A Big Picture Sale

A BIG PICTURE SALE

A NINETEEN THOUSAND DOL-

LAR SALE IN ANN ARBOR

All Details About Complete and the

Pictures change Hands in the Next

Few Days

For a long time it has been known

that there would soon be made a

large purchase of pictures in this city.

The time has come and within a few

days the sale will have been completed.

All the pictures are alike, and, what

is more, the real value is not so much

in the picture as in the well known

signatures thereto attached.

The value of the Lewis collection

and the Rogers masterpieces and the

many other meritorious works of the

crayon, pen and brush in the Univer-

sity art gallery is great, but when 38

pictures which are exactly alike and of

no intrinsic value sell for the price of

$19.000 it would seem that the people

fully appreciate the matter enclosed

within a picture frame.

These expensive pictures are a com-

posite work. They are not the work

of one man, nor a life study, and only

in some respect a work of art, for the

printer's accomplishment is a work of

art, and, if the orthography is fine

it is also true that the signatures are

artistic.

These pictures are of a broiled lobster

color with regular black marks on

them systematically distributed, always

found hanging in a conspicuous place

and show that the liquor dealer has

paid $500 to do business under the

state law.