Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-12-01
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There Is an industrial boom over all
the world. Laborcrs are so scarce in
switzerland that they have to be i'm
ported not only from Italy, but from
Bohemia and Silesia.
The French are excited because It is
believed that King William ttended
the Paris exposition incog. The king
has ways OF his own and is capable
Of creating many peculiar surprises.
A canvas canoe is a frail bark. One
sank in the Ohio river near Greensboro,
Ky, recently, and its two occupants
were drowned. The jar Of a gun fired
caused the canoe to collapse and go
down.
The ugly. nail biting habit has been
dignifed with a new name by q French
doctor; 1t is onychophagia. This word
simply means nail eating and is ter
rible enough to Brighten N child out
OF the habit.
Astronomers discover that the illum-
nation OF the earth is fourteen times
greater on the moon han that OF the
moon on the earth. Some OF the flnan-
ciers ought to loo at the meter and
collect the toll.
1t is costly making a roundup Of the
nations population and general ef-
lCSlSs lc CINCINNATI NOillliiGlC
zette says: ITO this date the cos OF
the census has been Sc, 362, 900, and, con-
sidering the fruits, 1t is cheap enough"
Better late than never. The New
York Tribune says Falrmont park
(P~hiladelphia) is to erect a $3.50 sta
tue OF Robert Morris, signer of the
declaration OF Independence and the
great American financier of the revolu-
tionary period.
Possibly America will become the
great ship-building nation OF the
world. Russia is to place orders dur
ing the next year for five new battle
ships with American s~hip-builders. The
contracts will nvoive an amount Of
more than $4,000, 900.
If Chicago people can see a man
around about where the new postof-
flee building Is expected to be theyfeei
satisfied, If he has the appearance Of q
~workingman. That is a sign to them
hat the work may go on some time In
the radiant future"
The Rev. Stephen F.. Reed, a grad
uate OF Princeton, while out hunting,
was shot and killed by a friend. These
accidental killings by q friend" are
becoming entirely too frequent, and
show hat only a very few men have
any business fooling with a loaded
gun.
Mrs. Anthony Daggett of Marion,
Ind, died from eating roasted coffee.
She began by eating a grain or two at
a time. The habit grew on her Until
she would eat a cupful of the beans
every day. She knew of the injury to
her, but habit was stronger than her
will.
Reports Of the low price of good
wines in the old country continue. The
wine crop Of Germany is as immense
as that Of France. 1t is the same way
in all the vineyards of Europe, and
their output is selling for lower prices
than for a generation or account Of
the glut.
Many of the daily newspapers are
/ making a continued story of the biog-
raphy of the men who were fortunate
enough to get into the Hall Of Fame"
They begin at the beginning and pub
lish one biography a day; and perhaps
one chapter Of ancient history daily is
enough.
A Norwegian has invented an auto
! matte machine to save the cost of
printing postage stamps and the trou-
BILE Of obtaining them, especially after
hours. You put your unstamped letter
into one slot and a penny into another
slot, and the machine stamps the let
ter Paid"