Through Stearns' Specs

Not exactly a failure in the corn erop o-ocr in Washtenaw. The Manchester Enterprise ruentions a husking bee of 30 husker power ou the farm of William Heuson, to strip the covering from the ears of coru from the stalks of .% acres, and the product ineasured up 238 bnshels. Four bushels per hour is the yield of an average husker, but at husking if he turus out two bushels nu hour he has to have a seat on the opposite side of the barn from the lady huskers. "Ought farmers to move to town" was the question considered by the Southern Washtenaw Farmers' club last week. There was a differente of opinion that fonr times a week "to get the mail," was of ten enough for farmers to move to town, if he made a success of agricultnre and kiiew how "oats, peas, beans and barley grow. " Farmers are getting quite "flip" over in Washtenaw couuty. A Granger's aoademy has opened in Ann Arbor, and a "öranger's school of dancing" is advertised. Wait till they foot the bill for the repnblican taxes this year and you will see dancing that comes without instruction. A the Manchester Baptist church last Sabbath the pastor's subject was "Three steps into Heaven. " Unlees there is a change of couduct, change in reqnireinents, or chunge in doorkeeper, we know some resideuts of that burg who will go wandering around with Crampton of Monroe, and Ed. Baldwin of Canaudaigna, with palin leaf fans, looking for water and unable to take even one step within the promised land. We do, for a fact. The monthly report of Ann Arbor'i council proceedings are longer than the Pentateuch and are made so by uiiuecftssary publicatioa of itemsou the street roll, and the specifio account of the treasurer. The counoil does not transact mueh business, except on paper. An Ypsilanti lady told her husband the fire had gone out, and he airily advised her to waifc till it caine back. And now a lawyer is preparing a bilí for divorce. G. J. Nissly, of Saline, and formerly a newspaper millionaire there, is a great hen raiser, and he keeps the flnest too. He oaptured sixteen premiums at the Ann Arbor fair. That's the kind of a rooster be is. A little Milán girl claims that in school she is in the cart class. She must be a little sulky occasionally, or else accustomed to giggle. The Manchester Enterprise mentions the appearance of an old woman begging for a living, whom it styles "only a pauper whom nobody owns. " Don't allow yonrself to be deceived. A careful investigaron would reveal that that mendicant has cash enough with her to buy a conple of printing offices.