Adrian Press Items

It was so hot last Satnrday that an Ann Arbor boarding house keeper was seen holding a frying pan of eggs out of the window in the snn, and the eggs were splnttering merrily. While sharpening a scythe last week ,lohn Oberleiter strnok bis right thamb on tbe blade and nearly severed the meinber. - Monroe Denaocrat. Had he cut bis throat instead of his thnrab, the poor fellow would now be no mower. Tbe American house, Ann Arbor, has been provided with eleotrioal fans. They were put in shortly after an exhausted traveler dropped his grip in tbe middle of the floor, slumped down into a obair and iwurmured to himself, with "his last expiring breath," "Breathe ye! I won't." It is said that Marsbal Sweet cowed a whole gang of rowdy students and townies who combined to "do him up" for his attempt to enforoe the law - Ann Arbor Courier. Yes, there are quite a nnruber of Zene, when he gets "woke np. " 'Tis aid of Zene that on one occasion out west, where he was assailed, He rolled the prairie up like cloth. Drank the Mississippi dry; Put the Alleghany in his nat: A steamboat in his eye. and never sweat a hair. Zenus is the man for marshal. How to get rid of rye, is a theme of all the rural papers. Some contend that the farmer should go tbrough his wbeat field and chop out the tufts of rye, before harvest. Others there are who say let the wheat and rye grow together till the end of the harvest, binding the rye with the wheat, but chopping off the rye heads before threshing, as they stick up beyond the wheat lieads. Another way to get rid of the stuff - and the roethod raosfc popular - ■ is to pour the rye into a glass, toss it down with a sudden gulp and follow it with an ice-water ohaser before breaking the awful silenoe. The Williams professorship fnud of the university will be used to establish a chair of ethnology and the alumni will ask the appointment of Prof. J. B. Steere, forraer professor of geology to become the head of the department. The last time tbe writer of this ever saw Prof. Steere, he was rushing madly tbrough the shoal water of a small lake, barefqoted, and with trousers tnrned up above the kueeB, in fnll chase of that fierce nautical terror, the aorns gryllus, which he sncceeded in oapturing, regardless of bis life. The monster was more tban half an inch long. The Ann Arbor Argus dissents from the mayor's proclamation that all unmuzzled dogs be shot. It sees nd good in muzzliDg any except oross dogs. The Argus is in the right. It is brutal to tie up a dog's jaws in hot weather, when he has all he can do to keep himiself in "pants. " Besides, it is now generally conceded by scientiflc people, that a dog which is given all the water he requires is in no danper whatever, of rabies, unless bitten by a rabid ani mal. Since Jim, of the Ann Arbor fire department died, we opposa the mayor's muzzling order, with its bloody alternative.