Adrian Press Washtenawisms

At the Hawkins house fire at Ypsilanti, a New York drummer lost everything but his cheek, which was carrying its owninsurance. Samples valued at $2,000 perished. Patrick Donovan, of Northfield, died last week at the age of 90 years. Even then, it required a cáncer of the stomach to loosen the old gentleman's strong clutch upon life. # Fred Browne (notice the "e" - it isn't the editor of the Times) was sent to jail for vagrancy for ten days, Tuesday. - Ann Arbor Argus. Was the state of the two men, then, so similar, as to cali for this explanation? # Things were made pretty hot for Editor Suekey, of Ann Arbor, last week. His residence in Pittsfield caught fire, and visited a small slice of the hereafter upon him, with inside damages - that is, to his residence. # .# It is "turn about" with the five Ypsilanti drug stores about keeping open Sunday. The druggists agreed among themselves to one at a time poison the public, and by the same token reduce the number of individual Sabbath breakers, four-fifths, on the judgment day account book. Harvey Trotter, of Ypsilanti, drove near the bank of the riyer last week, with a team and wagon and blocked the wheels. Then thewhole thing backed into the river, block and all. The team was saved and the wagon will be when Trotter's diving apparatus is completed. Thus far 230 commercial electric lights have been contracted for at Manchester. House lighting will not be undertaken before August. It is hoped that with the stronger light afforded by the electric street lamps the aldermen will be more successful in finding their front door key holes. The editor of the Ypsilantian, published at Ypsilanti, we always thought to be a truthful man. He says "one day last week as we were spading our "■arden," etc. Now who believes this spading business? - Dundee Reporter. We! He was looking for fish worms. The art supplement of the Ypsilanti Commercial for May is an exquisite half tone engraving of Miss Minnie Miller, one of the many beautiful young ladies of that city whose portraitgoes toward the Comm'ercial collection of charming loca types of handsome women. A heavy explosión late Tuesda) evening last week, turned Dundei out of its beds to look for the cause which is yet undiscovered. One oi the bankers under the impression that his fïnances were being burgled, rushed from his bed to the bank. ciad principally in a shot gun. A1Í was quiet there. Ann Arbor has just escaped the threatened peril of a new publication which was to have been called Thought News. The egg proved addie and wouldn't hatch, as it ought not, in an already over-published community. It is not likely that it would have contained anything that would have been thought news. A sign feil down at the postoffice news stand, Monday, and smashed in the top of a large case.- Ann Arbor Argus. This was one of the most ominous signs of the times. Since the foundation of the republic, such an incident has never occurred, except it was followed by a change of administration. Quake, Beal! Rev. Dr. Earp, whose peculiar financial methods while rector of St. Andrew's church, of Ann Arbor, lost certain residents of that city about $15,000, was last week, in Detroit, bounced from the vineyard by Bishop Davies. Earp gave checks where he had no deposit, and in other ways "reaped where he had not strawed." # # About as mad a man as Ypsilanti ever saw was Fred Coquillard, last week, when a scaffold gave way and led him and a hod of brick, a 40foot dance down through the air to :he ground. He was picked up unilled and with whole bones, but his disgust was boundless. Another man escaped falling by wrapping limself around a chimney where he hung with his claws and teeth till rescued. William Webber, of Ann Arbor, ïrst wiped some machinery that was n motion and then coiled himself around a shaft, which it became necessary te remove in order to unwind ïim. He is now in bed and will leave in his will, a bequest of considerable valué to the person who shall prove himrelf by two unimDeachable witnesses, to have ever jeen a bigger fooi than the tes,tator. The cartoon given in the last Courier, was the work of a young man who never had an engraving tooi in his hands until he made the Dlate from which that picture was cast. - Ann Arbor Courier. There is no doubt whatever, that the young feller is the offspring of a stupendous calculation; but the chap who wrote the clear, opaque and arilliantly incomprehensible key to the cartoon, is the rooster who will live in history long after the weasel of time has sucked the blood of his rivals.