Adrian Press Washtenawisms

At Au-n Arbor last week, Justlee Butts baniéhed hum Ilill Bender tu te bastile. had been giving eharacu-r lo his name . Bev. Mr. C.vphcrs resilles at Dunéec. He is, however, ïvot one oí tobe 0 but wil! lalwayia dlo as hc outyht, whiclli is 'iiotliiug lor a minister avIio is mercly a cypher. Ann Arbor Qias jn,st taken a teleyihonc census, and records a populación, of 151 "licllo" machines in the ity. There are about 15,151 pt'oplö io tJhe city -ivtoo daily pronounee the name h tJie machine backward, after using it. ii ■ # Two Ann Arbor Hamites iired six ehots at e;ich otlier the other night, ujid actually missed each other. The eolloquy tSiat emgued was as near as tould Ivo reported, as iollows: "Nygah, l' satisfied, is yotj?" "I is; I's glad te git off so."' Wheui Jolm Emerick, of York Center, pulled the trigger, tlie breechpin flew out, and in a York minute, the pyes seemcd to Jiave it - the eyes had it - as they say in eongrese. He is till 1lind, but the doctors think he will see again. The pliilauUiropist and tile minister may toil for jinmnnity f rom his youth to the day he is carried to the eemetery, 'dead oí grip and sl.irvation, and get tmt a tihree-Hne no; ir, wifh hls name spelicd wrong, in the newspaper, w'hile tlie fellow -vlio eats forty fat quails in forty days, makes for himsclí a "iiabitation and a name' among the oelebi-ities of the world. f euoh' is Frank Yanderw' k. r, ni Aon Arbcxr. # # The term "Squawl uck" is derived íroui "squamous," caly, aud "buek," to ot. kick against; hengg 'Squawbuck," "to oppose by , scaly vetihods." It refera to t2ie tctics o) republican lawyers, ivbo toted an uld iaaw irom Petoökey to Laesing and tried to'liuck a deiiiucratic senator ut oï hls Beal by aesertlag ijhe was iis wife. They only pi-oved that the o elainied marriage was to a reputolitan; and iiaving failed to güt eitiiev the senatorial chair or the senator's jnooi?y, they were torined "Squawbivcks." The wortl as at present ned, has a wider general application, and refera to and ineans a repablicain, Avho approves tJie work oï ttie squáw-oonspiiing lawyers and who keeps kickiiig about the deniocrats Btiealing tlc senate. ■