Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-02
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JOSEPH KUBLER, PUBLISHER


JOSEPH KUBLER, PUBLISHER
The Injurious effect of the bite of hui
man beings is very forcibly illustrated
among the members of the police force
in Philadelphia. At present no less
than three OF the patrolmen OF n
district are suffering from the poison
injected into the system through hav-
ing been bitten by refractory prisoners
whom they had arrested. These bites,
while so far not attended with very
serious results. have nevertheless been
the source of considerable pain and
soreness to the victims.
The only women who are permitted
TO wear trousers in France are Rosa
Bonheur. Nine. Dieulafoy. the Partisan
archaelogist, Nine. Foucault, the beard
ed woman and the femenine stonecut-
ters. For this privilege they are taxed
from so to $l2 a year. No woman, how
ever. may wear trousers by paying the
tax. on the contrary. the government
only confers the privilege on great
merit. Trousers are, in fact, a sort of
decoration given to m as the Lee
gion of Honor is given to men.
There is an awful warning to those
parents who continue TO name children
after their relatives. Up in Knot coun-
", Kentucky, on Caney creek, the prac-
ice has been carried To an excess, and
- ..-..I. l.. 49,. IL. C1-a., pA.asO,- ,,y,
oers among its members the following:
Big Isom Sloan, Hard's Isom, Sons
Isom. Isom's lsom, Jailer Isom, Sorrel
Head Isom, Jim's Isom. Little lsom,
Andy's Isom, Summ's Isom, Jimbo's
tsom, Big Isom's Isom and Sorel Head
lsom's Isom.
A certificate Of marriage was returned
20 the city clerks office in Providence
the other day, on which the age of the
contracting parties was written "thir-
ty-three plus eight equals forty-one."
This, Of course, awakens some curiosity,
and on examination it was discovered
that the license was issued in Cumber-
land, July II. 1887, but for some rea-
son the marriage was not solemnized
until July Of the present year.
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President Timothy Dwight of Yale
says that the number Of poo young
men who are working their way through
college is larger than ever before and is
increasing every year. He says There
IS no place where a man is more es-
.eemei for what he is and what he does
han at college. The man who in part
supports himself is just as much e.
snnpfaA &c those who hq va ga Ser times
n their college year"
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Martha Mcintyre, an S-year-old girl
IF Hot Springs, S. D., has as many as
Two dozen rattlesnakes, which are her
favOrite companions. When she was
only 4 years old she was found one day
playing with a huge RATHER, over which
she seemed 10 exert a mysterious power,
and she has all her formidable pets IN
der complete control. She is the new
Elsie Venner.
There has just been placed on eXhi-
bition in the third Egyptian room, Brit
Sh museum, an unrolled specimen Of the
embalmed sacred crocodile. The mum
my measures over IS feet in length, and
Is beautifully preserved. The eyes, as
with human mummies, appear to have
been removed previous TO embalming,
but the teeth of which -four are plainly
visible, are still intact.
Mrs. u. S. Grant has purchased the
Edmunds house on Massachusetts ave-
nue., in Washington city, and will make
that her home. She has always loved
Washington and her daughter, Mrs.
Sartoris, entertains the same kindly
feeling toward the home of her girl
hood. Mrs. Grant is in splendid health,
and is happier thar she has been at any
time since her w~idowhood.
Blenheim, the chief family seat Of the
Churchills, was built for the first duke
OF Marlborough by Queen Anne at a
cost of 600. 900. The palace is so enor
nous that its owners could not afsrd to
keep 1t up until they caught On to the
scheme of marrying American heiress-
es. More than $500, 900 of Mrs. Ham
mersley's money went toward beauti-
flying this great pile.
Charles Downer has resigned the po-
sition of sexton of the DID North church
IN Salem street, Boston, after more than
twenty-five years Of active service. He
has met thousands Of persons from all
over the world, who have visited the
building. AS long as he ives he will
go every year, on the V OF April 10,
and hang out the Paul Revere lantern
from the belfry.
John Tyler, the son Of President Ty-
Ter, is now living in Georgetown in
greatly reduced circumstances. Mr.. Ty-
Ter Is more than 70 years old, and has
served in two armies, having equipped
a regiment for the wal with Mexico
n having enlisted on the confederate
side during the civil war.
Nine. Deschamps, who claimed TO
have invented the preparation OF
chopped vegetables called Jul.enne soup,
has lately died in Paris at the age of "a.
She was the Oldest Of the Paris market
women, and remembered the entrance
Of the allied troops after the battle Of
Waterloo.
An English apiculturist has COM
menced training bees for letter carry
ing purposes, and his efforts have met
with great success. In time Of war bees
would have the advantage over pigeons
Of invisibility, and might go through
the enemy's lines with impunity.
The largest black diamond ever found
was recently exhibited at the academy
of science in Paris. The specimen Is
apparently fiawless and weighs 3,073
carats. The largest of the species pre-
viously found weighed 100, and was
net free from flaws.
G.. w. G. Ferris. the celebrated en-
gIneer, will exhibit at the Atlanta expo
sition an exact miniature OF the worlds
fair. The scale of the production Is
one inch to twelve feet, and every feat
ure Of the dazzling White City will be
reproduced.
Sir Henry Irving's personal man.
ager'' has denied the report that the col.
lege Of Heralds has awarded a coat of