Michigan Matters

The north wing of the Pontiac insane gylum. occupied by nearly 500 women, wgs destroyed by fire m the 2üth. AU the nmates were rescued. The loss to the tate is about $150,000. The burned structnre will be rebuilt at once. One Manistee woman ref used to pay for the construction ot' a dress, alleging that the gown was spoiled in the making. The seanistress sued to recover her pay. A umber of society laáies were called in as experts, and the jury awarded the plaintjff the suin of $5 for services rendered. Twenty spring lambs which weighed considerably more than a ton, were recently sold by .T. E. Case, a Seymour Lake ruraüst. The value of state inslitutions including personal property, figures up to nearly f7,5O0,0OO. . An aged relie in the shape of a bedstead that was made with a saw and ax sixty iigo, is owned by a Dexter citizen. Grand Rapids carpenters demand a niuehourday and doublé pay for overÏ1TY1P. Four old mams, une bachelor, two ornbans, two widowers, one grasa widow and tour widows of the sure-enough variety inlabit a si llalli block at Northville. 'Phe temp'erance pledge which was signed John by Bairy before Father Matthew, more than half a century ago, is now in i ossession of his daughter, Mrs Villiam Collinson, of Carrollton. Newberry was treated to a holiday ghost performance which was so natural as to deceive the wisest citizen into the belief tbat the town had really been visted by an inhabitant af 'smother sphere. Mrs. Richard Phillips, a Marlette lady, is the mother of triplets, and all parties are doing well. the babies being unusually Isl rong and healthy. ■ ïhere are 2,033 descviptions in Iron ■ ounty's delinquent tax list. Port Huron people have been comparïhg notes and are agreed that their tonsorial bilis figure up the respectable sum of ê25,OOOper year- half enough to pay the salary of the president of this roaring republic. Two men and a boy "held up" a funeral procession between Waldron and Ontario, going through the parson's pockets as well as those of the mourners. It was probably one of the lightest hauls on record, oiily a few pennies, nickels and dimes being secured. Bay City G. A. R. veterans object to the management of U. S. Grant post in certain njatters, and twenty-eight members have withdrawn from that organization. Ed Vandenbender was found guilty of larceny at Alpena and fined the gi-eat big urn of one dime. Imlay City citizens nave taKen to ice water baths whenever the weather is cool enough togivethe water au icy temperature. Uncle Sam distributed the snm of $7,000,000 araong Michigan pensionêrs during the past twelve months. Walter Dolaii and Willie McDonald, two Grand ïtapids boys, tried skating on, thin ice and were drowned. The unimproved farm land of Clinton county amounts to 8B,707. Au Alpena girl iiidulged in wry faces at a pólice officer and was asaessed $5 for her t-emtirity. Martin Briggs, au Ovid resident of color, was separated from his family seventyfive years ago while a slave, and has just passed over to the majority at the age of 100 years. He was very fond of both "budge" and tobáceo, and but for the indiilgences might have attained a green oíd age. Port Hnrou's itiayor only had to sign his name 4,000 times to the municipal bonds just issued by that city. Five Otsego children were sent to the state public school at Coldwater, all in a bunch, from iust one family. Pontiac doctros f ailed to agree to disagree, one pill dispenser having fired a $3,000 clamage suit at another. Wm. McDonald, of Fort Gratiot, lost an arm on a western railway two years ago, receiïing Lf,000 as compensatory damages. Now the cash is aboutgone, Williams isan inmate of the house of corréction, leaving an estimable wife behind to mourn the error of his ways. The act of the last legislatura creating Diokinson county has been declared valid by the state supreme court. A Grand Rapids furuitm-e manufacturar has a single order for 5140,000 worth of bedroom suits for a Chicago hotel. Muskeon has expressed her official approval of the new $25,000 soldier's monument ei-ected the past season in that city, and Charles H. Hackley paid the bill at once. The verdict of a Battle Creek jury will probably be set aside because one of the jnrors took too frequent naps during the progress of the trial. Two St. Johns young men were presented with (84,000 worth of real estáte for their Christmas stockiugs. The recipients are brothers. Chelsea has a fat maiden who is wealthy and perhaps wise. She is old enough to be good, and deserving a matrimonial partner advertised to give one that might suit the sum of 15,000 and a half interest in a farm. She's now considering twenty-seven applications for the cash, the land and 350 pounds avordupois. Brigandage seems to be gaining ground in Michigan. The stage between St. Clanand Marine City was robbed of a mail pouch one day last week. The grippe has obtained such a íirm hold of Creek noses that the faetones of that town are running with less thau half their usual forcé. A $10,000 fortune has just dropped into thelapof Isaac Burroughs, a Pettyville ruralist. John Diem, the Port Hurón party who is aecused of murdering his foster father, claims that its all a místate, and that t'mother other fellow did the stabbing. ButJohn has been held to the circuit rourt just the same. Three Eaton Rapids families who reside te neighboring houses boast of an aggreKntion of lorty-three children. James McConnel, a Charlotte citizen, recently lost his famous driving mare "Bridget." The animal was 37 years old and surreudered on her very first sickuess. The number of marriages in Eaton county was greater by fifty-five in 1891 than for the previous year. Here's a case of extremes: T. W. Hayes received a discharge of a $400 mortgage on liis home from his employer on Christmas a a token of faithfully performed service; at th wwae time a Port Hurón wiíe was stHrviflijt because of the neglect of a husband who enjoya a good income. A pump which is run by clock work and is always on time, is the device of J. F. Selkirk, a Wayland gentleman. Evangelist Munhall gathered in about five hundred souls during his cnisade at Muskegon, and still there's many a resident of the sawdust city that's vet uncaught. There were 243 applicants for divorce credéntials in Kent eounty last year, being about, oiu-fifth of the total number of marriagea. Mistakes seem to be the common lot of frail humanity. Not far from Petoskey lives a chap who borrowed a horse and wagon for the pur ' pose of carting away a load of stolen ' goods. But the nag was too conscious or j lazy to engage in such a transaction and balked, leaving the driver to abandon his dishonest venture. The supreme court decided in the case of Fanny Daniels of St. Johns, that a minor may sue and recover possesaion of property if action is begun within six I years after beeoming of age, and that the statute of limitations cannot opérate as a bar to such reoovery. Sylvester's last pine forest has been laid low by the ax, and lumbering operations in that región now becomes a past industry .