and
offered to set 'em up.
There arrived in New York the other
day from Atlanta, Miss Cornelia Sci
bells, a venerable spinster, nearly 100
years old, and is going to Germany tc
claim her share of a 500, 600, 900 estate.
She has started on this journey with a
few dollars, a little bundle Of papers and
plenty Of faith that she is going to be-
come a great heiress.
In England eleven peers of the realm
are mayors of the cities in which they
live. For more than a generation there
have been, with one exception, no peer
mayors in England until 1894, when the
duke of Warwick was chosen in War
wick. The youngest Of the lever is
Earl Beauchamp, mayor of Worcester,
who is only 23 years old.
The statement is made that Nine.
Media is never on the stage.
But why should she be? She knows
that when she reaches for a note she is
going to get it, hat affairs in the box
office are o K, and that the public
would rather hear her sing han Patti.
That is enough to assure a woman Of
much greater timidity than Melba.
King Menelek, the Abyssinian ruler
who was killed by a stroke of lightning,
used to boast that he was a lineal de-
scendant Of King Solomon and the
queen Of Sheba. King Solomon, by the
way, was a very smooth citizen, but
1t is a question whether Menelek dis
played very good taste in giving away
family secrets.
Isaac l.. Bryan, a negro, Is suing a
ShlCdSo ltSldul LII " ltltlIR MIN Slt
half an o at a table without asking
for his order. The decision will have
great interest with patrons,
as 1t involves the question as to how
Bong a waiter may make a guest wait,
regardless Of race, color or previous con.
dition Of servitude.
Living posters are a late fad in Chi
cago. In this form of entertainment
the actors are arranged so as to repre-
sent the posters Of the best French,
English n American artists. 1t is a
feature which is becoming quite popu-
lar. 1t is not so stupid as living whist
or chess, and not so startling n de-
batable as. living pictures.
1t has been demonstrated that there Is
really no connection between long hair
n skill in foot ball. Coz instance, the
aggregate length of hair in the Kansas
team, which got knocked put by the
Missouri Tigers on Thanksgiving day,
was several feet in excess of that of the
Columbia team.
On the occasion Of the recent recep-
ton rendered him at Topeka, Chief JUS
tice Martin Of Kansas wore a turnover
collar without a cravat. 1t appears that
the only time Justice Martin ever wore
n cravat was when he got married, and
then he had to get nothe man to tie
it for him.
Annie L. Diggs, the famous Kansas
emancipation, used to live next door to
the Madagascar Walters, and she says
they are all right.
1t is estimated that the apple crop of
the United States this year will average
a great big old fashioned barrel full fol-
each man, woman and child in the
country, including, Of course, the Ben
Davis variety.
The smallest village In the world is
Fireplace, located at the east end of
Long Island. 1t consists Of two stone
houses and is sixty years old.
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