Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-03-21

Of giving up his seat IN a lramWHy car
Or bus to q oman II Is quite COR, common on
way through crowd Of waiting women
20 get In front In railway carriages
men will smoke in non smoking com
parments without asking the permits
sion of the women present. We want
20 keep alive or rather 10 revive some
thing traditional IN French courtesy
toward women, which Is unfortunately
fast dying ont"
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Velvet takes it's name from the Ital-
Ian 'Velluto' shaggy, Offering I'm this
respect a parallel with satin" which
comes from the Latin 'seta," bTislle.
AS q rule. IL is safe to guess that the
name OF a dress material comes from
rome place. Besides such obvious cases
as "sstrakhan,' cashmere and
tweed" there are "fustian' from Fus-
tat (Cairol muslin" from Mosui In
Mesopotamia 'damask" from Damas-
Gus. and "cambric," from Cambria
while millinery" itself is from Milan.
The ease OF silk" is curious one II
ss "sericum,' the stuff obtained from
the Seres or Chinese, but these peo-
pie seem TO have been named In an
cient Greek after the Chinese word for
a silkworm.
new piece Of highway appliance is
In use In Washington. D. c., for the
cleaning OF snow from the cutters.
The apparatus Is a two wheeled We
hicle drawn by two horses, and havlng
IA steel blade about rs inches In width
projecting beyond the wheel into the
gutter at an angle with the curb,
which blade is controlled by a lever
operated by the driver from his seat
II was found that q pow can clean
the snow from approximately three
miles of cutters an hour. A laborer
using a shovel will not clean much
more than half as many miles OF gut
ters iu eight hours as a gutter plow
Will in one hour
The Mashpee community of Indians
who live on Cape Cod and are the sole
surviving remnants OF the once power
fui tribe Of the Naticks are generally
supposed to have long since lost the
customs and language OF their race
They speak the English language and
the Rev Or Edward Everett Hale i'm
mis- Introduction 20 Trumburs Ma
tick Dictionary" declares that az the
present lime mo word OF the language
OF the race Is spoken" and that not one
81 them has amy further knowledge
OF IL (the indian tOugue) than amy 9TH
er New EnElander"
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Are French senators bald? The bar
ber in charge or the hair dressing sa-
loon of the French senate has got into
trouble in consequence Of rumor that
he had said there was no danger Of
his wearing ont his scissors. because
ne generally FOUND q sponge was al
that was required for dressing the sen
ators hair Several senators complained
OF this remark, which suggested that
they We're all bald. anu an inquiry was
ordered The hair dresser succeeded in
proving that he had been maligned
and was allowed to remain i'm office
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A Siberian paper states hat the in
habitants Of Udsky district. at the eN-
treme north or PrimOrya, accidentally
discovered recently in the mountains
of the island OF shantar, very rich
veins of iron, quarty and copper. and
In some places sulphur. fn the eastern
part Of the same ISLAND close 10 the
seashore. they also found three springs
~ natural mineral water The Siberian
paper IN question iaments that these
finds count for nothing as Russia has
no capital wherewith to work them
Among the Wends remnant OF the
ancient SlaVontc race inhabiting the
spreewald, q region lnciosed by an arm
or the sea about 80 miles south or Rer-
lin, all the traffic Is carried on water
ways IN winter funeral proces ssions
pass along The ice. The coffin is carried
on a s.dSe and Is drawn by six mourn
efs, who wear long black streamers on
their hats. The whole company goes
on skates and the women wear the an
cient national costume
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Chula-long koru, the Siamese king
has Informed some Of his acquaintance
that he is about TO write book de-
scrjhing his adventures and experiences
during his recent travels IN Eiiruue Ac-
cording 10 information received the
book will be interesting and when il IS
translated from the Siamese language
viii find ready sale The King ana
mis- secretary took notes of everything
they saw.
new safeguard for colleries Is Of
fered by he discovery Of Professors
Elster &nd Geitel that firedamp con-
tains ak or seven times as much rad
iuIn emanation as the ordinary air of
coal mines. An aluminium foil electro
scope quickly shows the difference OF
electrical conductivity due to the em-
anation, and this simple apparatus be-
comes an effective and important
means OF detecting danger
King Leopold OF Relgium has con
ferred on Cardinal Gibbons the grand
cross OF the Royal order OF the Grown
as mark of his personal esteem and
In recognition OF his great services 10
The cause OF Christianity and humanity
throughout the world Baron Mon
cheur. the Belgian minister at Wash
ington. made the presentation. The
cardinal is the first American to re-
ceive the decoration
A nugget of gold weighing more than
fve pounds has been found IN an old
placer In the Highland district hv John
Kern, and has been deposited In the
bank Of w A, Clark & Bro IN Butte
Its exact weight Is so ounces and II
ufN1 fa .t,1.
the largest nugget ever seen In Butte
or mined near this city. II Is n beauty
larger than an ordinary fist and of ~
regular shape,
a committee has been appointed IA
Washington 10 select site and erect
a statue of John W!therspoon, d sgner
Of the declaration OF independence.
upon some government land IN WASH
inEton other than the grounds OF the
capitol or the library of congress. The
statue TO be provided by the Wither-
spoon Memorial association.
christmas day is only three hours
long In the Finnish town OF Tornea
raid n sraVeier. Il spent last Christmas
there Al sunrise I got up 10 see my
presents and TO read my christroas
mail and night had fallen before
Eoi through breakfast"
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Senior Merry del Val a brother ~
Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val, pontifi-
cal secretary OF state. has been an
pointed Spanish minister at Tangier
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Scott earned from $500 10 $4,000
year by his pen for several years. For
eleven novels and nine volumes OF tales
ne received $550.00O
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During the last year the exports az
this country have grown greatest In
the items OF cars, carriages and auto
mobiles.
The carcass OF the average horse
yields 1863 pounds OF meat. as shown
py the observation CT the French horse
butcher.
a foggN daN In Inrlnrn r.,on.... -.