Local Brevities.

All aboard for the fair ground, tomorrow. Had a ride on the street cars y et ? Aren't they slick! The Light Infantry will stage a play at the opera house, this season. The Young Men's Club will give a dance at the rink, Thürsday evening. John Baumgardner recently erected a costly monument for the Cady estáte in Belleville. Notice the candidates at the county fair. It is worth the price of admission to see them. Rev. J. G. Potter, assigned to the pastorate of the Dexter M. E.church, will reside in Ann Arbor. Ernest Dieterle is in Battle Creek superintending a contract of equipping an extensive building with furnaces. The new band is rehearsing twice or thrice a week, and is already blowing out a grest quantity of large and small notes. There will be a tea and social by the ladiesof the Presbyterian church Thursday, at 6 o'clock p. m., at the church parlors. Simon Dieterle, having had the piece of steel extractedfrom his eye, is himself again. One shoald be careful about jabbing a T rail in his eye.' The first convention of the Woman's Auxiliaries of the Y. M. C. A. will be held in Ann Arbor. There are eight of these auxiliaries in the state. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Hammond attended a reception at Dr. Boone's in Ypsilanti, last evening. It was the twentieth anniversary of Dr. and Mrs. Boone's wedding. The action against H. Cuddy, for unhitching and driving away E. J. Knowlton's horse and buggy, has been dismissed to give Detroit officers a chance at Cuddy. Joe Blackburn, very black, accused of blacking Will Blackburn's eye, kicking the fall portion of his pantaloons, and hacking him with a knife, will be arraigned tomorrow before Justice Pond. Hon. N. Sutton, of Northfield, was in the city, Saturday. He says that the wheat he planted two weeks ago is up and looking finely. He says that as much wheat has been sown this fall as last. üfficer Armbruster arrested a drunk down by the Germán church last night about n o'clock. He proves to be a man who is wanted at Grass Lake for forgery. With a portion of the money he is alleged to have purchased a lady's watch, at Arnold's, for which he paid ten dollars. Some "kids" who had been tampering with the gate of the Argo milis and letting in the eels to grease the gudgeons of the mili wheels, were complained of and arrested last week, at the instance of Col. Dean. Justice Pond, in the capacity of "Dutch Uncle," gave the boys a warning talk and let them go. Self-denial week and membership day are observed by our local W. C. T. U. in honor of the birthday of their national president, Miss Francés E. Willard, which occurs this week. Reports of same will be given at their next regular meeting, which will be Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock, at 59 East Washington street. Supt. Reeves last week placed a United States flag on the top of the new stack at the central heating plant on the campus, 152 feet from the ground. VVhen Mr. Reeves climbed up he was accompanied by a business man of Ann Arbor, but the gentlemen rested on the platform 80 feet from the ground, and went no farther. Last Thursday a thief dcprived A. Blessing of his gold watch, which was taken from his room on South Main St. A plague on the thief who stole the watch of A. Blessing. A blessing on the man who will recover it. P. s.- Since writing the above the watch has been returned as mysteriously as it was taken. It knocks this paragraph considerably askew, but we slaved over it too long not to print it. The article headed "Who is the Professor?" appearing in Friday's Times, reproduced from "Hardware," which reproduced it from the New York Sun of last Wednesday, showing how a commercial drummer used a telephone to get the best of an Ann Arbor professor in a love case, and won the girl over the wire while the professor was in the parlor, is a nicely told story. The Argus "laffed" over it till the tears ran down its cheeks, several years ago, when the story first got into print. The mili pond at the corner of W. Washington and Third streets has just received a new addition to its collection of tin pots, cans, wash boilers, hoop skirts, stove pipes, glass and earthen ware, in the way of a carpet-bag. How must the feelings of the pedestrian standing on the bridge across the pond be moved when he contemplates the possibility in the case. A republican who attended the late g. o. p. county convention suggests the suicide of some one of the beaten candidates. A big satchel in the hands of a stranger on Main street in front of the court house, Saturday afternoon, smiled at the corners of the mouth, then yawned and finally threw its jaws wide open, and vomited forth a most astonishing assortment of wearing apparel, implements and literature. The owner was red in the face with anger and mortification at the satchel's base betrayal of some of his dearest secrets. So it goes ! In a moment of indiscretion we confide in our supposed friends. Then somebody's jaw flies open and we are ruined. Cass Williams, '71 law, of Rochestsr, N.Y., was a guest at the Cook house last week. Mr. Williams was on his return from a professional trip to California. He is an earnest democrat, and has taken much interest in New York politics. He is a great admirer of David B. Hill, and is confident that Mr. Hill will grow in popularity. Mr. Williams hunted up many oíd friends. During his trip he met many old classmates. Right up in the mountains at a small place, he saw one of the finest private law libraries in the country.