Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1885-11-27
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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NOTES OF THE DAY.
GENERAL MCCLELLAN before his
death was preparing for the publication
of book that his friends Will publish.
General Fitz John Porter says: 1.-The
publication of the book is necessary to
General McClellan's reputation, and
furthermore it will set right many en-
rors in history and do away with any
misrepresentation
SENATOR STANFoRD's rancho at Palo
Alto, near Menlo Park, about thirty
miles from San Francisco, has been
selected as the site of the university to
be erected at once Senator Stanford
will donate to the university his Palo
Alto and vine properties, worth So
100000. To this he will add a money
donation so as 10 make the total en-
dowment of the university $50, 900, 600.
The picturesqucne>s of the arsenal
at Springfield, with its rows of FURNISH
ell guns that inspired Longfellow
poem, has been lost. The ordnance
officers no longer stack the muskets
behind glass to look pretty and gather
dust and rust, but pack them in well
painted boxes, coated with petroleum
PAGER They are -then always ready
for shipment, and suier no damage a
time goes on.
DURING the last fifty years Moham-
mechanism has made great strides on
the west coast of Afric whence it is
striking bac into the inferior, and the
prediction is freely made that ere long
the Christian missionaries viii have 10
reckon with it rather than with pagan
ism. The Mandingo merchants are ar"
most sedulous and sue essiul agents il
disseminating the religion OF the
Prophet.
Non only do calves furnish vaccine
virus, but make a demand for it rs well.
This may seem parddoNical, but this is
the way of it. People who have been
yaccinateI ,evcra, tiue- upon an arm.
or who may lcara iii iipuyrment lay the
operation, are now bong yaccinated
upon the calf OF the lee. This method
has also been found convenient in vac
cinating young children and babies,
who are not SO liable to get hurt for
almost every one lifts u baby by the
arm.
The colored church of Dougla>svillc,
Ga, has been greatly excited over Il
singular affair. On August l last i.
was discovered that Miss Abercrombie,
l4-year Old white girl, had been be-
trayed by Negro named Peter Stamps.
Peter was church mcmb II, married
man and favorte with his race. When
the news OF his crime became known
Peter promptly arrested and
promptly nched. Then the church
OF which STAINS was a member took the
matter up, Notwithstanding Stamps
was dead. Charges of immoral con-
duct were preferred against him and
he was duly cited by proclamation from
the church door to appear for trial. AT
the meetins the other night the vote
was finally taken and Brother STAMPS
was duly expelled from membership.
PROFESSOR ID. l.. LANTz, of the Kan
sas agricultural college, traces the ex-
istance of the tramp 10 defective train
ing in youth. lndolcnce jo.ned to in
capacity for sklful work sends the
man out on the road. Industry and
efficiency, which should be inculcated
early in life, will save young men from
loaferism and render them self-respect-
ing and useful members of society.
Train up a child In the way he should
60. One of those ways is the way of
productive work. At Il very early age
the child, however well-to-do the
parents may be, should have regular,
responsible and helpful service, suited
to his strength, laid upon him in the
home. The Jewish proyerb, ale who
does not teach his son trade trains
him TO be a thief, - has wisdom in it,
The mountain town of Plymouth. Vt,
has long yielded gold along its creeks,
many thousands of dollars worth hav-
ing been quietly washed out For some
years mining company operated upon
the, mother ledge, and though it owed
nobody when it ceased operations, the
name of gold seeker has come to be
synonymous with swindler among the
country folk. Another mining COM