Archaeological Discovery

In excavating for the basement of Pardon's new meat market, corner of Miller avenue and Main street, yesterday morning, a discovery was made that should engage the interest of lovers of archoeology and ethnological science. At the depth of about ixteen feet a solid oak floor in an almost complete state of preservation was struck. It was evident that the planks were the residuary part of wnat was once a building. Hieroglyphics were also discovered which a tramp Egyptologist who happened along just then, offered to interpret :or a glass of beer. The bribe was orthcoming and he pronounced the remains to be those of a saloon. This. shows that the pre-adamitic state of Ann Arbor society was very much the same as it is at the present day. From its great depth it is probable that local option prevailed in those early days and that this was the den of a "blind tiger." It may be, also, that the ancestral Schwabischers, having been denied by the native city council, the privilege of drinking a little beer at Relief Park on the Fourth of July, dug this pit, floored it over and celebrated in the bowels of the earth the coming independence of the United States, 4,000 years later. At all events there is indubitable evidence that the oak floor was that of a '-wet grocery." The rusty cork screws and remains of old black bottles and a metal tablet on which was inscribed a prehistori date and an advertisement of th Ann Arbor Brewing Company and Martin &Fischer's beer, abundantl support the theory that the abori gines of Ann Arbor thoroughly un derstood the meaningof that seduct ive phrase, which, translated int English means, "What will you hav to drink, sir?"