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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
April
Year
1896
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Public Domain
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Claimed by the Ann Arbor Courier that tbe March storms of last year finished the blue birds and they returned not, that year. Th ere were blue birds here during the recent March stormSi Eveu the sparrows were "blue." The woman's gymnasium of theUniversity is nearly complete. The work was projected ïong ago- so long ago in fact that ïnany of the pioneer lady enthusiasts are now either in the autumn of old maidage, or practicing pedal calesthentics on the evidences of wedlock. A little off on this, Mr. JDemocrat. The building is not yefc even started although there is a hole in the ground to receive the foundations for it. Señor Alberto Jones, is a piano virtuoso, of the university. He is a Spaniard who maintains the closest relations with the United States and plays the piano in a tnanner to make the crotohets "quaver. " He is a Paderewky, with Paddy's aurora borealis hair and self-conceit subtracted. Information from Lansing is to the effect that the game warden will proseoute those who spear mullets and suekers. This must be taken strictly in an aquatio sense, and has no reference to land suckers and mullets who elected the recent unlamented threemillion dollar legislative curiosities. Hiram Lighthall, demoorat, having carried Sylvan township, Washtenaw, for supervisor, by an unexpected majority, his friends who have been looking him over with admiration, find no ringbones, spavins or windgalls on him and declare him the coming norninee for sheriff. Lighthall merely replies in the language of the man to whom the crowd having covered him with tar, remarked, "Now we are going to touch a match to the tar." "Well, " was the response, "I'm not saying a - word, am I?" Tiie University of Moscow, Russia, notifies Dr. Arthur R.Cushny, professor of materia medica and therapeutics, of the University of Michigan, that he has been appointed by the faculty of the Moscow Univecsity, honorary president of pharmacology, at next year's congress of medicine, at Moscow. Now let the British lion roar and the Spanish buil bellow ! More deadly are the combined pills of Russia and America than the sea-dcg of Albion and the feeble Armada of Hispanola. Let the procession move. A year ago, the young American woodchuck subsidists lobbied through an appropriation of $37 in Ann Arbor town to pay for scalps. Three hundred and twenty-eigbt dollars worth of scalps were brought in and there is a woodchuck deficiency of f291 and the boys who rounded up the 'chucks from Pittsfield, Soio, Norfchfield and Superior are swearing mad; and who blames them? The young hunters wanted to see the circus and it was "a case of woodchuck" with them. The deficiency will be raised this year by tax.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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