Monroe Democrat Items

Ypsilanti is sure of a new opera aonse, to be built in nineteen hundred aud . The Auu Atbor Oourier believes tbat 'MoKinley and JReed" would make a jresidential ticket that would be "a ïummer. " So it would. The scène would resemble that of a pair of tailtied cats, hung over a clothes-line. Miss Mary Purfield, of Ann Arbor, smitten with student Patridge, married and left him in ten days aud applied for a divorce which has just been granted on the ground of crnelty. What she took for a "Patridge," it seems was a ïawk. It has been so long since there was a Fourth of July at Ann Arbor that many ohildren bom there since the war never heard the Declaration of Independence read. This year there will 3e a "bust" of Americanism. Not this year, Bro. Smith, tbe sclieme 'busted" up through lack of enthusiastn or something. "Holmes" the murderer, was not Holmes, but Herman W. Mudgett, and as Mudgett his name appears in the general catalogue of the Michigan University as a gradúate in 1884. Tbe Argus statea that no residence is assigned him in tbe catalogue. Whatever of obscurity may have then enveloued the questiou of his habitation, there is none as to his present residence, or else we have been educated in an erroneous ecclesiastical faith.