Adrian Press Items

Fred Beadle demauds $200 damages of Ypsilanti. Beadle ran chuok against a pile of boards, and received injuries. 3is head has feit all lumped np, ever since. Bees, over in Washteuaw couuty ïave "got into" the knack of seratchng open a ripe grape and suckiug out the juiee, and they thns give the lie to he slander that the flrst bee created mew just as rnuch as any of its poserity. A. J. Sawyer, of Ana Arbor, has een named by the republioaus for representativo iu the legislature. Sawyer s a bright, brainy lawyer and iu respect of capacity, a shining goldbng who will do no barm iu the legislature jecause he will not "get there. " This s a silvp.r year, and Sawyer's sileuce n Lausiog will be golden. John R. Min er, of Aun Arbor, :raoes bis pedigree back to the caves of Dngland, six hundred years ago. A mau who owned mines in a certain locality was named Miner, by Edward III, wbo charged him to transmit the doctrine of '36 to 1" to posterity, bnt he didn't io it. This ancestry business is looked upon by rnany as something to be proud of, bnt we regard it, generally, and in ;his instance particularly, as a minor matter. The Hillsdale Standard deeply regrets the determination at Ann Arbor o present at a classical party, a cake made from a book 2,000 years old. To he Standard "it does seem too bad to use up a book of such antiquity jast to nake a cake. " As we uuderstand it, he Standard is in error. The cake will )e made from wheat taken from the inmnmy of Rameses XII. There will )e enough to go arouud. One of the early profesors, or a gorilla from the museum, will preside as toastmaster.