Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-22

recent testimony before the liquor com-
mission. OF 63S samples of herb beer
examined In 1894 by the inland revenue
department SIS contained more than :
per cent of pure spirits and 80 more
than 3 per cent. Parsnip beer was found
to contain over as per cent, which is
much stronger than ordinary beer.
"ree-total sherry" containing no grape
juice, but compounded of sugar and bl-
suiphide of lime is declared to be a
"most Objectionable drink" a startling
declaration was that old whisky, though
more grateful to the taste, Is no more
wholesome than new.
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An a~eronautical convention n exhi-
bltlon, the first eve held upon the Amer
lean continent, will assemble in Boston
in September. This convention is not TO
be an exhibition Of air ships In station
airy positions, but al exhibition or ac-
ton TO bring out flying machines ana
every kind of device to develop loconlo-
tlon In the air. The Aeronautlcal socl-
ETY. has Prof. Pickering OF Harvard at
Its head.
A young tiger in the New York zoo re-
Gently refused to Eat. At the end OF the
third day the willy keeper introduced
another tiger cub INTO the same cage
and Immediately fed it with a large
piece Of meat and made no show Of CIV
ing the other tlgerlany. The next morn
Ing he did the same thing, when the
tiger who had before refused to eat
rushed forward, seized the meat from
the other animal and devoured it.
tuberculosis is affected by the Roent-
gen according to NM Loret
Genoud's report to the Academic des
Sciences. They inoculated eight guinea
pigs with tuberculosis virus, Their eX-
posed three of them for an hour daliy 10
the rays during eight weeks. the nNe
who were kept from the raps developer
abcesses and their health was deranged'
The three kept in good health ana grew
fat on the rays.
Australia is turning out a new variety
OF Mannlichcr repeating rifle for its
army. which is the lightest repeating
rife in the world, Weighing Z pounds
and 4 ounces, instead of 8 pounds IL
ounces, the weight of the old pattern.
All the individual parts in the new
rifle, including the locking box, the mag
azine and barrel, are lighter thar In
the old. The bayonet and sheath are
also made lighter,
1t is impossible. unless possessed OF
considerable means, TO live with COM
fort in a private house in johannesburg.
Rents are in proportion to all other
prices asked-enOrmouS. 1t is dlincuI
for white workingmen engaged In the
mines to obtain a single room In a tlny
shanty under a rental of $50 a month
at the very least, while a small villa or
five rooms, built of corrugated iron'
will easily let at $50 TO $40 a month.
The discovery has been made that the
Paris opera is the most dangerous the
alter In Paris. Apart from certain perils
attached to the defective arrangement
OF the electric lighting, none of the regu-
lations ordered after the Opera Comique
disaster has been carried out. 1t Is es-
timated that there are 10000 tons of in
iammable scenery piled up In such q
way that It takes four days to dislodge
a scene required.
The Buffalo board Of aldermen voted
the other day to grant an appropriation
of 81 1000 for the entertainment or the
American Association for the Advance
ment Of Science during the meeting OF
that body there. But the councilm@n
promptly killed the measure, the senti-
ment being that, though the scientists
would be more than welcome. the city
government could naSuSsItord to estab-
lish such a praSS6
Tho voratITy 81 Inc eagle n similar
v Jrds of prey is well known, but the con-
lnts of a nest which was recently as
\yered in the Alps 10y a Swiss hunter
hws the following remarkable variety
\daily menu: A hare, ~twenty-seNeh
imois' feet. four pigeons feet, thirty
4asants feet. eleven heads OF fowls,
eighteen heads of grouse and the re-
mains of a number OF rabbits marHotS
and squirrels.
Three hundred bicycle riders recently
attended an Anglican church in the olo
cese of Toronto, Canada, the rectol
preaching a special sermon to them !
silver plated bicycle covered with now
ers tvas one of the special decorations 0
theJ chancel. which a church paper de
nounces as "a most monstrous, irreVer
ent and dlstracting Intrusion into Tn
house of'God's presence"
The peculiar flavor, resembling cherr
phosphate, which characterized the mil
of one of his cows one morning, was eS
planned by Amos Grim OF wabash codr
ty, Indiana, as being due to the COW
having eaten wild cherries. She was
freak cow with six teats. One day IN
milk tasted of berries. and Grim four
that she had got into the garden an
eaten his raspberry bushes.
In May a Guyandotte, w. Va, woma
bought a rustic stand OF willow llml
-aLt-nf ,,anHar nv 4
river side. and a fortnight age buds ar
leave appeared, sprouting from parts
table legs where small branches
twigs had been cut off in fitting the lie
and cross pieces together. Some OF I
sprouts are now two or three lhch
long.
TT is found that steel articles harden
IN petroleum show no cracks. do n
warn. and after hardening remain nea
~ white SO that they can be blued VIII
out previous rubbing with emery. 1
articles to be hardened should be tho
oughly rubbed with ordinary washl
soap. heated TO a cherry red In a chs
coal fire and then quickly plunged III
petroleum.
Although Americans claim to posse
o the most sumptueusly appointed tral
I'm the world, they have mono that c
surpass in general excellence the famo
orient express. which runs from ia
to C~onstantinople. via Vienna n b
grade.
Recently the night freight out ct "
terville, Me-, conveyed a hearse on a I
car TO Portland. Near Monmouth,
the brakeman was going over the ira
he discovered the feet of a tramp p
truding from the hsarse and the M
himself sound asleep.
In pressing wooden fabrics In order
Civ them a smooth. fine appearar
both a uniform pressure and a unifo
heat are required. BY a recently de'
oped system the heating is done elect
ally, the fabric being placed petw
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