Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1883 — A Monster Prison. [ARTICLE]

A Monster Prison.

The largest prison is Europe is the House of Detention at Berlin. The enormous edifice comprises six separate buildings. The prison for men consists of a ground floor and four other stories with 732 separate cells, dormitories for 195 prisoners, besides forty rooms for turnkeys and sleeping accommodations for 118 attendants. Each of the 732 cells has a window ten feet high. There are six cells in the basement for prisoners who are refractory to discipline, and in the basement are also to be found the kitchens, the bath-rooms and the heating apparatus of the prison. The internal part of the prison is constructed of iron, and is so built that all the corridors look out upon a central hall, which commands a view of every cell. The prison for men, which is separated from the rest of the building by a wall sixteen feet high, also contains a chapel and four large exercise grounds. The prison for women contains only seventy cells and fifteen laijge dormitories, the latter of which are divided into sections, each containing a bed, which can be locked up every night after its occupant has retired to rest. London News.

Mb. Hayden, of Washington, is the inventor of an apparatus for burning Ktroleum as fuel, which is claimed to the only one in the world that will perform the work for which it is constructed. Some years ago a woman, Miss Amanda Jones, invented an apparatus for burning petroleum under steam boilers, which has been continuously and successfully used in the oil regions.