Local Brevities

The Electric power station is running with wood for fuel. Mrs. Comstock is improving her home on División street. Cars ioaded with coal are again hauled over the Ann Arbor road. The Germania hotel is undergoing material changes and improvements. The city treasurer will not receive the tax books till the i5th of July Real estáte agencies report an increased demand for Ann Arbor residences. The last of the series of dances at Granger's Academy will occur tomorrow evening. John Goetz will erect a summer cottage at Island Lake, near Hamburg, this season. The Washtenaw Horticultural society will meet at the court house tomorrow at 2 p. m. It is rumored that after July ist the drug stores of the city will be closed after 10:30, Sundays. St. Thomas' parochial school is now closed. It will open up again the first Mon'day in September. The Ann Arbor Schuetzenbund will celébrate the 4th of July with sonie crack shooting in its park. Lillian McDonald, on trial at Ypsilanti before Justice Bogardus, was convicted. Fine and cost, S49 President Angelí will deliver the annual baccalaureate address to the University graduating class, Sunday evening. The Courier has been awarded the Washtenaw tax sales. This is one of the legitímate plums of party patronage. Frederick Schmid, trustee of the Eastern asylum, has been authorized to purchase five heavy horses for that institution. Her expenses and $10 a month alimony have been granted May West, pending her suit for release from Wilson West. The Detroit Evening News baseball team and a mixed club of the Normal and Atlantics teams will join issue at Ypsilanti today. A new sidewalk on the east side of the St. Thomas school property on North State street has the unqualified approval of pedestrians. Northwest coast breezes bring the news of the marriage of Ed. C. Sharpe, once of Ann Arbor, to Miss Rose F. Colé at Seattle. A meeting of the allopathic medical faculty was held Wednesday to formúlate reconimendations to the board of regents at the Monday meeting. Germania lodge, No. 476, D. O. H., will meet next Wednesday evening and knock the conceit out of several second and third degree candidates. Wm. W. Wedemeyer has been elected toastmaster for the senior literary class banquet to be held in honor of the recent inter-class baseball victory. The death of Mrs. Chas. D. Bingham, by blood poisoning occurred Tuesday morning. The husband and five children - the latter an infant, - are the family survivors. James Robison, having received a new hack, six sets of single harness and two of hack harness is seized of the belief that he can hook up some of the "snuffiest" rigs in the city. Jacob Bissinger and Patrolman Armbruster were detected Wednesday in possession of a choice batch ot minnows, and nose blisters, and it is hinted that a ñshing foray is on. Mrs. Tnomas Zewitske, of Augusta township, died Tuesday morning, having rouuded out a century of li'e. Thirty years of time borrowed f rom eternity ! How few ther are who obtain that loan. Anna Cairns,vife of John Cairns, has been released from hymenial shackles, by Judge Kinne. John is working for a release from the Detroit house of correct, but hts engagement wil] last some time yet. It proves to be no bobtailed undertaking to secure the census of Vpsilanti, and Gov. Rich, yielding to an appeal, has placed two extra men on the job. They are Hiram Batchelder and Degrove Shipman. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Waker proudly note the fine points of a handsome boy, whose arrival on Wednesday was scheduled too late for the present census. In his fighting costume he weighs 9 pounds. After all, with the hog ordinance so prolific of income to the city, we hardly see why any meraber of the council should "squeal" about extravagance in the fire department. Why inveigh against the hogs - pork creatures. ! The A. A. H. S. alumni have made a great improvement in their annual program by beginning their banquet promptly at 9 o'clock. The speakers this evening at the banquet will be G. Frank Allmendinger, W. W. Watts, Chas. H. Cooley, Junius E. Beal, Supt. W. S. Perry and Miss Winifred E. Beman. At the first regular meeting in July the foilowing officers of Ann Arbor Encampment, No. 7, Í. O. O. F., will be installed: C. P., F. C. Euler; S. W., C. H. Jones; H. P., J. H. Ottley; J. W., G. R. Kelly; scribe, L. J. Damm; treas., Henry Richards; representative to Grand Encampment, Chas. H. Jones. The senior law invitations are very "Katosh" this year and fully up in beauty and design with the art evolution of the age. The cover is in sheep, (woo.1 tariff ji cents), inscribed in gold with the prospectus, "Department of Law," and "U. of M., 1894," in yellow and blue. It is embellished with a cut of the law building. The telegraph is nowhere for news! Monday's Detroit Tribune contains an item about thediscovery of a treasure trove in remodeling an old house in Ypsilanti. The story, which was started as a joke more i than a month ago, was quickly exploded, but the Trib. has just heard it. - Ypsilanti Sentinel. "The Trib." should back up against a rough surface and scrape the parasitic growth from its back. The following are delegates and alternates to attend the convention ot the Protestant Episcopal church during the year: H. J. Brown, E. Treadweü and Geo. H. Pond. Alternates - B. M. Thompson, C. S. Denison, Geo. W. Patterson. Wednesday morning the college girls were delighted to find a large bunch of roses in the ladies' reading room. It had been brought by i a strange gentleman and was ] panied by the single message, "From ' a friend of co-education." The t girls desireto express their most j dial appreciation of this most ful gift. i C W. Rogers, of Ypsilanti exhibj its a horn toad in his show window. The label on him is misleading and j purports him as a hornee! frog, out of respect for the feelings of Mr. Beal, of the Courier, who is a little touchy lest Rogers should try to ■ pass off the batrachian for the edi tor's own free trade rhamphoryn! chus which he is grooming for an "awful example" in the fall cani paign. ' lt is with pleasure that The Argus finds Aid. Wood rightly on record against exhausting the treasury surplus in the wasteful extravagence of a neiv bath tub for the fire department. A friction bath with a piece of sand paper, or a dry printing office towel, would enliven the eutiele and make the boys feel like new men. Let us save all we can at the spigot and never mind the waste at i bunghole. If the department wiil have a new bath tub let them make a dugout. Indications point to the early extinction of the "Jap" from the University. There were formerly from 30 to 40 Japanese students in attendance. There are at present but three on the University roster and two of these will soon be lost by graduation. Only one will then remain and in the interest of ethnological science he should be preserved to the University, by a professorship, if he will accept it, or in i alcohol if extreme measures become necessary.