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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1877
Page
3
The act amends section 86 controlling hunting and trapping of buffalo elk mountain sheep deer antelope and wild turkey within specified dates. It prohibits buying selling carrying or possessing these animals during closed seasons and sets fines for violations. It also authorizes seizure for law violators and directs distribution of seized animals to the poor. The measure repeals conflicting acts and becomes effective upon passage.
A ledger snapshot shows six months ending June 30 1877 cost per day per inmate at the Insane Hospital Lincoln at 66 35 dollars and 0 6 3 cents per person, with wages and fuel allocated. Nebraska City Deaf Institute and Omaha Institute report daily pupil counts and costs, while the penitentiary in Lincoln lists average prisoners 606, officers 18 and total 114 with daily prisoner cost 81 27 dollars and 713 cents coal per person.
Baltimore Gazette describes a tunnel six and four fifths miles long, the longest in the country, transmitting water from Gunpowder River to Lake Montebello. The 12 foot diameter conduit passes under Clifton Park with 16 shafts, 67 to 853 feet deep, and workers use hand mining with lamps as drills strike and mines are set.
The article surveys how chronic disease links to overeating and how fasting tests endurances. It cites cases of miners and shipwreck survivors living on water or minimal sustenance for days to weeks, notes animal adaptations, and muses on a human nap like creatures in idle times.
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