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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
July
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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As soon as iátannard, the annointed snooessor of the Dexter Cleveland postmaster, gets his grabs on his commission the post offloe will take a walk te another locality. Ben Schallhorn, of Pittsfield, married an Ann Arbor lady last week, and the disappointed young men in Athens are oogitating whether they Sohallhorn the groom for invading their jurisdiution. Dick Johnson, of Ypsilanti, has jnst leoeived from the sonth by express, a mother possnm with a pocket of eight progeny. Said Soip to Sam, as they rode to the field, "Take a good fat possnm, pahboil him, sarb him np wid coon gravy" - . "Shut yer mout! chile," exclaimed Sam, "or I'll fall right off'n dis male." One of tbe university professors, J. O. Sohlotteibeck, has been tempted by gome western nniversity, with an offer of $2,500 per year to be the professor of pharmacognosey. He deolines. He is an assi6tant professor at Aun Arbor at f250, and is afraid of the big salary, and fears the name of the professorship wonld prove a greater burden than he oould bear, and added to his own cognomen wonld aoon pharmacognoseymosis him to aprematuie beer, or afflict him with psyohopleuronornenolaturology, acommon, yet fatal college disease. The western college will have to "nosey" round elsewhere for a professor cf pharmacognosey. Schlotterbeck won't farm a cognomen of that kind. Not without emotion, we are called upon to note the death of the white buil terrier, Jim, of the Ann Arbor fire department. The writer Was personally acquainted with Jim, and can testify that he never flinched, even in the most august presence. Snch was the breadth of his democracy that the prince and the pauper were alike, to his taste. In his youtb Jim was hidebound to such a degree that the front incisors and lesser dentáis of the lower jaw were exposed to tbe sun, and to such material objeets as possessed vital organsand carne within reach. To remedy this, he appeared at a clinic and submitted to the abridgment of his "'follower, " by whioh the released skin shot forward a couple of inohes and partially overéame his deformity, tbus serving the ends of snigical science. The first meeting between the recorder of this obituary and its subject was ethusiastic, but not unnecessarily propogedas, the writer was obliged soon thereafter, to cali on a friend of his - a tailor - with whom he went into executive session, with closed doors. It so happened tbat his business tnereafter took him on the side of the street opposite the engine house and be and Jim never really met afterward, bnt each always reoognized the other. A wagon ran over Jim and killed him. There was a Bolemn fnneral at dead of night. There were pall bearers, torch bearers and first and seoond grave diggers. The solemn servioe was conduoted in English and Germán, and Jim rests in the yard back of the engine house, along with two othei dogs, three ooons and 31 cats he is known to have "removed."

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Ann Arbor Argus
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