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Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-05
OUR WASTE OF FOOD.

Mr.. Edward Atkinson writes to the
Boston Advertiser: In the recent report
of the commissioners of prisons find q
statement of the cost of provisions per
week per prisoner in the year 1881. By
this statement it appears that in the
prisons and houses Of correction in which
any considerable number of prisoners
are detained, the cost of provisions per
week ranges from sixty-one cents to 81.
In regard to at least one of the larger
houses of detention, where very few but
adults are held, the cost is less than
eighty cents per week per prisoner, less
than twelve cents per day for all the
food consumed. Iu this case the best
tionr is bought and made into bread and
the beef served consists of the coarse
pieces of the very best beeves, from
which the sirloins and choicest parts
have been sold to the principal hotels in
Boston. 1 think IL is safe to say that
the food served in this prison is of better
quality and better prepared than in the
average workman's family in the state of
Massachusetts, and 1 think the question
of waste on the part of the average men,
ber of the community may be sustained
by reference to the proverbial frying.
pan, pale pie and half-baked bread raised
with saleratls or some similar abomipa-
ton. Even the average Englishmsn
knows how to make better use of beef
than We do. The best pieces, sirloin and
the like, command higher prices in Bos-
ton than they do in London, while the
coarse pieces command much less. 1t
pays to export beef to England even
though the sirloins sell for less; because
the people know better how to make use
of the rest of the carcass. Few people
know even how to cook the sirloin.
They roast it flank and all, while they
ought to cut off the flank and keep it for
the savory stew for Mondays dinner.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-05
THE LAND OF THE GENERAL READER

Mr.. Edward A. Freeman, the English
historian, who tried hard during his
recent tour Of this country to convince
himself and Others that the United
States had no political points distinct
lively its own, has gone home and con-
tinued his line OF reasoning in the pages
Of the Fortnightly Review. He admits
something good of us though, for he
says America strikes him as "the land
OF the general reader" and this reader,
MIR. Freeman says, he is not disposed to
scorn, which is very kind Of him. He
says: est seemed to me that in Ameri-
ca, the reading class, the class of those
who read widely, who read as far as they
go inteligently, but who do not read
deeply-the class of those who, without
being professed scholars, read enough
and know enough to be quite worth
talking to-form larger proportion of
mankind in America than they do in
England. This is praise enough for it
rs the mass of general readers, not the
few special students, who have the
power as well as the will to apply ac-
auired knowledge to the benefit If the
community,
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-05
Bad for Doctors and Wives.

The Winnemucca Silver State of Sept.
16 says: "The Piutes hereabouts have
learned by courier that Winnemucca
chief of ali the Piutes, is lying at the
point of death near Fort Bidwell, where
he was on visit to Ochoho, one Of his
faithful henchmen. The sub-chiefs are
respondent, and, as Indians are very
superstitious, some attributed his illness
to the wltchery of his new wife, while
others think the medicine man is to
blame. 1t is quite probable that, if his
sickness ends in death, bis wife and doc
tor will be made to atone for it with their
lives. 1t is customary Tor the Piutes, as
well as many other tribes, to kill the
medicine man who attends chief dur
ing an illness which ends in death. and
they sometimes sacrifice the unfortunate
wife of a dead chief on his grave. An
instance of the latter kind took place
here two years since, when an innocent
sauaw was taken with the corpse Of her
husband to the Harmony mountains some
eight or ten miles above town, and sacri-
feed ON his grave, the charge against her
being Witchcraft.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-05
Beecher's Cow.

81 can remember" says Henry Ward
Beecher, "when l received an old COW
in payment OF bad debt. II was very
bad debt, and | came to consider it a
very bad payment. She was a thin COW,
but the former owner said she was bet
ter than she looked, being cross be.
tween the Jersey and the Durham. She
looked as if she might have been a cross
between an old hair trunk and an aban-
doned hoop-skirt. 1 kept the brute
three days, and no one, except perhaps
Lieut.. Atwell, could ever appreciate the
suffering | endured in that time. The
first night she broke through the fence
and reduced to pulp all tine under
clothing belonging to my next door
neighbor. She put her horn through
my bath-tub, and ate up all my gera-
NUNS. She was to give three gallons Of
milk day, but she seemed TO be short
Just then, aud never had that amount to
spare while we kept her. The second
day she walked into the kitchen and up
set pan Of butter and tub of lard.
Then she fell down we'll, and when l
got her out, at a cost of five dollars, she
took the collie, whooping cough, or some
thing, and kept us awake all night. Not
green thing was left in my garden; my
neighbor's peach trees and the rope on
which his underwear grew were as bare
of fruit as siugletree, and he did not
have twig Of shrubbery left. My
neighbor came over to see me, and said
"Now I don't desire any quarrel,
but want you to keep your COW out OF
my shrubbery.'
"And I want you, my friend, said
/, to keep your shrubbery out of my
COW; it spoils the taste of the milk. -"
"Ever afterward there was a GOODNESS
between us, and my neighbOr's wife
ceased to patronize our house when she
wanted to borrow a cupful of yeast pow
DER"
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-05
Making a Passenger "Git."
From the Detroit Free Press.l


A justice of the peace in the interior
of Michigan had case before him some
u.ys ago in which the defendant, who
had been arrested as suspicious char.
acter, and plead guilty of vagrancy, was
sent TO the Detroit house of correction
for six months. A constable took him
in charge to deliver him here, and as the
man seemed rather pleased at the idea OF
securing board and lodgings for SIX
months, he was not haudcuffed. As the
train was ready to go the constable
moved across the aisle to talk politics
with friend, and pretty soon they were
having il hot and heavy. When the con-
ductor came in for tickets he held out
his hand to the prisoner, and the latter
shook his head aud replied:
81 don't pay fare"
"Aha! You don't, Ell? Well, now,
you pay or git!"
81 won't pay "
Then you'll git When we slow up
at the crossing you jump of. II finl
you on the train after we pass there Ill
give you bounce that you won't for.
get !"
In two minutes the train began to
slow, and the prisoner walked to the
door and picked a soft spot and dropped
of. When the train had made another
mile the conductor held out his hand to
the constable and received two tickets.
"Who is the extra ticket forp" be
asked.
"For that prisoner over there"
"What prisoner
"Why, that fell"
Then there was raving and gnasbinp
OF teeth and hurrying up and down, bull
| it was no use.
"Sorry," said the conductor as ht
passed along, '@but when passenger
says he won't pay fare on my train
give him the drop. The only thing tha
surprised me, was to see how willingly
he obeyed orders"
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-05
The Newer Arithmetic.
lFrom the Detroit Free Press. !


The length of certain bean blower is
one-third the length Of boy who is four
feet high when he stands on a block five
inches thick. What is the length Of the
blower?
A human body weighing 100 pounds
falls tifty-five feet per second. How long
will it take baby weighing thirteen
pounds to fall down pair Of stairs four
teen feet high?
Six men put in their capital to start a
cooperative store. What was left after
the manager got into Canada was val
ued at $3.50, and this represented one
fifth of what each man put in. How much
did the manager get away with ?
The average cost of curing a sore
throat is thirty-seven cents, and the
number of sore throats in this country
averages II 900, 900 per year. How much
could America spend for going to
the circus if our throats were brass
lined
There are twenty-four newspaper re-
porters i'll Louisville, and each one kills
an average of $50 cockroaches per day.
How many victims would they number
in 365 days?
A young man about to be married
figures that So per week Will support the
family in luxury and erect fve-story
building out of the savings of three
years. How many days after his mar
riage before he will tumble to bean
soup?
1t costs a political candidate s25 per
head TO retain thirty loafers to slug him
through a convention and $3.50 for incl
dental expenses. How much is he out
altogether, and in case he is left how
long will it take him TO make himself
good by hoeiag corn at 81 per day?
In particular field are ninety seven
watermelons, and it is softly approached
by five colored men in search OF a wood
chuck. How many times does ninety
seven go INTO five?
James and Henry go fishing and
agree to divide. James has two nibbles
and bite from a dog, and Henry gets
two duckings and losses twelve shilling
hat. What is the share of each?
One person out of every five in the
United States has one or more corns,
and the cost of effecting a cure is
Sl.30. What is the number of corn
victims, and what would be the cost
of placing every person on sound foot
ing?
Every man who has arrived at the age
of 40 years has lost at least ten umbrel-
las worth 81 each. Estimating the num-
Der of losers at IL, 900, 900, and grant
ing that one-third of them have stolen
seven umbrellas worth ten shlllings
each, what do you make the total loss ?
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-05

this lode is that it is covered by cap
formed of iron pyrites of variable
thickness, with which the gold
bearing quartz is combined. The min
eral in the upper portion of this cap has
been disintegrated by the action of the
elements, and is workable, but that in
the lower part cannot be converted with
out great expense. Those who first eu-
tered on this work were SO well contented
with the results obtaiued from the early
digging that they put all Of their money
into machinery, and hence, when the
range of disintegrated stone was passed,
they had no money to sink their shafts
deeper, and were forced to abandon the
undertaking. One of these abandoned
mines was bought up by a cympany of
men who, after carefully studying the
subject, were convinced that the shaft
had only to be carried downward to strike
the lode in one of it's widest parts. The
average depth of the iron cap has been
about 400 feet. but in this instance the
shaft was sunk more than 1900 feet,
those interested pledging and borrowing
wherever they could after their own
funds had been exhausted. 1t was a
brilliant example of nerve when based
on scientifi, judgment. Less well-in-
formed men would have abandoned the
attempt; but when, after long waiting,
the quartz lode was struck, it proved to
be one of the richest mines in California.
The experience of those who projected
the work on the Calumet and Hecla cop
per mine is somewhat similar instance
of scientific courage. The plan in
volved spending very large sum,
amounting to more than million dol
lars, before any returns could be OBJ
tanned. The warrant for the expendi-
ture was scientific judgment, since there
was no means of obtaining positive proof.
The risk was taken, and the result has
been mine more remarkable in many
ways than any other in the country.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-05
The Lion Of the Puniab.

Certainly there Is an air of romance
and OF tragedy about the story of Dhu-
leep Singh, who, it is announced, in.
tends now to seek election to the British
House of Commons. He began life at
the Maharaiah OF the Punjab, possessor
of the Kohinoor and other almost bound
less wealth. After ruinous wars and
equally ruinous treaties, he now bids
fair to close his career in the position oi
Squire of Elveden, a quiet English
country gentleman, without the Kohin-
oor, or any Of his former vast posses
sions, save an annuity from the govern
ment Of Sl26. 900. which, by his luxuri
Gus habits, he has already reduced 10
e65, 900 per annum. True, he has pur
chased estates and built magnificent pal.
aces in England, Elveden Hall having
cost $500, 900, but by act Of parliament
all these must be sold at his death, leav.
ing his heir only the name aud the mem
ory Of the son Of "the Lion Of the Pun
lab.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-05
POPULATION OF THE WORLD,

A most carefully prepared report of the
population of the various countries of the
world is that issued from time to time by
Drs. Behm and Wagner. A new addi-
tion of this publication has just appeared,
the previous one having been issued two
years. Within this interval censuses
have been taken IN large number of
countries, and the results of these are
embodied in this work. But in the case
of some countries no official statistics
are to be had, and for such countries the
figures presented are necessarily the re-
suit of computation or even conjecture.
The report of the population of China,
Tor instance, is but an estimate, while
that of Central America can be little bet
ter than guess. The results gwen by
Behm and Wagner are, however, gener-
ally accepted as the most Trustworthy
published.
The total population of the globe is
now reported by them at /, ,433, 800, 900.
According to their last report it was
uc ulUeFeuce WOulu
indicate decrease of "a, 600, 600, but as
a matter of fact there has, according to
these authorities been an increase of
more than 33, 3,000,0 600. This is explained
by the fact that the population of China
has been very much over estimated here
tofote. In the last issue of this work it
was given at 434, 900, 900; it is now put
at 379,000,000. In fact, in those coun-
tries alone in which censuses have been
taken the official returns show an aggre-
gate increase of 100000 during the
preceding interval of ten years. The
number of people inhabiting the larger
divisions OF the globe, as given by Benin
and Wagner, are as follows: Europe,
1927, 743, 900; Asia, 795, 59l 900; Africa,
2O5, S23, 900; America, 100, 415, 900; Aus
tralia and Polynesia, 4,232, 900; Polar
regions, 81, 1000. Russia is credited with
S3, 00O, 600 inhabitants; China, 379, ,OOO,-
900; Japan, 36, 600, 900, and British In
dia 252, 900, 900.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-05
A Daddy's Big Mistake.

Pittsburg special TO the Cincinnati
Commercial: A strange story is related
by the Sharon, (Pa.) correspondent of
the Dispatch. just thirty days ago the
funeral sermon of Eddie Sanborn, of
Sharon, was preached at his fathers
home in that town. Eddie, lad of six
teen, disappeared about the time the
iron strike was inaugurated, and he
worked in mill with his father. Nine
weeks later his father advertised that his
son had been enticed from home by .
tramp, and described marks by which he
could be identified. On July Both,
the father read the story of the return of
q boy mourned for as dead, to his home
in Bristol, near Philadelphia. This boy
had strayed away, and his father had
identified the remains of boy killed by
the cars at Johnstown as that Of his son,
took them home to Bristol and buried
them. His son subsequently returned
alive and well. Seeing the story, Mr..
Sanborn wrote to Bristol, and finally
went there ON the 17th of August, had
the body disinterred, identified il posi-
lively as that of his son by certain in-
delible scars, and greatly relieved rein
tered the remains at Bristol, changed
the name on the eravestone, and on the
Goth of August Presbyterian minister
repreached memorial sermon for little
Eddie. This evening Eddie Sanborn, as
large as life but triHe shabby, jumped
from train at Sharon and reached out
his hand to the frst 10y acquaintance
he knew. The boy was terrified, and
soon spread the news. Eddie's father
heard it, ran for the crowd in the street,
pushed through it and caught hold of his
son. At first he was doubtful, but bis
DOUBTS were soon dispelled and an Affect
ing scene ensued. He fairly carried the
boy to his mother, who wept for joy.
The grave in the Bristol church-yard
vii. have to be marked unknown
again.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-05
Daring RObberies,

On the night Of the 3Oth ult., while psssen-
ger train was side-tracked near Granada, Col,
two men mounted the engine with drawn revol-
vers, and compelled the engineer to pull the
train a mile and half out OF town. Here fif-
teen armed men took possession Of it and pro-
ceeded to ransack the express car. They Sc
cured s15, 500 in money and departed after
forcing the engineer to start his train full
speed. A safe containing $4,000 was not mo-
Tested.
Shortly after the doors were opened at the
Cincinnati exposition building on the 2Sth ult.,
$4,000 worth Of diamonds and valuable
iewely were stolen from the exhibit Of q.
Oskanp. The show case was insecurely locked
and was left unguarded. Two men entered the
booth and leisurely opened the case and Sc
cured the treasure. Those who observed them
supposed they were the owners.
Three male shop-lifters despoiled Cook 4
Soss iewelry store at Louisville, KY, Of s5, ,00O
worth Of stock.
Two strangers entered the National Bank of
Baltimore, at Baltimore on che 25th, and sue
cessfully distracted $4,000 in bonds from q
table where q clerk was engaged in clipping
coupons. At the First National Bank, In the
same city, man was detected in the act of
picking $9. 500 from the pocket Of bank mes
senger. The would-be-thief and his confederate
were allowed to escape.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-05
gallons of spirits, and from fourteen to
sixteen barrels of rosin.

gallons of spirits, and from fourteen to
sixteen barrels of rosin.
While the boiling is in process q small
stream of hot water is kept running into
the still to prevent the rosin from burn
ing. 1t requires very close attention,
and if it shows disposition to run over,
the only remedy is to "tuck rp the fire
and increase the degree of heat under
meath the still.
Those familiar with the n,Odus Opey-
andi Of whisky making know that the
spirit rises from the boiling mash in the
form OF vapor, passes into coiled pipe
know as worm" which is kept sub
merged in cold water, when it is con-
densed, going on its way to the cistern-
room. just such course do spirits of
turpentine follow, only with the latter
there escapes the water which has been
added to prevent the burning. The tur-
pentine then rises to the surface and
passes on to the barrel waiting to he
filed.
When the water escaping from the
still-worm ceases to bring turpentine
with it, the still-cap Is used to permit an
escape of the steam, the fire is drawn
out, and the escape door of the still
opened. The rosin rushes ont steam
ing, kissing, bubbling mass, reddish
golden brown in color, and odorous as a
wholesale chemical factory. 1t first
passes through coarse wire sieve, then
through one much finer, and finally
a stout canton-hannel straiBer catches
all remaining impurities. The intense
heat escapes i'll few minutes, when it is
dipped into barrels and is ready for the
inspectors brand. Inspectors visit the
distilleries regularly, examine and class
the rosin, send the statement of quality
and amount to headquarters, from which
the distiller promptly receives his
money. Strong, coarse barrels are used,
the weight Of barrel of rosin being
about $50 pounds. The turpentine is
transported in iron tanks like those used
for carrying oil.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-05
THE RISKS OF MINING.

The time is likely to come, says the
New York Times, when the history of
mining in this country will be written,
for the material which could be collected
for such work is abundant and of q
most varied character. The increase of
scientific knowledge has in few depart
ments of industry been productive of
better results. A mining expert at the
present time is almost at loss to COM
prehend what induced men to sink shafts
and build mills iu some of the extreme
western states and territories. Money
was spent in this way to the amount of
millions of dollars, and in some of the
abandoned mining towns west of the
Rocky Mountains theruins of former es-
Establishments stand rs a lingering evi-
dence of misdirected industry. A great
part OF this work was carried on in good
faith, in the belief that gold or silver in
paying quantities would be found; but a
mioing engineer at the present time
would decide, under like conditions,
that the results were altogether too un-
certain to warrant the expenditure of
money. Gold and silver mining is a
very uncertain undertaking even now;
but the risks are now appreciably less
than they were generation ago. for the
reason that those in the business un-
derstand better where and when not to
work. Enterprises are, however, car
ried on now and brought to a successful
conclusion that in other days world have
been abandoned. Aa instance of this ia
given in the experience of the owners of
aprufitable gold mine on what is termed
the Mother Lode in California, so called
because it is supposed to be the original
source of all Of the gold bearing quartz
veins In that state. A peculiarly about
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-05
Terrible Exnl0Ai0ns.

At Cairo, Egypt, on the 2sth ult., an ammu,
nitlon wagon exploded in the depot firing the
structure. A large amount Of stores and am
f7OO,000. A number Of people were killed.
While artillery men we're firing a salute at
Governors Island, New York harbor, on the
25th, in honor Of French war ship which ar
rived of the battery, one Of the guns exploded,
killing two men and wounding several.
The ferry steamer Richelieu was wrecked by
the explosion Of boiler at Lachine, Ont, on
the 21st. -Four persons were killed and several
injured.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-05
No Lives in Retirement. I.

Among the convicts in the Texas peni-
tentiary is John Wesley Hardin, who
was formerly the most dreaded despera.
do IN De Witt county. He is said to have
killed twenty-ope men. The whole
community trembied before him. No.
body attempted to interfere with him.
The officers of the law looked the othei
way when he passed. Thiswas largely
owing to the fact that two families, the
Suttons and Taylors, carried On ter.
rible warfare, in which large part OF
the population took part, on one side OF
the other. II was vendetta that cost
many lives. But the law got Wesley
Hardin into its clutches at last, most oi
the Taylors and Suttons were killed of,
aid De Witt County il to-day one of the
most orderly in the state.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-05
A Floating Pyre.

Early on the morning of the 30tb nit. AZ the
fine steamer Robert +. Lee was opposite Point
Pleasant. about thirty miles below Vicksburg,
on the Mississippi River, she was totally de-
stroyed by fire. Seventeen lives were lost. The
Lee was on her first trip after thorough over
hauling She was yalue d at s100. 900, and in
sured for half that sum- She was loaded with
cotton at the time Of the disaster.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-05

Thomas Clark, well-known resident OF Buf-
falo, n. Y, and wealthy distiller, died on the
29th.
W. I. Barnett, one Of Louisvles leading
lawyers, died at his home on the 2Sth ult., after
lingering illness.
Fernando c. Beaman, member of congress
from the First district OF Michigan for five
successive terms between 1860 aid 1870, died
at his home in Adrian, that state, on the 9th,
aged 66.
Frederick W9hler, an eminent v.'en ist, and
director Of the Chemical Institute at Go.tingen,
ia daod