Local Brevities

Slie was a typo's daugHter fair, He was her lover true. Said he: " Vou are the type for mo, J'll always stick to you. ."I've had achase, but now, ray oivn, My tak's revised, I g-uess, And now that leve i8 justlfied, Why, let us go to press." The maiden hung hershapely liead, And whispered in his car, Wliile both her cheeka turned rosej rea, "The form is ready, dear." The.Inland league gave an excellent concert List evening. The balance in the school 1 ury is now a little over $10,000. A county teachers' examination will be held in this city next Friday. The ladies of Maccabees give a cob-web social next Thursday evening- The sum of $192 was raised for foreign missons at the Church of Christ, Sunday. H. Randall is selling his fancy , photographs in Europe. He has just received a large order from London, England. Confirmation services will be held in St. Andrew's church next Sundoy evening. Rt. Fev. Thomas F. Davies will be present. Henry Dose died Sunday morning, of consumption, at the home of his father, Charles Dose. He was twenty-six years of age. All the members of the council were present at the meeting last night and participated in a long debate on the finance report. The council last evening offered the electric light company $73 per light per year, for lighting the streets until 12:30 on the moonlight schedule. Eleven persons joined the Presbyterian church last Sunday. Among therh were three students, one lady and two gentlemen, who were baptised. Marshal Wheeler and Patrolman Collins visited the fifth ward, Sunday, in search of a poker den. They found a number of citizens playing pedro. Four chickens were stolen from John Karburg, of Kingsley street, last Saturday afternoon. Chicken thieves are getting pretty bold in the third ward. The Young Men's League meet this evening with the state secretary of the Y. M. C. A., to consider the question of incorporation as a Young Men's Christian association. A social and supper will be given by the ladies of the Presbyterian church at the church parlors next Thursday afternoon at 6 o'clock. Everybody will be welcomed. The new election law will prevent supervisors, town clerks, justices or alderman running for reelection, this spring, as inspectors of election. They will get off the board and hustle. The Neue Washtenaw Post will appear next Thursday. It will be the same size of the old Washtenaw Post. It will be independent in politics. E. J. Helber is the proprietor and is still hustling. Christina Dieterle, of this city, has commenced suit for divorce against her husband, Christian Dieterle, whom she marrien Feb. iS, 1884, on the ground of extreme cruelty. They have three children living, aged from six to nine years. A medallion bust of the Ida Van Cortland executed by A. L. Alexander of this city in on exhibition at Watt's Jewelry store. Three prizes are offered for correct guesses of the character represented in the medallion. A season ticket admitmiting to the four performances will be given for the lïrst correct guess, two single admission tickets for the second and one for the third. A. L. Noble was run over by a i carriage while crossing a street in I New York City, last Friday and his iknee cap broken. Mrs. Noble was J telegraphed for to join him. Prof. M. E. Cooley delivered the last lecture of the University extensión course last Friday evening. The subject was "Wind Enginesand Aerial Navigation." "The subject is one which would perbaps be á difficult one for most men to handle, but Prof. Cooley demonstrated that air navigation was possible." - Toledo Press. Alfred A. Farland, who will play at the Opera House, March 2ctb, is astonishing the musical critics by rendering such music as Beethoven 's sonatas, the Overture to Wrn. Tell, Mendelssohn's great concerto, Op. 64 etc., on the banjo. He has been secured for the above date by the i Ann Arbor A. A. Banjo and Guitar club. Mrs. Trueblood has kindly Iconsented to deliver a recitation. Deputy Sheriff M. j. Martin arrested a man in Dexter on the charge of being one of the bank robbers, but was obliged to let him go when it was shown that he was at Whitmore lake when the robbery occurred. Martin listened to the tale of a man who had professed to have oyerheard a conversation which told that the stone with which Gregory had been hit and probably the money also were hidden in a certain manure pile. Martin procured a fork and began forking over the pile. He finally discoved a stone wrapped in a newswaper. This he took to be sure proof that the tale told him was correct. Henee the arrest. The Tappan association free lecture course began last Sunday morning with a lecture on "Christianity's New Crusade in Bible Lands" by Rev. J. S. Dennie, D. D., of Syria. In the evening he spoke on " Missïons at Short Range." The series on " The Apostalic Age" will be given by Prof. A. C. McGiffert, D. D., of Union Theological Seminary, N. Y. The dates are as follows: Friday, March 9, 8 p. m., in McMillan hall; Saturday, March 10, 8 p. m., in McMillan hall; Sunday, March 1 1, 3 p. m., in McMillan hall; Sunday, March 11, 7:30 p. m., in Preabyterian church. On March 17, at 8 p. m., in McMillan hall, Prof. James H. Craig, Ph. D., of the University of Michigan, will speak on " The Hebrew Prophet and Prophecy;" and on Sunday, March 18, at 7:30 p. m.,in the Presbyterian church, he will speak on the subject, " The Fourth Gospel, who Wrote It?" All are invited.