Snap Shots

After much earnest solicitation the press club has prevailed upon (ieorge Poad to adjourn that banquet until cooler weather. It is hardly necessary to state that the removal Of the Times to North Main street had uothing to do with the stopping of the court house clock. The close atteution which Seward Cramer is giving to Lansing exchanges these hot July days leads to the conclusión that ne has a passing interest in the capitel city. During the rernoval of the Times office to the opera house block this week the eommittee on trausportation lost a box of Lisemers editorials. Finder will put out red flags and notify the board of health. People living in the eastern part of the city are reuiarking the great profusión and variety of new plants whichaOlivei Martin is cultivating in his suburban garden and the really small amount of attention required in their propogation. Clay Green, the farmer who lives eight miles west of Yysilanti on the electric road,has just returned from a business trip to the nortuern part of the state where he has been to dispose of a corn erop that he is raising. Green's corn is especially adapted för use in the northern climate. An old couple were coming in from the country a few days ago when a city youth whizzed by on a binycle. "There goes another on them things," said the old lady. "You see a coat tail, get a whiff of cigarette smoke and that's all thair be to 'em." Speaking about the new stamp tax on bank checks, it was the custom before this tax was repealed in 18S3 to have check books with the stamp printed upon each check. H. W. Hayes of the Michigan Central has one of these books on the First National bank of this city with a few checks remaining. Alderman Coon of this city lived, whea:a boy, neighbor to the Shafter's at Kalamazoo, and knew the general well. Luke Shafter, the general's father, was a wealthy farmer whose eccentricties made him widely known. William did not have a penchant for the hard work of the farm in his boyhood days and enlisting in the Union army e ar] y in the civil war remained in the regular service after the war was over. Herr Cramer and Signor A. Knight Halier, more or less intimately connected with the blizzard department of the Times, made a sortie on the banks of the raging Huron Monday, as a counter demonstration to Schley's achievment oír Santiago the day before. The press censor will not permit a publication of the f uil list of easualties, but we are at liberty to say that the dead have been decently buried and that the injured are conválescent. A travelling eye fakir of evident Tuetonic origin cornered Deputy Clerk Blum in the court house the other ]day with his wares and the following collaquy ensued. "I hear you haf sometimes some headache, Meester Plum." "That'9 right sir," was the reply. "I can flx you," said the fakir. "It's jour eyes. You shust try once my glasses and you vos all righdt quicker." "O, but my headache don't come from my eyes." replied Blum, "it is caused from my stemach." "But," persisted the fakir, "I teil you it is the eyes. My glasses always cure the headache some more. Did vou ever haf your eyes tested?" "Yes, sir." "Who makes 'em the test." "Dr. Carrow, the great eye specialist of the University." "Wough," said the fakir in great disgust, "What does Carrow know about the eyes. He's nothing but ashoemaker." And the laugli carne in when Blum was relating the incident in the presenee of a man who had been a shoemaker and who took umbrage at the evident slight put upon that honorable calling by the invidious comparison with an occulist. Senator Chandlek said the other day in regard to civil service employés: "When they grow old and are unfltted for any other work except lor the government, we can not refuse to grant them pensions." What is to hindera government employé from saving a part of his salary for old age? Men in private life often do this while being taxed for the support of government employés. - Portland Review. General George has come to the conclusión that the Wedemeyer congressional boom is a dangerous flank movement. After having given birth to many more or less profound opinions durine: his career as attorney general Fred Maynard thinks his Websterian topknot would lend grace and dignity to the supreme bench. And there are people who think Fred could crowd as mueh poor law and rank partizanship into a supreme court decisión as some of the 2x0 lawyers who are now ratling around on a bench once famous for its Cooley' and its Campbell's.