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Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-31
The Monster Prison of Europe,

le ton tne London Daily News
The largest prison in Europe is ii
House of Detention, which has Just bee.
completed at Berlin. This enormon.
edifice comprises six separate buildings,
to which have been transferred all the
prisoners awaiting trial who have hither-
to been confined in the various prisons
of Berlin. The prison for men consists
of ground floor and four other stories,
with 732 separate cells, dormltories for
1876 prisoners, besides forty rooms for
turnkeys and sleeping accommodations
for 1lS attendants. Each of the 1872
cells has o window ten feet high. There
are six cells in the basement for prison
ers who are refractory to discipline, and
in the basement are also to be found the
kitchens, the bathrooms and the heat
ing apparatus of the prison. The in
terror part of the prison is constructed
of iron, and is 30 built that all the corri-
dors look out upon central hall which
commands view of every cell. The
prison for men, which is separated from
the rest of the building by wall six
teen feet high, also contains chapel
and four large exercise grounds. The
prison for women contains only 10 cells
and fifteen large dormito1iee, the latter
of which are divided into sections, each
containing bed, which can be locked
up every night after its occupant has re.
tired to rest,
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-31
a PRIEST THE LATEST VICTIM.

Thestrauger who yaost recently learned
that 1t is unsafe in New York to know
any one who is not properly introduced
was a priest. He was accosted by his
proper name by man who professed to
be manufacturer in the town where
the clergyma,i's parish was, invited by
his fellow townsman to take walk, in
troduced to another alleged business
man, and then the old, old "game'' was
played. AS the priest would not bet his
money or accept the winnings that were
declared the rogues simplified matters
by stealing his pocketbook and escaping
while the yirtuous owner of the rumshop
in which the "business" was transacted
was quite indignant with the priest for
making disturbance. The end of it ali
was that the reverend gentleman got
neither his money nor any satisfaction,
although he ought to be able to recoup
himself by iecturing on the "Pitfalls of
New York" There have been so many
thousands of similar cases that tits time
Tor visitors from out of town to s'cut"
every one about whose identity they are
not entirely certain.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-31
conoernina the | etter q r u

james Lecky in st. James, Gazette, Londonl
10 wnat extent the consonant p has
been lost in actual speech is an import
ant question of English philology. 1t
has been investigated by several observ-
ers, among whom Mr.. Ellis, OF the
Pathological Society, holds a distin-
guished place. Their researches have
exploded the common notion that this
sin OF omission besets none but London
ers. 1t prevails throughout the whole
east coast of England, and most of all
among the cultivated classes of society.
AS regards American habits of speech,
we have simila- testimony from Prof.
Whitney. In my natural and unre-
generate state, he saysl-namely, be-
fore l had begun to school my utter
ance to conform with photographed and
orthoepical rule-I never pronounced ut
all al y that was not followed by vowel;
| fear that 1 hardly do SO now, except
when / am thinking of it. i. And lave
taught French and German pronunci-
alton to pupils enough, from all parts of
the country, to be convinced that this
absence of utterapce and of trill when
uttered is very general Characteristic
OF American pronunciation" What
Prof. Whitney says here is in perfect
conformity with the practice of Ameri-
can poets, even Of the rauk of Poe,
Whittier, and Longfellow, who rhyme
o1stn and sister, or naor7, and la,Un,
without remorse.
Those who, like myself, always pro-
nounce an even in iron, can only utter
an nnavailing protest against this pro.
cess of decay, which has confounded
.tathe'' with farther, statk with stork,
Leah with Lear, etc. The rising gener-
alton are satisfied, no doubt, with their
own dialect, and treat our disapproval
with indifference"
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-31
CURING A BAD MEMORY,

Your memory is bad, perhaps, but 1
can tell You two secrets that will cure
the worst memory. One-to read SUBJ
lect when strongly interested. The
other is to not only read, but think.
When you have read paragraph or
page, stop, close the book, and try to
remember the ideas on that page, and
not only recall them vaguely in your
mind, but put them into words and
speak them out. Faithfully follow these
two rules, and you have the golden keys
OF knowledge. Beside inattentive read
ing, there are other things injurious to
memory. One is the habit of skimming
over newspapers, all in confused jun
BILE, never to be thought of again, thus
diligently cultivating habit of care
lessly reading hard to break. Another
is the reaaing of trashy novels. Nothing
is so fatal to reading with profit as the
habit of running through story after
story, and forgetting them as soon as
read. know a gray-haired woman, a
lifelong lover of books, who sadly de-
clares that her mud has been ruined by
such reading.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-31
A Human Locomotive Whistle.


Morere. the celebrated tenor, has Just
become incurably mad, and has been
shut up in the private lunatic asylum
OF the famous DIR. Legrand du Soulle.
This singer possessed such extremely
powerful lungs that he could whistle
with as mnch force and intensity as a
railway engine, and he practiced this
peculiar art SO often that it became a
mania with him. On several occasions
while walking on the boulevards, he let
off steam in this fashion to the great ter
ror OF all nervous passers-by, and even
succeeded in making the Partisan cab
horses restiye-a featwh most people
who know the caliber of those wonder
ful animals would deem an impossible
ty. In ono instance he Was arrested and
taken toa police court, where he was
fined and severely reprimanded for thus
disturbing the public peace. One eve
ming when Morere was singing in
" Faust " at the Grand Opera, his voice
was in such bad form that the gallery
began to hiss. and continued to do SO
until the disturbance became general.
On this the tenor leaped down into the
orchestra and shouted out, ssSince YOU
haze begun to hiss, let me tell you that
you don't understand the art in the
least" Thereupon he treated them TO
his loudest and most prolonged whistle,
and the Parisians, always good-natured.
forgave him his false notes and chee1ed
him to the echo. / believe that the I'M.
fortunate singers present mania is that
he exists for the purpose not only Of
surpa ssing the shrek Of a railway train
but even the bells of Notre Dame,
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-31
Conc Up in smoke.

The market buildings and large section of
tho business part of the village of Uxbridge,
Ont, was burnt on the 26th. Loss S5O, 900.
The Tabor Milling Companys stamp mill at
Leadviile, burned on the Goth. Loss s6O, 600.
Fire al Grand Rapids Mich, on the 25th,
destroyed 2. B. Aliens carpet sweeper factory,
b. Chapman's basket factory and Livingston
Northrop's planning mill. Loss as0,0OO.
A fire on Hawley Street, Boston, on the 25th
destroyed property valued at $4,000.
Fire at Chicago destroyed the planning mill
of j. Fl. Pearson d Co., on the Oath inst. Loss
S35,00O.
w. II. Carter's woolen factory at Bedford
Mass, burned on the Gath. Loss 100000
The steam bakery and candy factory of J.
9. Clausen & Co., at Charleston, S. c., burned
on the 23d inst. Loss $4,000. colored en-
ploye burned to death.
The Keystone Lock Works, at Lancaster.
Pa, burned on the 2Sd inst. Loss $40, ,000
Gucrnevlile, small town in California, was
swept by fire on the 23d inst. Loss 100000.
The livery stable of John f. Loomis. in
Brooklyn, N. Y, burned on the 22d inst. Loss
$4,000. 57 =
Fire In the establishment Of HoIenden Il
Bradshaw, Chelsea, Mass, on the 22d inst, de.
stroyed property to the value of $4,000.
The villa of Farman Rogers, of Philade(-
phia, at Newport, r. l., burned on the Goth
inst. Loss $4,000.
Fire at Minneapolis on the 21st inst. de-
sroyed the warehouses OF Smith g. Wyman,
and other buildings. The loss will aggregate
100000.
Helm Bros. ice house and barn, at Milwau
kec, burned on tho 21st inst. Loss $4,000,
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-31
The Loss of Life at Sea

A return was lately published in Lon
don giving the loss of life in each of the
last fifteen years arising from casualties
at sea to British ships in the home and
foreign trade, excluding fshing.vessels.
The grand total is 80, 4l4. of which 8, 372
is the total for 18S1-S2, this being the
largest in any single year, the nearest to
it being 1S74-75, with 1855. In the
three years Immediately preceding tie
numbers were much smaller-they hav-
ing been 1857 IN 1878 70, y .78S in 1879
80, and 2. .421 in 1SS0.S1. OF the grand
total, 2, l7S was the number of lives lost
by collision, of which 519 were those of
passengers. 1t is to be noted, however,
that 90 of the latter number. or more
than half the total for fifteen years.
were lost in the first six mouths OF 1879
the running down of the Northfieet by
the Murillo in the early days Of that
year off Dungeness accounting for this.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-31

forked tongue. He was put into the
mails alive, inclosed in perforated tin
can. Beside him is another snake, per-
haps four feet in length, and next to that
couple of centipedes equally as poi
sonous in their bites, and almost invari-
ably fatal. They were all put into the
mails alive. On the other side of the
jar containing the rattlesnake is baby
alligator, and the head of another, per-
haps year old. Below is collection
OF specimens from various mines in the
west, the value of which is considerable.
One little package among these contains
about 500 worth of gold. On a
shelf above is a collection of coins,
some of which are very 1are,
several coins dating back full 1000
years being among the number. There
IS iocket bearing on the back tho in
scription MRS. Lucy Randolph, died
1888" hundred years ago. The locket
contains picture of soldier, and it is
supposed that he confscated it some
where in the south during the war; had
his own picture inserted instead of the
one whose name it bore, and sent it to
his sweetheart, who never called for it
at the office of delivery. Beside it is an
other picture, gentleman and lady, in
gold frame, which las been in the de-
partmcat oyer 40 years awaiting claim
ant. Beside this is set of false teeth
upon gold plate, and just below is a
bottle of beer which some kind-hearted
person had sent to a beer drinking
friend, but which failed to reach its des-
tination. There are several brides,
various parts of saddle, horse-shoes,
and light iron hitchipg-post-every-
thing, as the lady in charge of the
museum oddly remarked, "everyth ing,
but horse"
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-31
PeouIiarities Of the German prom,tor

A Vienna correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Times, who has accompanied
Edwin Booth during his European tour,
writes: IT do not believe that German
actors ever learn their parts. MIR. Booth
says they do not, and it will hardly be
denied that he has had experience.
They attend rehearsals only to learn the
business as for the words they reiy
wholly on their friend the prompter.
That useful functionary takes his place
in the little box in the middle of the
stage by the footlights, and when the
actors are on they listen with all their
ears to that which he is reading, and
they repeat the lines after him-a little
louder. perhaps, but not much. Your
good German prompter will not permit
his more or less melodious gut urals to
be squelched under wooden hood, and
IN these theaters we as rule get our
moneys worth in the matter of utterance
if not of excellence. The prompter reads
right straight along in a go-as-you-
please, with now and then a squirt of
rising reflection when he discovers some
one on the stage trying to get past him.
When the prompter reached tie cue he
used to stop to give the American thun-
der chance to spend itself. Under the
Enelish lines in the prompt book were
rows OF figures; these assisted the
ptompter to keep track of the metre.
de was thus enabled to know when Booth
hal spoken his part, and then the verbal
race aforementioned was renewed"
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-31
NEW GUINEA.

Papua, or New Guines, which Great
Britain has just annexed to Queensland,
is the third largest island in the world
and lies Immediately south OF the equa-
tor, between the Indian and Pacific
Oceans. Its length is about l, 500 miles,
its breadth from 40 to 400 miles and the
whole area Of the island, 274, 900 square
miles, is one-third greater than that OF
France. The climate is remarkable for
humidity, and the vegetation is luxur-
iant, covering the surface with luxuriant
forests. The natives appear to form
large number of distinct tribes, those OF
the western portion of the island-the
Papuans proper - being apparently
Malays or Polynesians, while the peo.
pie of East New Guinea are of ia light
copper color, active and slight of limb.
The eastern portion of the island was
explored by Capt. Moresby in 1874, and
in apaper which he read before the Royal
Geographical Society in tho following
year Capt. Moresby stated that East
New Guinea ended, not, as was sup
posed, in wedge, but in huge fork,
the lower arm of which was cut
up into an archipelago of
islands &nd the northern arm
peninsula. Between the two lies fine
bay, forty-iiye miles long and twelve or
eighteen miles in breadth. The new
archipelago consists of about sixty
islands, which rise bodily from the sea
to q considerable height, and are fich
IN fruit bearing and timber trees, whose
dark tropic green is relieved by the va
rious earth tints of the cultivated land
and the lighter green's of yam and taro.
Here and there the eye rests on great
grassy slopes, where the grass grows to
height of IL feet. The natives were
found to be friendly, though at first
very timid, only the married women ad-
vancing to meet the English. Captain
Moresby visited their island plantations
aud found large enclosures producing
tropical fruits, yams, sweet potatoes.
Indian corn and sugar cane. The Pa
puans are black, fierce in appearance
and fierce in manners. An Euglish mis-
sion station has been formed at Port
Moresby, in the southern Gulf of Pa.
pua, and native teachers have been sent
into many of the islands OF the gulf.
As yet the whole of the interior Of this
vast island is unexplored, and not till
now been claimed by any civilized state.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-31
Plantation Philosophy.

Pleasures decrease as da come near ma
De fish is a heap bigger fore yer gifts il
outen de water.
De injurious in dis worl' is alters de
fanciest. De brandy-bottle is fixed up
finer den de bread-tray.
DE man what's got de best church rec.
ord amt necessarily dc bes' man Da
malaria. ~ -
, honesty is gettin searcer ebery year.
case dar Is more people ter pervide. De
more we ,anltiplies, de furder from ma
tnf we is, sa' dc furder we gifts from
natui de less honesty we'se got.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-31
RUTH COUCH.
NY JoaS ALBEE,


Forth walked Ruth Couch, fallen and disgraced'
And all bnt women pitied her,
As to the whipping-post shamefaced
She came and leaned and did not sur.
And all day long the adulteress,
There in the open. public place,
Stood in her guilt-stained, ghostly dress,
With pinioned hands and pallid facs.
For punishment, though new yet meet,
The elders OF the church decreed
To wear her own hand-woven sheet
AS stigma of the shameless deed.
The men passed by with silent mien,
The women paused alooi and stared
And Knocked their little Village queen
Whose beauty once their own impaired
"Ah, now has come,n they said, "at last,
The end we long foreknew, foretod!'
And, at q woman, women cast
The stone that was not cast of old
PITY nor scorn did her affect;
She stood as any spectre there;
Before her name, her heart was wrecked
What was there now she could not bear
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-31
PosrorfIcE cURIosIr1Es.

Ihe postofiice department has opened
at Washington a museum of articles
which have reached the dead letteroffice.
either as undelivered because Tue proper
parties could not be found, 81 as unnail-
able articles. The museum occnpiesss ga a
god s'z I'd room, and the cases, reaching
fsem iioor to ceiling, are full. Among
the articles is huge fatslesnake coiled5
~ a glass N, with open moHth and
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-31
Deeds of Rlaoa.


Thomas Welch, of Pittsburgh, went home
drunk on the 9th and beat his wife. Iu a
rage she took up a red hot bayonet which was
used as a poker, and plunged it through his
body, from the results of which he died.
In June last, VIM. Newell, a wood sawyer,
short time ago convict in the Iowa peni-
tentiary named Pugh, tramp. said a farmer,
John Hammer, murdered Newell; that he
stopped at Hammers house on ore of his
tramping expeditions and helped bury Newell's
body. Pugh was brought from the poniten-
tiary on the Goth, and pointed out spot
where. after little digging, NewelPs remains
horribly mangled and with the head cut OF
were found. The murder was committed, it is
believed, for money. Hammer has been ar
rested.
John Zopf shot and mortally wounded Chris
tian Muster. at Indianapolis, on the 27th, after
which he shot himself. dying instantly. 1t
lated by the marriage of Zopfs son to Mus
teI's daughter.
William Fox, who deliberately murdered a
man near Nevada, No., pleaded guilty on the
the 2Gth, and s.id he wants to end his life as it
has been miserable failure thus far The
judge would not except the plea, but entered
one OF not guilty and appointed two lawyers
to defend Fox. 'GlI
Whlle Alexander Granger, money carrier Of
the United States Express Company at Glove
land, was receiving several valuable packages
at the Union depot in that city, on the morn
ing of the Gath, his attention was called away
by an unknown party, and while his head was
turned two packages valued at $4,000 were
abRtracted from his wagon. 80
Samuel Anderson, prominent citizen of
Amherst County, Va, shot himself ON the
24tb.
James Healy, of East Cairo. ILL.,, and James
Deltr1chs OF Birds Point, Mo-, quarreled on
S{afn of atr L.
23d inst, using knives as arguments Both
will die.
woman named Boiling. living at McFar-
lands, Lunenburg County, Vo., Drained her
little daughter WIZ hatchet on the 23d inst
She afterwards buried the body.
George Cramer, living near Livingstone
Kansas, shot and killed Miss Lizzie Wenzell
on the 23d, because the latter refused to marry
him.
Mrs. r. J. McAIiltie, living in Ashtabula
County, Ohio. in temporary fit of insanity
on the 22d inst, drowned her two children
aged and years, in n well forty-five feet
deep. and then took poison, from the effects of
which she died.
There was bloody ARRAY in Acambaro,
Mexico, on the 2Oth between T. V. Zeimburg.
of Little Rock, and H. r. McCable, Of Roches-
ter. Both were killed instantly.
Filing L. Frostzein was arrested en- his ar
rival at Boston, from Halifax, on the 2lst inst,
charged with the forgery OF q Norwegian bond
for s, 900 crowns.
J. G. Bailey, of Hutchinson, Kas., aged SIS.
was mm dered on the 21st, by being beaten on
the head with piece of gas pipe by his son,
J. I. Bailey, who is now in jail.
Seward Weakley, in quarrel on the goth
inst, stabbed Arthur Summer, it is thought
fatally. Both are boys, neither over IS years
old.
Thomas Belknap, of Tucson, was shot at
Great Vile on the Goth inst, by drunken
man. The shot is said to have been accidental.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-31
I he Rights of Satlinr ve..e,.

On last Fourth of July the steamer CITY of
Michigan ran down and sank the pleasure
yacht Diamond of Detroit The owners of
the yacht sued for the value thereof, and the
case was decided at Detroit on the 21st inst.
A judgment for S1.45o was rendered, The
question Mt issue was that OF right OF way.
The judge decided that pleasure yacht had
the same rights rs ether sailing vessels, and
that the collision might have been avoided.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-31
A Dainty Workman.

II 1uiu s1c 11RrttuIu CuurHht.I ~
Challea Somerville, machinisi, en-
Ployed in the lock works at Stamford.
is so expert in his business that he can
cut an ordinary sewing machine needle
IN two lepgthwise, drill hole through
each hsis, and then fssten them together
80 accurately that the place where it was
separated cannot be seen,
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-31
Graud Lodge Of GOOD .r,cnn,.r

The grand lodge of tue world of the Inde-
pendent Order of Good Templars began its
session at Chicago on the 22d inst. About l40
delegates were present. George B. Kasten-
stein, OF California, ,apresided. In tho evening
u banquet was held at the Palmer HOUSE. IL
is announced that it is intended to make the
order political element in the furtherance of
prohibitory measures.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-31
AtLaxt.

Alexander Alexandrevitch. czar of all the
husslas, was formally crowned at Moscow on
the 9th. The ceremony took place in the
Cathedral of the Holy Assumption, within the
walls OF the hremiin palace. The ceremonies
were @ most impressive. The following is the
Official title under which the emperor will here
after stagger: Emperor and Autocrat of eli
tie hussias, OF Moscow, of Kieff, of Vladimir.
OF Novogorod. Gar of KaZan, of Astrakban
OF Poland, of Siberia, of Kherson-Tauridn. nj
Grosi; Geosoudar of Pskoff; Grand Duke of
Smolensk, of Lthuania, of Volhessnia. of
Podoila, and OF Finland: Prince of Esthonia,
OF Livonia, of Courlaud, of Semigolia, of the
Samayedez, of Belostok, of Coreiia, of Foer.
OF Ingar, of Perm, of yortka. of Bulgaria and
OF other countries Master and Grand Duke OF
the lower countries in Novogorod, of Tchneri
gof, of Riazar, of Polotsk, of Rostotf, of
Jarosloff, of Bielosesk, of Oudork, of Offor-
dorsk, of Kandisk, Of Vitelsk, of Nistilaff and
of all the countries Of the North; Master A5so1 @
iute, OF Iversk Of Kastalrisk, Of Kahardrisk.
and. of the territory of Armenia; Sovereign Of
Mounted Princes, of Tcherkask; Master of
Iurkestan, heir presumptive Of Norway, and
Duke of Sleswlck Holstein, of Stormarne
OF OF Dithmarse and Of Oldenburg.
cost no less than 100000 rubles. The
guests specially feted exceeded GO, 900 in ali.
For the tables at which they we're fed 1000
tablecloths were ordered and 10000 napkin.
A special train took to Moscow 100 tons of
chinaware, cutlery, glass, etc., for the use of
the higher guests. The lower guests, or
populace, were equally well looked after, Six
teen reservoirs were erected in the Khodinisky
square to hold 10000 buckets of beer. which
were given away in 100000 earthen jugs, deco
rated with the portrait of the emperor, As
solid food 100000 meat pies, each weighing
three-quarters of a pound, were distributed
among the people, together with 800, 900 pound
packets of nuts, cakes and lollipops. To amuse
actors performed, and the bands comprised
1000 performers. The troops were specially
foted in village outside Moscow, where
booths for amusements of the Russian carnival
description were prepared for thenf. When
the shades Of night gathered about Moscow a
quarter OF million lanterns were lighted and
3,50t! Edison lights illuminated the stately
tower Of Ivan the Great, alongside the Uspin.
sky Cathedral
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-31

Israel Weinstein, of New York, lost a leg at
Altoona, Pa, and sued the Pennsylvania RAIL
road Company for $4,000. The case was de-
cded on the Esd inst, in favor of the com.
pany, as the plaintiff rode on q pass,