Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-01-14

CUSTER CHRONICLE
JOSEPH KUBLER PUBLISHER
A California man has invented {
Health shake" or i~nvigorating bat
ting machine, which is warranted tC
provide in ten minutes all the exercise
a man needs in a day. The candidate
Tor a general shake up stands on Az
oscillating platform and, when all IL
ready, the current is turned on from
the dynamo. The motion is under con
troll and varies from a gentle thrill II
dancing n Jig. Under a strong cur.
rent every muscle is employed in pre-
serving the perpendicular, the legs
ere rapidly developed and the effect on
the liver Is said to be better than that
of horseback riding.
While he was secretary of the navy
William Il. Chandler issued an order
that officers should not permit their
wives to reside at foreign stations &c
which their husbands were attached
The order was promptly rescindec
when the secretary received the fol
lowing from Commodore Fyffe, in
command of the Asiatic %squadron: III
becomes my painful duty TO report
that my wife, Eliza Fyffe, has, In dis.
obedience 10 my orders, and in the face
of regulation Of the department, taken
up her residence on the station and
persistently refuses to leave"
n tramway runs through the cathe-
hral of Utrecht which was built i'm the
thirteenth century upon the site Of an
older one founded by ST. Willebrodus.
After a severe storm in 1874 the nave
ELL, leaving n large space between the
tower and the chancel. The tower is
$50 feet high and very beautiful. A
rave was built, but between IL and the
.ower a moderately wide street runs
This is still considered consecrated
ground and the unitarian municipal
ity has shocked the faithful by the
noisy innovation of n tramway.
The mummy rooms at the British
museum, says the London Mail, have
been completed, and are now open &c
the public. These sleeping beauties OF
the ancient past have been systemat
ically laid out i'm a manner becoming
their age and rink. Kings and mobiles,
priests and people have been assigned
To their places according TO their
chronological or ecclesiastical order,
and no better display can be seen out.
side GhiZeh than the recently aug
nented company in these rooms.
In private life Duse, the noted Italian
actress, dresses almost entirely in
white and never wears a corset. Not
withstandlng an extraordinary pre-
disposition to melancholy, she is n
splendid talker, though only on rare
occasions does she engage in lengthy
conversation. Her hair is beautifully
black, with the exception of one snow.
white lock that sweeps across her
temple, OF this particular tress she il
very proud.
Colonel Henry, the French officer
who killed himself when the fact that
he was n forger was discovered, was
the third member Of his family within
twenty-seven years who died a
tragical death. The first had the mis-
nomer of Fortunate Henry" He was
a member of the commune and a
colonel under il in 1871. His son was
Emile Henry, who dynamited the pc.
lice station of the Rue DIES Bons En-
fants and the Cafe Terminus in 1894.
While in Hawaii with her father,
Congressman Berry, Miss Anna Berry,
of Newport, Ky, received as a gift
from President Dole the royal flag,
which was lowered when Queen
was dethroned. The
.throneless monarch now wants Miss
TO return the flag, but the Ken
lucky girl refuses to grant the re-
quest, although Liluokalani pleads
that the banner is private property.
Lieutenant Colonel Moore, of the
Second West Virginia volunteers, who
has caused n sensation by spread
three insubordinate members
Of Company NJ, was "a few years back
one of the best known newspaper cor
respondents i'm Washington. O'Brien
Moore received his early newspaper
education in the southwest, where he
vas taught that discipline must be en-
at all hazards.
In the earlier ages dancing was adj
as a cure for sickness. Lycur-
rus brought back from India and
egypt to Lacedemonia notions Of the
nedico-religious dances and enacted
hat the Spartan youth should be
,.,,,rIf A, ,rrnnnfn1lu and GNInt1ptri IL
ally. In Greece Socrates commended
with "A view to educating the
mind and body and he deemed it a
giving device.
The terms monk" and "friar," used
o denote respectively n smear and II
lace which the ink has not touched,
lost probably originated from the as
of CaXton with the Scripto-
in Westminster abbey. The
arb of the monk was black, and that
( the friar was white. In printing Of
the term father Of the chapel is
pplied to the chief of the compositors.
King street in Westminster, says the
ondon Mail, is in n process of demoli-
II was here that many notable
nrsonages dwelt-Oliver Cromwell,
he earl OF Dorset, Sir Thomas Kuyyett
principally famous for the capture Of
NY Fawkes), Thomas Carew, poet and 1
,urter; the second Lord North, and {
lany others equally familiar to stu
ents of English history.
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1t is suggested in England that Ma
II Marchand be invited to lecture in s
ondon, and the originator of this idea '
links il might be n good thing to ]
ward him the gold medal Of the !