Roundabouts

A young men's prohibition club has been forroed at Tecumseh President, Bert C. Day; treasure (without bonds), Roy Conklin. In the recent bicycle tournament at Tecumseh, Guy Davidson's steed becarne unmanageable andattempted to climb the fence. Davidson was unhorsed and stunned, and the wheel received a curvature of the spine, and may not recover. The Tecumseh high school nine bested the Milanese at the Lenawee fair, which so exalted Tecumseh that even prohibitionists "smiled" and the preachers wore their silk tiles slanted well back, and had something to say aboat there being 'a God in Israel." Nothing conduces more to the happiness of human lives than cheerfulness. The Pinckney Dispatch understands its value, and carols: " Hamburg is booming. Another saloon in that town now." Cheerfulness has saved people from drop ping dead or heart failure. Rev. Ramsdell was returned to the charge of the M. E. flock at Clinton, to the delight of the church, though some of the young ladies of the fold have hardly forgiven hira for dodging the love snares they set for him when he first went there. But another " had the pull " on his heart strings and she reeled him in. A fellow near Pontiac owns a cow that is a trotter. He drives her to tiarness and wants to stake money that "that gol dinged critter can out-trot any farm hoss that dare go agin her." Butter owner may be mistaken. Think cow that Jersey would look in a trotting match, with udder on the swing and tail crooked to interrogation point! The Adrián Press, commenting on he row of the Blackburns, wherein Dne of them.was hacked into minceneat, remarks that " the officers eemed to think that a little thing ike that was not worth notice. " O, yes, itwas. The slasher was arrested and had a fine of $ "socked" right to him. The slashee was sewed together and will live. V. Entwisle, of Dundee, planted a melón patch, but the "jofired" bugs bothered him and the vines started so late that Entwisle declared that a few consuraptive melons were no offset to the manure and manual labor bestowed on them. But just when all seemed dark, and Entwisle had made affidavit that it was his last melón farming, thieves stole the whole lot. The owner was "onto them" and they paid him $5 apiece to settle, and as there .were eight or a dozen in the raid the returns from the erop were fine. He will plant meions next season, s he knows of no erop that has Daid him better. Country newspaper correspondente ometirnes hit hard, and tlus is the way one froru Leoni. Jackson county, ttempts todoit: 'Testerday monring couple of staid old ladies, Mis. Lane nd Mrs. A. F. Smith, one a widow nd the other- well, perhaps she would ike to be one- started overland with good horse and buggy, to visit friends t Dexter, Delhi and Ann Aibor. In nswer as to when they would return, ne said they would not return in 40 ays if the weather continued bad for o long a time. Now, an interested thougb not a praying) man will cerainly pray on this occasion that the eather will continue fair."