Local Brevities

Two big coal trains went north yesterday. The outgoing trains are laden with students. There is a big demand for houses for the coming year. Six senior law students were admitted to the bar yesterday. The democratie county convention will be held next Thursday. St. Thomas Coflservátory of Mu-i" made S265 by their June festival. 5ae art recital at Frieze Memorial was a Very enjoyable aïïair. TheXturth ward Sunday school held .a p'icnic at Cascade glen, Saturday. Remember the democratie ward caucuses this evening at the usual places The coal famifie caused the Toledo road to use wood for some of their engines. Mr. and Mrs.VV. H. Perkins rejoice over the advent of a little daughter. Ann Arbor lodge, Knights of Pythias, held an interesting meeting last night. A ten and a half 'pound boy has come to the home of Charles D. Binglam. "Holy Ambitirr771 „be the sermón topic at che M. E. Church, next Sutday mni"' There ha77e"a very perceptible thinning W of the number of students in ■"" Arbor. A Iittle7ven Pouncl girl has come to je home of Mr. and Mrs. L. Drak, of Marquette. The-Chequamegons gave a concert1 the Inland League series of ent'i:ainmen':s ast evening. The case of the Electric Sugar XefiningCompany vs. Oliver Friend, has been dismissed by consent. There will be a pupils' concert in Frieze Memorial hall, Thursday evening, June 21, at 8 o'clock. A motion for a new trial in the Hand murder case was argued at length before Judge Kinne, yesterday. Some South Lyon young men turned a short corner while driving in this city, Sunday, and broke a wheel. The University baseball nine defeated the Northwesterns, Saturday, in a well played game by a score of 9 to 8. Mrs. Hattie Maybee has been taken to the Pontiac asylum by Superintendent of the Poor, E. P. Mason. Jesse Hand is striving for the title of charapion fisherman. He caught twenty-four black bass in one day. W. W. Watts has been appointed money order and stamp clerk in the postoffice in the place of Elmer Beal, resigned. joseph Ball, of East Liberty street was surprised, by a party of his friends Friday evening who celebrated his birthday. The Germán M. E. church give a strawberry and ice cream festival on R. Waterman's lawn, 66 E. Washington street, this evening. Rain threatened in the city the past two days. In Scio and Northfield and a number of other towns heavy showers were had, but not in the city. The patronesses for the senior reception are Mesdames J. B. Angelí, J. E. Knowlton,W. H. Pettee, I. N. Demmon, W. W. Beman, A. A. Stanley, Flemming Carrow, G. W. Patterson and P. R. dePont. ' 8It is said that owing to the game ; ; law which has prevented spearing that fishing is much better in Whitmore lake than formerly. Many ; black bass are being caught. The executive committee of the i Farmers' Picnic Association of I Wayne, Washtenaw, Livingston and I Oakland counties meets at Whitmore Lake tomorrow to decide on the time for holding the annual farmers' picnic. George A. Peters, of the board j of review was in the city yesterday. i He says the board has raised tne i personal valuation in the Dexter j Union Schooldistrict about $150,-1 000 and has largely shrunk the valuation in the farming district. F. A. Miner, accompanied by two young ladies, was driving on Liberty street. yesterday, when the, '"pro-j peller" took fright and dumped the entire party, none of whom were in-' jured. The carriage, however, sestained compound fractures that will lay il up sometime. Mr. Mills, census enumerator for the third ward, has nearly completed ! his wórk, the roster to Monday ! noon showing 1,400 ñames. Thus far Mr. Mills has escaped small-pox, typhoid fever doe bites, and hot water from those who dread the jack-screw of the inquisition. Mr. Mills is in luck. John McDermott, who is charged I with stealing a horse and buggy of William Perkins, of Milán, and who sold the horse in question in this city for $5, waived examination before Justice Bennett, yesterday, and was bound over to the next term of the circuit court. In default of $500 bail he is in jail. Ann Arbor Encampment, No. 7, I. O. O. F", elected the following officers last Friday evening: C. P. , F. C. Eular; S. W., C. H. Jones; H. P., J. H. Ottley; J. W., G. R. Kelly; scribe, L. J. Damm; treasurer, Henry Richards; representative Grand Encampment, Chas. H. Jones. The officers will be installed at the first meeting in July. John Rogers, a tramp, was presented with twenty days in Brenner's hotel, fitted up with all the modern improvements. Rogers had his arm bound to a shingle and blistered so as to awaken sympathy from those of whom he begged. Officer Armbruster was aroused from his morning nap to look after him and after chasing him five blocks caught him and put him in the jail. The Alumni Association of the Ann Arbor high schoolwill hold its seventeenth annual reunión and banquet in High School hall on next Friday evening, June 22, at eight o'clock. The reception committee is composed of the high school faculty assisted by Mrs. VV. V. Beman, Mrs. F. M. Taylor, Mrs. Chas. Cooley, Miss Lucy Colé and Miss Helen E. Ames. An enjoyable time is anticipated. It is said that the following mixture will knock the calculations of of a carpet-bug as cold as a frozen shad: One ounce of alurOj one ounce chloride of zinc, three ounces salt. Mix with one quart of water and let stand over night in a covered vessel. In the morning pour it carefully into another vessel, so that all sediment may be lett behind. Dilute this with two quarts of water and apply by sprinkling the edges of the carpet for a distance of a foot from the wall. Whereever the solution is applied the bug immediately becomes disgusted and removes with his immediate family and mother-in-law to the home of some one who never heard of this receipt.