Adrian Press Items

The prisoners in the Branch county jail, attempted to saw their way out, with an old oase-knife. The sheriff, (silvsr ohap) saw the saw, and wbere tbey tried to saw their way out, and not a man saw bis way out, after all they had sawed. Franois J. Johnson, selected by the oolored majority of Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor to ba urged for the place of assistant in the capitol cloak rooiu bas received the appointment. Bis competitors enviously urge that it was a case of "too muoh Johnson." Dr. W. B. Smith, of Ann Arbor, hearing a noise ou his porch the other evening, looked ont and saw a thief making away with a large and costly thermometer. The doctor's temper rose to the "fever point" - indeed to Farenheit - but bis spirits dropped to zei o, as the nimble rascal escaped in the gloaming. The new nniversity band will break loose for the first time, on Wnshiugton's birthday. Unless this new band proves better akilled thau most auch tender-lipped organizations, the skeleton of the "Father of hisoountry" rnay well roll over on its face and bless the gods that it is not alive to hoar it. The "nose social" a f ad bas progressed as far as Auu Arbor. In the nose exhibition, the ladies stiok their delicate sniffera throngh holes cut in a sheet and the gents range np and select, each taking his selection to snpper. The Courier asks in a heading, "Would you know Her Nose?" Is it a snub nose with a wart ou it? Yes, we know, but we'll never teil." It wouldn't be quite polite. R. H. Hunt, claiming to be a printer from Chelsea, was arrested in Coruuna, uu a charge of stealing a inackintosb, and was sent to jail for 40 days. - Ann Arbor Argns, He was nn printer or he wonld never rnake suoh iilacksmithing job of it. A tboroughv raduated "cnmp" makes no auoh njn-take as to be caugbt. Look at our clothes, please. It is probable that the old Occidental hotel will be rejnvenated once niore, modernizad completely, and the excellent mineral baths again made available to the public. - Ypsilanti Cor. A. A. Courier. And then will come tbe nautical period fur tbe bottled spiders and autiquated roaches, coucealed in the old baths, and their voioes as they sail aronnd on a match or a toofchpick, will be heard siuging, "A Life on the Ocean wave." Pive boys in Augusta, Washteuaw, were reoently anested for disturbing a religious meeting. The anthorities had wearied of their braoing against the outside of the building and dtnmming against it with their heels, to keep up blood ciroulation, while waiting for tbe girls to come out. The youngsters didu't belong to the churcb, but, in tbe language of a fellow who was supporting a "jag" by placiug his back to the sacred ediflce, they '"leaned that way. " The jVlidwiuter Circus of the Ann Arbor Light Infantry bas. by oommon consent, been declared the greatest and best ever held in Ann Arbor. The ouly casualties of note were sustained by the principal clowns. Ex-Mayor Beakss, to avoid a crack from the ringmaster's whip, executed a sudden "touchdown" on his aerated rubber Etomaob, which exgíloded witb a lood detonation, shattering both the stomaoh and several plate glass about the city. His livar was picked from the lower tiapeze, by Prof. Granger, who was hanging by his feet, bead dowuward, from the upper swing. Bsakes proved that it was his liver, by exhibiting the initials, "S W. B. " carved tbereon. It was put back by Surgeon Nanorede and the midwinter olown is all right again. His companion, Dromio, Mayor Walker, iu scite of tbe remonsfrauces of tbe management, insisted, in bad voice, on trying to siog "Sweet Marie" and a leut pole feil on bitD, breaking his neck. His corpse was thrown to the Hons who eiunohed the reinaius amid the thunderous acclamations of the poponlace.