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Day
24
Month
November
Year
1881
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Public Domain
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TheTwenty-sixth Regiment annual re-nnion took place at Howell last week, the servioea being conducted in the First Baptist church. A poem appropriate to the occasion was rendered by Miss Barnard, and "The Swurd of Bunker Hill" was sung by Rtv. T. M. Shanafelt. Rey. Theodore Nelson of Edbt Saginaw, (in war days knowu as captain), delivtred the address, referring to the rapid sucesión of events, it once seeming as it' our civil war would nerer end. and it now seeming so long a time since its eud ing. He described hts recent trip to the battld fiel'is of the S-.iuth. Th recent celebration at Yorktown was spokeii of, and the wonderful change in the fecling of' the country toward England now and at the time of the baule. Af ter a general review of the similar change which should take place between the citizens of the Nortb and South, he referred to the work of' the Twenty-eixth in the war of the rebellion. The occasion was one of rare interest. Bay City Evening Express states that Thomas Kerley of Maple Ridge, DJta couuty, raised 1,175 bushels of potatoes frorn 18 bdhtU (measured), of seed, under the fullowiDg plan of cultivation: He cut off the seed ends, rejectinsj them, and then cut up the potatoLB, leaving a single eye in each piece, plantiug two pieces in a bilí, with the above result. _ A singular thing in this connecüon is that as an experiment heplanted a small portion of the land wiih ihree pieces in each hill, aud fouud that lees potatoes and smaller size were produced than where only two pieces v.ere planted in a hill. He also raised $350 worth ot turuips, and after deducting the cost of labor and other expenses, found that his clear profita amounttd to $1,143. If thi3 is a sample of the revtnue derived from land in the Lake Superior country, it must prove the haven for whieh so many people have been looking. The Clinton woolen milis in Lenawee county, during the last two months report for September 23,019 yards, aud or Octjber 29,619 yards of fiue cass'.meres, manufactured against 40,200 the samo months last year. A ereat railroad ccntractor in New Orleans says the Ponchartrain bridge cannot be completed by December, 1882, berause it will take 30,000,000 feet of lumber, and all the milis in the country cannot eaw it in a year. The Free Press comes ío the rescue by intorruirig the Loub-ianians that Michigan liaone mui that does nexr iv w ce that in a itar. Ltliimg' on with hia briie - Michigan can til hira out in a week. A new 500 pound bell, manufactured by the Meneeley bell company of Troy, N. Y., has just been hung at the state public echool, Coldwater. Acting President Frieze of Michigan University uses some plain English in regard to the christian religión and the state institution. He says. "The university occupies in respect to religión the same ground with the state iteelf and with all other institutions of the state. Christianity, therefore, is not merely tolerated in the uuivenity, not merely not proscribed, but is unhesitatingly honored aud cherished. Of the students, from 30 to 33 per cent are members of churches. Finully, if any tffort to divert christian students from the university on the charge that ïts ixiy christinn teachers exert an unchristian influence, shall unhappily prove Fuccesefu!, and thus the chris tian t-lement ba taken away from ituudergraduates, the reBponsibility oi haviug ihua given over this mighty edu-ational power to irreligión will ie not with the opponents of chris tiauity, but those who profesa chris tianity." The excellent inventions coming into use lor the consumption of the smoke made by soft coa], so that manufacturing towns aad cilies may be saved from the gloomy sky and the constant fall of soot, which become a growing affliction wherever the tall chimneys most do congrégate, suggest that it would be a capital thing if some one would contrive similar beneficial devices for the relief of a long suffering public heretofore unable to escape the infliction of men, who, while they do good work, yet blow the smoke of it in the faces of their fellows right recklessly. O for smoke consumers to be attached to the man who, when he gives, throws out a black cloud of complaint; to the man who, when he works, must needs fill the air with an advertising clatter ; to the man who.when he reproves, oflends with his impatience ; to the man who, when he directs, futnes forth an oslen tatious authority. The faetones are good, but they must consume their own smoke. A gentleman who wasfixing a waterpipe which was leaking, became very much annoyed by his colored bodyguard, a youth of about ten yeara of age, and drew the wrench back as if to strike him. The body-guard stood his ground and contemptuously remarked: 'I ain't af raid of you; I'se worked for a lieap sight meaner men den you is.' To this the gentleman indignantly repli d: 'You lie, you little raacal; you never did.'

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