Washtenawisms

A poverty "soshull" will be held by the L. O. T. M.'s of Saline, New Year's night. A young lady, of Ypsilanti, has a half dollar 'of the vintage of 1819, which she is willing co sell. At Saline, last week, Miss Rena Lindsley and William Tower became one till death or a divorce, etc. The electric light company of Chelsea will remove to their new quarters which are very "shiny. " A reissue of pension has been granted to Win. E. Bell, of Ypsilanti, and life, to William, seems brighter. The Normal football team has had its aggregated picture taken. By the way, prize fighting is becoming almost as dangerous as football. On his 22tid birthday, last week, the friends of William Schuh, of Sharon, gave him a surprise. The surprise of Capt.J. Schuh came early in November. President Bachelder, of the Ypsilanti school board, while staggering inder the responsibilities of his office, slipped and sprained his ankle, last week, and is laid up. W. B. Campbell and W. O. Holstein, of Ypsilanti, have purchased a saloon and other chances of a liquor prosecution in the spiritually minded city of Toledo. Mrs. Baty, who sued Saline in the circuit court for damages on account of lier partial distruction by a ragged sidewald, recovered $275. A a slab has been nailed over the hole. Supervisor Watking, of Manchester, gets after Supervisor Pond, of Ann Arbor, in the last Enterprise concerning money voted by Washtenaw to defray certain expenses of the circuit judge. A beautiful rainbow rained down at Ypsilanti, Tuesday last week. It seemed so near that hill, house and tree were tainted with it. The rainbow chaser of the Sentinel approached within a quarter of a mile of it. Judge Babbitt and C. W. Rogers took part in a whist tournament at the Wayne club, in Detroit, Monday evening, standing second high out of six sets. The highest score was 176, with a winner average oí 171. The Ypsilantians made 173. - Sentinel. A bull-head in the aquarium at the Kberbach drug store in Ann Arbor drevv a lot of costly leeches through a hole in the partition and ae theni. This is a case where a lofc of blood-suckers were themselves "taken-in," and by a "bull-head" at that. - Ypsilanti Commercial. A woman's rights writer in the Dexter Leader asks: "If woman is not capable of exercising the elective franchise, is it good policy to entrust her with the care of our children ?" Well, you see, my dear woman, that in the economy of nature that can't be helped. Almost all children, at some age or other, are obliged to have a mother. Cornelius Cornwell, of Ypsilanti, -died at his home Thursday of last week, aged 75 years. He suffered a stroke of paralysis while in bed at a Boston hotel and was brought home. He was well known as a paper manufacturer, through the west. He was an esteemed citizen, a good business man and one who held the respect and good will of the public. Referring to the beautiful prisrnatic exhibition beheld in the west by the psilanti Sentinel, one afternoon last week, the Commercial intimates that Bro. Woodruff could not have been quite right in his head and intimates with considerable lack of charity that a man who sees a rain-bów in the west, in the afternoon, had better try water as a beverage. Water ye say to that, ürer. Woodruff? The Chronothanatoletron produced by the Epworth League of Saline with success, was the invention of Mrs. E. Hill, who acted as "charge d' affairs. A hollow square was built with a crank on one side and a hole on the other. Mrs. H. turned the crank and out of the hole popped, one at a time, the women of by-gone ages, each of whora did "a tale unfold" concerning her nationality and the times when she was on earth. It proved 3. very taking device. L. N. Brown, an attorney of YpsílantijSome time ago began a "suit" at Adrián, Miss Bertha Brezee being the defendant in the case. After the trial had progressed some time, however, Miss Brezee withdrew her defense and consented to allow ikown to "take judgment" which Itc promptly did, and Miss Brezee became Mrs. Brown, Wednesday, Rev. M. M. Goodwin performing the ceremony with a grace and ease that demonstrated his preference for such service, over that of praying for the American navy, on board a man-of-war that seemed to him like a cónvict ship. 1). C. Reeves, a Milán boy, was i killed in a railroad wreek at Chicago, Tuesday last week. Net. Phillips, of Milán, has bought a butcher sho[), and will sell spring lanib (last spring) and other meats. Friends of Mrs. D, W. Morgan, of Manchester, recently gave the lady a pleasant surprise on her 8jd birth day. Conrad Schneider, a section boss in Freedom, last week had his thumb split with a spike maul. He made "Freedom ring." Rev. J. B. Meister and family of Adrián have arrived in Freedom. Mr. Meister will seize the gospel helm at Bethel church. Mrs. S. Francisco is at Emergency hospital, Detroit, where she has undergone an operation for the removal of a cáncer of the face. By the breaking of an axle of the wagon of Charles Dennis, of Whittaker, last week, a log rolled off his wagon, breaking a leg of one of his horses. Rev. Dr. Byan last week delivered his lecture on the "Holy Land" at Manchester. He did not state whether or not there were any female minstrels in the Oriënt. Tha discovery of surface oil in the well of J. T. Lamkin, of Whittaker, has sent real estáte upward and the well downward. There is likely to be a wild Titusville time of it. Chelsea will probably "make a rap" with Ypsilanti for a ateam fire engine. The move for a steamer is in the right direction. The village is too large for a hand squirt gun. At the recent "hard times" party at Saline, Seldon Wheelock received the prize for being the most utterly poverty-stricken galoot in the herd. Mrs. Florence Bond secured the ladies' prize. Prof. Dennison, of the Milan schools, is at it again, after an en forced vacation produced by an inflamed eye, which still looks as though it had been through an active political campaign. George J. Nissly, of Saline, is hatching chickens on a new patent of his own, and also expects to soon bring out a device for producing chickens directly, without eg&s, thus doing away entirely with the hen as a, mother. Joe Davidter, of Manchester, visited the small-pox hospital while ii was under quarantine, for which the board of health "hopped his collar." He was arrested and the trial of the case adjourned. Joe believes he has a good defense. A personal canvass of Ypsilanti by the local bible society, disclosed that 1,330 families had bibles and 20 families were without. Out of respect to the newspaper profession we trust that the families of the edilors down there will be bibled up at Christmas. . Three tramps who were found worshipping in the Presbyterian church of Ypsilanti are now doing 90 days each in the Detroit house of correction. So it goes! People have been sent to the prison, the stake, the guillotine and the gallows for their piety. Talk about scarcity of money.' Wny, $20 was picked up on the street within the past week, $10 of which has been claimed by the man who dropped it The other is still waiting for an owner. - Manchester Enterprise. The Argus "devil" was over that way recently, and thinks he lost it. . Rev. B. Smits, at Ypsilanti, last Monday evening, preached from the text, "A New Heaven and a New Earth, wherein dwelleth Righteousness." We have not yet learned what was the drift of his sermón, but the text must have referred to the return of the democracy to power in congress again af ter two years. Fred Hawkins, now editor-irjchief of the Michigan Horse News, was in Ypsilanti last week, The papers do not state the purpose of his mission, but it has leaked cut that he secured the meteor that went through and killed a horse near psilanti, last summer. No horse cou'd have read the account of it a id lived. Geprge Alexander, clerk of the Hawkins house, Ypsilanti, will be Register of Deeds McKinstry's viceroy. This, Alee feels will agree with his nature full as well as assigning rooms to travelers, settling bilis and standing the cussing usual to hotel clerks, from people for whom nothing is ever quite good enough, and others who happen to get up in the morning with a bad taste in the mouth. The excuse of Editor Smith of the Ann Arbor Argus for not attending the Donovan reception in Detroit, Monday evening, is perfectly valid, and will no doubt pass with the Fellowcrafters, but it would have been better form to have sent them to the president of the club and read to the assembled guests, as other regrets were. - Milan Leader. Yes; it is a source of regret that we did not, but the club had no address.