Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-09-07


served In the privateer days of 1912 e
announce to the townspeople the sail
ings and winnings OF Pcrtland's ships
and throughout the days OF our highest
commercial and maritime prosperity i
has flown the private flags OF the citys
most successful merchants and snip
owners.
- -
Two English scientists discovered
about ten years ago, that fused silica
might be treated IN the same way as
glass but IL was left for Germany 10
develop its commercial possibilities. An
English iirm has now taken up the or
iginal process and is enabled TO place
this material on the market at reason
able rates To chemists the discovery
is Of great service, for the vessels made
of fused silica will not crack even when
heated white hot and plunged into wa
ter. They are also impregnable TO
acids, and It Is even possible TO use
them for melting platinum.
--s-~>-s-----
The fiber OF the dwarf palma tree
until lately regarded as worthless or
harrnflll-is developing an important
Angerian industry. Factories are null
tIplying, and TO these the natives bring
the palm leaves, which are transformed
into vegetable fiber by a steam card
ing machine, and then spun and braid
ed. The material has the advantage
over horsehair OF being proof against
moths and insects. II is being used for
mattresses, woven products, harness.
and carriage work, military bedding,
various tissues and even hats.
The crescent-shaped sand dunes
which move I'm thousands across the
desert of Isiay, near La Joya, Peru,
have been Investigated by Astronomer
s. l. Bailey, who found the points OF a
crescent to be 160 feet apart. while the
convex side measured Al feet and the
greatest width was more than 100 feet,
The estimated weight was 5000 tons,
vet ii was carried lG5 feet year by the
prevailing south winds.
---s-~s-S--
Although there Is a great effort made
TO keep secret the thefts Ia hotels and
restaurants OF New York IL is quite
evident they are on a rapid increase.
The manager OF q large restaurant
gays the system OF having servants
depend almost entirely upon patrons for
their pay lowers their moral standard
and causes them TO look on those they
are supposed to serve as their legiti-
mate prey.
The fact that a man today can sit
Down i'm a restaurant overlooking the
Thames embankment or at a table un-
der the trees at the edge OF the Thier-
garten and dine on fresh salmon
brought from the waters Of California,
Oregon and Alaska shows graphically
how Industrial efficiency has given ro-
nance TO modern trade
----.-sS-.--
1t IS understood in Lhasa, the
Thibetan ca~ital says the Indian
Trade Journal, that the Amban in
tends to open new trade route to-
4 49, % tlnr Do, rss1
This will save fifteen days in journeys
20 SangaChojong and by Pothang to
Cyanide.
A steam vessel has been provided for
the Rev Louis Ives, of England, who
has taken the chaplaincy of the Mis-
sions to Seamen at the port of New
rastle New South Wales. this being
done that he may minister at any hour
10 ships ut anchor in any part of the
harbor
A New York Methodist church,
which lately gave the use of its build
ing to congregation OF Jews who
temporarily were without a place OF
meeting, received In return not only a
vote of thanks. but a check for $1,000
st. Giles Christian mission, In Lon
don, every year gives about 10000 free
= ;
finds work for 6,000, secures homes for
500 shelterless or destitute women, and
takes care Of 500 Juvenile offenders.
The richest unmarried woman in
France is probably Princess Marie
Bonaparte, daughter of the late Prince
Roland. She Is pretty, accomplished
young. and inherited a vast fortune
from her maternal grandmother.
-.--s-s---------
Alec Burns, brother OF the Rt Hon,
John Burns. was once well known IN
the ring as a boxing champion. The
brothers studied boxing together. and
the cabinet minister can still use his
'mauleys a bit"
-~-<,->---
A man who has given the subject q
great deal of study says that there is
a greater variety TO be found among
divorce laws OF different nations than
among the laws governing any Other
subject.
In all France there are only 100 per.
sons who are milllonaires In our sense
of the word lin dollars). OF million.
aires In francs. there are about Is. 0O(
apart from the 1.loO already counted.
A monument has been erected tc
Anna Holzel i'm the Schlossgarten, at
Mannheim, Germany. She was the wife
OF carpenter who is 1884 saved the
poet Schiller from a debtors prison.
------------s-o--~-----
The poetical dreams, "Rosamund," by
Charles Algernon Swinburne. viii be
translated into German and presented
in Germany next season. Schubert S
''Rosamund" music viii be used.
The other day at Aldershot Tommy
Atkins had a pageant of his own-l. .00O
...a11 \ t...... a n T..
that have been worn in the British
army between 1907 and 1907.
--.--e--~---
NJ. Safanoff, the Russian conductor.
never uses n baton. Instead he waves
his arms clenches HIS fists and fights
the air in a manner disquieting TO the
average concert-goer
Mrs. william Howard Taft wife OF
the secretary OF war has many accom-
plishments, notably that of music. She
is graduate OF the Cincinnati Conser-
vatory of Music.
The west coast countries OF South
America are nearly 1000 miles closer
to the manufacturing districts OF the
United States than they are TO tho
manufacturing districts OF Europe.
Chile, which has the reputation OF
pe1ng the most progressive OF the
Spanish speaking countries has over
5000 miles of railroad and 1900 miles
of telegraph.
California has the world wide repu-
tation of fathering the most daring en-
gineering projects In the world IN the
way OF electrical generation and trans
mission.
-
The Philippine coal mined at Batan
is superior to the Japanese and Aus
liam poai uhirb IN t.,rp &c