Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-08-05

NfAbhHh ~ ~
almost any day actively employed
among the manuscripts OF the Bibli-
otheque Rationale in Paris. From .
O'Clock in the morning till O in the
evening the only survivor of a famous
group of historians and archaeologlsts
is often busy reading and copying
texts. Mommsen has also spent a
great deay of time recently in Rome IN
connection with the Corpus lnscrip-
tionum Latinarum.
Spencer Pratt, United states consul
at Singapore, who has been credlted
with having exceeded his authority IN
making promises to the FIllpinos IN
the early stages Of our occupation OF
the Philippines, brought suit recently
against a publishing firm in Singa-
pore that put out n book in which
was given in detail form an interview
alleged 10 have taken place between
Mr.. Pratt and Aguinaldo. The court
found that the story of the interview
was false and libelous and further
publication Of the book was promo
tied.
Prince Nicholas, the third son OF
IIlIItt iIfOIk' VI 'iNNNNf
leisure I'm writing poems and pieces
for the stage. In n recent d~rainatlc
composition a piece composed by the
prince was considered 10 lie one OF the
hest submitted to the judges. One OF
his plays has been performed by n
theatrical company at Athens, u the
author bid his identity under an as
sumed name. He has artistic as well
as literary talent, and at the present
time Athenians are admiring his pie
ture at the exhibition Of arts.
Some one told a Twentieth Kansas
boy that mosquitoes would never
come into the n~eighborhood OF II dog
so he captured one of the ours run
ming about town and took him to bed.
AS n result the dog filed the bed so
full of leas that he hasn't been able 10
get rid of them yet, and he is sleeping
out under a banana tree. Mosquitoes
are bad enough, the Lord knows
saws our soldier boy, "but they are an
ice cream festival when compared
with a Philippine flea"
Arrangements have been completed
whereby n band of forty Creek IN
dams will be sent to Paris in 1900 10
olive exhibitions of the game Of toll
IA sport which combines the prlh-
ciples of golf and shiny, with the
brutality of foot ball. Only about
twenty Indians are required to play
the game, but as about fifty eNhl-
billions are to be given II VIII De-
necessary to have a score OF su1st'-
tutes to take the places OF those VINO
may be injured.
The report on the production Oh cop
per i'm 1898 has just been submitted TO
the United States geological survey by
Special Agent Kirchotf. The produce
tion of the United States in that year
was 526.375.501 pounds, which is by ran
the largest product ever reported. Inns
report shows that the year 1878 was
one of general prosperity Tor the cop
per mining industry, the fuli prouuc
being marketed at prices slightly pet
ter than those OF 1897.
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Two little boys were arrested IN AZ
lanta charged with attempting 10 puIh
down n church after they had hehrly
demolished the interior. one OF t''
bows is IL and the other only y. IheE
were arrested and made n conleSsioh'
The younger boy has been released on
account of his age and the o'her IL
being held Mt police barracks
divorced mems club has been or
panized in Alameda, Cal, for the pur-
pose Of sending out scouts ana mis-
sionaries, men who have found mar
riage a failure and whose object ~ Is
to impress upon mankind the dangers
of matrimony and give those lncllnen
that way an opportunity to profit by
their sad and narrowing experiences
"
The wife of n western millionaire
fish packer is going on the stage for
the sake of being in an artistic atmos-
phere. She says she went through a
rigid course of theosophy, CHRISTIAN
Science, psychical research and hyp-
notism for tho purpose OF establishing
an electrical current between herself
and her audience.
Statistics which have been collated
in Wisconsin show the average cost OF
raising wheat to be "a cents a bushel
and the cost of corn 81 cents. In both
cases there are included interest on
the value of the land, with the cost OF
implements and horses added IN.
One man, with the assistance of two
.~shockers," i'm Decatur township. ln'
diana, recently cut forty acres o.
wheat in two days. The work was done
with two horses and n siX-foot binder
and two pounds Of Irvine to the acre
were required to bind the wheat. This
is believed TO beat the record.
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1t has just been iudicially decided in
Oregon that in an emergency case q
physician may drive across II bridge at
q speed greater than that permitted to
ordinary traffic.
Firemen in Macon, Ga, are super
s%titious over the fatality of a bed in
the truck house. Four men have died
soon after occupying it. \ fireman
occupied il n few nights ago says
that one of the former occupants OF
the bed named Smith appeared to him
i'm his sleep, and be believes that he is
going to die. The bed will not be occn'
pied again.
Between January ! last and May ~
there were pVeg 5000 cases % typhoid
III Philadelphia, with bf7 deaths
and the trouble vas largely the respH
IN impure rFirf sNfplS'.