Adrian Press Washtenawisms

Munips, measles, chicken-pox and chicken-stealing make Milan and vicinity, a lively locality. The Presbyterians of Milan wil shortly give a "fancy fair. It will be a fancy affair, it is said. Milan has Sio. 67 in the treasury over frora last year. Not a large surplus, but sufficient for the purpose of a council jack-pot. A Y. M. C. A. will be formed in Ann Arbor, if the Christian young men can be found. A committee, armed with the power of search and seizure is scouring the city. Prof.v Calvin Thomas, of Ann Arbor, lecturedon"TheDevil" March 6th. The victim of the attack was not allowed even to rise to a question of privilege - poor Devil! Eider Skentleberry, of Dundee, was recently presented with an eighty-five dollar donation, fifty dollars being "spot cash." The land of the huckleberry loves Mr. Skentleberry. Prof. DePont, of Ann Arbor has organized a fencing class of fifteen. Those chaps talk learnedly about "fencing," when probably not one of them knows how to split a railcut. In Monroe, the other day they gave a man his choice between getting married and being arrested. She was a Carleton maiden and he hesitated a long time; but he married her. The back door of the "club room" looks as though the W. C. T. U. had been bombarding it. - [Enterprise. Not decorated with tobáceo quids? - Ann Arbor Courier. Or bruised with beer bottles? C. H. Wilson has just paid out over $13,000 for logs and labor since January ist. A few more men of enterprise and capital like Mr. Wilson would keep Milan a-boomin' all the time. - Milan Leader. The brain of Gus Fellows, of Ann Arbor, is struggling with the invention of a twine reel, that shall take up the surplus twine. It is hoped he will succeed real well, and help all the fellows who have twine to reel. e Judge Kerns, ex-register of deeds of Washtenaw, and Arthur Brown, surviving county clerk, have formed an abstract partnership. Brown will not be out of a job at the end of his term, and be shrugging his shoulders as though his clothes didn't fit him. An Ypsilanti minister, recently referred to George Washington as "the hero of Lundy's Lane." The Sentinel believes the good man got parts of two stories mixed. Perhaps not. Give him a chance to prove it. In what part of the Bible did you read it, eider? Out county exchanges are quite unanimous that the erop of office seekers this spring will be abundant. - Ann Arbor Courier. The beauty about this erop is that it will stand any amount of freezing to death and live to be frost-killed other springs. The Dexter News announces that after an existence of two days, a meat combine at Chelsea "busted" and old prices were resumed. How thankful that he did not live to see this day, should be the corpse of the man who wrote, "There's honor among thieves. " Will Arnold had one of his feet severely pinched between the bumpers of a couple of freightcars. -Dexter News. No brakeman should try to couple cars standing on his head. Suppose he should slip his nose in a f rog - does he think he could get damages? it is reported that some immoral people of various sexes, residing at Whittaker, were recently visited by white-caps and presented with tar wrappers and feather night-gowns, supplemented with advice to leave town. The town is not now where they are. It is thought by "Property Owners," of Ann Arbor, that if the city would vote 525,00o toward the proposed new "Disciples" theological institute, that the various other denominations would follow, and surround the campus with the theological institutes. Let the campus be surrounded with a wall of piety. A Superior towmhip Washtenaw doctor has just been fincd jiio for allowing his colts to run out all this tough winter without shelter. Strange how this thingfalls out! A doctor Iets his colts go unsheltered and is fined for it. Yet a doctor may stuff a patiënt with all sorts of mean medicine, and there's no law can touch him. Nature must have been in a merry mood and wisely sought herglory, when she brought her colors forth and formed and made the flora. - Willis Cor. Ypsilantian. , Yes, it was a pretty "ketosh" job, that's a fact; but when she sprung the spring poet on the community - itwas then that she actually "hurnped herself." Bitter complaints come from our boarding housus because the students have to drink hydrant water mixed with crude oil. - Ann Arbor Argus. The students are doing altogether too much "kicking." It has been found that crude oil will remove the scales from the inside of a boiler. Let them try it. Last week, at the election of officers of the Ypsilanti Arbeiter society, Chris Teufel was elected vice-president. That's a Germán name, but the same rendered in English, is the name of a vice presiding officer of the future, in a place where many Ypsilantians will Ue subjects, unless they renounce the vices of this life, and better prepare themselves for the hereafter. The Iowa forger, who personated Chas. E. Hiscock, of Ann Arbor, and pocketed several hundred dollars of good, Iowa bank cash, is described as a very fine appearing man, with a pleasing address and a large diamond, of great value. The fact last named proves the forger to have been a minstrel, and Mr. Hiscock thinks of resigning from the bank and becoming an "End man." The Ypsilanti Sentinel has discovered one honest man in Superior and calis public attention to him. His name is Ennis Twist. He had refused to swear that an insuredhorse was worth more than $125, when everybody else said he was worth S150. It must be mighty embarrassing to a fellow to stand up and be singled out like that, and would take the twist out of sorae men. - I W # At the recent trial debate at the university, for the choice of three speakers to represent Michigan in the great inter-university inter-locking jaw-fight, soon to take place with the Wisconsin university, Mr. Purdy came out first-best, Mr. Lipper's lip secured him second and Mr. Jefferies took third place. Mr. Best also tackled the job, but didn't claim anything on account of his name. So much fault was found with the fish shute bill, by dam owners along the Iiuron. that Representative Kline offered an amendment, exemptingthe Huron. This enrages fishermen and they are ready to "shute" Kline, on sight. Poor fellow! he's "between the devil and the deep sea." If there's no shute he'llbeshot. He'll be shot if there's a shute, and taking everything together he is harrassed almost to death with the dam business. These are some of the glories of serving one's country at a salary of three dollars per day. O, Témpora! O, Moses! ' p