What Came Out Of The Sewer

The students of anthropology will iind something of interest to them .-ork in the stone knife which was taken from the sewer on Depot st. on Saturday. It is about eight inches long and tapers to a point. There seems to be some difference of opinión as to its use, Aid. Wood believing it was used by the Indians in making arrow heads. Others think it was used in skinning game. Other interesting relies were also found. At a depth of seven feet a swamp oak stump was discovered on the top of which laid a horse slioe. Street Commissioner Sutherland discovered an ox shoe which at the present day is a curiosity in Ann Arbor. A surveyor's grade stake was also thrown out of the ditch. The ground along Depot Street was originally a swamp covered with underbrush. Daniel Hiscock was the first settler to break it up. Opposite Tolbert's lumber yard the water in the spring of the year would back up and cover the low ground. John Nowland recollects the time when a boy he with others caught many large pickerel at this place. The street has been filled up over seven feet for a long distance. - Washtenaw Times.