Monroe Democrat Extractions

The repeated rows in the Agricnltural College have at least rendered the intest iue war in the "little pill" department of the University entirely respectable. A"toe social" was recently held in Rome, Lenawee connty. The ladies each sfnck a toe from behiud a curfcain and au auctioueer sold the toe, inclndiug a supper privilege ,to the highest bidder. The parchase of the toe inolnded the foot - and the other also went under the table with it. J. W. Clement explaiDS to the Adrián Press how he carne to cut his foot. He says: "My wife was snft'eriug a temporary illness which kept her iudoors, and I was obliged to split the wood myself or f reeze. ' ' Ypsilanti yonths have formed a whisker club md thecme wholooks like Peffer flrst wiil be given a red neoktie. - Auu Avbor Argus. At last accounts none of them yet looked like Peffer, bnt several looked like thundor. and their girls were searching for co-partnevships among tlie alnmui of the association. Hiding behind a piano in the society room of (he Normal wero a conple of school girls, when a smitten pair of coeds entered, feit that they were alone and a loveydovey scène followed that would have frorued the glow of the Romeo and Juliet affair to the straw hne of an oil lamp in the blaze of the midday nun. Then the girls went aud told of it, "the mean, nasty things" and choked with glee at seeing the heart stricken pair called up on the floor and reprimanded. State Editor G. H. Snow, of the DeToit Evening News, is at the height of h's g'ory when writiug flctitious tales regarding Pontiac'n colored popnlation. The name Snow is decidedly oommon among this olass and possibly may acuouut for the State Editor's famiiliarity with the doings of "dese indiWiduals. "- Oakland Connty Pust. There is a horrible snspii-ion in mauy minds that most of those tales grew in chestnut burrs that long ago moldered to eaith and some have so intimated to Mr. Suow. Bu' Suow nse. A "smart Alee," of Ypsilanti, journeyed to Ann Arbor, and he spake unto a Gentile from Jackson eaying, "Let ii8 have a game of poker, with a onearmed gilly from Ypailanti and a twoarmed ditto of Ann Arbor, and behold we will lick them, even as the hound will lick the skillet, " - Thns spake the dissernbling, for, in his heart he dosigned to skin the Jackson Gentile, with the help of the gillies, whom he supposed were his confeáerates. But it carne to pass that they confedorated not with him, bnt joined themselves unto the Jackson Geutile and the three "did him" ont of a large sum, to wie - $200, bnt gave him back $85. And now he squbaleth and beginneth suit. Let. him that thinketh hiinself a "shrewd kuss" take heed; for behold he is probably a sackor and as for wisdom it abideth not with him.