Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-09-21
Custer Uhrnnlcle.
JOSEPH KUBLER, . PUBLISHER

A few years ago most Of the mando-
Inns, guitars, harps n other similar
Instruments sold in this country were
manufactured abroad by hand. one
factory In Chicago last year turned II
T.. 600 banjos, as many or more guitars
ana 900 mandolins. The same concern
also makes harps ana makes them with
many mechanical improvements over
the Old style OF imported instTunel IS.
They are said GO excel greatly the for
-ien instruments Ia every respect
A Connecticut woman has sued for Il
iivorce from her husband because he
has a cork leg. although when she
learned that he had lost his leg IN a
Iuel she was So stuck on his bravery
nat she separated from the man who
vas then Der husband e. marry the de
'enGan' in the present case. Most o..
he Connecticut folks are persons of
-IeadS habits. bat there are others.
OF curse Kansas is mixed up viii
Rev. Anna ShaN's dress reform com
nunity al Wianno. Miss Grace Green
- NNN ioA - "hi' 81 49,
lucy Anthony. a niece Of Susan b., who
"uns the domestic machinery Of the es-
Adjustment, may be said To be distant
Y related 10 the land Of he graeshop-
Ger.
Judgr Wilson of Little Rock has de-
ided that women have Il constitu-
tional ana God given right to ride bi-
sNTl,G and that th.N a V. la,pl q, no "a
some comfortable and appropriate cos
tune FOR that purpose II Arkansas
ts never oVertaken 10y anything worse
than boomers IL may consider itself IN
great luck.
Mime. Modteska feels blue because she
has been eXiled from POLAND. and looks
upon herself as a woman without coun-
try; all of which is unnecessary as long
rs she has a ranch in California, and
ean make money enough on the stage 10
run IL.
The death of the Rev. Samuel Bissell
Il Ohio follows close upon that of the
Rev. Edward BeeCher. The latter wa
The oldest Yale graduate in the country
at the time Of his death, and after that
this distinction descended To Mr.. Bis
sell, who entered the college in 1919.
4. train Of cars on the Chicago, Fort
Madison and Des Moines railway was
held VI in Iowa the other day by a
swarm OF hornets which attacked the
engineer and fireman, and Stung a large
number Of passengers. The Dalton
gang couldn't have done Il more thor
ouSh job.
owing to the crusade made by Or.
cyrus Edison OF New York against
sdulterated candy a great reform has
been brought about in the manufacture
OF that commodity. which is now com
posed mainly Of genuine ugar. Tam
many and glucose Went down together.
The first sketch which Charles Dana
Gibson made for Life brought him 81.
and that was $3.50 more han expected.
Now he - rich enough 10 get married
and &" put on sufficient style to keep
up With The other young swclls in New
York.
IL is said that Miss Flagler of Wash.
ington city, who shot a colored lad
who was stealing pears from her faith.
." '''A'b wan II wv u mo t1llA III
sions the other day when she received
from q t~houehtless friend "A basketful
Of that fruit
A ut OF realism In the way # adNcr.
Using IL IA hangman's moose. suspended
from "A beam. in the window OF a Kan.
sas shopkeeper with the notice. This
Is the place to buy wall paper and hav~
IL hung"
After giving the performance Of her
new opera, "Fleur de Lis" in New YORK
recently, Della Fox found ihn mex,
morning that she had entirely lost heI
voice. II will eclipse the gaiety Of a,
least n nation if she doesn't get Il
hack.
Lady Mary Hamilton Douglass, tn,
IL year old daughter of the late duke of
Hamilton, owns the Isle of Arran, which
~ larger than the Isle of Wight. and win
have an income of 81. 900, 600 a year by |
the time she maintains her majority.
Emile Zola' record as a SchoolbOy
has been investigated and found To have
been exemplary in every respect. Zola
was all right until he took h. writing
novels.
The French government realizes $400,.
600 from the taxes which II lcVies on
zoo, 900 bicycles. There are in the United
about l,000. 900 wheels which, ac-
cordine TO tho French idea Of political
economy, ought to be bringing inc the
treasury 81. 900, 900.
\ portrait of the late Walter O.
Gresham, by Frank NJ. Pebble, ha.
been on exhibition at the art institute
In Chicago. The likeness Is said to be
excellent.
The emperor OF Germany recently re-
marked to an American who Is on init
terms with him that he is very
anxious to visit the United States be-
fore he has reached an age hat will
travel distasteful.
Ii was a patriotic Connecticut woman
who refused to buy a bible from a book
agent because ii did not contain the
portraits of the presidents Of the United
Prof. Charles Eliot Norton Of Harvard
university has contributed a number
D1 autograph letters from his Gladstone |
and Longfellow collections 10 be sold
for the benefit of Sanderson academy,
at Ashfeld Mass.
AToledo mechanic has constructed ad.
ditions to his bicycle which enable him
To carry his four children with him and
give them each a seal.
John !. Blair. the venerable New Jer-
sey millionaire, has more than $25, OOO.-
600 invested in western railroads. But
1t Is his boast that ne never bought a
road merely for speculation and that
of his vast fortune was made by
or bearing stocks.
The Rev. Samuel Bissell, who lives al
o., Is the Oldest living
graduate of Yale college since the
death Of DR.. Edward Beecher, which oc-
a few weeks ago. He IL ~ yearx
and entered Yale In 1919.
The students at Wellesley college have
ricknamed it The Dishwashing Estab-
on account OF the formidable