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Additional Local. Farmers' Institute ituto. nw runners' insiiuuo iihs it om of tho institutions of tho heo in which wo live. It would not have been Ks.siblo twenty-five years ago. Then tlio County Fair was tho school for farmers in which they were taught by thu specimens anil samples ami animals entered for tho show each tho best representative of tho products of the farm.

Such object lessons subserved their purpose, had their brief day and declined. Tho first Fanners' Inst ituto in our state was held in the winter of 1870. Six meetings were provided for in ditTerent parts of tho stato and they marked a new era in the education of farmers. They took a strong hold upon the public from the start and have became the popular method of distributing agricultural knowledgo among rural people. The study of principles and the elucidation of supposed facts, hero meet practical experimentation tho one a theory and tho other a practice, and compare notes.

If the theory be true, the practice will prove it. The methods of farmers are so varied that endless occasions lor discussion are presented to tho prolit of all. Tho farmer who has tho opportunity ana lulls to attend an Institute, iloes not appreciate his privilege. The state furnishes the lectures and pays their salaries and expenses, so that those who tlo not attend get nothing out of what they help to pay for. G.

CI r-u it Court. Judge Buck convened the circuit court for tnis county on Monday morning for the purpose of hearing motions, assigning casus and transacting other routine business. The jury will be in attendance on Monday next when work will begin on the following CALENDAR. The People vs. Levi Struble; murder.

The People vs. Charles 1). Burton; murder. Tho People vs. Edwin Young; violation of the local option law.

The People vs. John Anders; assault; appeal from justice court. John W. Miller vs. John M.

Sherrod; replevin. XV. Marvin vs. Louis D. Canfield; from justice court.

E. F. Parks, adm'r, vs. Margaret C. Norris; assumpsit.

Almira B. Stuyvesant vs. Calvin Wilcox; trespass. Administratorof estate of Alvah Cady vs. Commissioners; appeal.

Rebecca Cady vs. Francis R. Cady; ejectment. A. R.

Peck vs. II. A. Freese et al; appeal from justice court. Geo.

W. Miller et al vs. John Ihling; appeal from justice-court. First Nat'l Bank of Syracuse, N. Y.

vs. Ostrander, Loomis assumpsit. Adouiram J. Dyer vs. Phebe A.

Dyer; divorce. Mary Johnson vs. Geo. Johnson; divorce. Rhoda A.

Parsons vs. Thomas Parsons; divorce. Mary Morris vs. John Morris: divorce. Jennie May Hiler vs.

John T. Ililer; divorce. Flora B. Franklin vs. Win.

B. Franklin; divorce. Carrie E. Coulson vs. Alvin Coulson; demurrer.

Clement, Bane Co. vs. Arthur Meigs tt al; foreclosure. M. Vassar Selkirk vs.

Geo. W. Beak; bill to enjoin. Thos. Clairage et al.

vs. Will S. Banks; foreclosure (two eases). imi i) i. divorce.

Smut of Oat and Wheat. Following is a brief formula of the hot walei treatment for smut of oats and stinking smut in wheat. This method is known as the Jenson method, and was discovered by Prof. .1. L.

Jen-son, of Denmark, in 1887: The fanner may use his ingenuity in regard lo the treatment of his wlieat and oats, and use whatever conveniences he has at hand anyway, so that he accomplishes the desired result. One way we Hud convenient is to have a kettle in which to heat water quite hot, say Near this kettle place a barrel in which to treat the seed. Fill this barrel about one half full of hot water from the kettle and then by adding either hot or cold, water, the temperature of the water in the barrel may be kept at the desired height. Into this barrel dip the seed. The dipping is easily done by placing about a bushel of seed into a coarse gunny sack and fasten this sack to one end of a long pole hung across a notched post.

The seed should be kept moving all the time while in the hot water and by using the pole this is easily done. Oats may be treated just before sowing. After taking them out of the barrel of hot water it is best to throw cold water over them to cool them otT, and then let them stand and drain two or three hours after which they may be sown broadcast. Wheat dries much more rapidly, so if spread out immediately after treating and left to dry a few hours, it cau then be sown broadcast or in a force feed drill. As the grains will be considerably swollen after their treatment it is well to regulate the drill to feed from one to two pecks more per acre than with dry seed.

It will readily be seen that this method is in reach of every farmer. All that is required is one kettle, one or two barrels and a coarse sack. Two men in one can treat enough oats to sow 20 acres and enough wheat to sow 40 acres. One caution to be observed is that of using no bags or dishes for treated seed that have been used for tho untreated seed, unless they have been lir scalded. The water should bo at 135 when the wheat or oats arc put in.

Allow the grain to remain in tho water live minutes anl keep the temperature above 130'o. If it is difficult to keep the temperature up as required it may bo found convenient to dip tho seed into a barrel containing water at about 120 for the purpose of warming tho seed before" putting it into tho barrel in which it is to bo treated. Tho seed should be kept moving all the time it is in tho barrel. It is dillicultto secure rcliablo thermometers, that do not need testing, for less than $1.50, but any Michigan farmer, by sending 25 cents to the director of the experiment station, Ag'l College postoflice, can get a properly tested and marked thermometer. New fiuitn.

Roso V. Mclntyrc vs. Jams Mclntyrc; divorce. once )y 'robttte Court rroeellns-a. TrTlollowliicr are the proceeding in Judge Heckert's court for tho week ending uesuay, dan.

Estate of Samuel lioppin, dei-eastv, petition for probate of will Hied; hear- I. if. I. tug reu. uiu.

Estate of Mary C. Jones, deceased; report of sale of real estate Hied and confirmed. Estate of Alonzo Sherman, deceased; will admitted to probate. Estate of Caroline M. Uarr, deceased; final account allowed.

Esiato of (ieo. F. Harrington, dee'd; final account allowed. Estate of Fred A. Coulson, deceased; report of sale Hied and confirmed.

Estate of Samuel B. Hathaway, dee'd; administrator discharged. Estate of Juliana Pultney, deceased; G. H. Palmer appointed administrator.

Estate of Samuel Johnson, deceased; G. W. Bush appointed administrator. Estate of Cornelia Simmons, deceas'd; Charles J. Hickley appointed adm'r.

Estate of Anna M. Hopkins, deceas'd; petition for appointment of administrator filed; hearing Feb. Cth. Estate of William A. Fcazell, dee'd; final account filed; hearing Feb.

Cth. Mate Ileum. Rev. II. II.

Rose, Pastor of the Dowa-giac Baptist society, has resigned. Ora Andre, a young boy living near Ithaca, was killed in a runaway. Marion Smith, a Bangor man, was killed at HulTalo, N. working in a railroad yard. Mrs.

Roberts' residence, near Grand Haven, was burned by an incendinary; loss about $2,000. A pastor at Midland has just resigned and accepted tho local agency of an express company. Geo. Schneider, of St. Joseph, is a candidate for United States revenue collector for that district.

Geo. R. Shaw, at one time a well known northern Michigan newspaper man, is now editing a journal at Hirgo, Dakota. In the slander ease of Anna Owens of Clinton, against George Conner for calling her a thief, sho was awarded a verdict for $G50. C.

A. White, publisher of the Mar-cellus Xcws, has patented an improved mailing machine for use in country newspaper ollices. Ex-Mayor Cregier, of Chicago, is at the head of a syndicate which is trying to secure the contract for damming the St. Joseph River at Buchanan. The Dowagiac Times estimates tho Value of building improvements made in that city during 1802 at upwards of $200,000, which includes 125 residences.

Tho hoard of canvassers of Muskegon county have appropriated $1,500 to be: added to the $1,000 given by tho common council for furnishing a room at the world's fair. Ono salt company at St. Clair this year manufactured 600,000 boxes and 200,000 sacks of salt. The company employs about 59 hands and has a weekly pay roll of $100. Grand Rapids authorities havo discharged a juror on account of deafness.

During the throe weeks ho served a number of convictions were secured and an attempt will now be made to have all those who were convicted released. Mayor Sterns, of Benton Harbor, sent his resignation to tho council, on the ground that people would say he wanted the earth, having been appointed to a deputyship by the sherilT. Tho con uci Pre fused to accept the res ignation. The annual session of the Sev enth-Day Adventist general conference will be held at Battle Credk from Feb. 17 to March f.

Delegates are expected from many European countries, and big preparations are being made for their entertainment. Michael Cribbins, of Orion, an old is one of the best cane whittlers in the state. On New Year's day he ont a eano to the man who down in Dixie, after a battle, found him slowly dying in a hovel. 1 ho man earned Cribbins several miles to a hospital ami brought him back to life. The Berrien County Horticultural Society, one of the most important po-mologieal organizations in the state, at its annual meeting, elected tho following officers for the ensuing year: President, U.

A. 'Morrill; vice-presidents, R. C. Thayer, W. A.

Smith, David Judson, S. G. Antisdale, M. L. Me Clave; secretary and treasurer, A.

J.Knisley. The fireman of a train the other day thought he saw the headlight of an approaching train as his own engine was rounding the curve. He told the engineer to reverse and jumped off into six feet of snow. The engineer went on to Kalkaska without a fireman. The fireman whose name is John Pollard, was later on found behind a stump, still awaiting the crash.

The private banking business of J. E. Se bring, at Bangor, has been consolidated with tho West Michigan Savings Bank at that place. The uew oflicers are: President, J. E.

Sebring; vice-president, Alvin Chapman; cashier, George Chapman; directors, Anson Goss, Mrs. Rebecca Clark, Wm. Broadwell, Alvin Chapman, J.E. Sebring, J. (J.

Miller, N. W. Drake, J. E. Ferguson, George Chapman, 1).

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Secure for yourself the profits that the business so readily and handsomely yields. All beginners succeed grandly, and more than realize their greatest expectations. Those who try it find exactly as we tell them. There is plenty or room for a few more workers, and we urge them to begin at onte. If you are already em.

ployed, but have a few spare moments, and wish to use them to advantage, then write us at once (for this i your grand opportunity), and receive full particulars by return mail. Address, TIIUH A Hoi No. 400, Augusta, Me. The people residing along Palmetto 1 orpek, Souxh Caroliua, as well as those 'or miles back in the "slashes," are uigniy exeneu over tne appearance or a strange and uncouth creature in that vicinity. Tho beast is described as being a creature that far outdoes the night-mare ideas of the mythologists.

It is equally at home in the water, on the land or among the tall trees of the neighborhood, where it has been most frequently seen. The general contour of the head reminds one of some gigantic serpent with this exception: The snout' terminates in a bulbus, monkey faced knot, which much resembles the physiognomy of some gigantic ape. From the neck down, with the exception of some fin shaped flippers, which extend from the arms to the waist, the creature resembles a man, only that the toes and fingers are armed with claws from two to six inches long. Tracks made by the beast in the soft mud around Hennis lake have been taken to Dormer's Grove, where they are kept on exhibition in a druggist's showcase. Those who have seen the horrid thing face to face say that it is a full nine feet in height, which could hardly be believed only for the fac that the tracks mentioned above are within a small fraction of fifteen inches in length.

Fishermen who surprised the monster sitting silently on a mass of driftwood declared that its back looked like an alligator's, ami that it had a caudal termination a yard long, which forked like the tail of a fish. Louis Republic. Little Short of Murder. The neighbors around a certain corner of Ash street were alarmed on Monday night by low moans issuing from a closely curtained carriage that stood on tho corner. A driver sat upon the seat.

Ono of the neighbors came out and approached the team to ask what was the matter. Before he reached the corner the driver caught sight of him, and whipping up the horses drove rapidly off. The folks were doubly alarmed, and after a good deal of exciting talk asked a policeman to call at the house on the corner and ascertain who was hurt, or if any mystery was in the moans. He talked with an excited woman who came to the door, and also with a man who wiped his eyes with a handkerchief, while the neighbors stood across the street in suspicious silence. The officer came over the street and told them that the old family dog, tho hero of dozens and dozens of fights and of 28 years, had been carried off to die by a bullet.

The dog evidently understood his fate, for he began to moan and moan as soon as they took him from the house. Lewis-ton Journal, Eskimos for the World's Fair. Two well known Swedish scientists. MM. Bjorling and Kallstemuis, arrived at St.

John's, Newfoundland, yesterday. They are commissioned by the geographical and geological societies of Stockholm to explore the shores of Smith's sound, in the Arctic regions, collect specimens of the flora and fauna rf the district and to take astronomical observations. They will hire a schooner in St. John's for their voyage, from which they expect to return in September. Information has been received that a party of Americans is coming to explore Labrador and visit the Great falls, which were discovered last year.

Another American party leaves here soon in order to transport for the World' fair at Chicago three villages of different tribes of Eskimos, with all their belongings, and also a village of Indians inhabiting tho mountainous districts in the interior of Labrador. Newfoundland Cor. Pall Mall Gazette. A Mall of Fire on a Ilouttctop. During a severe electrical storm this evening the Crescent oil refinery was struck by lightning and caught fire, but the blaze was extinguished without much damage.

The house of Ferdinand Kreiner was struck by a ball of electric fire, which exploded wjth tremendous force. A fire alarm was turned in, but the electrical display burned itself out without even setting fire to the house. Eyewitnesses say it was the most remarkable sight they ever witnessed. An enormous electric globe of fire lodged against the peak of the house, where hung, burning and spitting flashes of fire until exhausted. Every inmate of the place was more or less severely shocked, the air being heavily charged.

All watches and clocks on the premises were stopped and other electrical phenomena occurred. Bradford Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch. lied Demolished, Occupants Unharmed. A strange freak of a bolt of lightning occurred at Jeannette during the heavy storm last evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Krisman reside in a small tenement house close to the Catholic church. They were in bed and asleep when the storm began to rage. Suddenly their bed was torn from beneath them and reduced to splinters.

A bolt of lightning had struck the house and passed through the wall into the room occupied by them. The couple were not hurt. Pittsburg Post. Again the WlUIpus-Wallapas! A couple of darkies raised considerable excitement Saturday night by declaring that they had seen the gyascutus, willipus-wallapus, or whatever it is that has been prowling around here for two or three weeks past. A big crowd turned out armed with guns, sticks, axes, but after a thorough search failed to locate the varmint.

Turin Cor. Atlanta Constitution. A wire netting fence COO miles long is one of the late Australian wonders. The fence separates the colonies of New South Wales and Queensland, and its object is to keep the rabbits out of the latter country. A recent order for books sent by Mr.

Gladstone to a London dealer embraced works ranging in character from a volume of Eton verse to treatises on solar physics and myths. International IJoafc Uaclng. It is possible that there will be an international rowing match arranged before the close of the rowing season of lBd'2. For some time past an informal correspondence has been carried on between the president of the Oxford University Boatclub and the rowing men of both Harvard and Yale colleges in the United States. The medium of communication was Mr.

Chase Mellin, an old Brasenose oar, who is at present residing in the states. The idea was to bring Oxford against the winners of the Harvard-Yale match. Harvard has always expressed a willingness to ratify an international match if such a thing was possible, and the only hitches likely to occur were the locale and the time. In an interview with It. C.

Lehmann, the coach of the Oxford crew, that gentleman says The Oxford University Boatclub is very anxious to arrange a match with the winner of the Yale-Harvard match this year. Informal communications have, I believe, como from the other side of the Atlantic, and have been answered by Mr. Fletcher, who is now president of the O. U. B.

Mr. Lefcniann thought that a race might bo arranged on the river Thames, between Putney and Mortlake, in the month of September, and that Mr. Fletcher and his companions expect to get a favorable reply is an open secret. It is a well known fact that a joint committee of Harvard and Yale has favored this project for some years, and it was tho intention of the Americans to Invito a representative crew of English college rowers to Chicago next season to take part in tho national regatta there. It is more than probable that the winners of tho Harvard-Yale race will meet the English rowers on the river Thames this year, and then ask for a return contest next year at Chicago.

London Sporting Life. Worth Twenty Thousand Dollars to lllrn. I. N. Locke, of Wayne county, was formerly an active trader.

In May, 1872, he was in Chicago and bought a lot for a small sum. lie put the deed in an envelope and placed it in his pocket with other papers. A few days afterward he lost the envelope and all its contents. He advertised for it, but really cared only for the notes, thinking the lot of little value. John Ritchey, a victim of softening of the brain, was wandering aimlessly on the street the day Locke lost his papers.

He found them and laid them away, and even after his death no notice was taken of the supposed worthless papers. A short time ago John Ritchey found the package and gave it to Mr. Locke, and through his attorney his claim has been established. Had the deed remained concealed a few days longer the twenty years would have expired and no claim allowable. It is a lot in the boulevard addition, and the parties occupying it have given Mr.

Locke $20,000 for a quit claim. Chicago Letter. Money In Trust for a Cat. In Paris there is a cat whose future welfare has become quite a question of public interest. The animal belonged to a Mme.

Dubrai, and his mistress was so fond of him that she left a sum of money in trust to the mayor of the third arrondisement, in which she resided, for the use of the scholastic fund (Caisse des Ecoles) on condition that a certain amount shall go toward pussy's maintenance. A trusty person is to bo nominated by the mayor, who will undertake to house the lucky cat and give him three meals a day, consisting of such delicacies as lights, liver and heart. It is estimated hat afteri this cnargo has been met thero'will only be about 200 francs a year left for the fund, and the question now agitating public functionaries is whether that sum is worth the responsibility to le incurred. Paris Letter. fjueer Antics of Clouds.

Tuesday afternoon, during the rain and hailstorm, a cloud was observed a few miles south of this place that acted very strangely, to say the least. It was quite near the ground and seemed to be violently agitated. Suddenly the cloud seemed to burst asunder, one part going to the northwest and only forty or fifty feet from the earth. One of the sections passed over or through the tops of some tall poplar trees and shaved them off as if a gigantic mowing machine had passed that way. A heavy hailstorm also passed over a narrow strip of country near there, and at Sand Slough there were piles of them still remaining in spots late Wednesday morning.

Very little hail fell here, and it was so small as to be scarcely noticeable. Lemoore (Cal.) Leader. A Church Shed for Bicycles. The Center church committee is going to set aside one of the horse sheds as a bicycle shed. Not a few persons who attend the Sunday and week night meetings ride to and from the church on bicycles.

Now they have to leave their bicycles outside, where the small boys tamper with them and where, in case of a sudden shower, the machines would be injured. The shed will be inclosed and conveniently arranged for the storage of bicycles. So far as we can learn the Center church is the first in the country to provide a bicycle shed. Manchester (Conn.) Herald. Trouble In the 8t.

Clair Tnnnel. Great trouble is being experienced in ventilating the St. Clair tunnel, which was opened last year. Owing to the steep grades very heavy engines are used for working the tunnel section, and such quantities of smoke come from these engines that it is difficult to get men who are willing to run them. It is now proposed fitting smoke consumers to the engines with a view of mitigating the nuisance.

New York Times. Mummy Taint. Mummies taken from the Egyptian tombs, beaten into a fine powder and mixed with oil for paint is one of the latest industries of Cairo. The color of this human dust paint is a rich brown of lively tone. St.

Louis Republic. u. w. nHOWEnMANCOOTO a OHOCO. HATO CAPO.

WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A Half SALE BOOTS SHOES Which is 39 Pairs HEN'S (Moot Libby's $5 SHOES, HALF PRICE, $2.50. 32 Pairs LADIES' Ludlow's $3.00 SHOES, HALF PRICE, $1.50. 56 Pairs CHILDREN'S SHOES at the same Reduction. With our 438 Fashionable SAMPLE HATS which we are selling at Half the regular price, and our TWENTY Per Cent. DISCOUNT on our entire stock of CL0LHING, makes this headquarters for Bargains.

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CHRISTMAS HAS COME AND GONE, but we are still hero selling goods that please tho people. A largo variety of AXES, SAUSAGE GRINDERS, SAWS, LANTERNS, SKATES, TINWARE, SNOW SHOVELS, GUNS, AMMUNITION, for sale at J. H. WATERS CO. Made In all styles and sizes.

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