Local Brevities

Cards. Circulara. - Bill-Heads. Letter-Heads. - Shippmg Tags. _ Printed at the Anaus oflice. - In the beat style and OHEAP. Don't order elsewhere before calling. -Anumber of shade trees were twistcd off u different portions of the by the storm on Tuesday night. - Mi's. E. M. Henriquos and daughter (Sarab) arrived home last week from a years' stay in Southern California. - Franklin Cate is home from his California trip, quite enamorad of the climate and " sights ;" but stül sweara by Michigan. - Julius Houseman, of Grand Rapids, has boen appointed assignee in bankruptcy, of William O'Hara, of this city. - An old liquor suit against Ilenry Binder was tried on Monday and resulted, - no it didn't result, the jury was " parted in the middle." - A big rain carne Tuesday night : just in fme to wet down the potatoes, increase the hopes of sroall fuit growers, nr.d wash the terribly dirty face of nature. _ The motto of Ann Arbor livery and hack men who went to Ypsilanti on the Fourth, was " make hay while the sun shines." They raked in the juvenile shinplasters with a vira. - Af ter negotiating seven yeors, A. J. Sutherlund has pui-chased from the estáte of Mrs. Jones, of Detroit, the fine vacant lot on-the weet side of State street, in front of Univeraity Hall. Tenns private. - Owing to the sickoese of (ov. Felcli. and his consequent inability to prepare for the term, fie application for a maudamus against the Kegents of the University (the Homcopathy case) was continued on Tuesday to the Octpber term of the Supreme Court. - On Tuesday Justico McHahon tickoted Charlea Waddell, a tramp printer, to the House of Correction for six months. Offense : " grabbing " a watch from Mr. Farks, at the Leonarcl House, on Friday evemng last. Letting hiin off eisy, we Bhould say. - Stiling Bros. wish to return their thanks to their friends and to the pólice for assïstance in cariug for and removing their goods on the moming of the late fire. They have opened temporarily in McMahon's block on the uorth side of the square. - The degree of D. D. lias been f reely peddleil out at the recent college commencements, but the whole batch is a mere cipher compared with the way the weather has been d d during the " lieated spell. One eau almost excuse Beecher for the exclamation so ofteu attributed to him. - A would be facetious citizen furnishes us the íollowing recipe for " keeping cool " when the heat is up to 100 in the shade: "Have your dinner cooked over a fire made of icicles, kindled with hail-stones. If that won't do' dino on boiled ice and fircasseed snow, with ice-cream for dessert. Try it." We will, if he will serve the courses with glacier sauce . - Owiug to a combination of circumstances' and eepecially to the fact that an elephant has stepped on his pocket book, the editor of the Aebus and ladies, will'be uuable to use the ticket to the " grand stand " on the occasion of the " Intercollegiatc Kegatta " to take place on Saratoga Lake on the löth and 16th inst. - Wednesday and Thursday next. According to the " card " crews f rom Yale, Wesleyan, Priuceton, Cornell, Columbia, Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, Williams, and Trinity, will compete.