Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-01-25
JosEph kUsLER. Publisher

cuer~R SOUTH DAKOTA
JosEPH kUHLER. Publisher
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5 ,statistiyian has lately compared NE
cost Of an up to date ballifshlp
tIl0.q0o 000) with Yale university's mud
OF s.. 100. GOO. the Nobel fund of ss,oo0Oeo
the Rhodes hequest Of $l0.00o,000, the
Pcabody Foundation Of S35G0.000, etc.
For lhe cost OF battleship We can
Duiid iG6 miles of railroad, 1000 village
SShoolhouscs or 30 model tenements.
IN " r. Hornaday, director ot the
Now ork Bronx Park zoo, has just
returned fr n Mexico where ne spent
two months IL studying sheep in the
desert country Of the Pinacate noun
tain region. He says that he discov-
cred some new varieties ~ sheep. lie
also tolls ~ ~ discovery cf remark
able cluster Of extinct volcanoes by
pY. 7. w. McDougall OF the desert
botanical laboratory. of Tuscon. and his
associates who went along 10 make
geological survey. They counted :Glly
600 deed craters he said.
Many 80 the Chinese believe that
when all other remedies fail ano death
is al hand ginseng has The power to
bring bach health and longevity hcncs,
when they frcl Ih" need of It they VIII
pny ;abul nus prices for certain kinds ~
roots. 4 root to be really valuable as
q commodity must come from The
nuuatains OF I<irin or be yeputcd 10
have come from there. 7; must be bi-
futcHted so as 10 resemble as much
as possible the human form, AID be
mi-trjnsparcrt, dry ada iiiilty. OF
course tho larger the root the better,
and as il is sold hy weight il is not
fftts4 a 4 IN
bring as much 100 aG ounce The
value OF such = root is in It's shape. It's
texture. the maper Ia which Il has beeA
cured. aud The region whence Il came.
most Interesting presentation has
been made "a he town OF Paris by a
certain Nine. Biavet. II consists of the
furniture which was used by the royal
family during It's imprisonment IN The
teQple. Among the items are included
The bed Of the Princess Elizabeth, the
quilt which WIS used by Marie Autoin-
eftc, and box OF toys OF the little
DauphiE. Chairs tables and books are
also Included and finally. the lock-
smiths Instruments with which the un-
happy king passed his time while
awaiting execution The entire collac-
tiop " ili be lodged IN the Musee Carua-
valet
II the clothes of an ordinary u2ggar
ia Bombay were searched. cooked food
sufficient TO satisfy al least five per-
sons would be found slowed away ia
different places II is well known that
these beggsrg are regular veuders Of
food. they eat ms much as they can and
Seil the rest. a Bombay street beegar
rs well to do individual and sends
home weekly postal order of 10 or 10
rupees one uf the fraternity was over
heard saying TO brother professional
thai he had done badly that day hay-
ing earned only rupees and annas
Greece Is ~ Isolated Country gf 25.gSl
square miles that supports a population
of some 2,Ho0, 600 people and has a for
eign trade Of about $40. 1000 900 year.
II has no railroad connection with any
other country, and being cut off from
the rest of Europe by the mountains
al Turkish Macedonia on the north all 7
commerce is by sea. The principal
ports are Pi1acuS tthe port for Athens
Pairas, and Nolo on the mainland and
the island ports OF SYRIA and Corfu Th,
Hreeks probably number an told S0O0-
moo OF whom about 100000 are in Tur-
kew
Variations produced by weather oa
the a5rus plant have been codined by
Professor NoWact. the originator az the
observatory at Denmark hill. England
-four days IN advance OF the weather,
bureau. predicting storms. winds
changes and the IKE The forecasts
are nade through the different posi-
tons of the leaves which are turned
In every direction and brought to diff
ierent angles by the atmospheric
changes.
Professor ". T.. Grange. author of
the History of Primitive Love-" al
ludeG in the course of lecture in Bos-
Ion TO the mo'icrn cynical view OF love
that prevails. J remember once hear
.ng bricklayeT and a plumber discuss
love. I hold said the bricklaver. that
n you are terribly IN love, the way ia
cure yourself Is to run away The
,,lunber shook mis- head and sneered.
That VIII cure YOU. he said provided
you run away with the girl !"
Consul James T. Dunning, OF Milan.
reports that during the first six months
of 1907 the total emigration from Italy
amounted Ia 452.32S souls, of whom
lsa, 1913 Went to other Euppear cuun-
tries and countries IN the Medterran-
can basin, and 257,130 crossed To the
transoceanc countries For the same
period OF 1906 the total movement was
45S,6l3 OF whom 1850 went I'm tn.
ffst category and 2S6.l0S in the sec
nnd
Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Styed- !
en-. who by the death of King Oscar
has become crown prince is AN ardent
sportsman. aud loses no opportunity 10 !
further the interests of the ancient /
Morse athletic games. Recently he ap-
piled 10 the committee of the Swedish /
National Sporting club to be allowed TO !
wear the Distinguishing badge OF the !
club.
Londor society has discovered that |
women are taking themselves TOO seri |
ously, that they have fallen into the /
habit of discussing everything, as IL |
anything nlattered with the result that |
boredom has become the prevailing |
note of every assembly An original |
Thinker has. however. come to the res. |
cue and set the fashion OF being silly. |
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At present all the world Is building |
mafships. In the shipyards OF Europe /
and Asia, public and private there are /
nov under construction 81 battleships. |
Fl armored cruisers, I3 scouts. "a des- t
troyers. 81 torpedoboats and 1OG sub /
marines. Great Britain. France. Ger /
many, Japan and Russia are all urging /
work on war vessels.