Adrian Press Witticisms

The "pension frauds" prqbably have led the common council at Ann Arbor to publish in the official paper the name of all who recelve city aid. This will drive some newspaper chaps up there to the oup sure. Think of Beakes, Beal, Muran and Ijisemer being compelled to go in and buy their grocerIes! But they will do it before being published as on the city list. Newspaper men are proud, if not honest. The Ann Arbor Argus locates Britton in Monroe county. That means a flght at the drop of the hat as soon as either John Britton or Sam Underwood or Parson Lambast gets within speaking distance of any member of an Argrus force from devil down to editor. Monroe county indeed! The very idea. Why Britton isn't half as near Monroe county as Washtenaw is. Mi county is where Britton would like If be, because there's a county that gives a Democratie majority, but Britton Is a part of Lenawee, and is the leaven, if not the twelve, of political reform that will yet lighten the whole loaf, and the loafers also. ür. Vaughan, of the University, is preparing a text book on "Polsons." He divides them into three classes, "Pathologieal, subacute and heterogeneous. The Dingley protective tarilï managers to fincl a place under each head, and the professor has delayed the work several months, in an endeavor to flnd an antidote, but so far finds nothing but, a Democratie legislative pill that can give relief, but says that o'wing to the insiduous effects of the poison upon the body politie, the system beeomes so enervated, that inanition supervenes so completely, that it is difflcult to restore vitality or ;i sound healthy corporosity. He dassifles it as an "insiduous" drug, that never stimulates one part of the system, without weakening some other art, and usually strengthens selfishness, at the expense of the heart, and recommends that it be always labeled, "poison," wbeiiover manufaotured.