Local Brevities

James N. Riley and James J. Ouarry last week becarae f uil fledged citizens of the United States. Liberty street lateral sewer was tested last week. The ball bobbed through gracefully, showing a clear passage. Rev. M. M. Goodwin, of Ypsilanti, has accepted an invitation to be present in Ann Arbor and take part in the combined installation of officers of the Masonic lodges. HRev. C. C. Smith, of Massilon, O., spoke at Christ church, Sunday morning, on "Our Brethren in Black." Mr. Smith is secretary of the national board of negro ertucation and is widely known. "Shine" Walker has been bound over to the circuit court by Justice Pond for neglecting to clothe himself according to the weather. The case before Justice Gibson against Simeón Sindlinger, for assault and battery preferred by Gottlieb and Jacob Knapp, was dismissed, complainants paying costs. James Kay Applebee's third lecture before the Unity club was largely attended. He dealt principally with Shakespeare's "Tempest," and very largely with the moral deformities of Caliban, "who is a type of mankind as he was thousands of generations ago, one-third demon, one-third man, and one-third brute." The drama, Mr. Applebee urged, showed sound and cheerful philosophy. -Miss Matilda Kohm, deaconess and traveling missionary for the Chicago Home, will lecture Thursday, Dec. 20, at 3 o'clock in the parlors of McMillan hall, to ladies only, on the subject of rescue mission work. The Women's Christian Temperance Union cordially invite all christian women to meet with them. Thursday evening at 7:30 Miss Kohm will lecture to both men and women in the Baptist church. A smoke, Thursday night, at Rosenthaler's billiard hall on State street, rushed out the department. As it thundered up to the place somebody told the chief that the cistern was on fire. This was pretty nearly true. Dust had gathered on the cistern walls and is supposed to have been fired by a lighted cigar stub slipping through a knot-hole. The job of suppressing the cistern was short. Why don't the council furnish the department with a bathtub! Mrs. Strong, of 28 Hill street, owns a dog which she now values more than ever. Friday evening two persons, apparently tramps, came to the door and on being asked what they wanted replied "money, and we are going to have it." The lady retreated and the tramps followed, but were confronted by the dog, which began a fierce bark. One of the men kicked him but he grew more fierce and seemed about to take the soup bone from the hip of the kicker, when the fellows weakened and beat a retreat. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder Most Perfect Made. I. O. G. T. social at their hall this evening. All are nvited. Great bargain sale at Chicago Cut Price Shoe House. Come and get I the prices. Chris Diertele, for assault and battery,assessed$ioandcostsby Justice Pond. This evening James Kay Applebee, on George Eliot, in the Unity club course. Frank Hese was drunk and is now in jail for ten days, by the grace of Cadi Gibson. Jay Wood, of Chelsea, will be turnkey after January ist, under Sheriff Judson. - , Applebee on "Bunyan" at the Unitarian church, Sunday evening, drew a large audience. Rev. W. L. Tedrow last week attended the dedication of a Lutheran church at Berrien Springs. The free social of the Inland League, last evening, proved a most enjoyable event in the league series. Justice Pond dismissed the case against Jacob Maurer, charged with heaving boulders at a house, defendant paying costs. Remember the Holiday Sale now on at the Chicago Cut Price Shoe House, where you can buy good goods and save money. The choir at the Catholic church will be assisted in Christmas exercises by an orchestra of 10 pieces and by Miss May Clarken on the harp. Christmas exercises at the North Side chapel will be held Friday evening of this week. A Christmas tree and a literary and musical program has been prepared. A treacherous ladder yesterday threw VVhelan Murphy against a píate glass, cracking it. VVhelan escaped with his throat uncut, and everybody marvels. Last week's faculty concert at Frieze hall crowded even the standing room. One thing bas become apparent with reference to these faculty concerts: Kither the hall will have to be enlarged or the faculty must sing smaller. A pronouhcing contest between the literary and law students will be held in University hall this evening, December 18. Forty contestants will take part. The prize winner will receive the "Reader's Reference Library," a set of fourteen volumes, given by J. B. Lippincott & Co. A very enjoyable reception was given by Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Babcock at their residence on Saturday evening, Dec. 15. They were as,sisted in receiving by Senator and Mrs. George A. Steel, of St. Johns. Dr. and Mrs. F. B. Tibbals, of Detroit, Miss Eunice B. Lambie, of Ypsilanti, and E. N. Butler, of Milwakee, Wis. Some 300 guests were present. The Columbian organ was purchased for $15,000. Of this sum $7,000 had been paid prior to the concert, the proceeds or which amounted to about $5,000, leaving an indebtedness of only about 3,000, which it is proposed to extinguish by a series of concerts to be given at prices that will insure both audiences and revenue. There is no doubt of the early clearance of the instrument from debt. In the case of Daniel S. Bryant vs. Benjamin Houston, to recover medical and other expenses arising from injury and subsequent death of Mrs. Bryant, whose horse became frightened at Houston's threshing engine and threw her to theground, the jury rendered a verdict of no cause of action. The case of Stoddard W. Twitchell vs. Peter H. Gabel occupied the court yesterday.