Adrian Press Washtenawisms

jonn ruriongis a inerry niiier of some consequence. They cali him Jim, Furshort. If Ypsilanti serenading parties do not mend their singing, they wil have occasion to mend their heads The inhabitants are arming. While Wm. Kensler, of Manchester, was in the woods manufacturing fire wood, a falling limb cracked him on the knowledge box, giving him a fine view of the stars by daylight. He is recovering. We are sorry to learn that Mrs. George Crocker, of Ann Arbor, boiled her clothing in gasoline the other day and that they explodec and burned her face. She didn't know they were loaded. Chelsea demands of the peace officers that remission of local sins be made under the village ordinances in order that the sin-offerings may go into the Corporation treasury, rather than to the county. On Thursday evening next, the I5th inst., St. Andrew's church vested choir will render "The Holy City," a sacred cantata by Gaul, in St. Andrew's church. Any one would take the word of the Argus that this was a sacred cantata. Then why swear to it? The last legislature made it an offense worthy of $500 fine, or a year imprisonment in, maximum penalty, for selling adulterated maple sugar and molasses, except it be branded as such. This is for the information of Reading, Manchester and Monroe county editors who opérate arge sugar bushes. The Argus is for the conviction of every guilty "cuss," no matter what 'polyticks" he has. Them's our sentiments. - Ann Arbor Argus. This rugged declaration will command a "hooray!" from the throat of honesty, though the devout might see reasons why the editor ought not to have tne charge of a Sunday school. Some wind-stuffed prophet of 3aael, predicted a cyclone, to fall due at Ypsilanti, Mareh 8th. Then he went off by himseif and snickered, when it was told him that half he town set up all the night of the 7th, shaking with fear. If the pro)het will now visit Ypsilanti he will e most cheerfully crucified, feet upward. Justice Bogardus, of Ypsilanti, ifts his magesterial right hand and swears by the Goddess of Liberty ind the horns of the Great Kik that iie will immitate Gladstone jast as soon as his term expires, and that he would not run again on the safest betting majority in the world. He is conceded to have made an excellent squire. Thieves after the Chelsea fïre "looted" the ashes of the Congregational church and carried away the bell, which was broken in the fall. Oíd bell metal is worth 13 cents a pound. The church people have reclaimed 600 pounds and are looking for the remainder, which may yet sound the knell of perdition to the despoilers of the temple. The mayor of Grass Lake, contrary to the mandate of the village charter, requiring the municipal financia! statement to be printed in the village paper, has directed the clerK to simply "stick up" a w-ritten statement. This proceeding has justly ruptured the relations heretofore existing between the mayor and the editor of the News and they have walked to church together arm in arm for the last time. The agricultural editor was unable to be present at the meeting of the pomological society yesterday, but it is stated that a lively discussion ensued between" '■■ Farmers " Fred Johnson and H. S. Platt as to whether in the absence of fruit the bare tress should be clothed or not. - Washtenaw Times. After all it is a matter that involves the etiquette of decency, rather than dollars, whether a tree should be bare or clothed.