Seen On The Bias

Fowlerville has settled a defective sidewalk suit with a Miss Case, of Ann Arbor,for $1000. That would have kept the sidewalks of the village in repair fifty years. VYill the council learn auything? Of conrse not. Amting the prizes offered by the Washtenaw fair for the great bicycle event of Friday, tiip twenty-seventh, is a pair of bosing gloves. It is said that 123 young rnen who are to teach school in that county the coming winter, have entered for this prize. Dexter has a right to exhibit a bit of pride. The village treasurer reports every dollar of village tax paid. Where's there another hamlet that eau point to such a record? Even the new spaper paid up. Well, well ! Chelsea is to put down $400 worth of tar walks. Buyers of taii shoes protest, but as some of the aldermen have bad cases of hay f ever and catarrh.they hope to get rid of both by the medicinal odor that shall evolve frorn tar walks. A great hunk of good luck has come to F. Stofflet, of Ann Arbor. The agency of the Detroit Tribune has been taken from hini. He can now walk the streets and meet his fellow mortals face to face and not be ashamed of himself. Stofflet has been relieved of an ink-u-bus-sure. Geo. C. Smythe, forrnerly' of the Ypsilanti Commercial, now is oonuected with the literary paper "Educatiou Extensión," which the Cleary Co. publishes. We suggest he furnish the state board of education with half a dozen copies free. There's need of "extensión" in that direction. The Dexter Leader refers to the residents of Chelsea as "web-footed cranberry pickors. " All this because a Chelsea lady allowed that when that village had been dead as long as had Dexter, it would be "laid out just as nioe as that place. " Now we fear that this is but the prelude to a "pbysical culture" exhibition. Web-footed eranberry pickers ! My, but that's aw ful. Over 3, 000 business men of Ann Arbor have pledged themselves to close their business places on the lase day of the fair, Friday next. The directors will save all the meions, peaches and pears for them and photographs of the hogs at the show will be taken, and plaoed with the photos of those business men who do not close, so that everyoue can see the Washtenaw connty swine display. Nothins; but an earthquake or a hurricane will prevent the 'Washtenaw fair from being a success. The Ann Arbor school board lately passed a resolutiou making elocution compulsory with seniors and juniors. This absard action did not strike some tnembers afterward as just the proper thing, so a motion to rescind the resolution was offered at the next meetiug, aud was the occasion of a hot discussion. The ruembers talked enough to prove thafc no instruction in elocution was neccessary on their part, and not one of them had ever recited "You'd scarce expect on of my age, " or "Give me liberty or give me a quarter, " during their period of educational incubatiou. The efforts of some people to tnisapply the benefits of a free school systein for onr high schools, weary the average citizen, and tax payer, no matter how it affects them.