Saline!

Farmers have begmi .iiyiiig, but report tlie erop inucli iigliter thau last year. Tlje Germán VVorkingmen's Society will celébrate the Fourtb with a picnic at their park. Frank Tuckers Theater Compaóy put in tour nights at tiie opera house last week and each night drevv a good house. Saline is again "out of the woods," and we have a daily nini!. the uioguls of the L. S. & M. a. liaving seen tbe 101 ly of their ways aud reaumed ihe ruijiiing of the usual trains. The festive potato img is out in all his gloiy, and the deinand for Paris green has been so great that the supply proved inadequate, aijd Saüne has this week experieiiceü a Paris green famine, as it were. The question of a water supply is being agicated hete. (it will end in "agitation" we fear), the planjbeiug to pipe the water trom the Ilallsprings, wliich are elevated some twenty feet above is, to a reservoir within the city Hints. Walter, the theee-year-old son of Geo. J. Nissly, luis been at Ann Arbor the past week, where he underwent the peration of liaving removed from the pterior of his nose an abnorrnal growth, caused by au in jury some 'ears ago. We learn our school board has re;ained the services of the entire corps of teachers for the ensuing year, which certainly speaks well for the ability of our teachers, it also demonstrates as groundless, the rumor that matrimonial aspirations might cause a vacancy. Coiumencement week was a red letter event to many of our people. There were nine "sweet gul graduates"- not a boy saw fit to enter the race for graduation houors. The program was an ttttractive one and each fair participant carried out her part in a most creditable mauner. The Argus not having been represen ted by a special scribe in this "neck o1 the woods" for some time, and beieving its leaders should occasionally )e posted on the goings-on and general )ehavior of our people, the writer hereof will endeavor to meet a ''long feit want" by occasionally contributing a few items. We Dotice that few towns in this county have as yet shown any indication of a sufficient outburst of patriotïsm to undertake a Fourth of July celebratiou. It ia evident that as the years roll by, the average American citizen more and more realizes the fact ;hat the burning of gunpowder and tooting of brass bands are not necessary to indícate our patriotism and love for our couutrv. Ourlittle city is assuming metropolitan airs, arui concrete walks are ?oing down on" afl sides. The reason thereof is this: Our city fathers opened up their hearts (and the village treasury) and offer to bear half the cost, and our people are taking advantagre of the opportunity. We comruend the act oT our alderman, and believe it will be more economical to the taxpayers than paying damage suits for bumps on defective sidewalks.