Possum And Persimmons

POSSUM AND PERSIMMONS.

Lieut. Haarer of the Thirty-First Enjoys Them.

Eugene K. Frueauff, of W. Huron st. , today received a letter from his friend, Lieutenant John Haarer, of Co. A, 31st Michigan Infantry, written from Camp Poland at Knoxville, Tenn. He says in his letter : "We will still be in Kuoxville for another week. Last Firday Lieutenant Belser went to Atlanta with the advance detail so as to have everything in readiness when we arrive. Though we like this place very much everybody will welcome a change. Nearly all the boys that I have spoken to on the subject seem highly elated over the prospects of our going to Cuba. The inactivity is what the men object to. As long as there are strange places to be seen and the slightest chances to get into action they appear satisfied.

"This fall I have had plenty of opportunity to test the merits of both persimmons and 'possum, and I find them very palatable. The other night I had some 'possum stuffed with oysters and Michigan celery on the side and I assure you it tasted fine. There are many opossum and rabbits around there, so the boys often hunt them, for such things are not found on the army bill of fare. "

This is the way the Manchester Enterprise speaks of that $10,000 libel suit against the Register: The $10,000 libel suit Sheriff Judson brought against Editor Moran of the Ann Arbor Register, reminds us of a conversation between two Germans, when one boasted of having $3,000 insurance on his life. The other remarked: "Pi Chiminy, you are wort more dead as alife. " In Moran's case it would appear that he is a valuable live man.