Good Resolutions

With the beginniug of the year vows are registered, witli right hand high in nir aud left one over the topmost left rib?, by the good peoplo all over the world, to be still better people in the future]; to keep sort of lonten season, as it were, the year around. Ainong those allegcd to have pledged tliemselves last Thursday, by affl'lavit to "swear oft"," we mlgbt raention the following in our milist : Joe T. Jacobs, f rom and af ter Junuary lst, 1885, abstains froin the use of potatoes - too mucli Rtaroh In thcni. A. J. Sawyer (juits swcaiing - (wituesses, of course). J. L. Stone will Dot bereafter take hig gospel according to !St. J;inies - not by a hotel cite. President Angelí will niake iio further investiiK'iit in iheep - it is so dog-oned expensive. Charlle Iliscock will be more cniitious than ever with Hoyles. W. A. Tolchard Kifns the same paper. Offlcer Wallnce will neyer more hum his favorito; "Tramp, tramp," etc. E. B. Norria won't chew auy more tobacco. Jolin J. Robison swearsoft'on practical joki's - such as iiaturalizing foreigners for nothing if tbey will vote the democratie ticket. (This is his seoond term.) D. Ciamer eschews politics, etc. J. C. Knowlton goes back on law. Capt. Manly quits figiiring on resulta of last election, and on the postofflee business will get some one to go his bail-eh! Isnac Wynkup will teil no more snake stories. The city of Arm Arbor swears ofl' on high-pricedgiis and big bontisus for public buildings. Will Hollands quits roller skating. Erastus Gilbert stops recordlng other people's deeds. There are many other, bilt time presses and space forbids.