Our Man About Town He Sees About Everything And Prints About Everything He Sees

Among the students wbo travel oui [reets, from two to two hundred in a body, it is remakable how little disturbnoe is heard of. A woman ia as eafe on ie streets after dark as sbe would e in the broad light of This peaks well for tbe order maintained in ur city. I must congratúlate The Demookat or tbe position it has taken in regard to ree delivery, as I understand it is only qaestion of a few montbs before the itizens of Ann Arbor will have their ïail matter delivered at their residences. Luother step toward metropolitan aira, further boon and boom for the place. The electrio lighting of the streeta is [ivinff general satisfaotion, with but few exceptions. During moonlight mghts he light will not bo tarned on, as it is not needed. One old lad was heard to emark that she could not see nearly as well by this " uew -langled light " as she used to by the gas lampa. There cerainly ought to be & few more lights, as ome parts of the city are quite dark. There seems to be a well-founded reort that the racen t ñre at the laboratory was the work of an incendiary. And why I am led to make this assertion ia rom the f act that, previous to the lire, henucals and mioroscopes suddenly disppeared from the building, and it is liought by some tbat it was started to over up the surreptitious disappearance f tbose aiticles. It is said that deteoives are investigating the matter, and bat the guiity ones will soon be discovred aud brought to justice. As I was passing the Cook house, last londay, I saw a group of three - sliall I say men - who stood there, loafing being heir occupation. A party of ladies were ■oing by, when one of these creatures [eliberately expectorated almost in tbe ace of one of tbe ladies. I looked about for a policeman to oomplain of the wreteh. It would be well for our otlicers of the law to have their eyea upon these treet corner loafers. Some days it is almost impossible for people to pass, the corners are so thronged with them. In walking about our streets it is surprising upon how many houses we see plaoards reading, "Rooms," "Boarding." I have often beard it remarked tbat 'Ann Arbor is one big boarding house." I do not muob wonder that it has received sucb a name. The large body of studente we have here must have homes, and the physioal wants must be satisüed as well as the mental ones, and hard would it be for them to fill themselves with intellectual knowledge if there was not the necessary pabulum to ustain them. Some years ago Luke Sharp had an interesting artiole on Ann Arbor in the Detroit Free Press. He told oi the peculiar impression made upon him by the numerous tin pails hung upon the trees and boarda. He wondered for what purpose they were hung thereon It must look oid to strangers to see these numerous pails hanging about anc indeed they mar the looks of our beautif ui streets. Sometime sgo I saw a communioation in one of our city papers in regard to our milkmen compelhng the women to go to their wagons for milk, instead of ite being brougbt into the housa. I think the women of the city should band together and agree only to patronize those men who will carry the milk into the house. It is done in other cities, why not in Ann Arbor. I was considerably indignant on learniug the facts regardiug the f urniahing of Hobart guild. After a certain wellkuown M. D. bad notified a leading tarniture house in this city that the ohurch committee wished figures od furnitnre, and they were given them; he agreed to cali the second time, bat did not, and the noxt thing learned was the presenoe of this M. D. in Detroit, and for Bome reason the contraot was given to a prominent establishment there. This is the way to boom Ann Arbor with a vengeance. This man draws a salary trom the university; he dependa in a oertain measure on treating patienta in and about the city, but if he desires anything he will beat merchante down to the very lowest notoh, muoh lower than they can affbrd to sell their merchandise for, or else he will "pike" off to Detroit or Toledo and make bis purchases. In walking in the eastern part of the oity I carne upon an old, dilapidated house, situated in the hollow, and, upon inquiry, was infonned that it was the dweiling place of the "fortune teller." I conoluded I would see the good woman and find out what was in store for me. I timidly rapped, when a voice bade me " Come in. " I pushed open the door and, being a timid person, wan about to draw back, for scattered around the room, in twos, threes and fours, were young men and women, waiting to consult the oracle, when a tall, good-looking, light-oolored woman approached me and asked, " Do yon want your fortune told?" I answered "Yes; but as sbe seems very busy, I will cali again." I was infonned that this "seer" is beeeiged day after day by the young and the old and derives quite a nice little income from her profession. It is said that she more than once has hit the truth.