Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-29
CUSTER CHRONICLE
JOSEPH KUBLER PUBLISHER

oOoASA - DLIh
How strong the sense OF duty is Il
Japanese officials in shown by the fol
lowing incident Of the great earthquake
wave THE director OF the Kamaish
telegraph Office saw his family swep
away before his eyes. In spite of his sa'
misfortune he at once went in search o
the telegraphic instrument that hat
been washed away. and as soon as pos
sible restored them 70 proper order. T
his self sacrificing zeal the public is In
debted for the speedy re-establishlng o
communications"
According to Prof. W. Flinders Petrle
who Is now at work clearing the ruin
OF temples at Luxor, the granite table
recently discovered at Thebes, Egypt
contains the first inscription found OF
Egyptian monuments that In any form
makes mention of the Israelites. TIL,
tablet was made under the direction o
King Merenpthah, and records that dur
ing his war In Syria, about 1900 B. c., h,
fought the people of Israel and spoiled
them.
The new municipal technical school,
opened the other day at Birmingham,
isiiSlaiIbs curtains LOT fOOl1lS, VI III
116 are devoted to teaching: occupies a
space of 1000 square feet and cost si45,
600. It's expenditure Is about $50, 900 a
year. The school Is used by / 500 stu
dents, of whom about t~wo-thlrds are In
structed In science and one-third in met
allurgy.
Pezon, a lion tanner at the fair Of
Neuilly, was attacked by the lion Bru-
tus Immediately after performing the
feat of putting his head in the lions
mouth. He was badly torn and only
saved by his fathers driving the lion
off with a pitchfork. Two years ago
the same lion nearly killed Pezon, pere,
at the same Neullly fair. and vas then
driven off by the son.
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Under the habltual criminal law OF
Connecticut a man who has been con-
victed of a crime three times shall, at
the expiration of his third sentence, be
detained In prison for twenty-five years.
The first application of the law has been
made in tn, case of George A. Minor,
who Is now detained In the Weathers-
field prison.
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A unique law Is still In force In STRAIT
ford, In Prussian Pommerania. A para
graph Of the police regulation Of 1910
which is still being enacted, reads:
Smoking In the street OIL promenades
or this town Is positively prohibited,
violaters of this law being punished by
a fine. or eventually by a number of
marks the fine amounts to-"
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A French paper says that an electric
boat has been constructed for the pur-
pose of visiting and inspecting some Of
the large sewers. The boat is wrapped
with a chain. which 1t picks up as 1t
goes along, according to a practice en-
ployed elsewhere in France, and the
motive power is a Fulmen accumulation
battery.
There Is an easy simple way to tell
IL a diamond Is genuine. Make a small
dot on a piece Of paper with a cad PEN
ell and look at 1t through the diamond.
If 1t shows blu a single dot the diamond
is genuine. If 1t shows more than one
or the mark appears scattered 1t is false
no matter what 1t costs.
Not an island has risen or sunk from
sight In the Pacific ocean in thirty
four years, n biologists say that ma
ture is resting for a future mighty eff
fort. A geologist predicts hat within
fifty years commissions of nature will
sink the whole of New Zealand fifty
feet below the surface OF the sea.
That Roentgen rays burn the skin like
sunlight is the latest information from
Berlin about the phenomenon. Piof.
2Ssss~@zaS >=A ns12ss- xssxraesA ss-.
the softer parts OF the body, like the
larynx n the diaphragm. by means
OF improved tubes.
By shaking the eggs OF common pike |
1ouble monsters may be produced. aRStn
A. RYDER hce rrivep -1o@ 49,.
mapaprNs@i'fef popuIst
concluding h the double gofGTsn or
the japanese, some of which have two
heads, others two tails, were originally
produced In this way and fixed by ar
tificial selecting.
In Germany a city Of 25, 900 people
which has not heard "LohenSrln' Is a
curiosity, but Worms had hat distinc-
ton until recently. 1t is rather curious,
for, as the city OF Nibelung legend,
Worms Is more closely associated with
the Wagner operas han any other ex-
cept N~uremburg.
A Washington druggist whose store
Is next door to a street railway trans-
fer station, a an eye to business. He
advertises: Your transfer is good for
ten minutes. Let me cool you off with
a glass of our delicious soda water while
o wait for the next car"
Unscrewing the cover from an old,
locked melodeon, that the instrument
might aid the choir at the funeral of a
childless New England widow who
died last week, the deceased's relatives
came upon sl2, 900 In United States bonds
slowed away inside.
A steel plate said to be the longest
ever made. has just been turned out by
n Stockton, England iron company. 1t
after shearing, rs feet S
inches by 5 feet by 6-10 inch in thick
ness, weighs five and a half tons and Is
without a flaw.
In order to circumvent the socialists
the German government has authorized
police officials to dress up in citizens
clothes and to attend the meetings OF
this prescribed class. The officials are
provided with money to spend for
drinks. etc.
The six gunboats captured from China
by japan a W beeen relegated to harbor
defense work. their big guns having
been found unavoidable In a seaway.
The highest priced watch made in Ge-
neva costs $500. 1t records fractional
parts of a second, strikes the hours and
quarters and plays three tunes. With
gems to ornament the case. the value
can, of course. be increased to two or
three sums.
Americans In London are remarking
with pride on the fact that when the
young duchess of Marlborough wears a
large hat to public entertainments she
always removes 1t In order that those
behind her~ t4o " NOT ha apnovad