Roundabouts

Lansing anglers are lyirïg in weight, for pickerel. In trying to pry up a corner of his barn, last week, Mr. Miller, ot Wayne, bore down so hard on the lever as to break his ankle. City Marshal Nott has been engaged with a city scythe, mowing down the city weeds alongside of the city streets. - Stockbridge Sun. What- What ? Miss Lemon, is a pretty school teacher at New Haven, Macomb county, and many a young fellow there wishes he were a Lemon squeeze'er. "Holy Arabition" was the topic Sunday, of an Ann Arbor minister. It is supposed to have been an indorsement without recousre, of H. Platt's ambition to be known as a believer in one term, for everything except oil inspector and superintendent of the poor. - Adrián Press. Plymouth will have waterworks, the source of supply being a large spring which is being depopulated of its frogs and watersnakes and made ready for connection. Lansing aldirmen have ordered street signs erected. The cost will ( be $500, but the aldermen are deterrnined to know "where they are at" in trying to get home after a late session. Some editora in Jackson county have to learn to whom the names of the Trinity belong. - Ann ArborAr-, gus. That is a hard dig at the j son city fraters. But they deserve it. - Grass Lake News. F. P. Bogardus is fitting up a, place next to the raarble works on Washington street for the head office j of the Hall-Bogardus Doublé Cinch rióse Mender. - VVashtenaw Times. Who knit the name of the machine? An ornithological dog, owned by Mrs. Thomas Derby, of Bunker Uil], Ingham county, got into her coop containing thirty-two quailsi,ed chickens and when he had dined he was the only inhabitant of the coop in sight. These cold, unsympathet'c words are uttered by the editor of the Clinton Herald: "One of the Smith boys, of Newburg, was spoiling for a fight the other night, but when Steve Huntington was done with him that feeling had entirely gone." The Monroe authonties should purchase the residence of Charles Poupard and cremate it. It is the birthplace and breeder of the diphtheria germ. Case after case has appeared at this home during the past few years. It should be "purified by fire." A marriage license was recently taken out in Lenawee county in favor of Lewis Swartout and Margaret Lewis, the former 72 and the latter 71. It is claimed by the Adrián Press that the proceeding was "without parental consent." No "God bless you, my children," there. At Carleton, Wednesday, the four year oíd son of G. B. Grundman, round a bottle of carbolic acid in the house, and drank about two ounces of it. Physicians were called but they could do nothing. The child died about an hour after, in great agony. - Dundee Reporter. Elias P. Lyon, late a gradúate of Hillsdale College, will undertake a trip to North Greenland in the interest of ethnological and piscatorial science. His fishing tackle will consist of the equinoctial line, attached to the north pole and baited with the bones of previous discoverers. At the meeting of the Norvell 7armers' Club, recently, S. W. iolmes thought that farmers would never organize. He said that thirty years ago kerosene oil was $1.50 a ;allon, now, nine or ten cents. If hat was the effect of organized jrotection farmers had better keep out of combines. The following interesting account of a wool transaction is from the South Lyon Excelsior: " Harrison Olsaver called on us yesterday, said ie had sold his clip of wool, and he wanted to put one six-pound fleece into The Excelsior for six months. We wrote the receipt right out, and :he deal was made." That excellent local newspaper, the Petersburgh Sun, has magnified its size and greatly increased the scope of its usefulness. It easily outshines the seat of a sophomore's pantaloons, and is a credit to Mr. Faling, the publisher, who makesso good a paper in a town of exactly 445 people, including his own toothless young man. Isn t ït about time tor some gooö friends of this country to take the senate out somewhere and hit it with a club? - Fenton Independeré. Perhaps not yet, but the time will come - and it is not far distant - when an outraged people will take the obstructionist minoiity out into a back lot and hit it with a squash, and hit to kill. A. O. Miller, many years a well, known stage actor, is now a popular j hotel landlord in Blissfield, Lenawee county. His greatest successes were scored in negro parts, and often was the time when he played "Wool" at 50 cents, a pnce it has, never achieved under the McKinlt;y bilí, notwithstanding the thunderous prediction from the Ypsian Delphos. The Adrián Times relates the sorry tale of a tramp, who recently informed the respectable parents of 18-year-old John Kern, that the latter who recently left home, feil in with a gang who were "pulled" for robbing a peddler near Dexter, and had been sent up to Ionia for four years. The tramp's story was investigated and found to be true. Tramps are sometimes found to possess truth and veracity. Quite a number of our local sports took in the races at Detroit this week and doubtless will come back with wellstuffed pocket books asthe result of their shrewdness and good judgement in placing their money on the right nags. - Wayne Review. It is learned, however, that they I carne back with their tail feathers dragging in the sand. "O whyj should the spirit of mortal be proud?" While trenching for waterworks, ! at Howell, last week, workmen carne [ upon a convention of six skeletons, one being in a metal box. This is not a story of antediluvian remains, but of the slovenly mannerin which the dead were removed from the old cemetery. The ground is still f uil of people, and it is almost enough to make a skeleton rise up and hit the contractor over the head with a shank bone. The editor of the Hudson Gazette got some of those agricultural j bureau seeds and planted them. In some cases the seeds have produced i nothing, but it was not so in this. Mr. Scñermerborn tended his cartfully, and now has as fine a bister . on the back of his neck as he ever ! saw. The seeds are not up yet, but Mr. Schermerhorn. as soon as the 1 Michigan press excursión is over, will germinate then by his own main stren-th and the he n of the "devil." The Norchville Record has observed that right in the midst of the j yell of "hard times," people who, ' on account of them cannot pay their lionest obligations, spend money freeiy for whiskey and bacco. Yes, there are men so poor, that they can't take the paper at two cents a week any longer, and spend half a day coming to town to stop it. ïhen they are so fatigued that nothing short of six big drinks wil! put them in shape to get home. And they don 't ahvays "go home till morning." W. H. Peek, who ieased the lerville Observe? a year ago, has bought it, and now appeals to tlelinquents to pay up, adding that "it takes money to buy whiskey" Evidently Editor Peek is not a skilied diplomat. Some of the oíd j printers could instruct him, in a series of "ten nights in a bar room". Bro Peek does not say that he is a county charge, but admits that he is "dependent upon the public for maintenance". Let the public take care of him. He builds a good paper. A charity circus is to be let loose in Adrián, operated by local talent. Ex-Umted States Marshal Joe R. Bennett, president of the Lenawee County Savings Bank, and hale, hearty and well up toward eighty, will be ring-master and Atty. J. L. O'Mealey, the "Irish giant," principal clown. Clint Williams, a veteran circus man of the old P. T. Barnum combi nation, will take part and the only things unprovided for that are essential to a real circus are the equestriennes to summersault through the hoops, and a boy with a stone-bruise on his heel to sneak under the canvas to avoid the admission.