Michigan

-Graad Sápida gfts O8,545 írom te liquor taac. _ The Addis divorce caso is agam furnishing Grand Rápida gossiperá with pleasing morsels. -The Phoenix furniture company ol Grand Itapids employa 527 mechauics and wíll soon mercase Uus numbor to neai ly 700. -During the month of April ovei three thousand acres of state land were taken np in Alpena county, the most of it by actual settlere. - Ed. Hoskins, a yonng man yrho. lived in Onondaga, Eaton Co., was found dead in the woods. Supposed to have suieided by polsoning. -Mm. Botanger, of Point St. Iffnace, while going to see a tvishbor, was overtaken by a storm, and in lier anxiety to protpct her babe she ooveredit so closcy that it sniothered. - Because of the inadeqtmey of the Tovernment buiklingat Detroit, erected twenty years ago, the United States now pays reuts of $5,088 yeariy for extra accommoilaüons,'and the d?mand is urgently pressed on congress". for an appropriation and a new building. - A Germán blacksmith named MarcusThede, of East Saglxnw, who has resided in that city twelve or fiïteen years, was found Monday morinng about 5:30 o'clock deadm tlie wooasüea at his reskleuce on Fourth street. A pistol lay near hlm and a bullet had been shot through his liead. - Some menibers of a Detroit family biougbt in f rom the woods wliat they thought was a "pretty vine," and set it out in the front yard. When the servant-girl saw it, at a distanca, she exclaimed that it was poison ivy, and that she was already poisonel by merel) lookiiiff on it. Sure enough, the Bigns of ivy poison appeared on her in a few days, thougli the vine had been ilready uprooted and destroyed. -Grand Rápida Eagle: Mr. "William Gage, a farmer wbo lives in Xelson townsbip, came to the city to-day with his daughter Etta, a young lady 17years old, to secure medical treatment f or her. Mr. Gage says that on the 16th of last November Miss Etta, v.hile aewing, accidentally cut one of her flngera Bligbtly and faiuted away, became uncodïscious or cia.y, aad lias been ill and insane at intervals much of the time since One of the very strange complications of her malady is a broncliial cougti which sounds mueh like the barking of a dog, and led to the report tliat slie was afflicted with rabies from thebite of a mad dog a long time ago. Heifaüier says slie never was bitten by a dog or any other animal, and thougb her disease is peculiar, itdoes aotoeen.i from such causes. The strange ess of malaJy has caused many of Gur doctors to visit her.