Adrian Press Fair Notes

It is so wet in the river at Ypsilanti that workmen on a bridge are are obliged to wear rubber overshoes. Prof. McLouth,formerly of Washtenaw, but now president of the South Dakota agricultural college, is out in a nine column hemorrhage, showing how politicians have injured the institution. The professor is not a parlor agriculturist, but a man whó knows a buil calf from a prairie wolf, and Iets the politicians so understand it. The following appeared last week from the pen of the Willis poet: " The farmers, O, the farmers! Thcir wives and ehildren dear. And others, their invited gucsts. Are expected to be there, And the bi n of Willis Are ooming by ( lie way, And v, i: K; : oiiifr to havo a jolly time, On the raii fay of August " Isn't about time to turn the buil loose again? The new training school at Ypsilanti, when it is secured, will be a second great boon to Normal education. Does any one "tumble" to the first? An item in the Ann Arbor Courier describes a triangular lead pencil. The compositor went twice to the editor to have him interpret the last two lines, which proved to read as follows: "This item was written with one, and the manuscript can't be beat." Prohibitionist Fanning and his assistants, who have been laboring with Yp,ilanti, have gone, but the Yps have their whiskey war left. Rev. M. M. Goodwin, whose business is to sink with prayers the hostile vessels of other nations, is still with the good ship Columbia, having become accustomed to being "half seas over." By this remark no reference to unministerial beverage is intended. The explanation is made because the eider is from Ynsilanti. E. Thompson, of Ypsilanti, has acquired title, at a high pnce, in a meek-eyed Angora cat,to bring down his gray hairs - or whatever their shade - with sorrow to the grave. The Angora, in its infancy, is a sweet little beauty; in its middle age, a cat of more than ordinary definiteness of character; in its ripe years it will claw the daylights out of anything brutish, human or divine with which it comes in contact.