The Stanley lecture will probably cal to...

The Stanley lecture will probably cal to universit3' hall the larest crowd tli i ever assembled in the building. Rev. Dr. McPherson, of Chicago, is to deliver the annual address before the Student's Christian Aseooiation, at Uui yersity hall, on the evening of December 14. There was a great deal of quiet satisfaction exprcssed by the foot ball lovers of tliis city wlien they read the fcore by which Cornell dcfealed the mucli puffed up Chicago football team on Thanksgiving Day. Prof. Austin Scott has been clected president of Iïutger's College, at New Brunswick N. J., with which lie has been connected for sorae years. President Scott is a son of J. Austin Scott of this city, and took his A. M. degree from the I". of AI. in 1870. There is nothing the matter witli elther the brains or the brnwn of the American college boy. He may be a trille too noisy and boisterous at times, bat that is cliaracteristicof tlie college boy the woild over. The American variety is all right, and long may it continue po. - N Yj Mail and Express. Governor-elect Winans was in tbc city on Saturday last, looking over the Unlversity and inquiring into the wants and needs of the institution. Being a man of candid judgment and jood sense he proposes to ascertain for himself In what condition the state instit iittons ure, and liow best to proviile for tlieir necessities. Tiie Student's Lectiire Association, we underatend, have concluded not to reserve any seats for the Stanley lecture, but allow the neoplu to take seats as they come, first come, first served. The move we believe will be a popular one witli the people, lor all will have the same chance. There will uncloubtedly be a crowd, but tbat is somethlng Ann Arbor people are accustomed to. líemember the grand concert of the Hild-Park Co. ut Umversity Hall, on S-iturday eveiiing Dec. 13ih, before the S. Ij. A. The followlttg handsome compliment to Miss l'ark s froin the Boston Globe: "MUs Park the cornelist, at once made friemls witli the audience by her reslly excellent playing, winning for herself round upon round of applause. Miss Park plays very swcetly, shows excellent taste and dt-lights uil by her modest bearing. She is a great favorite and very descrvedly so." Of the Hild-Park conci'rt, to be givcn before tüc S. L. A. ou S iturday eveniug, Dec. 13th, the Chicago ínter Ocean bas this pleasmt notice : "Mr. Hild Is a pupil of Joachim, ï i. ■ 1 as a vio 1 tu i-t t is duubtful Ifthere ij his superior in the country. He is u master of technique, and playa with the fteling of a true artist. Hu was educated in Berlín, ind but recently came to ttie United States, briuyiiig wiih luui the highest testimoníala, ntnong otbers o;ie froni Willieltnj. Although he has been bere but a short time, he has slready become reiiowiifd. The new daily is a daisy. Help it along. I. S. Cliase, of Sagiiiaw, is now witli J. C. & W. W. Watts. The Keystone Club have just pl.tntcd some ücinian Carp in Z;ikey L ;ke. Mr. and Mrs Chas. II. Worden enterlaine'J n few friemls last érenlo?, vory pleasantly. The Farmer's and Mecbanics and the Ann Arbor S.iviugs Bank hold iheir anual elections Tuesdny. Tlie Gascompany has completed its new consti uetions and is now pre;iare;l to snpply gas in ful! quantitles. Judge Kinne of tliis city, and Judge Hoeker, of Charlotte are exchaoging pulpit - ïo - bonclies, tliat'a all. Sidney W. Mlllarct luis put in an electrie motor, nnd now runs li is presses by electricity, just as easy and nice. The new Uaily, the Washtenaw Times, has met with such success that it wil! have to increase its si.e another column to a page to meet the demands. Mrs'. Harriet A. Keltli, of Ypsilantl, aged Ö'J years, died Tuesday at her home. Slie had been a resident of that city for thirty year?, and was greatly respected. Orin Slair, formerly of the Saline Observer, later of the Ilowell Repablicair, is ab rat to engage in the new sock'ty paper at Linsing, to be known as the S.indy Cali. A grand Kinness will will be given in Detroit from the 8h to the 15lh of this month to be composed of dances, minuut.", etc. in costume, with matinees each afternoon. The wife of Morris Topping of Plaiofteld wae found dead on the fl or of thelr house at Plaiufleld, Livingston County, Monday, at 1 p. m., of heart disease, aged 00 years. She had many friends and acquair.tances here. The ladies of the Cjngregatlonal church open their fjir in the riuk to-morrow, Thursday noun. The booths are being majjnificently titted up for the occasion nud the ladli s will have their sweetest smile on to serva yóa and sell you any articles they may h ;ve tor sale. Go and sec thcui. A numberof Rnyil ArcU Misons went to Ypsilanti last evoniug to witness an exemplitication of the wok of the Royal Arch degree, by Peninsular Chapter No. 10, of Detroit, visitlng Excelsior Chapter No. 25, of Ypsilanti. A fine banquet followed, and a riglit roya] Jfood lime reported by all atteudiug. The fullowlng olB;ers were elected Monday evouing by W-tshtenaw Chapter it. A. II., to serve during the ensulng year, to be inscilled Slondiy, Dec. 8tti: H. P.- L. C. Goodrich. K.- W. R. Prioe. 8.- M. E. Cooley. C. of H.-R. H. Cuthbert. It. A.C.- J. F. Hoelzle. O. M. 3d V.-A. W. Uasser. Q. M. 2d V.- M. M. SielTy. O. M. lst V.- W. H. D rruce. Treasurer - 'has. K. HisuocU. Secretary- N. I. Otes. Gaard- Xtios. Taylor. The death of Eugeue B. Abel, at his home in Aurlesville, N. Y., on Sunday last, Xov. 30th, at 11 o'clock a. m., was not a surprise, for it had been expected for some time. Mr. Abel was born üec. 9,1833, and cama to this city to enter the firm of Bach & Abel, to succecd his brother, Peter II. Abel, (who died hut a short time previous) during the year 1877. He had attended the high school here, graduating about 1870. The deceased was a member of Fraternity Lodge F. & A. M.; also a meinber of Washtenaw Chapter, and of Ann Arbor Commm(lery. As one of the young business uien of the city, he was held in high esteein, and his loss will he feit from among their ranks. Floral tributes were sent to the family of the dtceased by Messrs. B.ich and Hoath of the tirm, and al-o by Ann Arbor Commandery and Washtenaw I Chapter R. A. M. Mr. Abal was a singlo man.