Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-07-04
CUSTER CHRONICLE
JOSEPH KUBLER PUBLISHER

The Orange Free State is very nearly
as large as England and just as large as
the state of New York. 1t lies from 4,00C
TO 5000 feet above the sea. and is mostly
level, with some low ranges of hills. Tht
surface is bare of wood, except In a few
sheltered spots along the streams. but is
we'll covered with heritage. The air 4.
pure and bracing, much like that OF Col
orado or Wyoming. There are, happily.
10 billiards. but violent thunder storms
are not uncommon Inc the hailstones
which fall during such storms some.
times kill the smaller animals, and ever
men.
A curious instance Of the red tapeism
Of the English postoffice comes from
Norfolk. A letter carrier, with n Ions
country round, recently purchased a tri
cycle, which enabled him to get over his
district with greater ease to himself and
a more convenient promptness To the
public. In some way or other the de.
partment became aware of this fact and
sent down an official censure to him for
having dared to buy his machine with
out having received permission from
headquarters.
A sensational discovery has beer
made by the appeals and transfers com.
mittee of the city council of Cumber.
land, Md, which involves the taxation
of over $4,000 worth Of property in
South Cumberland. 1t appears that a
boundary stone had been moved In and
Tor some years property owners have
been evading taxation. The city en-
gineer has ascertained the true line and
the property above named has been in
cluded in the city limits.
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Arrangements are now making to
honor John Cabot by a special comment
grafton at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on June
"a, 1897, the four hundredth ~anniVersa-
~ OF his discovery of the mainland of
America. The movement is under the
auspices of the Royal Society OF Cana
da, and has the active support of Mr..
Clements Markham, president of the
British Royal Geographical society: DR..
Justin Winsor. librarian of Harvard un-
iversity, and other distinguished Amer
leans.
Nesting in the heart of Surrey, about
three miles from Reigate, is DuXhurst,
the place where Lady Henry Somerset's
scheme for an industrial farmhouse for
female inebriates is in operation. The
purpose of the institution is the recla-
mation OF habitual inebriates, and one
os,ino -. "naans to this n is inter-
eStnS outdoor empIoymv..., I
scope for this is furnished by the $50
acres of arabic, grass and wooded land
covered by the farm.
One of the latest tracts issued by the
British Society for the Protection of
Birds, refers 10 the extent that the bird
of paradise is being worn. During the
1895 season one warehouse alone of the
many that are engaged in the traffic so
detrimental to bird life disposed Of no
less han $4,000 dozens of bird of par
adise sprays. An appeal Is made to
civilized women throughout the world"
not to countenance the further sacrifice
of this beautiful bird.
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A strange custom IS still observed in
Roumania which reminds one strongly
Robinson Cruson. When a ervant
has d~ispleased his or her master the
takes his boots i'm his hands
and places them before the bedroom
of his master. 1t is a sign of great
submission, ard the boots are either
clicked away as an intimation that the
viii not be forgiven, or else the
ervant is told to place them on his feet,
which shows hat he is forgiven.
esr ) says that az. 2i4.0o die annoanys
that is. an average of 9S,S4o a day. AVN
IN hour and 81 a minute. Inc dhh"'
number of births, on the other hand' y
!. assr good 4 ga "a aliong the line. at
les can be quickly cured without an
cet..Iateu al oV,,. ~, "a average or
100, 500 a day, 1920 an our and 10 a min
ute, so that the population is increasing
at the rate of three to the minute.
A recent issue Of L'Energie Electrique
gives the following mixture for cleaning
the parts Of machinery, which it states
attacks the hardest crust of hardened
oil: Boil the parts for three minutes in
a solution Of $50 parts of sodium carbon
ate and fifteen parts Of caustic I'm soda
in 1000 Of water, after which rinse and
dry the metal.
According to a Swiss contemporary
an engineer named Tauxe has just in
vented a new process of tempering steel
by electricity which not only makes the
steel much harder but at the same time
gives it the proper elasticity; hat is, it
Is not brittle like steel made very hard
by the usual process.
A feather bed in which they were
sleeping saved the live of two women
at Bonnie Terre, Md, last week. Light
ming struck the house. hit the bed, set
the shuck mattress in a blaze, but the
feathers diverted the electricity from
the women.
A penny was recently sold at auction
in England for $1,000. 1t was of gold,
worth 20 pence N0 cents) and was coined
in 1857 by order of Henry III. But two
other specimens are known to be in ex-
istence. They are in the British muse
um.
Madrid schools are so bad that Ger
man residents Of the city have united to
establish a school where their children
may obtain as good an education as in
more civilized parts of Europe for a
reasonable outlay of money.
More than 10000 persons are engaged
In the manufacture of explosives In Eng
land. Last year forty persons in the
business were killed and 1877 injured by
accidents.
At the recent parliamentary election
In Trome, England. the agent of the
Mr.. Barlow, 1904; Lord A. Thyme, 4,S10.
The actual vote was: Mr.. Barlow,
5000; Lord A.. lynne, 4,763.
Elections by the dozen to the La
Plata legislature are declared to have
been fraudulent and rave been an
nulled.
A radish eighteen inches In length has
oeen grown ear Widan, Germany,
which Is a to be in the exact form of
a baby, even to the fingers and toes.
Voters In Italy get on the average
SO cents each for their votes. and must
show by the blotting paper which they
have used for their ballots that the vote
was cast for the right man before draw
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