Adrian Press Washtenawisms

Ypsilanti s coloreo mmstrels, who recently escapee! írom Milan, w il 1 i brave fate with auother Cxhibition I tónight. Nearly 100 conversions are reported at A.nlia as the result of a recent revival. The Azalians were never so well prepared for a cyclone as now. The Saline botany class is now digesting "esculent succulents,"and can aheady distinguish a turnip from a radish without a microscope, just by the taste. Carrie S. Bugg, of Lodi, declares that her husband, Henry Bugg, is a humbug, being cruel and negligent of her support. She asks the di vorce court to step -on him. A chunk of copper ore, weighing 6,400 pounds, has been received at the university. It will be alloyed in the usual manner, and used to braze the cheeks of law studencs. Piles of skunk skins deposited on the walks of Manchester, have set the olfactories of Matt Blosser in such a state of indiguation that it requires two men to hold his nose. Jordán Begole, of Stony Creek, is engaged in manufacturing wooden spectacle cases. They are probably designed to inclose the leather specs of high tarilï editors in Washtenaw county. -- t Chelsea now has a guitar club. The village cats listen with mournful interest, not knowing how soon they may be called on to render up what in them is, for the cause of music, notably that of the E-string. The Si. 2 5 wheat promised us under Cleveland doesn't materialice, does it? - Ann Arbor Courier. No, the protection placed on it by the McKinley tariff, didn't work. And say! - where is that "50. cent wool?" There were forty-seven applicaions for divorce in the Washtenaw court last year. The county clerk s obliged to send out a soliciting agent to keep the divorce calendar from beating the marriage license usiness. "City Clerk Miller,"says the Ann Arbor democrat, "has found nearly 100 unrecorded deeds among old )apers in his office." There is something grand and beautiful in the sublime trust of providence, shown by these unrecorded papers. The contestants in the sixth annual oratorical prize fight at the Normal have gone into training,and at the still and solemn hour, when graveyards stretch can be heard the grinding gutterals of heavy tragedy, proceeding from the dens of the gladiators. 'Sblood! R. J. West, near Sylvan, says he has slaughtered and utilized the flesh, hide and bones of eighty-five superannuated horses. - Chelsea correspondent Argus. Does this account for the Sylvanitë boast of enjoying the choicest cuts of steak in the county? We actually believe that one good, noble young woman and pretty as a picture, has more intlu ence than 99 men. - Ann Arbor Democrat. How much better, then, it is to be surrounded by one "good, noble young, woman as pretty as a picture" than by ninety-nine men. Rev. Napoleon Smith is the overwhelming name of a gentleman who is to renderthe"Miff Tree"at Milan, this evening. He also gives a voice imitation of the cornet, which is said to out-cornet the cornet itself. He should be suppressed, lest at any time he raise the dead, by counterfeiting a blast from Gabriel. ■ # # The dress stay business at Yps"lanti has been pinched so closely by competition that the factory there will put in a pinking machine which will do the work of fortygirls. This will not throw the girls out of business. They can become typewriters and take the places of young men. The young men - well, they can tramp. One of our readers wants to know if it is the proper thing forthe S. C. A. to have ExGov. ,Luce lecture to them on farming on Sunday morning. AVe should say why not? It is one of God's own vocations. The best on earth. - Ann Arbor Courier. If the ex-governor's lecture paral - lels that made by him at an intercounty farmer's picnic, the overruling powers should not judge him harshly. He said: "Fellowciti.ens, in spreading your barn fertillizer, spread it on a damp day. It is wanted on earth - not in heaven." The Courier states that John A. McDonald, the"leavy weight" of the two Johh's cornedy cqmpany was a forrner resident of Ann j bor, and now weifjhs 541 pounds. i It is said that conductora collect one fare of him, on one side, and then go aronnd and extort another fare on the other side. Hardly fair, but then - . The agricultura! college, in a 1 letin, calling attention to celery in-j erests, mentions the little "negro )ug" that attacked the Tecuniseh elery last season, and says he can )e driven off by the use of offensive dors. The Press desires, then o recommend Ypsilanti mineral water. Douse the plants with it nd you cooper the "nigger bug." Let us see, it was Grover who oined the sentence, "My Policy." Certainly it was. - Ann Arbor Regter. Certainly it wasn't; but we would not be severe on the editor. No man can walk a cold ñoor, nights, with a new baby, and keep the correct run of political history. The author of "My Policy" was Andrew Johnson, a republican president. In placing his damages at $1,000, Gebhardt Hummel, in bringing suit in the Washtenaw circuit court against Oeorge Guenther, for assault and battery, sets forth in his declaration that defendant assailed him "with swords, staves, ropes, fists, knuckles, stone, weapons, hands and feet," and vet Guenther claims that when the scrap closed he wasn't fairly wound up, otherwise the spectators would have seen "a fight as was a fight." The Farmers' and Merchants bank of Milán, sues Edward K. Chase on two notes, amounting to $47. A stiff array of eminent counsel on both sides, gladiatored the judicial arena. Chase set up the startling accusation that the bank shortened his deposit $24 on its books and raised the checks he drew, one of them being raised frorn $2 to $62, and others for smaller sums. But a jury said this astonishing allegation was "no go" and gave judgment against Chase. Whatever may be thought of the merits of the case at issue, no one can fail to be impressed with the magnificent size and sublime grandeur of the gall, propertied by attorney H. Waldron, of Ann Arbor, who stood up in court the other day and submitted a motion to set aaide a verdict for the compound reason that the jurors had been bribed by the defense, and that by connivance between the court and opposing counsel, a motion different from that agreed upon, had ■ been entered on the record. When the court remarked that "if this was true, the court and everybody cept the plaintiff's lawyer ought to . be in ja.il , Waldron coolly replied, "I think so, too." All present shaded their eyes expecting the offender to be struck with judicial lightning; but the court camly answered, "Your motion is denied." Under contract with the Choral Union of Ann Arbor, one, DePachman, appeared there last week and held a disturbance with the piano. Of his performance, the critique of the U. of M. Daily says: In every delicacy of touch, every variety of shading, and every intricacy of harmonie form, he thrills and enraptures his auditors. He is a phenomenon of absolute technic, the incarnation bravoura, the embodiment of virtuosity. Not ethical delicacy alone is at his 1 mand, but with perfect technique there are glittering passages, surging arpeggios, scintilliating staccatos and furiously fast octave runs. Shades of the nodding harpist of Brutus, the vibrating vertebra of blind Boone, and the dazzhng nimbus of the red-headed PaddyScreweye! - what a player that DePachrrian must have been'. We had heard of him as a phosphorescent monster of musical mutations, bristling all over ltke a porcupine,with crotchets and quavers, - decorated with dashing finales (pronounced fee-nollys) nocturnal etudes, faint furiosos and tempestuous dulcets; but when it comes to "ethical delicacy, surging arpeggios, scintillating staccatos and furiously fast octave runs,"it is evident that DePachman must have been a bad cat. It is just possible that some of the brilliant fox-fire effects which the LJ.of M.musaccio, thought he saw, were caused by somebody having slipped an overripe mackerel in his coat pocket. Critiques may be imposed upon.