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The timber cut and landed in the Menominee river and its tributarles will exceed 400,000,000 l'cet, or about half of last season's cut. Edmund Hunt of Adrián, who is constructing a niammoth cast of the Rosqual whale, bas desired to present his specimen vvhen completed to the Heidel burg college sollection at Tiffin, O. It has been decided to dedícate the new Grand Haven courthouse, xiow nearing completion, on July 4. Many speeches wiil be delivered and a genei'al round oí festivities given, terminating in the evening vvith a display of fireworks. Mrs. C. Stuart Draper of Saginaw, whose late husbaud was pensioned by the govsrnmcnt in 1873, but through some error was dropped from the rolls, has recently been notified that she is entitled to his back pay, which amounts to il, 800. . A hired man employed by a wealthy farmer named Byron Mitchell of Union City recently spread a report among his friends that he lay dead in nis grave, lnvestigation, however, proved that the story was a fabrication, and marfy now believe the man insane.