Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-08-06

lOSL 0G Uuu H1liCH IGuu "A l4tAlll AlNAlN
lation of the chapters of EleaZer,'
made from the old rabbinical my 'lcrl
plays and legends OF the time.
When Adam delved
And Eve span.
In one OF these legends the SCRIP
was the produest aud grandcst Dt IN
hosts in paradise; the most erect o
form, with tho fairest OF human faces
After his fall Satan tried TO induce "nt
of the angels to let him into the LOST
paradise. This great angel hid Satan
in his mouth and took him into nGfe
disc. For this he WAS made n serpent
and in this s%erpcnt's mouth did STA
abide Satan when he spoke 10 Tic
woman Eve.
Patrick Ryan, a>section foreman on
a Colorado railroad, doesn't believe IL
wasting words. One foggy morning.
while running over his section, he ran
into an extra freight, and Ryan's cas-
wal reduced TO SCRAP iron and hndhns
wood. The report OF the accident ia
his superior officer vas as follo'Tt.
"Pether M~oriarity, roadmaster, ESQ:
August the wan; foggy m%ornln'; wild
n frate, green man at the brck;
handkar smashed 10 hell; where 'NIli
ship the wreck?-P Ryan, sec. maa.'
No stronger contrast between pow
erty and riches could be drawn than
that which exists between two blocks
IN the city of New York-onc bounded
by Second and Third streets and ave-
nucs B and G., the other by Fifth and
Sixth and Fifty-third and
Fifty-fourth streets. In the former
there are 1858 residents, whose aver
age annual income is but 81 Il year.
But 514 people dwell in the latter
block, yet their combined wealth APP
proximates 100000, 900.
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Just before the acceptance and
after the refusal unnumbered: Its
very good OF you, S~uzzaynne, To al
ways add that ancient jest on these
occasions Of being n sister TO me. |
suppose you will marry someone
else?" perhaps, but even then l
would be n sister TO YOU" That's 1T,
and he would be my brother then.
But, Sdzzaynne, don't you think it n
bit tough on a fellow, in life or death,
forever and ever, TO be in love with
his brothers wife?"
Here's n full report of n case that
came up before the supreme court in
New York the other day: your hon
or" said the plaintiffs lawyer, I'VE
would like n little more time. We are
not quite ready to try this case. My
client is on board the monitor Ma
liant" "My man is on The same boat, y
said the lawyer for the defendant,
sand we also want q htt'c more time,
Granted" said the court.
There is now pending In the Louis.
ana legislature a bill 10 provide scPd-
rate street cars for whites and blacks
in the cities Of the state and TO forbid
persons Of either race to ride in the
ears set apart for the other. The law
mixers are now worried to know how
to arrange 1t that white children in
the care OF negro nurses shall have
street car accommodations.
"Once upon q time, years and years
aQo,' began Uncle Buntline, when
asked by the children for n story,
there was a bloodthirsty pirate, I
cruel. black bearded buccaneer. Ills
long, low, rakish craft floated from
its dropping halyards the black flag.
This pirate of the Spanish main.
"Uncle," interrupted M of the listen
crs, edo the Spaniards remember the
Maine?"
'Mix me up n cool shandygaH and
take something yourself" said Tin
roof as he laid a bill on the mahog-
nnv sideboard. NO." said the white
aproned servitor, 81 never take any
Aing." "But 7 insist" "No use, /
positively can't take a thing" All
right" said Tinroof, complacently, if
YOU won't take the money / suppose
can't make you"
A Frenchman applied to n local OIL
cial for a passport to visit klatter-
wingschen in Switzerland. The func-
tionary. who was not a fellow of any
geographical society, struggled in vain
with the spelling Of the places name.
Then, unwilling to confess his diff
Guilty, he blandly asked: "Wouldn't
you as lief visit some other town.
Mr.. Stead says that the news which
cbeered Gladstone most during his
last irving months was the report that
his granddaughter, a bright girl of 20,
had decided to be a missionary. TO
his illumined eye nothing in this
world was worth talking of or living
for except the commission to preach
Christ"
81 believe If we could have the
dressing rooms on the stage and let
the turns go on in the dressing rooms
we could fill n growing want among
A certain class of patrons" said the
vaudeville manager, musingly.
"What is that funeral sound like
the tolling of mufled bells / hear
without there?" spake the queen re-
gent to the royal chamberlain. 1T is
your maiesty's minister of finance.
He has heard the canal tolls on Ca
mara's feet and is wringing his hands
Since il became known that Com.
modore Watson might visit Spain at
time all the harbor lights in Span
fish seacoast towns have been eXtin-
guished. Whenever an American visit
is expected a "paniard always lights
out.
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