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Year: 1876

Those who were present at Belvidere
farm about three or four weeks ago will
remember the Professor of Egyptian
prophet, who 80 successfully performed
the resurrection feat. Since his little
venture in the resurrection business the
Professor has lived at Belvidere farm
with hir family. A few days ago he
was taken down with country fever, and
yesterday the poor fellow was buried
this time in earnest. Mike Hogan was
not present at the funeral to blow the
trumpet, and the poor Professor remains
in his grave. He leaves wife and a
child in an almost destitute condition
Since his resurrection feat the Profes
sor had been earning precarious liv,
ing by giving seances of his sleight-of
hand magic in different portions of ths
upper wards. He was buried in th'
identical coffin In which be performed
the sssufssotion feat.
Year: 1876

Butter is going up, and apples are go
ing dowl, and the question suggests IL
self whether apples can not be sold in
the form of butter so as to net the farm
er a great deal more than if sold in the
form of cider. The supply of second
and third class apples in Western New
York, this fall, will far exceed the de-
mand for conversion into cider. Manu-
facturers are now offering but ten cents
busbel for cider apples, and We sus-
pect that, before the season is over, they
will be entirely unstable.


That apples are valuable food for
stock, and especially for milch COWS, has
been fully established by repeated e1per-
iments on the part of farmers and dairy
men. Where they have seemed to have
the effect to check the flow of milk it
has been because the cows were fed too
many on the start, and their digestion
thereby affected. If not more than four
quarts are fed to each cow at q time, up



on the start, and the allowance is stsadi-
ly increased until all are fed that the
animal will consume, the result will be,
we are confident, considerable increase
in the quantity and quality of the lac
teal fluid.


Some twenty five to thirty years since
We commenced feeding drop apples, in
autumn, to the few COWS We kept, and
we invariably realized an increase in the
quantity of milk and butter, and We
have always followed up the practic,
since, when we have had both Cows ant
apples, and always with the best results
How much apples are worth for stocl
feeding depends, of course, upon thu
value of dairy products. With butte
at thirty cents a pound, apples must b.
worth a great deal more than ten cents
bushel, and we know of no better wa,
than this for farmers to dispose of thei
Gull apples.
Year: 1876

Go to Skinner and Bros Drug Store
and examine their fine stock Wall Pap
per and Window Curtains, nearly one
Hundred different patterns of wall paper
on hand which they offer for CASH. So
Year: 1876

The Free Press this week follows out
the suggestion made in the TRIBUNr
some time since, i'm favor Of an agricnl-
tural society. We are glad TO see that
interest in this important matter is TO be
kept up. and we hope that the subject
will be kept agitated until the organi-
zatlon is effected. There is nothing that
Will go farther to advance our agricul-
tural resources than well organized and
We'll conducted agricultural society. A
little effort on the part of our citizens
and the citizens of the county would ac-
complish this without much trouble. The
TACT that the county has an agricultural
society would do much to give the out
side world true idea of the capacities
OF this region for Turning operations.
Year: 1876

Cheboygan can boast of one of the


most convenient jails (for prisOners) of


any place in the state. Its reputation as


such is of no recent date. For some


years past it has been used by the lower


class as cheap boarding house. When


they got hard up and out of money, and


having no inclination to work. all they


had to do was to commit some depreciation


and they were taken in charge and kind


ly cared'for by the county officers at the


county boarding house. Bars and bolts


had no terror for them, for all they had


to do when they got dissatisfied with the


accommodations afforded them was to dig


hole through the decayed timbers of


the building and take their departure for


more congenial place. Itis well known
that for several years that have passed.


no prisoner that had any ambition or de-
sire to avoid trial for his misdOings has
had any great difficulty to surmount in
making his escape, and, as has been said
before in the TRIBUNE, the present jail
is only standing invitation for crimi-
nails from other localities to visit Che
boygan to commit depredatiOns on the
property of its citizens.


Notwithstanding the prccaution taken
by the county officers TO keep securely
the prisoners that have been confined Iii
the Jail until the August term of the c'r-
cult court. at which they were to be
tried, they made their escape last Tues
day night, and at the time of writing
this have not been heard from.


Their escape was seemingly accom-
plished without very much trouble or
labor. The two that had been shackeied |
together, Buckley and Mckenzie, broke
the locks of their shackles and then had
easy work of escaping. The manner OF
escape was by letting themselves down
Into the privy vault and digging through
the foundation, which by reason of the
great number of years since they were
put down had become so thoroughly de-
cayed that they offered but little resist
ance to their efforts. After getting
through the foundation it was but a
small matter for them to excavate hole
up through the earth and make their way
out. There were four prisoners coniincd
in the Jail aud all made their escape in
The same way. 1t is supposed that their
two who were not manacled bad prepared
the way for exit, and that the others had
only to deliver themselves from ther
bands and then take advantage of the
way of escape provided for them. II


Is it not about time that the county
should make some provision by which
criminals when once captured and held :.
or trial could be kept with certain ty | !
md be nadcto abide tile result of trial ?
t is useless to arrest prisoner and con- C
inc him in such a Jail rs now exists. I
The county is out just the expense of 9
heir board while they chose to re-
nain, and it has been demOnsti ated that
he Jail cannot cOnfine prisoner securi-
y II he has desire TO 90.
Year: 1876

A perfectly beautiful woman's footshould
ua in length little less than one-seventh
of her height. 1t should be arched OH top
80 chat the line is that of one half of Gu
pids bow, and underneath so that if wet
and set upon the floor, it will leave in the
middle slender water mark. It should
be broadcast across the ball; and the
rosy toes, of which the second should be
the longest, should spead flat upon the
ground at every step. The heel, which
should also be rosy, should descend almost
in straight line from behind the ankle,
and should be, delicately rounded. It
should be as white as ivory, aud marked
upon the soft and cushioned instep with
faint indications of blue veins. 1t is re-
markabie that there seems to be some very
fascinating idea connected with woman 8
foot, and particularly with its length; for
to ''know the length of woman's foot
has long been, according to an old adage, to
enjoy the highest degree of her favor.
Year: 1876

Old Peter Returned to his Old Quarters
Peter Jameson, the pauper about whom SO
much litigation has been going on recently,
was finally disposed of Tuesday. Sergeant
Fitzgerald, in obedience to the order from
Judge Clopton, carried Peter out to the
almshousc to spend his Centennial 4th and
all the balance of his natural life, it may be.
Year: 1876

4 Bogus E1citement.-On the afternoon
of the 4th a negro man reported to. the
headquarters OF the Chief OF Police that a
row was going on at Belle Isle between n
number of passengers on the DanVllle tram.
"Dinks" detailed himself and another IN
deiatigable member OF the force and re-
paired to the supposed scene OF carnage:
Upon arriving on the ground ne discovered
that the whole thing grew out of disturb
ance between some colOred boys.
Year: 1876

A FAIR BY THE Busy BEEs.-Thc little
girls OF the Juvenile Sewing Society in the
Third Presbyterian church will hold fair


and feast the second door from the corner
OF Grace and TWenty-siXth streets on Thurs
day and Friday of this week, in the evening
and at night. They will have on hand ice
cream and refreshments, and nice supply
Of fancy articles for sale. The proceeds are
to be used in aid of the new church. 1t is
hoped that they will meet with the cordial
and substantial support they so well merit.
Year: 1876

Whether or not the act Of suicide in
dicates insanity on the part of the self
destroyer, is problematical. Some of
the scientific men of the day are trying
to solve this question, but meet with
many difficulties, some of the chief of
which arise from the impossibiIity to
place the suicides themselves on the
witness stand. They find it impossible
to get any but inferential evidence of a
self-destroyed man, rs to his mental
status at the time he killed himself.
Some queer facts have been brought to
hight, however. One man has been told
by fortune-teller that he would die
within three years, and, having a great
horror of death, he took a dose of
strychnine to escape it. That man was
clearly of unsound mind. A case of al
most the reverse of this happened in
Paris. A man bent on suicide, climbed
up the parapet of a bridge over the
Seine, and was about to jump into the
river, when a sentry pointed his musket
at him, and told him he would shoot
him dead unless he came down, instead
OF staying on the parapet and achieving
death at the hand of the sentry, with
out committing suicide. Was that man
IN his right mind? A still more singu-
lar case was that of an old bachelor.
who, in moment of weakness, entered
into marriage engagement. On COM
ing to what he called his right mind,
this unfortunate man resolved to escape
the consequences of his folly by com
mitting self-destruction. Thus resolved,
he had his razor aimed at his jugular
vein, when word came that his ''intend-
ed" had eloped ithayounger and hand
somer man. Here was an unexpected
deliverance; but now mark the va0aries
of perturbed mind. Jealousy of his
rival succeeded to the horror of q be-
trothal, and, after writing plain state
ment of his grievances, the bachelor
resumed his razor, and cut his throat.
So far as the sufferings of certain meth
DDS Of suicide are concerned, we have
evidence. A man in Canada who took
dose Of strychnine, and escaped to tell
the tale, describes the sensation of
dying by this process. 1t is enough to
deter any person in his senses from se-
lecting this mode of suicide. He says
he felt succession of shocks and con-
vulsions, each worse than being on the
wheel, and, after suffering terrible tor
ments for period that seemed Of inf
mite duration, he finally sank into un-
conciousness, from which he was rescued
by the utmost exertions of skillful ply
sicians,
Year: 1876

REsr1rUT1oN.-You have defrauded
your neighbor. You have done him an
injury, not accidentally but on purpose.
You have sought your own profit by in
hicting a loss upon him. You have
taken what does not belong to you, but
to him. You must then proceed to
make restitution. Go at once. Go to-
day, if you can. State the facts frankly
and honestly. Acknowledge your wrong
doing, and repair the harm as fully as
you can. 1t will cost you a struggle to
do this. When, however, you have
made up your mind to the struggle, you
will probably find it easier than you ex-
pect. But whatever you do, don't keep
this burden upon your conscience. It
will stand between you and God. 1t is
an obstacle which you cannot get over.
You may forget that it is there, but
there it is; and you are on one side, and
Almighty God is on the other.-Dean
HoUSOn.
Year: 1876

The Ioroa State Register advocates lib
oral feeding at all times for COWS. We
do not believe it would find it recon-
mendation of any system that it was less
expensive to feed COWS than any other
I'VE cordially indorse the following re-
marks on this subject:


There are but few farmers who fully
realize the true value Of good COW well
kept. As q general practice, three
cows do not produce as much as one
would if treated proftably. No ac-
count is kept of the amount of milk
or butter produced by one COW in the
wear. The farmer with his cows is in
the same situation as he is with the bal
ance of his farm. He keeps no account,
and knows nothing about his business;
$50 pounds of butter per year is not a
large yield, yet there are more that do
not produce more than one-half that
amount than there are that exceed one
half There is no poorer policy than
starving and freezing milk COW. There
can be no more improvidence in any
branch of agriculture, than in half
starving and exposing to the storms of
Winter the COW that is expected to fur
nish the family with milk, butter and
groceries. We have seen, this Spring,
from three to five COWS staggering
about straw stacks of farmers, which
will require nearly all the Summer to
repair wasted nature, without supply
ing any of the rich, nutritious milk
which only comes from healthy, we'll
fed COW. Such farmer should either
keep less number, or provide better
shelter and more rich food. One COW,
well provided for, is better than three
starved ones. One will furnish more
milk.


Children should never be fed on milk
drawn from poor COW, reduced to the
bare possibility of sustaining vitality.
1t is cruelty to animals thus to treat
them, and it is murder to the innocent
children to feed them on such food.


The profit, the morality, and the re-
spectability of it require that O man
who keeps COWS should provide better
than is done in most cases in cold eli
mates. A man that would cheat his
poor old COW, which has thus far raised
his children, should be considered re-
spectacle in no society. There may be
cases where drought, food or devouring
insects have rendered it impossible TO
provide bountifully for all the animals
on the farm; but in such cases the
owner should not be compelled to see
the poor old COW shaking her horns ct
him in his night dreams. We plead for
the COW, and Il the three or fve cannot
be provided for, sell OF, and one well
fed COW will provide more than the three
or Ave.
Year: 1876

In the Art Department of the Centen-
NAL Exhibition is a picture entitled
"Oharlotte Corday on the Eve of her
Execution" 1t was painted by young
American artist residing in Paris. He
had much difficulty in finding model
who suited him. At last he found
young lady, the virtuous daughter of
pious parents, who had adopted this
business of setting to painters, because
she could find nothing else to do. Of
her is told the following touching story,
which appropriately associates itself
with the sad subject of the picture


Joined to her rare and delicate beauty
was an indefnable and exquisite mel
ancholy, which seemed born of some
vague and unexpressed apprehension of
future trouble. During the seventy or
eighty sittings which the model gave
the artist, the latter frequently and re-
spectfully endeavored to win from her
the secret of her troubles, but always in
vain.


At last he himself could not help see
ing, in the mysterious pallors or the
sudden hushes which overspread the
beautiful features, that the model was
doomed to consumption-that insidu-
GUS malady which here so rarely re-
leases victim which it takes from the
poorly.fed and over-worked classes.


One day the model came late; then
there were days when she came not at
all. At one time she said, You must
make haste, or we shall be too late to
see the picture finished" There was a
whole epic of suffering in the manner in
which she uttered those words "too
late"


The artist delicately endeavored to
secure care and attention for the beau
tiful model, and to warn her of her dan
ger. But, with the intense pride so
characteristic of the Partisan woman of
her class, she refused any succor from
any individual, and waited and wasted
until she was compelled to go to the
hospital.


Now she lies there fading out, Just as
a white cloud sometimes fades in the
morning sky. You admire it for an in
stant, it is so unutterably pure-so re-
mote from all things gross-then it is
Oona
Year: 1876

A CORRESPONDENT of the Ohio FErmer
states that he kept plum tree from
curculois by sprinkling the ground un-
der the tree with corn meal. This in
duced the chickens to scratch and search.
The meal was strewn every morning
from the time the trees blossomed, un-
til the fruit was large enough to be out
Of danger. The consequence was that
the fowls picked up the curculois with
the meal, and the tree being saved from
the presence Of the insects was wonder
fully fruitful.
Year: 1876




GRRAsR THE NAMs.-One Of the tech
nical journals says: Every farmer who
has had occasion to drive q nail into q
seasoned oak post, knows its liability to
bend and break. If the point be moist
ened in the mouth, it win usually drive
more kindly. Oil is still better, but
then it is inconvenient to dip each nail
separately into it. Another point OBJ
served is, that boards become loose
eventually from the rusting Of the nails,
which, communicating to the wood,
causes not only an enlargement of the
nail hole, but the wearing away Of the
nail itself, rendering the fence or the
building shaky and insecure. This may
be prevented by heating any rough
grease until it smokes, and then pour
ing it over the nails to be used. The
grease will penetrate the pores of the
iron, and cause the nails TO last an in
definite period. Besides this, no trouble
will then be experienced in driving
them into the hardest wood. The reason
is, that the coating Of grease prevents
contact of air, and, consequently, oxi-
dAtion. Oxygen b the great destroyer
Of iron, and moisture is the inducing
cause.
Year: 1876

A gentleman, having taken a yerv
active part in the Scotch rebellion of
1745, escaped after the battle of Preston
Pans to the West Highlands, where he
was received by a relative of his, a
lady, who, being like himself, attached
to the Stuarts, was glad to offer him an
asylum. But, as the search was very
strict after the rebels, who, if taken.
were executed, it was necessary for him
to be concealed where there would be no
danger of discovery.


He was therefore conducted by one of
the lady's servants to a cave in seques-
tered part of the mountains, and, being
furnished with a supply of food for
some little time, was left to take care of
himself. The only way of entering his
retreat was by small opening, through
which he had to creep, carrying his pro-
visions with him, and feeling his way
with one hand at every step.


A little way from the mouth the cave
became very lofty, and, still advancing
cautiously in the darkness, he presently
became aware of something that stopped
his further progress. Unable to see
what it was, and afraid to strike any,
thing in the dark with his dirk, he
stopped, and felt carefully around for
the object, and soon perceived that it
was goat with kid. This would not
have been an unpleasant discovery, had
he not feared that the owner, following
the goat hither, would betray him to
his enemies; otherwise, she might sup
ply him with nourishment.


Soon, however, he discovered that she
was in great pain, and then, carefully
feeling about her, perceived that one Of
her legs was broken. Fortunately he
was not without some knowledge Of the
treatment of animals; he therefore
bound up her leg with his garter, and
offered her bread to eat. But her mouth
was parched, and she refused the bread.
He then gave her water, which she
drank eagerly.


Deeply interested in his suffering
companion, he ventured out at mid
night, pulled quantity Of grass, and
the tender shoots of such trees as goats
are fond of browsing, and, carrying
them to her in the cave, had the pleas
ure to find that she ate of them raven
ously.


The goat remained for some time the
companion of his solitude, and he had
the satisfaction of seeing, or rather
knowing, that she was rapidly recover
ing.


At this time it happened that the ser
want, TO whom was intrusted the secret
Of his retreat, fell sick, and it was nec-
essary TO send another with provisions.
The goat, on this occasion, happening
to be near the mouth of the cave,op-
posed the mans entrance with all her
might, brtting at him most furiousiy.
The gentleman in the cave, hearing an
unusual noise, went forward few yards,
and then receiving the usual watchword
from his new attendant, came to the en-
trance, and, after few words of inter
position, the faithful goat permitted the
man to enter. 80 resolute was the ami
NAL on this occasion, that the gentle
man felt convinced she would have died
in his defense.
Year: 1876

Having had the benefit of your re-
ceipts for many years, and knowing that
we are never too old to learn, 1 take the
liberty of adding a few more ways to
dispose of cold ham and other meats,
hoping your young friends will try
them.


WITH POTATO.


Chop the meat fine; add salt, pepper,
and little onion and tomato catsup;
fill tin bread-pan one third full; cover
it over with boiled potatoes mashed with
milk; lay bits of butter on top and let
1t bake fifteen or twenty minutes.


COLD BEEFsTEAKs.


Put fine chopped onion into a stew
pan. add half dozen cloves and as
many peppercorns; pour on cofeecup-
full of boiling water, and add three
tablespoonfuls of butter. Let it simmer
ten minutes; then cut up the meat in
pieces an inch square, and let it simmer
in this gravy five minutes. Three
large tomatoes stewed with the onions
improves it.


SMOKED MEAT ON TOAST.


Lake cola smoked tongue or ham that
has been we'll boiled; mince fine; mix it
with cream and the beaten yolk of an
egg, and let it simmer over the fire.
Prepare some nice slices of toast, but
ter thenf rather slightly; lay them in a
fiat dish that has been heated over the
fire, and cover each slice with the meat
mixture, which should be spread on
hot. Place on the table in covered
dish.


ANOTHER NODE.


Chop fine some cold ham, say fourth
of a pound, put it in q basin with a
tablespoonful Of chopped pickles, tea
spoonful of mustard, and q little black
or cayenne pepper; put about six ounces
OF butter in basin, and stir quickly
with spoon till it forms kind of cream ;
add the ham and seasoning, mix all well, ,
then have some bread ready cut in thin
slices; if you have cold meats Of any
kind, cut thinly, mix with fat, if any,
lay evenly, and not TO thick, on the
bread; season with salt and pepper, then
spread on the ham already prepared.


HAN BALLS.


Take the fragments of boiled ham,
chop fine, add as many eggs as you have
persons to eat, and q small amount of
-four; beat together and make in balls,
fry in Little butter TO nice brown.
Year: 1876

A GENTLEMAN uptown invited friend
the other evening to go into the nursery
and hear the children say their prayers.
They stopped a moment on the stairs,
however, and when they reached the
room the little prattlers had Just sung
their evening hymn, and were trying to
drown the kitten in the wash bowl. The
visitor appeared to be deeply moved.
Year: 1876

Take the fragments of boiled ham
chop fine, add as many eggs as you hav'
persons to eat, and q small amount O
-four; beat together and make in balls
fry in Little butter to q nice brown.
Year: 1876

A SPECIAL TO the APPEAL from Holly
Springs last night says that the Benton
county convention instructed its dele
gates, by a vote OF twenty-seven to
twenty three, TO support Colonel Man
ming foy congress-Colonel Wright being
his armament
Year: 1876

OUR Dispatches from Cincinnati last
night indicated nothing by which we
could arrive at anything conclusive as
to who will bear the inglorious defeat
in store for the Republican party in the
coming Presidential campaign.
Year: 1876

VNHE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE EX-
Il ecutive Committee of the Democratic and
conservative party Of Shelby county call q
Convention OF all those who are willing to co.
operate with 1t In Its efforts 10 restore honest,
10 the people; to lessen the burdens OF taxa
lion upon them TO inaugurate true reform in
every branch of civil service; to hold public
oncerS TO rigid accountability in the dis
charge OF their duties; TO secure the Impartial
eeution of the laws, and TO distribute fairly
ana honestly among all classes the burdens OF
taxRuon-to meet In the city of Memphis On