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0 'if V? }y-' -'"::':V. 1" 1 1: 11: I sfi'V H'?. •m & m- I've rgaiet. CANTON, S. D. JTABXBBS' PUBLIBHLKG OO. BOSTON •I T-ry.''-'V means to give John Boyle O'Eeilly a monument that shall cost not less than $50,000. AT Holly Springs, G*., a dog fell into a well and staid there fourteen days before his owner found him. He .?was taken out and is doing well. THE •1i'.'' French minister of war lately offered a prize for the swiftest bird in flight from Perigueux to Paris, 310 miles. There were 2,749 entries, and the winner did the distance .in 7 'hours 34 minutes. A DOCTOR and undertaker heard Of a man who was hurt.near Menominee, and rode to the scene of the accident in the same rig, the former taking his pill box and the latter his coffin. The doc tor got the job. A YOUNG man of who surrendered $3,600 •of embezzled money and was let off on acoountof his friends, requested of his employers a letter of recommendation to assist'him in getting another place. SOME Sl dudes, who were annoying a Chinaman at Sedalia, Mo., were aston ished when hei suddenly mounted one of their bicycles and rode away, his que streaming straight out behind him, as if Old Nick were after him. A French attorney was writing out a brief. He was in splendid 'health, only forty years old, and was writing :JS' rapidly, when all at once he stopped, a and from that moment could not tell :#-jhis own name. Memory went out from :V hint like a flash of lightning. 0. 7" THE fit. 'i:t 1 excavations of the Greek Arch- ysaological Society on the Acropolis of Mycenie have been rewarded by the (discovery of some sixty different ob jects of antiquity, among which are bronze swords and knives, several 'hatchets, a razor, some gold ornaments. IN MOSCOW •Ga., who wears eye glasses with a gold rim. His wife wears eye glasess, too, 'f and the two pairs are just alike. They «re the parents of three children, the youngest being ten years of age. and .•each.of the children is near sighted. I They wear eye glasses, too. THE number of males and females is about«qu&l and their average life is about thirty-three years one-fourth of .the inhabitants die before, they reach their fiftieth year. Of 1,000 persons -only one reaches the age of one hun dred years of every hundred only reacfh:the age of sixty-five, and not -oae in 500 live to see their eightieth THE Mi provable value of all the dia- monds in the world, according to a re Scent estimate, is about $1,000,000,000. The world's diamond trade is car ried on toy about 8,000 dealers, with a total stock of not far from $350, 000,000. The stones are prepared for market by perhaps 4,500 cutters and polishers, principally in Amsterdam, Antwerp, P.tuiis and the Jura. FOUR years ago, Miss Lena Woodard, living on Titera Creek, Wash., sowed tbe seed roA one head of barley. She the crop with a pair of and sowed the amount received the next year, Again harvesting it with her shears. The third, crop her father cut with a grass scythe, getting enough of barley to sow forty acres last spring, whidh averaged forty bushels to the acre when thrashed, making a total yield of 1,600 bushels lfrom one head of barley in four FLORENCE BLYTHE, •Ir, FEW J:': mm-/-- .aged sixteen, of San Francisco, wiho '.lately came by way »f the very toughest kind of liti gation iinto an estate worth nearly $4, 000,000, has asked itihe court for an al lowance of $1,000 a month, or, in all, about $103,000, datistg from her fath er's deaSh in April, 1883. The girl pleaded that she needs about $1,000 a month former maintenance and educa tion. The court finally Allowed her a back allowance of $3QQ a month, or $30,000, and a future Allowance of $800. of these who fasten tlieirgloves with the ingenions little snajf button in u»o for a few years past know the history of the contrivance. It WAS in vented by an American, who tried in Tain to enlist in bis invention the inter est of American capitalists. Nobody could see any promise in the tiny bit of mechanism, and the inventor finally be took himself to France. There he found capital, and the invention speedily be came popular. Now the inventor and capitalists interested Are getting rich out of the contrivance, and even the American agency is proving a mint of money. The fastener, at first applied chiefly to gloves, is now affixed to um brellas and to a dozen other articles of daily use. Made of silver, it is put upon ornamental pocket-books, port folios and the like. IF a man eats a pound of beef, ton or other flesh every day, in a fee will consume 365 pounds, and in sixty years 21,900 pounds of meat. He will eat the same amount of vegetables and quite as much bread, so here are 43,800 pounds more. He will drink every day two quarts of cdffee, tea. wine, beer or water, making a total of 10,000 gal lons, or About one hundred and seventy five hogsheads of liquid. This estimate does not include the probability that he will eat forty or fifty lambs, with mint sauce, 2,000 spring chickens, about fiye hundred pounds of butter and 40,000 or 50,000 eggs, and four hogsheads of sugar. If all this supply were piled up on the scales it would weigh over fifty-five tons, and if stored would fill A cotton warehouse from floor to ceiling. EVERYWHERE THE round mirror and may be seen in the streets any. day a beggar who was a few years ago one of the richest men in the city. $?ffeHis father left him $7,500,000, but he gambled it all away. He cared literally for nothing but gambling, and if he had the money again he would risk it ii ionce more in the same way. THERE is a married.man in Atlanta, ia Palestine one sses evidences of scientific farming. The hills of did Judea were all terraced, And wall After wall of vines rose in steps tfrom the valleys to the summit of the mountains. The remains of those terraces are now to be seen, though the rains of eighteen centuries have almost denuded the limestone rocks of their earth, and the mountains now are •only used for grazing. Palestine was formerly a well wocded country, and it will probably become fertile again if trees are planted. It produces the finest fruit in tbe world, and the or anges of Jaffa are equal to those of the Indian River in Florida. When the million Russians get to Palestine they will probably recultivate the hills, and an increased rainfall will make the country again 9 "land flowing with milk and honey." bold project of a ship railway, in lieu -of a ship canal, to connect the waters of Lake Huron with those of Lake Ontario is now being agitated. The distance between those two lakes is sixty-seven miles by tHe proposed route from Georgian bay to the mouth of the Humber River, west of Toronto, and it has been calculated that a rail way, with three tracks of the standard gauge, but with rails weighing from 100 to 110 pounds per yard, could be built for $12,000,000, or about half the cost of a ship canal of the same capac ity. The land along the route reaches a height of 664 feet about Lake Huron, so that there would be some heavy grades or else somo expensive work necessary. The proposed route would save 428 miles of lake navigation and twenty-eight miles of canal between Chicago aud Montreal, and would en able a propeller to reach Montreal from Quebec in less time than it can reach Buffalo. The expected saving, three days, in the time between Chicago and the seaboard is a consideration which would warrant ai large expenditure if the project is feasible from an engineer ing standpoint. ROILER WALL. POCKET. The New York Press, which has offering prizes for the best de of a decorative character, has awarded $20 for a broiler wall pocket such as is shown in the accompanying engraving, for holding papers or music. It is hung upon a gilded nail or tack, with one part hanging about half the way down. The back part of the broiler that rests against the wall is plain. There are decorations only on the front, which is suspended by rib bons attached to two corners. Use ribbons of two different colors—pink and green, for instance—to make a pretty display. Run them through the wires, skipping every other one and alternating the colors. The front may be painted, embroidered, or otherwise decorated to suit the taste of the ir. SUITABLE FOR A YOUNG GIRL. The jacket «nd vest shown in the ac companying illustration are composed of iris silk, braidered with silver, the vest being of wise silk with pompadour embroidery. The sash is of shot silk. The jacket is Figaro. The high collar. ,ys bise silk lining, being rolled at the neek. The sleeves are high, coming to elbow, golden bands. little below the where they finish in narrow, THE surest remedy for evil consists in forgetting it. A.-^ AtrlUCULTUKAL TOPICS. A. FEW SUGGESTIONS FPHTOUR RURAL READERS .,l'S M' Some Information of Value to tlio Former, Btock-Breeder, Bee-Koepor, Housowlfe and KitcHeu-Maid. HOUSEHOLD/ 'ISf:." "Tliose Scraps" Found In "Our Bouse." E A N no scraps of food that cannot be made into the dainty, ap petizing dishes that some of our iugenious writers upon domostic economy are fond of telling us about, it a a Stafford in Good Housekecp ing. Most of us, who are thrifty and conscientious, know what to do with bits of cold meat or potato but there are somo things we do not know what to do with. For iiiM'ance, meat pie. If thpre is a good deal left, enough for a meal, the problem is easy •enough but if there is only a "scrap" left, what then? "Such a good meat pic! Such nice crust and gravy! It is a pity to throw it away!,,.I will not do it!" Thus, we say, and the' next day we put this nice "scrap" into a little dish, with its gravy, cover it so it will not get too dry, and put it into the oven Just long enough to, heat througl)—just whilo we are broiling the bit of hum that is to be the meat (in the main) for lunch. Re sult: every one wishes the nicely broiled ham, and the meat pie "scrap" remains the same size as before. At least, that is what happens in my house, and when I write upon these housekeeping topics, 1 am very apt to write about what hap pens in "my" house. ... Then thero is cold mackerel! Who ever knows what to do with cold mack erel? One can souse cold trout, or escal lop cold white iish, or do wonderful things with cold pickcd-up cod-fish but cold mackerel is too much of a problem. I have trie*, broiling it, if it was broiled at first and have tried re-broilin'g if it was first broiled have tried the oven and the fryingrpan but everything is a fail ure, yet who is willing to deliberately throw away a good "scrap" of cold mack erel? Once I had a whole cold mackerel on my hands. It happened in this way: The provider in our house delights in buying things by the kit (like mackerel), or by the' bushel (like navy beans), or by the 60-pound box (like cod-fish), and everything becomes a problem in elimin ation before wo get through. Well, wc had a kit of "beautiful" mackerel, to which the family took kindly for "quite a spell." Then wo had to take a long rest. One morning, as we were to have three extra guests for breakfast, I had one of those "beautiful" mackerel cooked. I knew I could expect nothing from the family, so centered all my hopes on the guests. Not one of them ever ate mackerel! There lay the ma jestic, solitary creature untouched upon tho platter! What did I do? 1 put on my hat, tpok the platter just as it was, and ran around the corner to Mrs. Brown, who sometimes does washing.for me, and who has a houseful of growing children. Tho "kit" followed later, for I was desperate. Perhaps tho reader may think Mrs. Brown might solve my problem about scraps but she does not. I can carry her whole mackerel, but cannot carry her "scraps." Thero are plenty of pco pla just like her, are thero not? Again, what can a body do with a cold fried egg? "It is such a nico fresh egg and the others tasted so good!" It is conscientiously slipped into a saucer, put in the ice-box and "referred to the com mittee on ways and means." And a hard time tho "committe" has with it, usually putting it on the table just as it is, and urging every 011c to "please finish up that egg." No ono wishes to, any more than the "committee." docs. Perhaps we are all too dainty! I am very much inclined to think we are Jjut every time I conclude that I am. surely, and that it is high time that I disciplined myself, I also find that, when confronted by that piece of meat pie offset by broiled ham, or that cold mackerel or that cold fried egg, I weaken. I claim no singularity in this weakness. I am strengthened in it (if I may use a seem ingly contradictory phrase) by most of my equally dainty friends. Well, what shall we do? Shall, wo shut our eyes, as it were, and throw all' these good "scraps" into the garbage box? That is too bad, with so many hungry people in tbe tforld. For myself, I have found a poor woman living alone with one little girl, who can always use such. It is not easy to find just such a person, and it is a good deal of trouble to carry tho little "scraps" to her when she is found but it is quite worth while. If they are be stowed in tho right spirit, they will be accepted, and will bo of decided benefit, not only to the poor, half-fed woman and child, but to the doner whose con science is made easy. "Taking trouble" is not bad for any of ns, if taken rightly, and "gather up the fragments that noth ing be lost," may be our part in solving some of the great social Questions of tho day concerning the "distribution of prop erty." This siniple service is not roman tic, surely but it will be found "sort o' satisfy in' if faithfully tried. Hints to Housekeeper*. Hartshorn will usually restore colors that have been taken out by acid. MANY persons prefer almond meal or oatmeal to soap for washing facc and hands. To TAKE out ink or iron mould stains from white goods wet with milk and cover with salt. FOB roughness, caused by exposure t,o wind, sponge the face with equal parts of brandy and rose water. THE rooms of a house need ventilation in the daytime as well as in the nielit in the winter as well as in tho summer. CASTOBS made of leather are anew in vention, sure to prove useful. A sound leather castor will CTVO many a rug or carpet. THE easiest way to dry lace curtains after washing them is to take a dry, sunny day, fasten them to the line by one edge with clothespines only a few inches apart, then gently pull and stretch until dry. T1IE KAIIM. Selecting Tree*. There is nothing gained in selecting large trees for transplanting. Young, thrifty trees are easier to transplant, will make a bettor start goow, aud in PMPF Si^ 5 tv^ the end will make a better tree. Many purchasing trees for an orchard make the mistake of selecting three-year old trees, undeitthe impression that they will come into bearing that much sooner. With the same idea in mind, they fail to cut back the tops in proportion to the roots, and the consequence is that the treo is slow in making a start to grow" and loses in this way.fully as much, if not more time, than a younger tree. It is very important, in selecting trees, to get those that are vigorous and healthy. With the majority of varieties of fruits, two-year-old trees will gjvo more satisfactory results than olaer ones. Cut back the top in proportion to tho roots in many cases it will pav to cut off the whole top, leaving the straight stem then as the branches start out se lect those that are the most desirable and rub or cut off all others. A better shaped and a more vigorous troe can bo procured in this way. Such trees cost less in the end, are more certain to grow, and are •more desir&ble in many ways than larger, older trees. A good plan in many localities is to purchase what trees are wanted ia the fall, and heel them in carefully, then set them out where they arc tp grow as early in the spring as the condition of the soil will admit. This avoids to a consider able extent the risk of fall setting, and if put out early lessens very materially the risk of spring planting. Missouri. N. J. THE DA1KV. "railing Calves Sklm-Mll*. A yery successful feeder in Canada uses the following method la raising calves on skim-milk: The calvcs are fed by hand all the new milk they will take three times a day, until about a wedk old. Then skim-milk is added only a little at first, but the quantity of skim-milk is so increased and that of the new milk so reduced, that in two weeks from the commencement of this change, skim-milk only will be fed. Tho skim-milk is fed onlv when it is sweet, as when sour it produces scours aud injures digestion in other ways. The skiin-milk is fed at the temperature of milk just from the cow. In heating, a I portion of the milk is put on tho stove in a pan or pail, and lieajtcd gradually till quite warm. It is then poured into the portions respectively set apart for each calf. The calvcs get the milk three times a day for, say a month from the beginning of the change to skim-milk, but a less quantity is given at noon, and if fed regularly they may get all the skim-milk they will take without injury to them. When the change is being made from new milk to skim-milk, flax seed is added to the milk. It is prepared as follows: For two calves, take half a teacupful of flax at night, and pour on two quarts of boiling water, allowing it to steep till morning: it is then warmed and added to the milk the quantity of flax may be grad ually but slowly increased until three fourths of a teacupful of tlax seed, steeped in a proportionate increase of hot water, is given to each animal. Tho flax for the night meal is put to steep in the same way in tho morning. Milk is fed until he calvcs arc seven or eight months old. They should havo access to all the clean water they will drink at all times. They get all the meal they will eat up clean twice.a day. The mixture cohsists of one-fourth ground peas, one-fourth ground oats, and onc-!ialf wheat bran this is mixed with good hay run through a cutting box. The proportion of tho hay to the meal Is incrcasefras the calves get older. Where meal of this kind is not to be had, give your calvcs oats, which you may feed whole, and you need not mix them with cut hay. Oat sheaves are sometimes cut in the chaffer and the meal mixture added, but not so much of it in quantity as when the cut oat sheaves arc not fed. Butter Flavors. The way to secure good flavored butter is to feed the cows with good flavored food. The delicious aroma and palata ble flavors of the buttgr come from the eils of the food. These oils are un changed by digestion. Hence the butter is characterized'by the food consumed by the cow. The whilom popularity of June and September butter had some thing substantial behind it. It was made from the sweet grasses of June atid the fresh aftermath of the second growth, and unaer the favoring tempera ture peculiar to the early and late sum mer alike. Edward Burnett, the noted dairyman of Deerfoot Farm, tells of. de ciding a sharp competition for the honors at a fair, where he afterward learned the young dairyman' who won the prize picked bright clover heads each day for his pet Jersey that was giving him the milk. These delicious flavoring oils do not come from bog hay, where they never exist, nor from improper foods whoso flavors arc not. of a standard order. Dairyman seeking a product of high quality will do well to think of these things when providing fodders for cows tn milk.—Maine Farmer- ,,, ,fc SHEPHERD. A Straw Koof for Farm Buildings. A Poughkeepsie, N. Y., correspondent of tiic Farm Journal, gives the following directions for a straw or thatched roof: 1. Good,. straight, rye straw is re quired. Make the butts even by holding it loosely and tapping on the floor, then grasp firmly near tho heads, and shake out short, crumpled, straws and tio in convenient bundles. ». Have rafters the same as for shitiglcs. 3. Use poles about two inches in diam eter, or sawed lath one and one-half inches square to tie straw to. Nail lower one to rafters about a foot from plate, and the others fifteen or eighteen inches apart, depending on tho length of the straw. Lot them project about six inches over the rafters to nail the eave-board to. Nail on eave-boards.. 4. Two men are required to put on straw, one to prepare the handfuls for the other who binds it on. A line is first drawn from eavFboard to eave-board, to guide the butts of first course. One man takes straw and makes a band, fastens it t" the pole aud shoves it against the cave-board. Tho other man grasps a little more straw than he can close his fingers over and passes it to No. 1, who lays it against the band, the butts touch ing the line, and brings tho hand over the straw and around' the pole, holding all firm ami taut. No. 1 now takes a little straw from the head of the bunch and twists it in with the starting band, and is ready for another handful to bind on as before. This process is repeated until the Opposite side is reached. Tho next course should bo tied to tho sccond pole, tliC'butts being laid even with the first pole. In the third and succeeding courses all the straw should bo reversed, and the heads pointed down. The peak should be capped with boards, •HJS OTILTTIIf- KAJlrt Winter Breeding. Winter breeding is as profitable as it is risky, and the risk can be reduced to A minimum by careful forethpoght. The chick must be kept warm until it is six weeks'old, or it will reach, a point where growth seems to cease. Like a young pig,it becomes stunted very easily In winter, and it is much easier to stop its growth than to. increase it. The young chick will always thrive in winter if given plenty of warmth. It was not orginally intended for the chick to come into the world in winter, says the Mirror ana Farmer, but as it is now a subjectol domestication, the domestic methods, muse be resorted to in order to enable it to thrive and accomplish the ^purposes sought by its introduction to existence in tho winter season. The greatest loss occurs from disease of the bowels. When this appears the cause is attributed to tho food, and the attempt ismade to save the chicks by all manner of feeding, but the real caifse of the bowel disease is cold on the bowels, due to lack of sufji cient heat. This cold does not come from prolonged exposure, or from a lack of warmth during tho day,, but from the failure to supply warmth at night, at which time tho chicks are quiet, and do not have the aid of exercise. A single night's exposure (or even an. hour), to a temperature that will cause the chicks to °rowd, will bring on tho bowel disease. When the whole brood is attacked by it, the chanccs of saving tho chicks are very slim, as they seldom fully recover, or, if they pass the critical stage of the diffi culty, they seldom amount to anything afterward. In raising early chicks for broilers, therefore, tb® main condition is warmth, continual warmth, and plenty of it, as 100 degrees is not too much for very young chicks. Poultry Notes. THE India Game and Dorking make an excellent cross for table qualities. They produce a combination of flavors and the development of breast formation making it both large and perfect in form and color. IT requires ho small amount of tact and study to breed chicks up in the nineties, yet when a breeder "gets there" he has no difficulty to disposo of his sur plus stock at jjriccs that are not often realized on otlSr kinds. Whatever breed you keep aim at tho highest degree of perfection you can't strike far off the mark you aim for. The ready sale of fine stock pays to get them up high in quality. THOUGH many improved crosses have been brought before tho people for favor, the Light Brahma lias stood its own ground, and to-day they are as much praised and as highly commended to the farmer as was the case thirty years ago. Any breed that can stand the test,of rivalry so long and still continue to satisfy and please the thousands breeding them, must have qualities of a very high order. The Light Brahama has all these. OLD hens invariably make tho best sit ters. They, are not so fickle as pullets, and attend to maternal duties better. Nine eggs are sufficient under ordinary sized hens in cold weather, and twelve for Asiatic breeds. It is best to have the proper number under the sitter than, to have more than she can possibly give proper warmth to. Those under her wings do not recoivo much heat, aud, consequently, rail to hatch well, or hatch at all. The same is true whilo brooding them. THE: KITCHEN. Flour Gem*. One egg, one tablespoonful of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of butter, 1% cupfuls of sweet milk, three teaspoonfuls of bak ing powder, 2% cupfuls of flour. Beat well, have your gem pan hot aud but tored. Four in and bake quick. Rice Waffles* Boil half a pint of rice and let it gee cold, mix with it one-fourth pound'of butter and a little salt stir in 1% pints of flour, beat flvo eggs separately, add yolks together with one quart of milk, lastly the well-beaten whites. Beat well and bake at oncc in waffle irons. Steamed ludian Pudding. One cup of sour cream, one cup of sour milk, one e&g, two tablespoonfuls of sugar or molasses, one cup of flour, two cups of meal, one teaspoonful of soda, ono teaspoonful of salt, one-half, cup of raisins or dried fruit. Steam or boil two hours or more. Servo with sweetened cream. Cold Lemon Pudding. One-half box of gelatine soaked in four tablespoonfuls of water for ten minutes add a pint of boiling water, juice of two lemons, ono cup of sugar. Strain and set away to cool. When cold, stir in the whites of three well-beaten eggs. A thin boiled custard m- thick eream may be used to pour over the pudding. Stewed Tripe. Cut the boiled tripe into small pieces aud add three or four small onions pour oyer the tripe and onions a little warm *ater. Let it cook slowly until both are tender and tho water nearly boiled away. Then add milk sufficient to make a good gravy, a tablespoonful of butter made smooth in an equal quantity of flour, salt and pepper to taste, and boil three min utes. Potato and Corn Muffins. Two cups of cold mashed potato two cups of corn meal, or enough for a' bat ter. Soften the potato with tho milk working out all tho lumps then stir in corn meal till the batter is just thick enough to drop easily from the spoon add the whipped eggs and beat hard' Drop into gem pans, oiled and hot, and bako in an oven from twenty minutes. to thirty Potato Omelet. Take six good-sized potatoes, two tea spoonfuls of salt, one tablespoonful of butter and a little pepper. Peol the po tatoes and put them into boiling water When they havo been boiling for fifteen minutes add one teaspoonful of salt. As soon as cooked drain and mash well Add one teaspoonful of salt, a little nenl per and butter then add four well-beaten yolks, mixing well. Rub through a colander. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter in a frying-pan. Put in the po tatoes, smoothing it all over. Fry it a light-brown color, double and serve like an omelet To RENDER a roughened skin soft and smooth, wet in warm soft water then rub thoroughly with oatmeal flour, and wash off with water contain ing a teaspoonful of pure glycerine. ANY coward can fight a battle when hes sure of winning but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. DAKOTA'S FINANQ AT PRESENT IN A CONOli NOT VERY FLATTERING. But Serious Enough To Be Alarming »nd£\ One 'i hat Will Require Wise Counsel— The Revenues Will Fall Short Uvet KA 8100,000—Some Facts and Figures. Tho proposed amendment increasing the'1. limit of state debt from 8100,000 to £500. has been defeated by a large ma16riiy,.tl: whether wisely or otherwise would-.bo unprofitable subject of discussion at date. On the legislature just elected the.-^jV', burden will fall: This body will be con fronted by a condition in state final] serious enough to be almost alarming one that will requiro the wisest com: our best and most astute men. The^i be considered will be about as follows total equalized valuation of all real! sonal and railroad property in the sr $138,315,076. On this amount a 3-mill tax may be levied for state purposes. This will produce $376,030.15 revenue. Last winter ,': our legislature, said to havo been deeply.! Imbued with the spirit of economy, appro priated for the running expenses of-the •state, exclusive of bond interest, which is otherwise provided for, $390,714.20. Supposing that the same amount will be required next year, our revenue falls short of our needs $114,084,05. This amount we cannot go in debt for, because the constitu tion prohibits the incurring of any further state debt and a debt so created will be il legal and void. Tbe principal question for the ways means committee to consider then will First, what items will have to bo pa| second, what can be left out without dci ment to the state and finally when propositions have been considered, w! further sums that ought to be appropriate mast be necessarily left out to make the accounts balance. So that each one may figure for himself what may be done in cutting down expenses. Wo give a list of the various items of last winter's appropriation bill, with the amounts opposite. Veterinary surgeon ..i Insurance of public buildings State militia Public examiner Bailroad commissioners Commissioner of immigration Soldiers' home Reform school Agricultural college School of mines School of deaf mutes Spearfisli normal school Miidiscn normal school ... County institute State printing Vermillion university Penitentiary. Insane hospital Salary and mileage of members of the legislature and salary of clerks and employes Pay and mileage of executive offi cers acting on commission, etc..... Supreme court offices, maintenance, sgs? ii 1.700 4,£50 4,000 2,350' 6,000 7,700 10,500 15,600 18,000,' 8,000 1'4,800': 12,300 11,700 2,000 7,00( 24,700 31,311 64,690- Expenses*of executive offices, for maintenance, clerk hire, station ery, ofilce/supplies and incidentals Salaries of executive and judicial officers .§ I 84,207 17,513:- 36,000 Total.....: $390,714i Interest on bonded debt, $47,187,. is pro-, vided for by separate levy of 4-10 of a' .' mill. About the only Items in ihe above list fori, which the constitution provides the speciflc'^ amount to be paid are the salaries of executive and judicial officers, amounting to $36,000, and the expenses of the legislat-i" ure for per diem, $5 per day for each mem ber, and mileage, 10 cents per mile. This, for two sessions, according to last winter's appropriation, amounted to $84,207.20, in cluding mileage twice. The per diem for three days' session ta October, 1880, was $2,535 and mileage $0,671 or a total of $12,206, which may be deducted ', from the above $85,207, leaving the probable' expenses of thi3 winter's session at $72,000' in round numbers. Add this to $36,600 and we have $108,000 as the total cost of paying': the salaries of the legislative, executive and judicial officers of the state for the year. We will then have left $168,630.15 avail able for maintenance of state institutions/, expenses of all executive and judicial 0] flees—other than the salaries of the office: —printing, militia, commissioner of lmmi gtation, etc. "Some of these things we will probably be obliged to do without and on others the amount may bo reduced below last year's expenditures. On state institutions it is difficult to see where we can effect much in the way of economy and still keep everything going. AVe havo not a single institution too many, and yet the three largest and indlspenslble, viz: penitentiary, hospital for Insane and university, will use up $120,000 of the $108, 530, leaving but $48,630 for everything 8lse. It would be manifestly useless to have state officers unless we maintain offices in which they may transact their business this cost this year $17,513. The public buildings must be insured at a cost of $4,550 and the lieutenant-governor must have $600 for prosidlng over the senate. A little computation shows that we have'^ left but $25,967 and no normal schools, no, reform school, no school of mines, no sol diers' home, no agricultural college, no school for deaf mutes, besides which wo are without militia, veterinary, railroad or Im migration commissioners, public examiner, institutes, commission of labor and com mission of irrigation, and nothing Is allowed for printing. What a sorry spectacle this great state will present to the world, her public insti tutions either closed for want of funds oiw. struggling for existence on half enoughs her treasury empty, and everything In state of ruin and collapse. This winter's T' legislature has indeed a serious problem to solve.—Pierre Daily Capital. .. Dakota flews. WORK on the artesian well at Chamber lain will begin next week. THE county commissioners of Brule county have purchased three artesian well outfits, placing the contract with the South Dakota Artesian Well company of Algona. Ia. The price was $1,000 for each outfit, including full set of tools, hut exclusive of engine. THE corner stone of the Baptist church was laid Saturday forenoon. WEDNESDAY IS SS*i 1 night the midnight train was wrecked at the switch west of Canton. The engine and four cars left the track and the engine was considerably damaged. The manner in which the wreckers worked shows that the work was done by some one thor oughly familiar with railroads. The staples to which the switch lock is attached was broken off and the key taken from the small pinion so that the switch could be opened without turning the arrow. The engineer seeing arrow in its correct posi tion suspected nothing until the engine struck the tie* •I