Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1892 — The Speedy Reindeer. [ARTICLE]

The Speedy Reindeer.

In tho Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Siberia tho domesticated reindeer is food, clothing, house, furniture, implements and transportation to the people. Its milk and flesh furnish food, iis marrow and tongue nro considered choice dolicacies; its blood, mixed with the eontents of its stomac i, is made into a favorite dish called in Siberia “manyalla;” its intestines are cleaned' filled with tallow, and eaten as a sausage; its skin is made into clothes,bedding, tent-covers, reindeer harness, ropes, cords und fishlines; the hard skin ot tho forelegs makes nn excellent covering for suowshoes. Its sinews are dried and poundod into a strong and lasting thread; its bones are soaked in sea oil and burned for fuel; its horns are made into various kinds of household implements-into weapons for hunting und war, and in the manufacture of sleds. Under favorable circumstances t. swift reindeer can traverse 150 miles n a day. A speed of 100 miles per day is easly made. As a beast of burden it can draw a load of 300 pounds.—[Philadelphia Bulletin.