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Smith's Gingersnaps

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
November
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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Bright Points from the Pen of the News Artist of the Jackson Herald

In spite of tne pencil destroying war between Grass Lake and Ohelsea editors, Chelsea parties have rented a Grass Lake building and wjll open a bakery here. They are reported to be well bread people.

Sharpers at the Clinton postoffice and in Bridgewater, recently worked that old flim-flam trick of making change and beating the money changer. The whiskers on this trick are gray, but yet ït works as it did in its palmy youth.

A Green Oak man, recently captured 300 green frogs which he sold to the University for scientific purposes. The professors strap a frog down to a board get him between the light and a microscope and thus illustrate the difference in the circulation of blood, between a real and a cork leg.

Three Ann Arbor bakers got into a furious fight, last week. " Bread-baskets" were punched. " upper-crusts" cracked, and one poor bun who was knocked "galley yeast" was unable to "rise. " In fact only a few of his crumbs were swept up. The while batch was taken into police court and kneaded. Two were required to put up the "dough" for mixing the third, the judge remarking that if they had been half baked they would not have been so raw.

Mr. Houseman, new proprietor of the Milan Leader, had hardly got to keeping house last week, but found time to rernark that the Leader would ignore politics, and this be his motto: "Milan, first, last and all the time." It is strictly in order for the town to support an editor like that. He proposes to ignore the great evil and work for the good of the village. "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile!" Milan, support him, by taking his paper and advertising with him ! Free show and church supper tickets are not enough.

Daniel Tichnor, of Chelsea, on the occasion of his recent 96th birthday, set an example to the rising generation, by shaving himself. There is many a dude one-fifth Uncle Daniel's age who cannot shave himself. Mr. Tichnor had been a shaver 18 years when Michigan was born and was 10 years old when its first govenor let out his natal yell. What has shortened Mr. Tichnor's trip is the fact that once or twice in his life he has taken a chew of tobacco. But for that, he might, today be 125 years old just as well as not. Let every young man eschew the habit.

Rev. Mr. Bradshaw, of Ann Arbor, recently preached a philippic against the Washtenaw jail; not that he wanted the jail abolished, but he has been there himself - as a visitor, and finds that the only place in it, where boys and perhaps innocent persons awaiting trial, can be separated from contamination by hardened wretches, is the lunatic room, close under the steel plates of the roof where, in summer, it is as hot as any place known to his theological geography, and where not a breath of fresh air can deal death to disease germs. The minister wants this condition remedied.

Sheriff Judson, of Ann Arbor, has sued Editor Selby Moran, of the same city, in the sum of $10,000 for imparting a sort of rotten-egg aroma to his character. Selby and Jud. are worshippers at the same general party shrine; but they disagree concerning the bald-headed joss who sits on the gubernatorial pedestal. Moran revered him not and dealt his hairless caput some resounding thwacks, which the county body snatcher resented and this $10,000 damage suit is the result. Brethren, settle it! Can you not compromise on $9,999? Remember, that your little hand, were never made to scratch out each other's eyes out.