Adrian Press Washtenawisms

The Chelsea Standard has five years behind it and an optimistic future before it. "The clergyman's life is not an easy one" remarksthe Dexter News. No, the constant worrying down of yellow-legged chicken, uses up his stomach in the course of a few decades. The Ann Arbor Courier thinks spring is here, just because "the crocuses are up." As a matter of fact the crow cusses arrived a.month ago election being over, let them be eaten. Wilber H. Carter, of Willis, is able, at the end of each year to compute the valuable time he has lost, measuring his daily walks by an old clock that has been in hisfamily since 1758. " w Ypsilanti church people get dizzy on the way out of the churches, passing through the lines of tobáceo smokers, who worship their idols out of doors aud save the nickel that should be cashed into the contribution box. The local scribe of the Ann Arbor Courier the other day saw a doublé rainbow with the ends meeting in about the zenith. It is just such sad "doubles" as this that emphasizes the need of more temperance work. Chauncey Thompson, ■ of Ann Arbor, tried to stop a loosened Street car brake with his nose one day last week. The "break" is now in Chauncey's nose. - Dexter News. Yes, and he knows that a street car brake is willing . to take its Chaunceys every time. Stockbridge called President Harrison "a damned hog," and Tateum called the Hillsdale legislator a "little pup." The balance of the menagerie includes some jackasses. - Ypsilanti Sentinel. Don't they know that their little hands were never made to scratch out each other's eyes? The Dexter council has ordered a steel windmill with which to run the town clock, and incidentally to pump water for the fire department. Agreeable to the order so let it be done. If the order had not been for a steel windmill, they might have hired Horr of Saginaw. Referring to Prof. Schaeberle's twelve thousand mile trip to South America to get theiphotograph of a solar eclipse, the Ann Arbor Courier remarks: "The true scientist will go to the ends of the earth, to grasp a fragment of truth." Yes, and immediately all the other scientists jump onto him, and cali him a liar. Editor Paul G. Suekey, of the Hausefreund and Alfred Paul, of Pittsfield, have purchased the Washtenaw Post of L. J. Leisimer. The two Pauls will consolidate the Post with the Hausefrend. Both were papers of influence and combined should make "a hummer." J. R. Vescelius, of Milán, owns a quantity of coins that were doing business 900 years before Christ. Under the Sherman act, the coinage of that day was fairly abundant. It was of copper, from the Calumet and Hecla mines of Michigan. Vescelius is also, the happy possessor of a high priests breast-plateof righteousness, of about the year A. D. 7 or 9. A sneak-thief without the breastplate of righteousness, has stolen from Mr. V. Washington's badge the original and only one in existence.