Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-01-07
CUSTER CHRONICLE
JOSEPH KUELER PUBLIsHEi


JOSEPH KUELER PUBLISHEi
Evangelist Moody likes an occasional
game of cards. One evening in San
Francisco ne and some friends were
playing whist when q messenger boy
entered with a dispatch. won't you
sit down and play n game of authors
with us, my lad?" said Mr.. Moody.
Ihc INV declined and soon left the
room. IF l had not suggested 10 that
boy theidea that we were playing au.
thors," said the worldly wise preacher,
every paper in town would have an
nounced TOMORROW hat we were gam
bling. That MOULD never do, so-wsat
are trumps?"
Major s. Ii. Phinney, forncN ai,d
editor OF the Barnstable, Mass, ia
triot, is still an active influence in the
affairs OF that newspaper, though he
Is 80 years old. \ lifelong democrat,
he cast his first voteSfor Andrew Jack.
son md began attending the national
conventions of his pat ~ in 1874. lie
remembers the laying of the founda'
ton stone of the Bunker Hill monu.
Inent, of which historirl event he was
70 witness. In public affairs affecting
She region where he resides he has
been influential for three-quarters OF q
century.
Bret Harte's story, "Vennesgce's
Partner is said TO have becn suggest.
cd 10 the author by the touching and
beautiful friendship whicly binds to
gethcr two old men wh9 have lived
more than forty years m the noun
tains on the route of /the Yosemite
They have q little gold mine which
yields an occasiqHal $50, an orchard
and a garden. One of the two has not
seen San Fr9Jncisco since 1855. With
all their hermit life, however, the two
old gentlemen read a great deal and
know what is going on In the outside
world.
Professor George Adam Smith, Of
the University OF Glasgow, Is engaged
10 deliver the Lyman Beecher curse
Mt Yale next year. In a recent CONVEX.
eation with n friend the latter re-.
marked TO Mr.. Smith that the writing
OF the biography Of SO great u friend as
the late Henry Drummond must have
been n most enjoyable { ask. $50 il
would have BEEN replied the profes-
sor, did ! not know that Henry never
wanted a biography written, and my
feelings that when we meet in heaven
he may be displcased."
The ceremony of ordaining Edward
X. Evans, a cousin Of Fighting Bob"
rs the pastor Of the Congregational
phufch i'm nnhnp Conn ,rnt No far
as crowding the church with spccta.
tors to witness the rite before IL was
decided that the candidates. views
were not sufficiently orthodox. Mr..
Evans, who is n graduate OF the Yale
divinity school, has preached several
times in the church he was 10 have
taken charge of and is quite popular
with II congregation.
Bishop Mrak, Of Marquette, Mich, IL
the oldest living missionary TO the
American Indians, his work among the
red men in Michigan having begun
early in the century. He found the un.
tutored sayagcs always truthful and
says that, contrary to the general be.
lief, they were not a cruel race. Mrs.
il. g.. Wilder, of Montclair, n. j., is an.
INV 'N'lN illHNlOIlulN . IllDURU
10 years of age, she is about to star
Tor India To resume work there ms
Presbyterian missionary.
Admiral Dewey is TO be honorcd in
Vermont by the erection Of a Dewey
hair at the states military institution,
Norwich university, ut Rutland. This
institution has long been a military
school and many of the officers who
served in the civil war were among its
graduates. 1t is likely that the legis.
Iaturc will appropriate Il sum toward
the addition Of this hall to the univer.
sity and it is proposed also TO raise
money by popular subscription for the
same purpose.
A blue silk undershirt worn by King
Charles /. nj the time Of his execution
stained with several blood spots is &c
be old ut auction in London soon. The
certificate attached states that the
shirt was obtained by DIR. lIobbe, the
physician who attended the king On
the scaffold, and passed by marriage of
his daughter into the possession OF the
family which is about to sell il.
by order of the Berlin BARRIERS,
Hairdressers' and Wigmakers' union
apprentices are forbidden TO wear
their hair cut short, because the prac.
tice is unprofessional. The union de.
cided that the hair OF apprentices
should be tastefully and carefully
dressed, in order to act as an inspira.
ton for the business and for custom.
crs.
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George Frederic Watts proposes &c
have an open gallery, like an Italian
loggia, built around the churchyard oi
st. Botolph's Aldersgate, in London
and to erect in it memorials to heroes
in humble life. He is preparing n mon.
ument to Alice Ayers, a young girl
who, in n fire in 1855, saved the lives
Of three children, but lost her own.
Paris has lost n curious institution
the last of the cabinets de lecture H.
the Passage dc rOpera having been
closed. For n small fee people could
enter and read the magazines and
latest books. The business was killed
by the increased publication OF "feuil.
lctons" in the daily newspapers.
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