Adrian Press Washtenawisms

Katharine Millspaugh, of Ypsilanci, had a mili pond in her yard and cellar, and sued the city for damages. Judge Kinny took the case from the jury and decided against the plaintiff, on the ground that if she couldn't keep hens, she could have raised ducks. Our authority for the above is a "clothetline" dispatch from a deaf mute who heard the decisión. The learned Prof. Emil Hirsch, of Chicago, recently lectured inUniversity hall on "The Contributions of the Semites toCivilization" showing the foregoing to have been "the greatest factors" etc. If the professor had been as generous as he was learned he would have stated that Semite was the original word, of which Smith is the evolution - thus: Semile, Smite, Smythe, Schmidt, Schmit, Smitt, Smith, Smit, and lïere we are. Yes, the Smith'shave gone far to rescue the world from the jaws of barbarism.