Adrian Press Items

A Willis correspondent of an exchange says: "Mr. Darling is a No. 1 butter maker. His butter is excelled by very few." The correspondente grammar shonld be dehorned. The housecleaning days have come the saddest of the year, when husbands hear the hnusehold drum, and hide themselves in fear. - Wasbtenaw Times 'Taint ever one oan be a poet, no more'n a sheep can be a go-at. Martha Dzenig, aged 23, of Detroit, April 19, married Wrn. Cole, 73, of Saline. On the 26th she "packed her kit" and returned to Detroit. She feil to pondering on the 50 years difference in their ages and placed 45 miles betv?een tbem. President Steinkohl, of Manchester, has had trouble to get his appointment for marshal confirmed by the cooncil. He blythely offered Blythe, handed in Hanbam and briggled aboot with Breigel; and the man the council aocepted was Wurster than the others. Dence take the office holding, anyhow ! Mr. J. Henry McKinley, the great tenor, who makes his first appearance in Ann Arbor during the May Festival is sure to make many admirers here. - Register. If he makes no better impression than Brother Bill, of that family, in his great "Prosperity" solo, he will not be asked for an encoré. A Manchester man watcbed with worshipful adoration a hen's nest stocked with the fruit of a blooded breed. The hen "carne off" but no ohickens followed. The owner investigated, and was surprised and heartbroken to fiud in the nest a litter of kittens! Thus, all tbrough life, disappointment lifts its lizard head in the path of hope and addles the egg of ertswhile expectation ; and this is but one instance in tbe long, dreary kittylogue. Concerning Doubleyou Doubleyou Wedemeyer, deputy railroad oomrnissioner, who has just resigned the Washtenaw school commissionership the Ann Arbor Democrat says: "The only mean thing we have charged up to "weedy" is his blasted republicanism and that isn't more than skin deep. " Very true, but he has a hide like a rhinocerus or he never could be a Pingree appointee. The annual musical May Festival occnrs at Ann Arbor next week, and the principal attraction and leading soprano is Madamoiselle Calve, a renowned vocalist from abroad. Are there no oalves in Ann Arbor? Oh, certainly. "There are others." but they will not particípate in the singing. Prof. Stanley and Prof. Jonas allow no bellows, except on machine musio. Judge Newkirk, of Ann Arbor, has been engaged thus far ahead to fire oratory over a Milán aodience on the 4th of July. Sayeth the Argus: "Now, if Wirt will only teil them that tale abont 'Becky at tbe Well' and other kindred stories that he knows, he ueed have no fear but that he will entertain his nearers." If, however, that fails to paralyze them, he rnight relate his western editorial experience, and that oircumstance of his being treed half a day, on top of his desk, by a couple of rattlesnakes, and in the meantime count the nuruber of ladies who will be looking under the bench, daring the recital.