Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-09-28


for funds to undertake the great task
OF excayating the ruins Of Memphis.
Egypt. IL is expected that England
will now do for Memphis what the
French government has done for
Delphi, and the Germans for Olympia.
The sites of the four great temples
are plainly marked, so that exploration
can begin at once. This mass Of ruins
covers 100 acres. as much as the whole
of tho site of Karnak. and IL is es-
timated that $4,000 viii be needed an
nually for fifteen years TO accomplish
the work. Important material IS be-
lieved TO lie within a few yards Of the
surface, so that results should be
reached promptly
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Mars possesses about one-half Of the
earth's diameter and one-seYenth it's
volume. II is some i40 000, 900 miles
from the sun, and consequently al a
mean distance OF nearly $4,000, 900 miles
from us. 1t receives less than one-half
the sunlight and heat a square foot that
we do; has an atmosphere less dense
than ours and possesses water and
ice. The planet exhibits two ice caps
at its poles. and orange and greenish
tints between these poles, Those pc
culiar lines or markings-the Canals
concerning which there has arisen
much discussion, form a sort of faint,
ineXplicable network over the surface
OF ruddy Mars
At the beginning of the year 1906
the total length OF the standard gauge
railroads in Germany aggregated "a
jl44 English miles, an increase of 2l.3
per cent. over the mileage length of
ten years ago. The area Of the German
empire ts 20S,7S0 square miles and II
contains o population OF 62,125. 600
For every 100000 inhabitants this
would give 6.1 miles length OF track.
age. The receipts from passenger
traffic for the year 1905 amounted to
$l6S773750, exceeding by 63.4 per cent.
these Of the year OF 1895. The pas
senger and baggage traffic contributed
2S19 per cent TO the total receipts.
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Benjamin Colder. n lumherman Of
North Mountain. had a thrilling ride
down the mountain side on a log The
log started at the top of the slide and
carried him with IT, He managed to
get astride and feared to jump off be-
cause OF the danger of being crushed
The slide inclines about so degrees. and
the log sped downward at frghtfuI
speed. The branches of the trees
whipped Colder with such force that
his clothes were torn to shreds. Near
the bottom a big branch swept him
from the log like a feather. He was
picked up unconscious and badly
bruised, Dut VIII recover.
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Another new 'ftis" pertaining to oc-
cupation has appeared 1t Is 'tele-
phonitis' The new epidemic has
broken out recently among girl switch
board operators in the Bronx. The
symptoms are a rash on the arm used
to handle the plugs, followed by par
tial or complete helplessness Of the
member. II is suggested by physicians
that the Hisnrday no 10
blood disorder caused by careless
handling of the plugs by their metal
ends, instead of by the insulated
handle
The Dallas News has compiled
table giving the output of the state
laws In the sessions of the sixteen Leg
islatures lately adjourned. Ii shows a
total of 1900 bills introduced. of
which 5,S31 became laws. The outturn
of new statutes is remarkable, espec-
tally in Minnesota, Pennsylvania and
Tennessee. The News estimates that
IF the remaining twenty nine states
produced new laws in the same ratio
the total output for the country this
year would be approximately 10000"
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Some startling figures OF comparison
have been made TO show the great cost
of English paupers The English poor
$l5,0OO,O00 year. which is as great as
the entire annual expenditure of the
kingdom of Holland, almost as much
as that of Australia and New Zealand
combined and equal to the whole public
expenditure of Denmark. Greece and
Norway.
One OF the largest cargoes of fruit
ever carried from any port recently left
Hobart Tasmania, for England IT
consisted of 10000 bushel cases. II IL
arrives in good condition. it is expected
that the difficulty of high freights.
which have hitherto placed the Aus
tralian grower at a disadvantage, will !
have been solved, and a great impetus
given to the industry.
Edward f. Gilpatrick, an ossifed |
man. has made all arrangements for !
the gift OF his body at death to the !
Harvard Medical school for dissec-
ton study and research. He fears he
may not live long. He was stricken !
at 80 years and was found in a poor
house near Portland. He gave his |
body without expense.
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About 10000 nets are in use during |
the herring season by the 500 fish
ing smacks of the Netherlands net |
lasts about three seasons. but owing |
to losses from storms and other |
between 10000 and $4,000 new /
nets are bought yearly.
Librarians In many parts of London
agree in stating that the public taste
for the reading of fiction is showing a
very decided falling off, and that the
of works of travel. history
and biography Is correspondingly in
creasing.
1t has been said that III the whole
OF the power from Niagara were util-
lied, Ii would only give three times
the horse power that is thrown away
by the blast furnaces OF the United
States alone"
Workmen engaged In pulling down
an old house in the Latin quarter OF
Paris were attacked and severely bitten
by sixty wild cats, which are believed
TO have bred In the cellars OF the house
1t is stated that at a depth of 2.00o
feet at Oxton. nine miles from Not
tingham England, a thick seam OF
hard coal has been found. Steps are
being taken to develop the field
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Possessing the advantage of being
acid proof and harboring no disease
germs, glass bricks, a product of Ger
many. are very popular. They are
translucent. but not transparent.
'The fool" wrote Burne-Jones I'm one
of his letters, has three laughs. He
laughs at what is good, he laughs at
what is bad, and he laughs at what he
does not understand"
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