Local Brevities

How dear to our heart 18 the old eil ver dollar When some kind subsctiber presents it to view- The Liberty head without necktie or collar, ] And all the strange things that seem to us ( new; The wide spreading eagle, the arrow below it The 6tars and tbe worde and the strange , things they teil. Thecoinof our fathers; we are glad that we i know it, . i For some time or other 'twlll come in quite wellThe spread eagle dollar, the star-epangled dollar, The old eil ver dollar we all love so well. The Tappan school building is to have a new boiler for heating pnrposes. A law office bas been opened on S. State st. by C. L. Bartlett and H. A. Danoer. Rev. A. Dooling, of Dearborn, will assist in tbe work of St. Thomas' church after July 24. Mrs. Clarissa Best, forrnerly of W. Hnron st., died in Detroit, June 21, at the residenoe of her son G. J. Best. Ed. Krapf broke his bicycle while out riding to Saline Monday nigbt and had to foot it home in conseqn6noe. The ladies" of the Germán M. E. chnrch will give a sooial on the ohnroh lawn Chis evening, for the benefit of the churoh. Charles Huddy was fined $2 and $4.40 costs on Wednesday by Jnstioe Pond for having been drunk and disorderly on the stre&ts. Tbe rate of taxation for the city taxea whioh are now due and payable is $6. 65 on $1,000 assessed valnation, or 71 cents more than last year. The Ann Arbor Demoorat is having the meohanical part of its work done at the Times office and has moved its business office in with that paper. Work on the university lighting plant was commenced Monday. The wiring of the main building will be quite a large job for somebody to do. The Salvation Army tent will be moved this week to the corner of E. Ann and Thayer sts. This will be "good" news for the resideuts of that looality. Don C. Henderson, who onoe worked under Horace Greeley, after running the Allegan Journal for 40 years now advertises it for sale and will retire frorn business. Miss Emily Pnrfield was eleoted principal of the third ward sohool at the meeting of the school board Tuesday evening. Miss Cady will take her place in the Tappan school. A pioture cf the late J. Aostin Scott will be placed in the new Central school corner stone at Toledo, among nthers who had been prominent in building up the school system of that oity. - Courier. Robert Brown jnmped off the Ann Arbor railroad bridge into the river Sunday. The Lyra Singing Society will oamp at Whitmore Lake tor a week or ten üays the latter part of this raouth. Ella A. Hoag, of Salem has entered suit in the circuit court for a divnrce from her hnshanrl Alva O. Hoag, whom she marrier! in 1889, on the ground of bis desertioM of her in the fall of 1892. LieuteDRutOol. French, of the Salvation Ariuy, will visit the local corps Df this city Tnesday next. The colonel bas held some of the most important :ommands in this country and others. A.11 are welcome. Z. T. Lewis, the noted bond forger, who was arrested in Ypsilauti, April 6, pleaded gnilty Monday at Urbana, O., and was sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary. His fraudulent operations amounted to $250,000. Two litfcle sons of Asa C. Allen, raniway from the family home at 8 Kellogg st, north side, Saturday night sausing considerable discomfitnre to their parents until next morning when fchey were fonnd in Dexter. The business men of the north side have taken up the matter of beantifying the island in the Huron river near the Wall st. bridge and bad a meeting on Monday night to plan ways and means to carry out the soheme. The member8 of the Ladies' Library Association will give amoonlight party on the lawn of Mrs. J. E. Beal on S. Fifth ave., this evening. Ices, ioe cream, lemonade and cake will be served. You are oordially invited. John Berry, the motorman on the eleotric street railway, basa flook of ' carrier pigeons of .which he is quite prond. The other day six of them were released in Ypsilanti and flew to their home in this city in just 20 minutes., Mrs. Celia Hoag, of W. Liberty st., has entered suit in the circuit court against John Hagen for $1,000 daniages for baving on July 3d, called her various vile names whioh imputed to her a lack of cbastity and thereby bronght scandal and disgrace upon her. James William Pattison, of Chicago, who has been invited to spend some weeks in Ann Arbor for the purpose of giving instruotion in outdoor sketching to the members of the Art School, has a very hadndsome display of work done by him on exhibition at the rooms of the Art School in he Savings Bank building. The Argus was in error last week in stating that Wm. H. Lay, of Ypsilanti, had a growth forming over his eye which would neoessitate an operaiton to remove it. The reporter misnnderstood the name given him whioh was Wm. G. McLay, not Wm. H. Lay. The Argus apologises to Mr. Lay for the mistake. Fanny White, of this city, has entered suit in the oircuit conrt against John F. White for a dissolutiou of the marital bond that exists between them on the ground of desertion, he haviug left her without just cause or provocatiou Oot. 22, 1892, since which time he has neither lived with her nor contribnted to her support. Acoording to the oounty treasurer's books there are in this county 65 liquor licenses extant for the present year, located as follows: Ann Arbor 31, Ypsilanti 10, Manchester 7, Chelsea 5, Dexter 4, Saline 8, Milan 2, Bridgewater Station 1, Lodi 1, Whitmore Lake 1. There are also 5 brewery lioenses as follows: Ann Arbor 2, Ypsilanti 2, Manohester 1. An exoahnge furnishes this: "When a cucumber is taken from. tbe vine let it be cut with a knife, leaving about an eighth of an inch of the cucumber on the stem, then slit the stem with a knife from its end to the vine, leaving a small portion of tbe cucumber on each división, and on each separate slip there will grow a new oucamber as large as the first. Tryit." Among the law stndents in the snmmer school is Edward Marsden a ful] blooded Esquimau from Alaska. He has the typical features and build, but is good looking. Mr. Marsden was early converted to Christianity and graduated in the Sitka Industrial School. He served as a steamboat hand on the North Pacific three years. Mr. Marsden expeots to return to his country and use bis knowledge of law to help improve the politica] and economio oonditions of his race. - Times. The oity taxes became due and payable yesterday, aDd the tirae for paymeut is between that date and Aug. 15. It is said that there are 60 stndents who are looking for jobs in conneotion witb the new eleotrio ligbting plant. The funeral of Fred Schnierle, who aied of sunscroke Friday, was held Sunday afternoou, Rev. A. h. Nicklas offioiating. The üniversity Y. M. C. A. will ooenpy its quarters in Saokett hall again uext year. Owing to a lack of funds MoMillan hall will have to remain closed. M. M. Seabolt will tomorrow move his latmdry businesss from its present location on N. Fonrth ave., to the store formerly oconpied by Salyer & Co., 32 E. Huron st. Contractor Scbneider has adopted a splendid time schedule for the working hours of his sewer laborers during the beated term. They work from 6 to 1 1 and from 2 to 7, thus escaping the intense midday heat. George Dell, father of Mrs. Herbert E. Bennett, of this city, died reoently in Utica, N. Y. Mr. Dell was 81 years of age, having been bom in Chesham, Buokingham, Eng., Sept. 7, 1815, and came to this couutry in 1840. Washtenaw L.odge, No. 9, 1. O. O. F., bas elected and installed the following as its officers for the next six months : Noble grand, W. Banfield ; vice grand, E. F. Winders; secretary, J. D, Vanee; permanent secretary, H. P. Danforth; treasurer, Herman Krapf; warden, W. Lau; R. S. N. G., L. Curtís; chaplain, George Soott; inside guardián, -E. Williams; R. S. S., A. T. Cook; L. S. S., E. P. Schlemmer; conductor; C. S. Elmer. The Ann Arbor chum of a young and poor man who has been attending the ij. of M. received a letter from him the other day riescribing his experience in reaching his home 300 miles west of Chioago. He rode the entire distance with hobos on blind baggage and freigbt cars. When he arrived he was dirty and hairy. He got a sbave, a bath, üressed up and walked in on his fond parents, no one knowing how he got ;here. John Harria who was for many years foreman of the composing room of the Ann Arbor Courier is lying seriously ill at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lorimer, 48 Monroe ave., Detroit, from the.results of a severe paralytic stroke reoeived Saturóay afternoon about 1 o'olook, whiub has left the entire right side of his body in a perfectly heiplees condition. Mr. Harris left Ann Aibor in 1874, and joined the foroeof the Tribune. For a number of years he has been one of the foremen in its oomposing room. Architect S. C. Falkenburg's plans for the addition to the Cook house show that it will make quite a cbange in the old hotel. It will consist of a building 53x62 feet, which will be four stories high. It will be built of brick with stone foundations and trimmings. There wiU be a gravel roof and a galvanized iron skylight. The interior furnishing, as far as mantels, and so forth, goes, will be of marble, while the latest modern imprpveruents in the way of electric ligh's, and speaking tubes, will be found throughout the entire building. Ypsilauti has a musical prodigy in the person of Helen Cowell, the little 12 year-old flower girl. The child has such an accurate knowlege, or rather ear, of music that she is on intímate calling, terms with every note of the piano. A test was reoently given her and with her eyes tnrned away from the instrument, while a person seated at the piano struck seren notes in ohord, she correotly told by name every note strnck. Not only a siDgle test was given her but several chords were played and she identifled them easily. - Times. On Monday the oooker spaniel that bit City Clerk Mills' little daughter was located at the plaoe outside the city where it had been sent by its owner to keep it out of the way of the offioers, and was brought to the city and taken by PoundmasterBlaokburn tohis house. Glen arrived on the scène a little later and he promtly put an end to the dog's existenoe by shooting it. The generally expressed opinión is that Mr. Mills did just the right thing, but Mrs. Woodbridge, the owner of the dog, is dêcidedly wrathy over it and threatens to sue Mr. Mills for his aot. For the fitst time in 40 years there is a haystack on the nniversity campus. W. P. Dains, from Shaftsburg, has opened a restaurant on the north side. Davis & Seabolt, tbe grooers, now i have a telephpae. It is No. 135. J. F. Schnh wil] furnish the mantels for Mrs. Mary C. Clark's new house on Thayer st. The Times fuud for a bicycle path i between Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor now amounts to $330.50. A nurnber of Ann Arbor people bave been taking in the races at the Blue Ribbon meeting in Detroit this week. Robert Tidswell is in Sheriff Jndeons care awaiting trial before Justice Pond on the charge of being a disorderly person. At the annnal meeting of the Tristate Medical League held at the Cadillac, Detroit, yesterday and today, Dr. W. J. Herdman, of this city, read a paper. The Ann Arbor Ligbt Infantry made good scores at its flrst shoot of the year Priday afternoon, considering that most of the man are new. Frank CampbelL made 18 points out of a posible. 25,.. rAlèxandér Ratti, Who wita.-liis son : went to Italy on-a vïsit some two yéars' ago, 'retürned to Aon Arbor Friday. Mr. Ratti improved bis time while away and married again. His wife and his aged mother also came home ! with him. Spring st. , between Miller ave. and Hiscook st. , has been graded and new gutters laid on both sides of the street. At the corner of Spring and Hiscock st. the hill has been ent down aboat 15 iaches. It is considerable of an improvement Riorta Kodama, the Japanese student in the miiversity sumruer sohool, who will return to his native land to enter journalism at Tokio, says that many .Japanese students are preparing to take engineering oourses shortly in American schools. A demand for native engineers bas sprung up since the late war with Cnina. L. J. Crawford, of Kentucky, was, on Wednesday, elected president of the National League of Republican Clubs at the convention iu Detroit. Arnold L. Davis, of the V. of M., was unanimously elected president of the Amerioan College Republican League. Tbe U. of M. Republican Club has been after tuis presidenoy for the past three vears. An eclipse of the snn, the Jast one for tbis year, is scbeduled to occur July 29. It is an annnal eolipse, and will be visible in the United States. It 1)6gins at 6:50 in the morniug and ends at 10 o'olock iü the evening. According to reports it will be followed by atmospheric disturbances and accompanied by severe rains and thunderstorms. Henry J. Meyer, of Ann Avbor, and Miss Rosa Braun were qnietly married Wednesday eveuing at the home of the bride's parents in Lodi. None but the immediate relatives of the parties were present. Mr. Albert Fiegel, of Ann Arpor, acted as groomsman and Miss Martha Brann, sister of the bride, was the bridesmaid. The ceremony was performed by Rev. C. A. Lederer, of Saline. Here is the latest remedy to be used as a preventative of fliee : Take five cents worth of oil of lavender, mix with the same quantity of water (not five cents worth) pnt it in an atomizer and spray it around the rooms where flies are apt to congrégate, especially in the dining and sick room. It has a clean, fresh odor, agreeable to most people but disagreeable to flies, who will not venture in its neighborhood. As a resnlt oí trie reoent neavy rains near Alma five loadeó freight oars of a south-bound train were derailed at 2 o'clock Wednesday morning on the Ann Arbor road. The new 12-foo( grade was so water-soaked that it slid from nnder tbe moving train. The oars were loaded with flour and lumber. Tbe engine and cattle cars passed over safely. No lives were lost, altbongb six tramps on the lurnber car were hurled several rods in the ditoh. The oasts of the,flgnres foand on tbe "Aroh of Trojan," at Benevento, Italy, whioh the olass of '96 decided to present to the university, arrived here Wednesday in good condition. They were ordered and prepared nnder the direotion of the American sohool at Rome. No casts of these figures have been bronght to America before, anc the university is considered fortúnate in seouring them. It is not known wbere the colleotion will be placed as there is no vacant looni at the university large enough to hold it.