Adrian Press Washtenawisms

Manchester smells coal and ricbes ' buried a shallow depth underneath where she sits and is exploring for : it. Dr. R. Bee Henry, of Ann Arbor, having purchased a lot in Dexter, will erect a new hive there, next spring. The Ann Arbor Courier remarles that the readers of the Wayne Review "are unanimous in the opinión that its editor is a great success as a devil." The devil, he is! He has no other. What was at first supposed to be a loemotive off the track at Dexter, last week proved to be only the Leader editor, with a case of snorting influenza. The influenza is very bad at Dexter. A hackman at Ann Arbor was arrested last week, charged with violating the hack ordinance. He had the " gall " to plead guilty and escaped with a fine of $i, which he will take out of the court when next he rides with him. Theodore Shoulders, of Milan, who absent-mindedly skipped from Milan, leaving a brilliant galaxy of creditors, has been apprehended, for larceny and brought back. He will be a "smoked" Shoulder as soon as the Milanese can light the cobs. Al. VanGieson, of Bridgewater, sold sheep to a Missourian who took them to Chicago, representing them as of his own breeding and secured several prizes. VanGieson has gone out to Missouri to see about it,never stopping to think that the man may be putting his trust in a hair-trigger shotgun. Manchester is now trying to raise $75 to put a speculative hole in the ground. - Dexter Leader. The design of this "speculative hole in the ground, " is to tap and test the speculative coal mine that is supposed to exist right under the coal yards that are asking $7 a ton on the surface. The Washtenaw stone yard, established by the supervisors, has suspended. Liabilities unknown. Assets, a lot of broken and unbroken stone, two or three battered and rusty stone hammers, a tramp's boot heel, some woodchuck holes and a quarter of an acre of rabbit tracks. The enterprise didn't pay. An Ypsilanti firm got mad last week because one of the local papers advertised that they sold Si worth of tea for 1.50. Small thing to be teas-ed over. - Ana Arbor Courier. It's not so' A tax on tea, raised the greatest howdy-do ever known in this country down to the time ol the 'pathy war in Ann Arbor. Dr. Prettyman, now of Rio de Revolutioneiro, Brazil, write.s to his brother, Aid. Prettyman, of Aun Arbor, that the insurrection does not inferiere with business. Certainly not. Insurrections are the business of that country, and have been ever since an ungrateful people kicked the throne from under Don Pedro. John Wesley is (are) are (is) the pious front name (names) of Robinson, the Ann Arbor colored man, who, about a year ago, ignoring the loving ties of consanguinity, batted his únele, Daniel Taylor, with a club, with intent to do murder to him. Family friendship and the uncle's arm were broken, and John Wesley is bound over. % The Ann Arbor Democrat is over its patent leathers in the mire of despondency, owing to a shut-down on editorial theater "comps" and adds that "about the onlyfree thing for the Ann Arbor editors is salvation." Alas! a multitude of evidence lead downward to the conclusión that the brethren there have not ava-iled themselves of this "free thing." It is written: "By their fruits ye shall know them. " The Saline Observer's subscribers are bringing in wood for their papers, dumping it on the ampie pile, and going away and "never saying a word"; and the good editor is much distressed to know whose account is to be credited with how much wood. - Ypsilanti Commercial. There will betrouble yet, between patrons and editor, and some day a loaded stick will go off, fill the editorial air full of flying griddles and jar the pail, bloated dead flies down from the ceiling. o # Prof. George Hempl, Ph. D., of the U. of M., has been at the pains to publish an index to the "Pronunciation of Chaucer." It is not this but the fact ttaat a treatise is thought necessary to the pronunciation of Chaucer, that provokes our disfavor. Is it nota short word and easily pronounced as, "Who will give me a chew, sir?" Yet some ! carping professor will probably 1 severate that this is incorrect. O, pshaw, sir! Pronunciations, to be intelligent, should squat as near the etymology of word as possible. There will be an examination in Domestic Relations under Professor Mechem for all one year men wishing to pass that subject, Saturday, Nov. 25, at 9 a. m. - Washtenaw Times U. of M. Notes. It seems to us that the less that subject is stirred up, the better; but if it's to be gone into at all, let the unpainted truth appear. Cali the oíd "lifers" as witnesses - not the "one year dudes" who know nothing about sleeping on the edge of eternity with three children in the middle. Get the old patriarchs who have raised families and passed into the penumbra of grand-parentage. What does a one year man know about getting a boy through the football and girl period? Did he ever dislócate a great toe, bidding his daughter's worthless süitor an energetic good-night? If you want testimony on Domestic Relations that will count, subpoena the "old man." Those "one year" fellows who are still in the glory of the honeymoon, think every hair on their heads is a jewsharp, and domestic life all buckwheat cakes and molasses. They haven't got there yet on "Domestic Relations."