Local Brevities

The next faonlty concert will tae given at the school of ruusic Thursday evening. Ed. W. Staebier lacked two votes of being elected representative in the recent L. A. W. contest. It is said that the railroad companies are discharging many of their employees on acoount of the extremely light travel. A new six inch flowing well has been strnck by the Ann Arbor Water Co. St its auxiliary puruping station on E. Washington st. It is a regular gusher. The Needlework Guild, of Ypsilantif has produced and distributed among the poor of that city and vicinity, an inorease of 35 per cent over its previous record. The officers of the board of trustees of the new north side church are: President, George W. Weeks; seoretary, Gibert A. Rhodes; treasurer, Spencer D. Lennon. Six candidates took the Oriental degree of tbe Maccabees Thursday evening of last week. Tbe local knights were assisted by a dozen from Ypsilanti. A banqnet followed the ceremonies. The printed schednle of the time of arrival, departure and disfribution of mails at the Ann Arbor post office, which has been issued by tiepostmaster, will be of great convenience to the patrons of Uacle Sam's mails. The first through car on the electric line to Ypsilanti made its passage froin Aun Arbor to the Street car barns in Ypsilanti, Thursday evening of last week in 22 minutes. Cars are now running regularly between the two oities. The friends and neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Howlett, of Lyndon, surprised them at their home on Wednesday evening of last week, previous to their departure for their new borne in Ann Arbor. Oysters were served and an enjoyable time was bad by all. - Chelsea Standard. In one way and another it is probable that something like 25,000,000 of the great American people are running around their usual business with $100, 000,000 worth of gold stowed away in 200,000,000 little caves mined painfully in their respective teeth. - Ex. No wonder there is a scarcity of the artiule in view of such figures as these. W. H. Oweo has opeued a barber shop on E. Wilüani st. near State st. Goethe Comniandery, No. 28, U. F. of M., will give its flrst hop nextTbnrsday evening. It will be an invitation affair. llead the liberal subscription offer for the Argi's, also for the Argus and Michigan Farmer together, which appears at the head of these columns. The Modern Woodmen will iuitiate a olasa of 14 next Monday evening. Six new applioatioñs were reoeived last Monday evening. Job A. Marshall has sold cis farm in the town of Lodi to Mrs. Mary E. Tubbs, of Dexter, and will remove to this city. Transfer tbrough the Bach & Butler agency. About 50 couples enjoyed the first masquerade ball of the Washtenaw Evening Times Band on Friday evening. The boys cleared about $50 by their enterprise. The Ann Arbor Dancing Club held its Becond party at Granger's Academy Monday night. It was well attended and was a very pleasant repetition of the success of the first one. The state Sunday School couvention at its meeting in Kalamazoo, recommended the observance of the first Sunday in December as Snnday School Day. The number of SunJay schools in Michigan is 4,200, with 372,000 pupils. Rev. W. L. Tedrow bas announced to speak on "Armenia" at the Engfish Lutheran church uext Sunday evening. A number of stereopticon views vvill be presented, giving scènes of the country and of the confliots during the dark days of persecution of the ohristian people of Armenia. H. Wirt Newkirk, probate judge elect, will devote the greater part of next month to making himself familiar with the dutv ; uf bis office so that eveiythinu mfty move smoothly after be takes ch.üiie of the office Jan. 1, The Argus ii is aot yet heard who his probate register will be. The "Sugar Bowl" is the name of a new confectionery store that will be started uext week in the store formerly occnpied by William Arnold. C. A. Heudrick and William Jeuuiugs will be the proprietors of it and wil! manufacture line home made oandies, choclates and other sweet goods. The Inland Press has filed artioles of incorporation with F. C. Parker, W. B. Phillips, R. C. McAllaster and George R. Cooper as its stockholders. The oapital stook is $20,000, of which $17,000 is paid up. W. B. Phillips and F. C. Parker hold the bulk of the stock and there will be no change in ;he management. McClure's Magazine for Deoember will contain au account of Nansen's hard adventures in getting 195 miles nearer the NoFth Pole than any other man. It will be written by Cyrns C. Adams, of the New York Sun, one of the Dest geographical authorities in the country ; and it will be illustrated with portraits of Nansen and his associates, views of his ship within and without, and other picturès. "What a poiitician must do to get :here, " reads a chart in the Dexter Savings Bank. It is a diagram of the county with the township lines, and is embellished with a network of red lines showing the routes traveled by H. W. Newkirk to make his campaigu speeches. The distance is about 500 miles, most of which was driven with a norse and buggy, in all kinds of weather. Certainly it is not a snap to run for office - aud get there. - Dexter Leader. The public is not as familiar with its privileges about postal matters as niight be supposed. Many times people would like to recall a letter after it aad been mailed. This can be done, even if the letter has reacbed the pnst office of the destination. At every post office there are what are called "whitdrawal blauks. "' On application they will be furnished, and when a deposit is made to oover the expense, the postmaster will telegraph to the postmaster at the letter's destination asking that it be promptly returned. Monday evening at the Unitarian church Mrs. Eliza R. Sunderlaud delivered the fifth of the Unity Club lecture series before one of the largest audiences which has yet turned out to any iecture of this couree. He% subject was "Florence, Venice, Naples, and Pompeii. " The entire leoture was interspersed with personal reminiscences and this with the stereopticon views made the Iecture doubly deligbtful. Mrs. Sunderland closed with a few pleasant remarks concernirg the lack of art, in the United States, and onr reoompense for this. VVhen D. W. Springer, of Ann Arbor, rides abroad on his bicycle, womeu sound to the front gate with their sleeves rolled up and their hands all dough, clerks, cash Koys and customers whip out of the stores, a human conglomérate pours from the school rooms, ■just to see Spring and bis bike go by ! What causes the npbeaval is, one of bis legs aticks out in front stiff at the kuee while the other tears away at the pedal causing him to swoop ahead like all get out. There is talk of making bim put a cow-catcher on his unbendable battering ram to save life. - Grass Lake News. The Argns has received from Warner's Safe Cure Co., of Roohester, N. Y., whose advertisernent may be found in another column, their attraotive pamphlet for 1897, of which five million copies it is stated, are being distributed free by mail and through drug2ists. It oontains besides advertising matter, biographical sketches and portraits of all the Presidents of the United States iuclnding President-elect McKinley. The perusal of the pamphlet affords abundant proof that Warner's Safe Cure Co., which has twerrty years of success baok of it, is as active and enterprising as ever. Arm Arbor Lodge, No. 44, K. of P., will nomínate its offlcers for next year at its meeting tonight Read the liberal subscription offer for the Augus, also for the Argus and Michigan Farmer togethei, which appears at the head of these columns. The Detroit high sohol eleven defeated the Ann Arbor boys at football Friday afternoon in two fiercely contested halves of 25 and 20 minutes duratiou. Score 12 to 0. Col. Kobert G. Ingersoll was taken witb a severe attaok of sciatioa in Chicago, the latter part of last week, and had to caucel nis engagement to lecture here lass Saturday. Many who had oalcnlated on hearing the reuowned free thinker were rnuch disappointed. President J. G. Rogers of Benzonia college,delivared a course of seveu jectures on the general subject "Scientiflc gronnds for christian faith" in Newberry hall and the Presbyterian church, Sunday, Monda; aud Tuesday. The lec("ures are well spoken of by those who heard Hiem The qnarterly paymeut of soldiers' pensions has been made. It develops the f act that 125 iiames have been dropped from the rolls each month in rhis state sinoe the previoua quarterly paymeut. The amount paid out. however, thia quarter is about the same, owiug to the increase and the-new pensions allowed. Mr. W. ,7. Butler as "John Merryweather"in "All a Mistake" gave the large audieace at the Grand last night a characterization new to the stage, forceful, amusing and artistic to a nicety. The company is an excellent one in every respect. - Dubuque Telegraph. At the grand opera house Monday uight. A woman wanted to exbibit her powers of withstanding suake bites on the streets of the city Monday and applied :o Acting Mayor Hiscock for permission to do so. It was uot tbought that :he exhibition would be of any great aenefit so the permission was not granted. She claimed to have come out aere from Detroit to give an exhibition before the medical class at the U. of M., but for some reason it had fallen throngh. At the eigbth annnal meeting of the Detroit branch of the assooiation of ollege alumnae held at Detroit, Priday a nutnber of Ann Arbor ladies were present. Some of them were elected to offiaes as follows. Airs. G. W. Patterson, assistaut secretary ; Mrs. J. T. Sunderland, Mrs. J. H. Drake, Mrs. F. N. Scott and Mrs. W. A. Campbell, directors. Dr. Eliza Mosher and Mrs. W. A. Campbell delivered addresses. The next entertainment in the Young Men's Christian Association lyceum course is that by Rev. Perry Millar, of Milwaukee, Wis., wbo will lecture on "The Land of the Midnight Snn." The press throughout Wisoonisn is loud in its praise of Mr. Millar and bis leoture. Tbey state that he is a natural orator and his lecture is filled with lofty fiights of impassioned eloquence. The lecture will be delivered at tbe Presbyterian church next Thursday evening, Deo. 3. This week every farmer wbose name is on the subscription list of the Argns, besides a large number whose names are not on our list, will receive a copy of the Michigan Farmer, the best agricultural paper in the state. By reference to our offer in auother column it will be seen that tbe Argus and the Michigan Farmer eau be had in combinatiou for $1.75 for tbe two papers from now notil Jan. 1, 18SI8. The Ypsilanti Womau's League is raising a great howl over tbe trade mark of the Hay & Todd Mfg. Co., which is painted on the sides of the smokestack of their factory in Ypsilanti, on tbo gronud that it is indeoeot. The good ladies must be prudishly sensitive. The same trade tjnark is painted on the smokestack of the factory here, but it causes no such comment as tbis. Why should it' It is not a nude figure, but is decently ciad in a Buit of Ypsilanti underwear. Monday afternoon and evening Grand Lecturer Artbur M. Clark, held a Masonic school of instruotion at the temple in this city. The attendance from the different lodges in the county was good. In the afternoon Olive Lodge, of Cbelsea, worked the second degree and in the evening Golden Rule Lodge oonferred the third degree. Mr. Clark was loud in his praise of the excellence of the work done and said he had not seen it surpassed, not even by the famons Palestine Lodge, of Detroit. So many were present at the evening session that the large lodge room was altogether too small for tbeir aocommodation.