Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-11-30

.he age OF 200 to 800 years. Wallan's
3ak, near Paisley. Scotland, is known
10 be more than 700 years old, and there
are eight olive trees on the Mount of
Olives, near Jerusalem, which are
known 20 have been fiourishing IN 1888
The yews at Fountain Abbey, York
shire, were old trees when, in ll32, the
abbey was built, and redwood in
Mariposa grove California, is mani
fold centenarian. Baobab trees of Af-
rica have been computed to be more
than 5000 years old. and the deciduous
cypress at Chapultepec Is considered
10 be of a still greater age. Humboldt
said that the Dracaena Draco, at Oro-
tava, on Teneriffe. was one Of the old
est Inhabitants of the earth.
Officers who at one time were IN close
touch with King George. of Greece say
shat he used TO compete at Greek
amateur athletic sports under the as
sumed name OF George Papadoulos, "
and was always SO successful that spec
tators and participants began 10 sus-
pect masquerading professional. The
feeling once became so strong that an
attempt WAS made to mob the athletic
monarch, who. rendered helpless by
numbers, was obliged to reveal his
identity to the police and trust them TO
smuggle him away.
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Siegfried Wagner the famous com
DosersS son, has bought about five
acres near the Baireuth theater, where
he will build villa for himself. He
was anarchitect before the yearning to
write music seized him. His study and
composing room win be decorated with
frescos depicting scenes from his own
operas, but the large reception rooms
VIII be adorned with frescoes repre-
senting scenes in his fathers musical
dramas.
France is the premier snail-producing
nation, although Austria, Bavaria and
switzerland have thousands 0f snail
farms, where the famous escargots are
raised and fattened on vine leaves The
dem9nd for Snails in France is far too
great for the supply TO be left 10 chance
and thus II comes about that snail
farming is an important Industry.
Paris alone consumes millions between
September and May. when these little
creatures are at their best
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The edict against opium smoking has
led TO a universal desire ON the part of
the victims of the habit 10 break II off
They are All wanting now TO purchase
one or the other of the cures" with
which the market is suddenly flooded
The money order system being suspend
ed here, their only recourse is TO buy
postage stamps to send to the ports for
the desired cures.
statue of the Venus of Milo made
of Tanana gold and weighing 400
ounces. has been received at San Fran
cisco I'm shipment of gold from the
Washington Alaska bank of Fairbanks
and Is an excellent reproduction in
miniature of the famous statue. The
gold in the statue is valued at $7225.
Including it's small square base Of gold
the statae-is 1914 inches high.
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Memorial day and the Fourth OF July
ell fan on Saturday, giving the public
three double holidays" Ordinarily
these three do not fall on the same day.
but by the intervention of February 20
next year Washington's birthday falls
just fourteen weeks earlier than Me-
mortal day, which regularly comes five
weeks before the Fourth.
That the finest stone buildings and
monuments of many cities are disin-
tegrating through the action of the sui
phuric aSid produced by the combus-
iion OF Goa! is asserted by a writer in
Cosmos (PariS). In London. especially.
il has been estimated that no fewer
than half a miliion tons OF acid are
thus discharged into the atmosphere
yearly.
The wonders revealed by the ordi-
nary miscroscope are increased a hum
dredfold by a recent invention. which
enables the use of q high power lens
as large as six inches in diameter
thus bringing the whole Of objects In
stead of details only under observa~
ton.
II is claimed that Massachusetts
leads in the cranberry output. with an
average crop of about 100000 bushels
annually; New Jersey is close sec
ond. with about $4,000 bushels, and
Wisconsin ranks third with an aver
age of about 100000 bushels.
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China and cut glass that were used
on Washington's table at Mt Vernon
have been lent TO the National Museum
at Washington by Miss Mamie Ram
dolph Heth for exhibition in the Hall
of History in connection with the other
Lee Washington relics
II is stated that so much had been
learned by the flight of Null Secun-
dus" TO London that it's use viii be
abandoned and that new ship with
considerable alterations. based ON the
experiences of the flight, will be put
in hand,
The noble church OF ST. Michael, Co
ventry, England, the structure OF the
three tall spires, is the largest parish
church in the British Isles being 293
church in Yarmouth being the next
largest.
''Petrel' and petrol" both descended
from petra rock. "Petrel' comes
directly enough. through petroleum"
rock oil but "petrel' through st. Peter |
after whom the bird was named, be- |
cause 1t appeared to walk upon the |
waves.
The minting of nickel coins in the |
Republic OF Colombia has been or
dered. The new coins will be 25 per |
cent nickel and IS per cent copper /
and will take the place of one, two |
and five peso notes.
oscar p. Thrasher. aged 8 years. |
claims the honor of being the youngest !
telephone exchange operator in the |
world. At the age OF years he be- |
xep 10 operate and soon exhibited q |
wonderful ability for the work
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Arthur Mailet. who translated the !
works of Andrew Carnegie into French, |
is at the head OF party OF French |
scientists and engineers now in this
country Investigating the steel indus
try.
diamond ofill bore-hoIe G,Ie0 feet
deep WAS put down in Upper Siesia
in 1900. Another deep hole was put
down on the Rand. South Africa in