Roundabouts

Unless the Pinckney visión isdisturbed by hard eider, the chimney of the evaporator has settled and moves. The young son of A. Kendall, of Pinckney, was seriously hurt in the forehead last week, while examining the heels of a horse. Thieves at Parshallville not only steal the chickens, but stack the nines, and cook and eat the fowls in the houses of the absent owners. There, now, is cheek to be proud of. Prof. E. P. Lyon, of Hillsdale, having returned from the ill-fated Cook Arctic expetition, will be perfectly willing to saw wood or tend a baby rather than go "discovering" again. A wire fence defends the front of the Pinckney hotel. The effect will be to place a tariff on small boys' pantaloons; that is, the 'loons will tear if the small boy mounts the fence. Joe Walkey is rejoicing in the possession of a young son, writes the editor of the Wayne Review. He will "walkey" the floor nights with him, and won't feel so proud, by spring, perhaps. People near Lansing have discovered in their supposedly worthless marsh ground the richest sort of soil for celery raising, and will try to knock the monopoly out of Kalamazoo, next season. The Grass Lake News calculates that the side-saddle must go, and reasons this out from the fact that there are no side-saddles on bicycles of the feminine gender. Well, the latter is true. and there is no bestriding the fact. Chas. T. Saxton, of Lyons, N. Y., brother of Frank H. Saxton, a business man of Jackson, has been nominated by the republicans for Lieut. -Governor of New York. There are a good many Jackson men rustling around outside the penitentiary. The editor of the Brighton Express is not the kind of a fellow that you could knock out his brains with a sponge. He says he has settled down in Brighton for business and if he does not find business in Brighton he will have no business there. The Hillsdale fair, many years in the enjoyment of the reputation of being "the njost popular fair on earth," opens Oct. i and closes on the 5th. It will as usual prove the best county fair in Michigan this fall, saving of course, the Washtenaw fair. The Howell postmaster is about to get married. It is just as well to state the plain fact and let it go at that, as to slave fifteen or twenty minutes, hinting about " orange blossoms " and "a certain magnet" that he can't avoid; of love, fawneyês, gazelle feet, and all that sort ot rot. Democrats cannot fooi with political buzz saws and hope to escape the usual consequences. - Lapeer Clarion. Course not! Only republicans can stop a buzz saw with their hands without getting snaggled; but why have they been around with both hands bandaged ever since the last presidential election ? The hardest hearted man in Lenawee is George Sanford, who lives three miles east of Tecumseh. He was knocked down and run over by a wagon load of eider apples. The Adrián Times says: "One wheel of the wagon passed over his heart, breaking three ribs." Talk about the flinty heart of Pharaoh ! A Hudson lady dropped $110 the other day and advertised it. This brought to the mind of Fred Post that he picked up and laid away a package of what he supposed was thread. He examined it and there wasthelno, "sound as a nut." The lady has it now, and the mean scatnps about town are telling around that Post was honest but not smart. A political news writer on the Detroit Evening News credits the law firm of Watts, Bean & Smith with dictating both the republican and democratie congressional nominatio.ns in this district. Funny ideas get into the heads of Detroit political writers about second district politics, and some of them are large wheels with cogs on 'era. - Adrián Telegram. Ye-e-s; but then, is not the above firm sometimes referred to as composed of "father, son and holy terror?" Cert. A neighborhood exchange has Sound that "the man who isn't in Jovc with his town' is destitute of that public spirit which is characterïstic of everygenuine American." It may be true; but the fact still sticks up that about five out of ten villagers and inhabitants of small cities rise right off the nail-keg and vow by the horned horse that theirs is the meanest, stingiest, slimiest, tattlingest town in ten states and territories, and they honestly believe it, forgetting that if it is so, they are the chaps that most help it to that condition and hurt it most. "Dismal Episode in the Political Chronicles of Lenawee Couaty. An Alleged Democratie Convention Assembles, goes through the Motions of an Organization, Concocts a Series of Lachrymose Resolutions, and Drags into Temporary Notice a few l Inoffending Citizens, to be Tenderly i Turned Down in November." - Mean dirty headlines in the Adrián I Times. Dr. Edwin Eaton, over at the j west end of Lenawee, has been nomj inated for state senator in the Lena' wee-Monroe district. The doctor is a pretty good representative of the g. o. p. and a doctor of merit. Happily, he will not be disturbed in his practice, after election. His patients will all unit-? t help defeat hitn, so he can scay i i the com; munity and doctor them. The Brighton Express man writes as follows: "A merry heart is the height of wisdom . The greater part of our griefs will disappear when viewed through a lens of cheerfulness. Let the dark past sink out of sight. Look toward the sunshine." Then he went home, kicked the dog which ran to meet him at the front gate, and jawed because supper was five minutes behind time. James H. Gray, of Lapeer, was peacefully driving his cow to pasture last week, when he feit a blow on the temple and knew no more till he found himself lying on the ground with his dog standing over him. He thinks he was slugged, and that his dog prevented robbery. But what hindered the robbers from "slugging" the dog? No, no! The cow probably "siugged" him in the temple with a horn. A fair-sized postofflee war has been kicked up at Hudson over the proposal to remove the federal concern to the new Masonic building. So it goes! In Hudson the kick comes, of trying to remove the office into a"Morgan-killer" factory. In Adrián it came of moving it out. It cost Congressman Willits and ExRegent Rynd their political lives and played an important part in retiring Ferry as U. S. Senator. It has already been discovered by the Oakland Excelsior that the man who walks up the lane, shoots marbles with the boy, kisses the baby, pats the little girl, and gives the oíd man a cigar, is a candidate. He may be; but if he omits to make the mistake of addressing the old lady as " Miss" because she "really looked so young," he is a dumb fooi, who doesn't know how to play the trump card, and will get left.