Our Man About Town

Where ware the etreet sprinkler Tuesday ? If they were ever needed to lay the duat it was then when the wind blew bo hard, rilling your eyes with dust 80 you could hardly see. I overheard a man remark that day: " If there was a prospect of rain the street sprinklers would be hard at work wetting down the streets, but when they are most needed they are non est." A perfon said to me the other day : "It is a good thing that it is getting to be warm weather, becauso in the vioinity where I reside the feuces are fast disappearing, piece by piece, and I presume they have gone for fire wood," Well, that is all rigbt, I say let them go, anything to get rid of the fences, as our eity would look muoh prettier without them. But we do not advocate stealing them. I notioe on North State street a good many of the trees that died last summer have been cat down whioh is a wise thing to do, and there are several more on the same street whioh ought to come down. A dead tree is aa unsightly object and should be at once removed and, if possible, another planted in its place, for Ann Arbor must keep np her reputation of having " better shaded sf reets than most cities." While in one of the county offices one day this week, I heard a lady complain of tomabody carrying off her potted plants. That her neighbors had suffered in like manner, and that plants had been dng up from the ftower beds and stolen. This is indeed despicable, as these plants thougb costing a small mm, have been oarefully set out, their growth watched, and perhaps saving the flowers for sume ospecial purpoae, to have some one, if he does not take the plant bodily, pluck its beautiful üower. Last summer there was great complaint made of persons stealing flowers, and it eeems it has begun already early this season. I was talkiog with a gentleman the other evening who lives about three miles from the oity, and he complained bitterly of the noise made by persons passing bis honse in the evening and at all hours through the night. That it is not an unusual thing for men and women in car riages when ndineby to scream, make all sorU of noises, and indulge in coarse and vulgar language. That vehicles have paseed whioh from demonstrations made one would think held a dozen persons, indulging in boisterous and disgraoefal oonduot. This oertainly ioes not speak well for our quiet, orderly city, for they always, bo he said, go towards Ypsilanti and when they are ooming back he is always aware of it . I hear there is some feeling among the residente of the lower town regarding memorial day services. Through the effortB of the ladies of the fifth ward they iuo oeeded in erecting a soldiere' monument, and for saveral years the services took placa in their cemetery in the open air. Now these exercises are held in uuiversity hall, and the lower town cemetery is visited with the others and flowers placed around and upon the monument, I do not wonder they feel hurt. The work was done by them, the honor is due them, if it had not have been for these women, I doubt if the day would have been observed here in the manner in whichit has been . It seems to me that the exeroises ought to be held in the open air, and if it is a rainy day , they oould adjourn to some largo building. Mrs. Attornoy Whiting had occasion to have somo uurvoying dons on the onion distriot east of the ai ty aad, laat week, sent for the county iurveyor, C. S. Woodward lo do tbe job. Mr. Woodward informed Airs. Whiting that 50 yeius ago, from bis own personal recolleotion the whole traot was a lake and afterwarda a bear and wolf haunt. It was fine hunting ground bofore it wai clcnrad up, deer, prairie chickens, partridges and other game being very plentiful. Would it not have been a fine écheme for the sportsmen of the city to havo fonned a syndioate, bought up the whole area, and kept it guarded as jealously as ander the old feudal system, with permita only to iuoh great lords, and all poaohers hanged feudal style? Buttheopportunity.is passed and instead of the toothsome game, the odor of the rank onion " smells to heaven." But there are dollars in it, if not much sport, and a beantiful seetion of country opened up, thrift and industry accomplishing wonder in that direotion, biddicg fair to rival all onion oounthes in tbe world. Itis often the case that people sometimes make charges for whioh there is no foundation except in their own futile brama. I do not mean all of our people but a certain class of them who are always ready to flnd fault with everything iñ which they do not have a hand. This is brought to my mind partioularly by hearing some of them talk about the elctrio lightoompany.blaming them beoause the city was left in darkness several nights last week. Now the of the matter ia that thy were blameless the lights being ordered out by the oity authorities because it was necessary for them to save every dollar that they had a chance to save. Another thing I heard theae same old grannies say was that the electric light oompany was furnishing a light way under that called for by the contract. At this time it was an easy matter to refute this charge, as Prof. Oarhart, of the univeisity, and a number of studente were at the okctric light station several nights last week, making all kinds of tests, and they say that the curren t was stronger than called for by tbe contraot. But these growlers must growl.