Adrian Press Washtenawisms

A new cheese quarry is about to be worked at Dexter. Frank Ankebrandt, of Stony Creek, last win ter in tryingto "joint" a circular saw with his cheek, had his face cut open. Now he is disabled with a smashed arm. The advent of a female baby in the household of John Gillen, of Saline, has recalled Gillen from an active canvass for the Washtenaw shrievalty and sent him on the trail of a hired girl. The wheat erop of Washtenaw is somewhat shrunken and under last year's average, but never was there such a plump erop of babies, according to the monthly report of the secretary of state. The Ann Arbor fire department possesses a menagerie, consisting of a hawk, three crows, a fox and a coon. Then there is the chief with hits Cosur de Lion uniform, whobellows orders through his muffled horn! 4 The Manchester Enterprise and the Chelsea Herald unite in advising the girls not to wear bright red dresses. - Ann Arbor Argus. They certainly ought not, except in localities where the stock fences are very high. The Dundee Reporter expects that "another prize will be offered this fall at our fair for the prettiest baby." It had been supposed that the Reporter had some time ago, ceased to have a personal interest in such an exhibition. It has been a source of oft-expressed wonder that the Michigan "jag" infirmary should have been located at Ypsilanti. The strangeness of it will disappear when it becomes generally known that Ypsilanti has also a female suffrage society. Lack of money is more often the spur that has given us some of the greatest things the world ever saw, than anything else. - Grace Gordon in Saline Observer. Yes, Grace, it has given a tramp printer the gosh-awfullest appetite that ever split the jaws of hunger. You should see him get away with a free lunch! Prof. Lovy, of Ann Arbor, and family, are camping and a young man stays in their house nights. The water works were turned off one night, and during the time, this young man turned a fauceton. Getting no water, he left the house forgetting to shut the water pipe. When he returned at ten o'clock the water in the house was ready to pour out of the chamber windows. While City Clerk Miller, of Ann Arbor, was driving out, one day last week, his horse sank nearly out of sight in a mud hole, and the clerk 's hat was just visible on the surface. Somebody came along, kicked off the hat, saw the clerk and inquired what he was doing down there. "Resting the horse," replied Muller, who presently drove out with a I bent axle and a broken wheel. Walter Kanouse met with a painful accident the other day. He was holding a cockeye while Irving Corbit was trying to remove the screw, the screw driver slipped, cutting a severe wound in Mr. K's wrist. - Mooreville cor. Saline Observer. The damages of unscrewing a cockeye are such that it is some safer to endure the stare than try to remove it, though either is hazardous. # # # # James Clark, eighteen successive years night watchman of Ann Arbor, without the loss of a night or an hour, has laid down the "billy" and now has all bis nights "in." James Clark is dead! The clock that ticked "ninety years without slumbering" was not more faithful than this trusty public servant who sleeps all night now - sleeps on a record unparalleled in pólice annals. Two or three weeks ago William Whaley found a nest of quail's eggs, which he put under a setting hen. This week the hen came off her nest with nine baby quails. Both hen and quails are perfectly at home in each other's company, and treat the vhole matter as though it was an every day occurrence. - Milán Leader. It may be the influence of Mars ipon the earth; it may be owing to he snake-blind season, whatever he cause, the extent to which credulity is put to the rack this season, nd truth crucified, is enough to make a republican tin liar "quail" j nd Ananias, were he living, drop ■ ead.