Adrian Press Items

Parents should not try to fatten their children on paris green. A Reading baby was allowed to gorge itself with soine, last week, and doctors, with difficulty saved its life. The toe of the democratie Schuh, of Washtenaw, was applied to the republioan candidato for oounty clerk, by the voters, who put their whole sole into it as it were, and now he "waxes" cold. Astronoraers teil ns that the earth is about to enter one of the great group of rueteors. - Ann Arbor Argus. It is not about to enter. It did enter, on the night of November 3, and the golden stars shit about in such a way that the silver moon hid herself in the realm of Nadir. During the wind storm Thnrsday last week, a ehininey on the George Blook, Ypsüauti, touk a tnmble and went crasbing down through a flat, and barely missing a lady, whose surprise was only equaled by that of Sambo, when the professor's fiying machine broke its rudder, and he struck the cabin ohimney a horizontal blow with bis "beam's end." "Mose, oome yar!" sbe cried "de chimuey am fallin iu de soup pot." Ralph Rea, of Plymouth, suddenly stopped the other day, slapper! one pant leg, then the other ; got red in face, then pale;then hurriedly and uervously went through each and singular of his pookets, and beads of perspiration bioke out all over him, and he exclaimed, "I've lost f 100!" Sick and faint he went home and dropped in a ohair as limp as a democrat after eleotion. Suddeuly he jumped from his seat and huggerl an old coat that huog on the wall, aR be never hugged bis wife. The coat had been takiüg good oare of that hundred dollars. Sheriff Judson, of Ann Arbor, telegraphed Phgrp: "lam elected sheriff. 1 mat h tiie biggost figbt of iny life." It is well tbat this dispatch was given to au anxious public. It was known that McKinley had "skinued in," but confidence was not restored throughout the leDgth and breadth of the land, till the glad electrio herald of Judson's victory hissed over tbe heated wires and waked the weary weikin of trinmph out of its midnight slumber. Hnzzaa rent the air, froni the pine olad hills of Maine to the turpentine swamps of Florida, when it was proclairned amid red fire aud rookets, and bulletined on the olouds with searohlight stereopticons, "Judson eleoted sheriff of Washtauaw county, Michigan, by 37 majority!" Then oonfldenoe was restored, and the banks paid gold.