Adrian Press Washtenawisms

Chelsea Lutherans will pull down their oíd pagoda and build a new one. Thieves at Dexter injured John Hall recently by stealing his cliiclcens, and insulted him by stealing his shirt. Paul Schall, an Ann Arbor boy, is in a critical condition as the result of an attack on his leg by a dog, which punctured the Hesh in fourtee places. E. Davis, of Milan, had the ba of a foot severely injured by a lo rolling on it. Any man who wi wear the ball of his foot on to ought to have a log roll on it. With the telephone and electri light about to be realized, Dundee is racing over the path of progress, dragging with her that relie of delightful barbarism, the roller skating rink. A mineral well has been struck a a deptfa of 1 6o feet at Ann Arbor It is salt and soft, but lacks the rich ripe, nest-egg flavor of Ypsilanti which can make a Limburger chees cry, "O, mamma!" and swoon. # The "sleeping beauty" of Stockbridge, the young lady who has now slept the larger portion of a year, is reported to be gradually waking up. VVhen fairly roused after so long a snooze, won't she make things G! "Does cows pay?" inquires a correspondent of the Saline Observer. Some thinks they does and some thinks they doesn't, but, as the correspondent says in beginning his discussion on the subject, "figures argües best." Ann Arbor papers are unpleasantly reviving a fact which Michigan has striven thirteen years to forget, e. g., that Guiteau the assassin of President Garlïeld, was once a student of the university and resided in Ann Arbor. A recent suit at Manchester wherein the ghost of a JSjoo colt was plaintiff and a barbed wire fehce was defendant, resulted in a verdic of $30 for the ghost. It is said law vers very rnuch favor cultivating the barbed wire fence. Otto Eberwein, of Ann Arbor, by the explosión of a package, was giv en a coat of varnish which caught fire anq so injured his finish that he will have to be newly veneered anc revarnifched before he will be agaii presentable in society. # While John Sears, of Saline, was enticing water out of the cistern with a hook and pail, his little daughter made a dive for the bottom but was discovered befóre the cistern lid was replaced and fishedout, thus spoiling the job she had put up on her papa. More than half of the present wheat erop is still in the hands oí the farmers, and is not likely to bring as much as the half that has been sold. - ChelseaCor. Ann Arbor Argus. All true - and the half has not been tolled! Cleveland is to be congratulatec on getting out of Ann Arbor without losing his watch and pocketbook. This is not intended as a reflection on the committee who had him in charge; but there were a great many pickpockets in Ann Arbor on the day the ex-president was there. The motor line track of Arborslanti ligament at the point of recent litigation, is being taken up and laid in the center of the Street. Cars will soon run, and the man who next enjoins the road will be tied between two motors and pulled in opposite directions till something givesway. John Hubbard, an old sinner of Augusta, Washtenaw, was fined last week, $21 for abusing his stock, making the third time this leatherconscienced person has bien snaked into court for the same offense. It is time he were turned without weapons, into a yard with a ferocious buil. Two small boys named Blythernan and Bridgman broke into the store of Rinsey & Seabolt Sunday evening before six o'clock and rifled the money drawer. They previously entered Sweet's feed store and Ross's second hand store. The boys were arrested on Monday and lodged in ja.il. - Ann Arbor Register. Blytheman, Blytheman ! Ves, we 've heard the name. Same thieving little cuss - always old enough to steal and never old enough to imprison according to the owlish wisdom of the Lansing reform school superintendent. Blytheman will yet steal the spots off the sun. V. G. Stocking f nut a relative of Stockless Simpson) is a Lima pa of much enthusiasm. [lis eco: views dovetail with thuse of Sockless. The companionabh was on hand at Ann Arbur with great promptitude and made an altempt in the cro-.vi! to disburden Mayor Doty of his pocket-book. [lis honor injured his assailant in the shin with the toe of his boot, at which the other took offense and retired into the crowd. A large dog tried to stop one o the electric cars on Main street Tuesday morning. He was unsuc cessful, liowever, and now sleeps in an honored grave. - Ann Arbor Ar gus. Died a dogmatic death as it were - under the wheels of progress; anc many another doomed dogma see a similar fate. 't It is said that crimes are fewes where education doth most abound yet we are told by the Ann Arbor Argus that "on Sunday evening no less than three attempts at criminal assault occurred in this city, right under the shadowof the dome of the university. " This is enough to make the dome of the university skuwawed with mortification ! When L. C. Goodrich, of Ann Arbor, was introduced to Mr. Cleveland, he put on a brand new smile that had never been smoleand started in with the original remark that he was happy to see him - that is, he would ha e so stated had he got that far; but being overeóme by the mighty presence, his visión grew unsteady and the room reeled; he forgot the last name of the ex-president and his collar began melting down with perspiration, till summoning his remaining consciousness hegasped "I'm - glad to - see you - Grover!" An unmistakable secondterm smile discomposed the features of Mr. Cleveland. "Are you engaged!" inquired the lady of Bridget at the intelligence office. "No, mum, but I have re-" guiar company for four night's o' the week."