Local Brevities

Cakus. Circulare. _ Bill-Heads. - Lettor-Hoads. - Shipping Tags. . - Printed at the Aeoüs office. - In the best style and cheap. - Don't order elsewhcre beforo calling. _ Satisfaction guaranteed in every respect - St. Valentine's day : to-morrow. - Making raids o' nights : burglars. In deniand : bolts, bars, sash locks, and "shooting sticks." Lent commenccs on Wednesday next : Ash Wednesday. -The annual Junior Hop comes off this cvcuing at the Gregory House. - Adrices from Dr. Sager, at Jacksonville, Fla., report liim iraproving m health. - The Univorsity examinations closo to-day, with a lieap of boys on the anxious seat. - Mrs. W. D. Harrimau returned from her visit te California on Sunday morning last. - The sleighing is about whippod . that is on the main travelod roads and principal streets. - The fast-horso owners made State Street a livoly trotting courso iluring the late " good run f sleiglüng." - Prof. D'üoge preached in the First Presbytsrian Church, Lansing, on Sunday last, moruing and evcning. - A large congregation listened to the Rov. C. H. Brigham's exposition of " What Uuitariaus Dclieve " on Sunday evcning last. - Dr. Angelí is to lecture on Friday evening next, at Kalamazoo, in the Union School courseSubject : "Alone or vritli the Majority." Bishop McCoskiy preached in St. Andrew's Church on Tuesday evening, and administered the rite of confirniation to twelve caudidates. - The weathcr for the last week has been capital for the season : as good as could have been gotten up by a special committee of weather prophete. - The next lecturer before the S. L. A. is Thomas Nast, tho celebrated Harper artist. Time, Friday evening, February 27th ; subject, " Caricaturing." He will Ilústrate his lecture by cartoons "taken on the spot." - We are indebted to Hon. Henry Waldron for a copy of the Congressional Directory for tho Forty-third Congress (firet session), containinf the usual directory information touching the exeeutive, legislative, and judicial departments of the government. - We invite attention to the notico of the " Pioneer Picnic," to be held on the 24th inst., the -jOth aimiversary of the settlement of tlüs city. The committee having the matter in charge promise a good time. Let the pioneers - tlie gray headed men and women- come out and revive oíd memories. - The Baptist, Congregational, Presbyterian, and Methodist eongregations still continue tlieir afternoon union meetings - holding them this week in the sabbath school room of the M. E. Church. Separate evening meetings are held, with both preaching and prayer sessions. Considerable religious interest prevails. - The Fifth Ward Firenien have annouuced a series of Social Dances to be given in tlieir ia.ll each Wednesday evening, for the beneiit of the Ladies' Monument Association. A commitlee of the Ladies' Association wiü serve rereehinents each evening, and thoso who dou't dance can buy and cat : all in aid of tlie monument fund. - We give this week another of the papen read at the meeting of tho Pioneer Society held on the 2d inst., roiuiniscenses of the Toledo War, by Oapt Morcll Goodrich. One moro paper remains to he published, " Washtenaw - what it means and what it is," by Wm. M. Gregory, of Saline, which will íind a place in our columns next week, - The Manchester Journal seems inclined to " take a hand " in the postoffice squabble in this cif.v. Tiiinking its advico necessary and candidatos scarcc, it asks "where is Cramery" Cramer says teil the Journal man that he will let Mm hear of his whereabouta socu unless he obeya a certain scriptural injunction, " Fay what thou owest." A legal answer we should say. - The new TJniversity Calendar shows the attendance for the year to be : Iu Department of Litei"atuore, Sciewce and the Arts, 484 ; in Department of Medicine and Surgery, 314 ; in Department of Law, 314. Total (deducting 7 twice catalogued), 1,10.), a falling off from last year of 58. The Literary Department increased 8 ; the Medical Department decroased 43 ; and tho Law Department decreased 17. ■ - To gratify a laudable local desire for legal information we publish Judge Longyear's decisión in tho Chase-Beal injunction case. In auswer to sevcral personal inquines as to the meaning of the last clause, " with costs to dei'endant:" it is the judicial method of saying that the plaintiff Chase was given the privilege of paying the costs defendant Beal had been put to. And that's the way it is in law : the liciten man pays the fiddler. - Tlio Aequs has been unvrittingly compelled to make a very little experiment in the " patent bowel" system. This was the how oí it: a copy of the Aegus was accidentally maile d to the Toledo Commercial with ouly the outsido printed. It carne back with the inside forms of thed aily Commercial filling the blank space and indorscd " all right now." We didn't sec it in that light, and can't accept " patent bowels " without a more satisfactory trial. - Those young ladies who were inspired by Mrs. Livermore's lecture with a desiro to fit themselves for business - to care for themaelves while waiting for the "coming man" or after his departure - might do well to take a course in book-keciing or short-hand writing at the Business College of C. E. Pond, corner of Main and Washington streets. Short-hand writing is not essentially man's work, and may be made a pleasant and profitable vocation by an intelliont woman. - A stranger examining the advertising columns of the Aeous would naturally concludo that the business of our city was exceedingly liinited : that there were no f urniture makers or dealers, no dealers in boots and shoes, very few mauufacturing establishments, etc, and also that lawyers and physicians are scarceas hen's,teeth. Perhaps tradors and manufacturera, professional men and mechanica, have a f ear of being workod to death and therefore neglect advertising as a means oi preserving their healtli. An eye to liusiness would lead thein to advertise - especeially in the Aegus. - On Monday iright some prowling mght walker 011 bui'glary bont went through the store and dwnlling of S. Hondrickson on State street. In the store he rifled the money drawer of about. $10 ,aud seized some tobáceo, oranges, etc. Abovc lie got a silver watch. ïrom the pocket of one of Mr. Heudrickson's boys, and gathered up the table silver. Mrs. H. hearing hira gave the alarm wbon lio broke for the street through the store door, which he liad lelt open, and escaped Tin; same night the residence of E. Terhune, also on State street, fout half a milo north of Mr. Hendrickson's, was entered, a valuablo gog watch (worth $U)0) and a few articles of lesser value carried oiï. Inimediate alarm was given hut no arrests have been made. - The lecture of Mrs. Livermore on Wednesday cvening attracted a large audience. He subject liad been announced as "Women lïusbands," but was changed t.o "What sliall we do with oui' Girls ?" for the reason, Mrs. L. sivid, that the Bureau had auuounced the forraer of its owu motion, aud for the furthcr reason that she had uever writton or given any such locture. She raight give it auother year ou tho principie tliat a woman sometiuies nicirries a [icrsistent suitor - to get it off her mind. The lecture was a good one, we may say.an excellent one, conservativo in tone, and dealing with practical, living subjects. Mrs. L., like a true woman and raother, would have girls better bred physically, educated not only in tho schools to tho full of their inclination, bat educated todo Bomething.'to be able to care for themselves. There was considerable irony in her trf atment of man'u work and woman's work. The call for a meeting of the State Publishers' Association, to consider pending postal legislation, has drawu the firo of both tho Detroit Post and Detroit Tribune. Both have a holy horror of dcadheading, and urgo thö country press to show a moro manly spirit. Now, we are no more disposed to quarter tho Argus or its subsoribers upon the public treasury than are tho two papors named. But we do emphatically protest against the wholo postal legislation being so Bhaped as to aid the city press in crushing out tho local journals. Ifit is worth five cents a quarter to deliver the Arous to its three hundred subscribers at the Ann Arbor postoffice - many of whom aro box renters, and have rented boxes for the special purposo of roceiving the Argus - more than five cents should be oharged on Detroit papers or at least on a New York paper. Besides, the publishers are not the dead-heads : they charge and get just the samo for their, papers that they did with freo county circulation. When freo county ciroulation was provided by Congress - without its being asked for by the country publishers - it was in recognition of tho justness of discrimination, and putting general postago at five cents a quarter it eould not mako tho discrimination it thought fair and right and tax local papers with any postago. If it will suit our city cotemporaries any better - and gratify the spite of Congressmen - let county eirculation be taxed as now, five cent,3 a quarter, and ton cents a quarter be put upon general circulation. Then thero would be no more dead-heading and overy paper would be on an exact equality. In fact, thero was equality under tho old system, as near as legislation oan give equality, -for the Post and Tribune circulated freo of postage in Wayne county the samo as the Argus in Washtenaw. Tho Buffalo Commercial Adcertiser of the 9tH inst. has an account of the re-opening of the Fine Arts Gallery of that city, which is not without interest to some of our readers. That interest centers in the following letter : Ann Akboe, Feb. 3, 1874. Wm. P. Letchworth, Esq-, President of Buffalo Pinc Arts Academy : Deak Sie- I have received your favor of the 29th uit. My marble bust of Mr. Rogers, in the Gallery of the Art Academy at Buftalo, it lias been my intention, ultimately, to give to tho Academy. With this in view, I have thought it hardly worth while to subject it to the hazards of two remováis by bringing it to our new home in Michigan. This questiou being thus settled, it matters Httle when my title to it shall cease and that of the Academy begin. And as you are good enough to say, and as a wife I am quite ready to bclieve, that the lovers of art in our old Buffalo homo will now bo glad to look upon my husband's bust as the property of the Fine Arts Academy, and hoping that the interest in art may be in some small meosure promoted thereby, I have to request you in my name to present the same to the' Academy for its solé use, benefit and behoof forever. I am, very respectfully yours, KEZIA A. BOGERS. Mr. Bogers was the first President of the Fine Arts Academy, and but a short time since, as was announced on the occasion, had presented it with a valuablo collection of paintings. The Academy naturally wished to retain possession of the bust in question, " and on inquiry how that which was so desirable could be accomplished " Mrs. Rogers solved the problem. The Commercial Adcertiser says : " The bust of Mr. Rogers is a beautiful work. It was wrought in Italy, from the flnest statuary marble, resting on a shaft of colored marble, and is so adjusted as to turn easily upon the pedestal. It is valued at not loss than Sl,000." - Our object in this specific mention is to ask, " Cannot Ann Arbor have an Art Association and Art Gallery ?" With a citizen of Mr. Rogers' experience, taste, and liberality to form a nucleus and fall back upon in an emergency, it would seem that something might be done in that direction, cither by an independent association with its own rooms, or by co-operatiug with the Univcrsity authorities. Our columns aro open.to suggestions. GTTixa on in the AVoeld ; or Hints on Suceess in Lifo. By Wm. Mathews, LL.D., Professor of Bhetoric and Englisli Literature in the University of Chicago. Chicago: S. C. Geioqs & Co, This volume has grown out oí' a series of articles written hy the author in 1871 and published in a Chicago journal. The special subjects treated in the twenty-one chapters are such as these : Success and Faüure, Uood and Bad Luck, Choice of a Profession, Physical Culture, Concentration or Oneuess of Aim, Self-Reliance, Originality in Airas and Methods, Attention to Details, Practical Talent, &c The writer shows a clear knowledge of the qualities which go to make up the successful man, and illustrates and enforces hia own ideas with [quotations from numerous authors. In fact the frequency of his quotations might lead one critically inclined to suggest that he has been over-anxious to display his wide range of reading with a retentive memory or a well indexed note book. Nevertheless, the style is attractive, the principies laid down sound, and thé look worth reading by all young men and women who have life before them; life to be methodically shaped or left to grow up of itself, like Topsy. -Forsale by Johx Mooke.