Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-23

are interested In a case Of incubation
" n human being with CHAMBERS. The
sufferer is Mrs. Julius Erling, wife of a
peddler. The huckster's horses had the
disease and the woman attended one Of
he animals. A veterinary surgeon di-
,gnosed the horses cases as CHAMBERS
and ordered them isolated. Mrs. Err
ing was taken Ill and soon all the symp-
IONS of CHAMBERS developed, including
swelling of the glands in the neck and
throat and discharge of the nostrils.
A doctor was called and Mrs. Erling's
condition is improved. She il now out
Of danger.
The president of the Christian college
1t Columbia, Mo, requested the young
women in the graduating class, eleven
IN all, to state in writing their prlnci-
pal purpose in life. Three declared that
they yearned for the quietude of home
and desired to be a solace to their par
ents In their declining years. One want
ID to be a missionary, one a physician,
Dne a hospital nurse, three were ambi-
!ious to travel, etc, There was just one
thoroughly candid and natural girl in
the class, who admitted thai with her
the chief aim Of life was to marry a nice
goung man and become a good wife,
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Mrs. d. A. Jones of Mt. Carmel. Me.
IN trace letters anywhere on her arm
or face, and Immediately they ppe
IN raised characters, which last for an
hour or so and are plainly visible from
across the room. Moreover. IL n
pinches her OF she hits against anything
In walking about the house, the afected
part at once becomes irritated and be-
gins to rise. This remarkable phen"m-
ena is ascribed to a peculiar condition
Of the blood for which many physicians
have treated her, thus far Intellectually.
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In a suit brought by a woman in Co
iumbus, o, 10 recover $500 lost by her
husband In a gambling place, the pro
p~rietors Of the resort offered In defense
to prove that the husband Of the plain
tiff had on previous occasions won 81 100
In the gambling den. The court ruled
that such evidence was admissible, n
that If the fact of the winning could be
established, the amount won would be a
counter claim against any amount that
had been lost and must be deducted in
awarding damages.
Sweden" says a native Of that coun-
try who has just been visiting It, lis
building railroad, telegraph and tele-
phone lines everywhere. Every farmer
who has 100 acres or more of land has a
long distance telephone. Ii is the most
magnificent telephone system I ever
saw, and is very cheap. News OF great
import is flashed over these wires from
the urban to the rural districts, and the
average citizen Is better posted on the
current events Of the day than is prob
ably any other country in the world
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A woman horse thief was arrested by
the sheriff of NeZ Perces county, Idaho.
a few days ago. She was found to be
one of a gang which had been operating
i'm that region for about a year. Four
male members of the gang were caught
with the m She is reported to be
good looking, % years old and Of a fiery
disposition. She was dressed in mems
clothes and rode her horse astride with
great Skill.
An old man, a resident OF England,
who recently died at the age of GO, at
tracted considerable attention in the
community In which he lived on account
If n phenomenal growth of hair which
appeared on his head just before his
death. For over twelve years he had
been bald; and then in some ineXplic-
able way, n heavy growth Of hair sud,
denly appeared, like that Of an infant.
1t is stated that singing is a corrective
Of ,hs too .Gomn3n tendency e. nnlmo=
observes on th4 subject: The Germans
are seldom afrh ted with consumption,
andtlhiis. ! BELIEVE, is in part occasioned
by the strength which their lungs &c
uulre by exercising them in vocal music,
for this constitutes an essential branch
Of their education"
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II costs more to send a ton Of goods
from London to the west of Ireland
than to Japan. A o Of wooden goods
Fan be forwarded from London to New
York for 90 shillings; to Chicago, 1000
miles inland, for 80 shillings, and to
yapan for so shillings. The same goods
sent from Derry to london cost 20 shil-
lings. and from Gweedore, fifty miles
inland, 120 shillings.
The Hilton Armstrong gun has an
extreme range of fourteen miles, firing
a shot weighing 1880 pounds, n re-
auiring $50 pounds of powder. The enor-
NOUS expense of these large guns has
led to their being practically abandoned
Cor besides the actual cost of each shot
the gun itself was unable to bear the
strain of even being fired a hundred
times.
The first practical use of the Roent-
gen rays in warfare is to be made in the
barbaric Soudan. The medical corps or
the English army has been furnished
with all necessary instruments for pro
duclng the "X' rays, and the surgeons
will try to find without probing, all bull
lets that Johnny Atkins receives INTO
his anatomy from the khalifa's der
wishes.
Mrs. Aaron Haines of Mount Herman,
w. Va, who has always hoped she
would die in church, realized her desire
last Monday evening when she calmly
expired in her pew after relating her
religious experience. Her mother,
many years before, died at a class meet
ms while she was on her knees praying.
Mrs. Haines was 50 years old.
Rockland, Me-, has a resident 81 years
old who has been driving a cart with
lime rock to the railway station for
twenty-six years and yet never has rid
den on the cars. He also has the dis
tinction of never having been under a
doctors care.
The best golf player In America Is
ychn Slipper. 4 nsgfo Iad VINO ms Yong
been a caddy on the Shinnecock Hills
gclf links at Southampton, L.. i. He 10
the son Of an Episcopalian clergyman
and was born a slave. His form" Is
not perfect, but it is exceedingly sound
and devoid Of eccentrlcity and is good
al every point.
One society leader in Lexington, KY,
has accused another society OF
setting fire to her own house. Both
women belong to the horse arlstocracy,
and the affair has created a sensation.
A man in Kansas City who has cher
ished rather a cordial prejudice against
the bicycle thinks of buying one because
all of his friends ride wheels, and when