Local Brevities

To mount the wheel with perfect grace, Kirst see the pedáis are in placeThe rightand center half around, The left the nearest to theground. Draw back and wheel a little, thus, To give its proper Ímpetus. Your hands upon the handle har Should be as dainty touches are. Then press with rigbt foot till you see The inside pedal rising free. Don't be in haete. The pedal right Describes the circle, sinks from sight, But ere it meete your foot once more You're mounted, aod the lesson's o'er. - Cincinnati Enquirer. There are 46 patients at the University hospital. Wallace G. Palmer has been appoint . ed hospital sergeant of the A. A. L. I During the month of August the banks of the city will close at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, instead of at 4 o'clock as at present. A email cyclone visited the southern end of Bridgewater township Monday and scattered haystacks, fences, etc, around like chaff. Monday, Taesday and Wednesday of next week the colored people will have a big celebration in Ypsilanti. Emancipation Day will be observed Monday. A blazing awning over Jerry Collins' store on E. Ann st., callad out the fire department Wednesday afternoon. No damage beyond a hole in the awning resulted. The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. will have charge of the men 's meeting at the Y. M. C. A. rooms Sunday afternoon at 2 :45. Be sure and attend. A small blaze caused by a gasoline stove called the fire department to a house on S. Ashley st. yesterday morning. Some clothing and cooking utensils were destroyed. Elmer J. Cowan, infant son of John H. and Mary Cowan, of Ann Arbor town, died Wednesday, aged 2 months and 3 days. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the house. The Ann Arbor Milling Co. on Tuesday took in the first new wheat at its elevator in Owosso. The berry was plump and fine, a bushel weighing 59 pounds. The price paid for the wheat was 68 cents. The amount received for taxes the eecond week of oollection was $3,899.57, as follows: Thursday, $1,010.49 Friday, 619.28; Saturday, $590.78 Monday, $168.83; Tuesday, $548.82; Wednesday, $961.37. Byron Cady, of the north side, had two ribs broken and a bad gash cut in his head by the giving away of a hay rack on which he was hauling some people of the island, Saturday, where a pionio was being held. TBLL 1T OUT. Don't sit down and wait for trade, 'Taint the way, Get a taustle, make a show, Push your business- make her go. Don't sit down and wait for trade, 'Taint the way, 'Taint the way, If you've crot something to sell. Teil H out, Let your neighbors see you're "fly," Getup "bargains" don't say die, If you've anything to sell, Tel! i out, Teil it out. Folks won': know yöu if you don't v.viTtise; Keep th'uuM movin' every day, Talk about t. that's the way, FolkB wou't know you if you don't Advertise, Advertise - Selected. The Wells st. loop of the street railway from Packard st. to the car bain is jeing relaid. James Daly - drnnk - Thursday, Jnly 22- Justice DufEy- Priday morning- 0 days in jail - went. O. M. Martin is fitting np a nioe six oom flat over bis undertaking estab ishment on S. Fourth ave. The Y. M. C. A. will give "Everybody's Social, No. 3," on the lawn at 04 S. Main st., next Friday evening. The Chi Psi fraternity on Saturday )uronased Charles R. Whitman's house on B. Huron st. The purchase prioe was $13,000. The Salvation Arruy has been conducting its tented campaign against the world, the flesh and tbe devil on ;he north side this week. The sale of postage stampa at the Ann Arbor postoffice averages nine a minute. They naast have a liokin' good time ;here every minute in the day. - Plymouth.,Mail. . Perry Watling, a well known farmer living in Ypsilanti town, was overeóme by the beat Satniday afternoon while in Ypsilanti city, so that he fainted. Dr. Hueston soon revived him, however. Mre. Abigail Weller-Shaffer, who Carne to Lodi with her parents wben ftve years oíd and later moved to Livingston connty, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Richard Bristol, in Powlerville, last Friday, aged 74 years. ■ On Snnday oonnection was made between Detroit and Ypsilanti on the New State Telephone Co. 's lines, and a 10-cent toll established between the UWO ciclos. xjjfcsuami uuw uaa üuuubution with Detroit, Mt. ülemens and Monroe over the New State lines. Ten of the compositora in the Ann Arbor printing offices have erected a neat cottage on the banks of the Huron river at the outlet of Strawberry lake at Hamburg Janction, next door to O. G. Cook's cottage, which they will oocnpy as a harbor of refuge during the hot weatber. A dog owned by Levi Lee, of Dexter, bit Frank Showerman, of Ypsilanti, in the leg as he was passing throagh Dexter recently, and Mr. Showerman instituted a snit against Mr. Lee to recover damages for the bite. The case was settled in Ypsilanti Wednesday by Mr. Lee paying Mr. Showerman $75. The dog has been killed as he is too expensive a Inxury. Some partes from Toledo have recently been visiting Ann Arbor with a view to looating and establishing a factory for the manufacture of glassware. They have submitted a proposition to Mayor Hisoock, who requests that all parties interested in secaring another manufacturing industry for this city will meet at the oouncil room this evening at 8 o'clock. George B. Shetterly will again be landlord of the St. James's hotel, having secured the lease and will reopen it to the pnblio Friday, Ang. 5. Mr. Shetterly was the flrst landlord of tbe hotel after it was renovated last year and the sncoess be then made of the hotel he will again aooomplish by keeping the house np to the good standard of exoellenoe he thun established. Remember "Everybody's sooial No. 8," to be given by the Y. M. C. A. on Friday evening, Ang. 6, at Mr. Day's lawn, 104 S. Main st., at head of Packard st. This will be one of the largest events ofthe season and everyone shonld be present. Among the evening's entertainment will be fireworks and a balloon ascension by Prof. DeMonke. loe cream and oake will be ser ved for 10 cents. The mnsio will be furnished by Becker's Military Band, whioh yon will all be glad to bear. It furnished the musio at the last social and was the attraction of the evening. The Landwehr Unterstnetzungs Verein will hold a pionio at Schallhorns grove on the motor line next Snnday. Thesnminer norrual school opeued its four weeks' sessiou in the high sohool Monday. There is au enrollment of 65 this year. J. L. Skinner lost his snit against G. A. Watkius, state agent of the Penu. Mntal Life Iusaranoe Co , and will appeal the oase to the circuit court. Bishop Cranston has appointed Kev. W. H. Snier, of Detroit, presiding eider of the Adrián district M. E. church, in place of Rev. L. P. Davis, lately deceased. Martin Schaller's store on E. Washington st. is to rent, the reason is that Mr. Schaller will soon move his stock of goods to the Vandawarker store od S. Main st. The excursión of the season will be run on Aug. 8, under the auspioes of the Woman's Relief Corps. Only 90 cents to Detroit and return; $1.40 to Port Huron and return. Special train leaves Aun Arbor at 7:12 a. m., Aug. 8. Don't forget the date. See small bilis for partioulars. L. E. Champlain, of Ypsilanti, manager of the mineral bath house, has been seized wtih the Alaska gold fever, and wil! start for the Klondike región next February, whioh is as soon as anyone can get into the gold flelds. He is not anxious to go alone but would like a party of four or flve with him. Who wants to go? Friday afternoon as Ferdinand, Hochrein, an employee of the Ann Arbor gas works, was tarring some gas pips with hot melted tar, the pipe on which he was working burst and the hot tar was thrown violently into his face and eyes He was seriousiy burned, but Dr. Breakey, who is attending him, thinks that his eyesight will be saved. - The Northside Island Park Association gave a well attended and very enjoyable social at the island in the Huron river near the boulevard last Friday evening. The island was nicely decorated and lighted with Chinese lanterns. Music was furnished by the Gilt Edge Band. The sooial was a financial success and it was a late hour before the orowd dispersed. Suoh enormous qnantities of black aspberries are being gatherod in southru Michigan this season tbat the prices reoeived for them in the Chioago mark3t often fail to net the shipper the cost 3f the packages alone. JVlany growers lave devised inexpensive evaporating plants to dispose of the surplus berries, and it is estiraated that over one-half of th erop will flnd a rnarket as dried 'mits. E. S. Serviss, of the Ann Arbor Lanndry, has institnted suits agaiust eight students, in Jusice Pond's court for uon-payment of their lanndry bilis. The first suit was tried Friday and the defendant, a yonng man naraedAdams, oonfessed the debt up to a oertain umount and paid it and the costs iuto ooart. The sum was acoepted by the plaintifï's attorney and the case was dismissed. A cyclist who rode in from Whitmore Lake Thursday night of last week, reported that some one had plaoed two stones, abont as large as a man could lift, in the bicycle path. They were plaoed in such a way that if the cyclist missed one, he would have to strike the other. Sorae tueans ought to be fonnd for detecting those who evidently intend to injure the wheelmen. There is a little something on the other side that should be spoken of. The bicycle path was not intended to be a race track. Several kioks have been registered against soorchers who make riding on the path unpleasant for ladies and unexperienced riders by showing off their speeding qualities. - Times. William W. Shier, a gradúate of the law department of the U. of JM., class of '94, was drowned in Detroit river Sunday afternoou by the capsizing of a rowboat off Sngar Island. Two others were drowned at the same time. All might have been saved had it not been for the cowardioe of a yachtsman, who refneed to go to their aid as he was afraid they might swamp him. Mr. Hhier was 24 years of age, and was a bright, promising young attorney. He had been for two sessions of the leginslature a oommittee clerk, and after the adjournment of the late legislature had formed a law partnership with W. L. Jánuary, under the firm name of Shier & Jannary. William Jones got a two days' sentence f rom Jnstice Pond Tnesday for a plain drank. Francis Stofflet has sold bis house and lot, No. 30 8. Fiftb ave., tö Mrs. Roach, wbo will move into it at once. The State Agricultural Society has come out from under its olond of indebtedness and will hold a fair at Grand Rapids, Sept. 6 to 11. Laurine R. Sanford, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Sanford, died Sunday evening and was buried at the Dixboro oemetery Monday. The Water Works Co. has oontraoted with tíeo. R. Haviland for a nuraber of his fire extinguishers to be put in at the works, so that tbere need be no fear of a Buudden fire getting started auJ shutting off tbe water supply. The aunnal meeting for the election of officers of the W. H. M. S. of the Methodist oburoh will be hold at Mrs. Ferdon's, Washtenaw ave., at 3 o'clock this afternoon. loe cream and cake served. A cordial invitation estended. It is noticed tbat ohildren on one side of the street always want their play gronnd on the opposite side. How like ehildren'are the older grown who thluk (that their lot and1 tfieir biasiness are the hardest, while their neighobrs have the easiest places. Mrs. Annie Besaut, the well known English lecturer aod theosophist, will deliver an address in this oity Friday, Ang. 6. She advocates the eradication of evils whioh affliot the raoe, by the principies governing reincarnation, iu ■which sbe firmly believes. First Assistant Postmaster General Heath has made public the amount allowed for clerk hire in the larger p s - offices in Michigan. The amonnt apportioned in Ann Arbor is $4,700, divided as follows: Assistant postmaster, $1,100; money order cleri , 1800, distributing and registeiing clerk, $800; mailing olerk, $800; three stamping olerks, $400 eaoh. S. L Kilbourne, of Lansing, has filed a petition in the Ingham county circuit court in which Reuben Kempf of the Citizens Bank, of Chelsea, asks tbat Reoeiver Stono of the Central Michigan Saviugs Bank be required to pay him dividends on redisconuted notes which he holds, made by Breisch fe Osband añil by the Hart Milling ComDanv and amonntine to Sil. 000. An order from the probate court was 5iven Taesday, which sends Cora Mullaly to Ann Arbor at the county expense, to have her eyes operated on. 3be is about 11 years of age, and her father, Peter Mullaly, is in the Kalamazoo asylum. Cora'a eyes are very bad, caused from a severe cold taken when a small child. One eye it is fchought will have to be taken out. - ■ Adrián Telegram. The late P. T. Barnum once said : "If yon have ten dollars to pnt in good ase, pnt np one for the article and the other nine for advertising. I can onttalk any man but a printer. The man that can stick type and the next morning talk to a thousand people while I am talking to one, is the man I am afraid of and I want liim for my friend." P. T. 's maxim was eyidently a good one to judge by the results that orowned his efforts in the advertising line. On Tuesday nest, Ang. 3, an exoursinu will be given to Detroit and Port Huron nnder the auBpioes of the Woman's Relief Corps department of Michigan. The. train will leav.e Aun Arbor at 7:12 aV m., fare to Detroit for the rotmd trip 90 cents; to Port Hnron and return, $1.40; the train will leave Ypsilanti at 7:85 a. m., fare t o Detroit and return, 75 oente; fare to Port Huron and return $1.25. Children, half fare. Returning, the train will leave on arrival of the Bteamer at M. C. depot, Detroit, at 8 :45 p. m. The two rear cars of the train will be reserved for Ann Arbor parties. Arrangements for the excursión to be given by the different societies connected with the Bathlehem church are now complete. The excnreon, wbich is to Detroit and Put-in-Bay, will take plaoe Wednesday, Aug. 4. The train will leave the Michigan Central depot at 7 o'clock standard time, and returning will arrive at i :1 0 p. m. The trip down the lake to Put-in-Bay will be made on the steamer Frank E. Kirby which will be waiting for the excursionista on the arrival of the train in Detroit The round trip fare to Detroit is 90 cents; to Put-in-Bay, $1.50; children under 12 years of age half price.