Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-21

been issued by the British home Of
nee. lt is recommended that the adj
dftion of lead TO the covering mixture.
in Timing of iron and metal hollow
ware should be prohibited Prohibi-
ton meets also the danger CONSTANT.
pointed out from a public health point
of view that common tinned utensils
may constitute a danger TO the COM.
sumer," says the report. Under Theses
circumstances the report advises that
time limit be allowed before the pro-,
nibition of the use of lead shall take
effect, the date suggested being Janu-
aTy ], 1909.
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a New York Clergyman who returned
d short time ago from a trip 90 the
Holy Land, in speaking Of the strange
things which he encountered, said 4
wandered around Damascus and was
naturally interested in all that / saw
in the ancient Syrian town. II seemed
strange TO see as part OF this pic
ture az antiquity trolley ears and elec-
tric light But the far-awayuess was
still further destroyed when / came 10
the hotel after one of my walks and
met there an American, a member OF
the house of representatives, whom !
HAD seen but once before, and that was
when he was making political speech
from a cart In Lexington avenue, iD
this city"
that the sultan OF Turkey writes q
ConstantInople correspondent for he
rises at 4 in the morning, winter and
summer, and goes TO his white tiled
bathroom for his bath after which he
sips cup OF coffee brewed by The cafe
dijibachi, or chief coffee maker and
then, with q cigaret between his lips, he
sits down TO work at his desk. He
works until midday when he Udjourns
for prayers. then more coffee and an
cntrec, am hours siesta. and work
again until dinner, which is served al
in the afternoon
l. Is next 10 being born rich 10 pos
sess a temperament liHe the young
queen of SPANS. Nothing disturbs her
cquanimity, not even bombs or rail-
way accidents, and she grows stout
while the granGers rage al her deter
'nination to take matters as they come
with more OF loss happiness Lynn
phatic they cali the queen, which is not
so pretty as saying she has an easy,
sunny disposition, which If it holds out
through sorrow and adversely, should
be recloned as her most precious pos
session.
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The National Good Roads associa-
tion was organized By delegates from
thirty eight states In national con-
vention in Chicago, November 21 1900.
and an extensive campaign for good
roads all over the union Is In progress.
The president OF the association Is w.
ii. Moore St Louis, and the secretary
is Arthur Il. Jackson. Damariscotta,
Me. with vice presidents reuresentng
each state and territory
Consul Ernest Vollmer says that the
German port of Using Tau. In the
Chinese peninsula OF Shantung, offers
a large market for the sale OF sport
ing goods such az shotguns, rifles re-
Volvers CAmerican Makes lead, ann
munition, tennis goods, saddles, brides,
CATERS riding whips, bicycles Cheaper
grades for native use--the Chinese IN
in his glory on a wheeD. and two piece
bathing suits (great demand),
-
According to L'Electricien, q Wen
ma firm has recently placed on the
barket brushes made OF glass. which
are to replace emery cloth for clean
ing and polishing the commutators of
dynamos and motors. These brushes
are said to clean the commutafors
without scoring the metal, and their
use avoids the Inconvenience and dam
gers OF emory cloth.
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Street music has been prohibited n
Leipsic by order OF the municipality
This order applies not alone to barrel
organs and street musicians In general,
but to gramophones, pianos aud 9th
er instruments played indoors with
open windows. A local newspaper re-
marks that by the enforcement of this
measure the authorities hope TO lessen
the number Of suicides and murders
(which occur daily
Instruction on the construction and
operation of the turbine engine has
been added to the course of the Stuy-
vesant high school, In New York city.
A turbine engine has been installed,
ana is shown i'm operation beside All en-
gine of the recprocatinR type The
turbine is doing duty i'm generating
electricity, as well as serving for DEM
onstrating purposes.
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fine specimen OF a "scold's chair"
Is among the remaining contents OF
Sherfield Manor, Basingstoke. England
IL dates from 1923. and is In oak and
is elaborately carved in high relief In
bold scroll ornament. The seat is
worked by lever from behind and the
sitter is locked in by falling arched bars
in front.
Consul II, l.. Harris states that the
'GermanS nave three schools I'm the
Turkish city OF Smyrna, one each for
boys and girls and am orphanage of the
Deaconess sisters, the latter an instl-
tuition attended by the children of the
wealthy classes, as well as bp the or
phans and girls or poor parents.
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The lime produced in the United
States in 1906 amounted to 3.1g7, ,754
short tons, valued at $l2, ,4S0 652 an in
crease over the production for 1905 of
2lS,654 tons In quantity and OF 81, ,13O.425
i'm value The average price "a ton i'm
1906 was $3.50, against s3.67 i'm 1905. an
increase OF % cents.
ufAh hy hn
cess attained by Zeppelin in Germany.
and the army and private experiment.
ers In England and France with dirig-
ible balloons. a German electric firm i'm
Berlin announces its readiness TO con-
struct airships for military uses for any
nation that applies.
Tho export OF Chinese crackers from
Canton was 45,191 hundredweight last
year, as compared with 45.I04 hundred
weight in 1906 and 22.063 hundred
weight. the average for the previous
five years.
IN France the average yield of wine
Is ll2 gallons 10 every acre of vineyard:
in Spain IL rises 10 1870 gallons an acre:
but Algeria holds the record with 800
gallons to the acre
Lions are plentiful in Portuguese East
Africa. and that region is a paradise
for hunters of big game. In come sec
tions the authorities offer a reward for
each lions head brought In. and they
ipermit the hunter to keep the skin
A serious problem for the people OF
CANADA TO solve is the fuel supply OF
the future. No coal Of any kind has
ever been discovered in Ontario In
the older part OF the province the tim