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16
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August
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1893
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There is a youug irl in Ypsilauti, Who dotes on tlie posma of Dunte; And wonld like to, shc said, With a spring poet wed, And dweil by the sea, in i shauty. A new time t-iiblf went inli) effect txii tiré M. C. K. R. Sunday. The president' message entlre, will bo fouind upom tiue ■''(! p;ie of this paper. , I It i iliificult to teil Avhieh is meedcl Uie most at prewnt, more moaey or jnoru raiin. A large addition i being built to readdence ol Mr. lVase, on E. Washington st. The Art ('luli have engaged a liand-iiine suite oí rooms u ttva Masonlc block ooi the second floor. The Ann Arbor Oian O, la pushIng business aiul lias many orders to uil QOtwittoetandtng the times are hard. THe chote boya o! Bfc AmhvWs Episcopal chureh, are tn camp at Whitinore [.akc. añil have been havIng . i l' i 1 1 1 ■ time. We lia ve oabbages om our market welgtolmg and lo poonda each. TWa l remarkable íor August añil i,u meta a dry seaon. lt' you think bbere sm-h a lot of mem out of empLoymcnt and Beeklng work, lii'ir in A mi Arbor, just try to get a Httle (of dooe. Tlhe high rntes otn the raüroads are telling fesirfully on passenger trafile to tJie Chicago I : x . - t i . . 1 1 , and traína are beijig pulled off instead it' being put on. The little ra ia Stocms Fliday afternoon and evening heipet] UllBgs In Aun Arbor and near vicinity, but we understand (lid not cover a great extent oí territory. Prof. Morris Sulliva.n, of the UnivefSlty of St. Louis, a.ul sou of J. T. Sullivaiii, oï this city, lelt Boston Monday tor Burope, to be absent foair yeare pursuing studies. Tlie cholera i.-Ji't coming liere this yearbut there is no doubt but that mmiii' oí the peopl wiio bare lost all their rnoney by the decline in pricee would hai.1 the cholera as a relief. Mr. Toni I.enmard was in the niidst of a eyclome durlng üw atorm last l'riday. He %vais im a barn out in York townsliip on tlie farm oï lii-s BCXn Andrew. when .i'phrrs took the roof off and carrled awaj a ahed. Milan l'ii-i ninc. walloped the Aun Arbor base baH club bere laat Saturday aiternocni, '24 to 10.- Milan i eader. Foc i J i-, to t rea.1 a siiinu' club likf i-iiat. -Adrián PrB. Iion't yim l;eliee it . No trutfa in it. A nn Arbor h:isn't aay ba -e ball C'ltib Bev. Dr. 'l'edrow H jireach at unión aervice nest Sunday eventeg, at the Oongregatloual ctnurch at 7:30 p. m., tilie usual time of service, and the younii' pcople's union meeting Wil] be 'held al tii saine place at 6:30 p. in. Adrián Prese : 'Ií the state press lias any iníluence in secret society affairs, .Miss Itower ol the Ann Arbor ]!enioci-at. will certainly be the si"?t record keeper of the lady Maceabas of Michigan. We are all tor lier, to a mam." Seeretary AVade bas been appointed a niemlx'r cjf the advisory eommlttet of the Hr.nday [est Cigress, whicli is soion to convene in Chicago. There ;- n i man in Ann Arbor who knows less about re.st ihan Seri-etary Wade. lli' te of the busy ones. Dr. A. K. Hale, ane of tihe largest stnckhohlers of the water works of this city, appeared ln'fore the eouncil Mouday evealng and gave that body assuraiiice tliat everything sliould be dome possible to give this city g-ood water and plenty of it. Dr. Otas. il. stow-eii, oí Washington, has 'beconie the editor of "Food," a Journal o.' iiygient' and nutrition, publis.hed in New Vork. The August nunilwr makes a good showing of readable article-s, ati tlhe new editor knows well taow to make them interest i nu. Mr. M. J. Fritz, altliough a íni.-t genial and companionable gentleman, ha.s aio compassion on the fellow who can't catch fisli. Por inst.ince. one day last week, be Bat in ome end of a boat and caug-ht thh-tylive fine ones. white the party in the other end only caught one. The lire taBoranoe companies in Michigan during the past eleven years received In preiniuins ::!. 770. ö 1 - and paid tor losses $18,501,384. That is ."i-t. 8 per ceut., while the average for the ü. v is 5S.2 cent. This state used to bc called a loss producing .staTe, but it is now better than the average. A sad took place ltist week, of little Jes.sic (uuniiigh.ini. who was la batliing at Iong Lake near Alpena. Sihe was a BW68Í girl of ehven yiMrs, ihr accident happening' while playlng with sonie other girl-. and talie. got into deep water wii'ioait kaiowing how to swim. She was btiried in lïay Citj'. Oapt. llixock, ('o. A, M. S. T., bad the honor of havingr the largest cnnipnny ih any at the state enOiiinpment. ]t uas an huior to him and the Co. itiself, also. Lieiitenant Klrk, of öo. I!, YpeUantl, must ered about 50 men, and he liad no captain or Cd Ltoat. Joüui doesn't need one. He is capable of filling all t bree places bttnaelf. At a. meeting of tiie school board last eveuing' the matter of better ventilation of the older pari of tlie high school was considered. The question was referred to the comïii il t t-e on Imildings and grounds to prvoide tlie best meams possiblo. Tlie building needs ventilation very much, and the board appropriated money for that parpóse. "Weather l'rophet llicks ends up niointh as follows : "Stubborn heat, with much temde ncy to hard eli'eiric storins a nd heavy local ralos, are more than probable írom 19th to 23d. Watoli all heavy clouds. Cooler trom 284 to about 26th and L'7th, at which time warmer with .storins. Month ends warm. with storms starting in the west. Many earthquake indicatimis in August ." Tí ;i mem h mid teil you that he Itred kn Michigan, 140 miles west of nprntío, yon would Ihiink him a little Olí, ninililn't yon '.' YVcll. bK COTlld do that very thitng, íor t he upper península oí' Michigan extendí 1 H miles west of Chicago.- Ana Arbor Courier. W WOUld say lie a blamed fool to live way over in that neek oí the woods when there are such pretty placeo as Ann Arbor and Northville about dnuble tliat dtstance vast of Ule hurry-to-deeth elty.- NorthviHe Record. Wtoeo the new money order eysteni is in working order at the post offices of the country, it will be a greal coaivenicnce. In the ni'W eystem there will be no complication. Sheet s will le issued c&ïlïag tor amounts froin ome cent to fchree dollars, whlcb can be torn off to snit the pnrehaser The po-stmaster lias tío WTÏtlng to do on it, the sender rtmply pndoralng it the Klim' as a check or a draft. One cent will pay the charges on any amoumt to $8, instond of three cents M at present. Bete s a cure all for ;i species of veraiin, whieh is said to be effectnal: 'A cure-nll íor anta of all kind.", cockronchei, and (iny other pests that invade the saacbom of the 'chef.' is jareen walmutB. Place in the pantry. do-ets, cii]iboards or any place where they are likely 't o be. Tile cure is effeotual and the remedy clean." W'hat ;,s t o 'be done when green wnlmits cannot be priK-ured, te not statecl. The Adrián Presa is respnnsib'.e toe t.his : "It's tininnji out fust as we predicted - Lile women are jfrowing vi-yy obstreperotiö, ednee becomtng votevs. Mre. August Sehnelder, 01 Ann Arbor, has had her husband ■ .-rul to i!ii' hOOSe oí correction for 90 days, and lias also begun a snit for divorce ; and all in the world the man (lid to provoke these on trages, was to soak lier awhile in BCaldlng water. Xewkirk, do you see wliat you've done ?" Mayor Plngree, of Detroit, has a page devon'd to liini in the X. Y. Tribune oí the Gtli tnet., coiisisting of hia municipal victories over tlie corporations. Whcn his name first came up for fiovernor his weakness was that he was not well enough known. but tlnat fact no longer exists, for he has become the most "talked-of" man iu sta te. lie has done nvuch good for the city of Detroit, and while we 111.1v not agree witli him on many of lij acts, it is indisputable that he is giviiig an able adininistratiou ïice trom fear of the corpiirations and inainly íor the good of the .people. ()'Sulliian, a distinguished Xew Yoirk criminal lawyer. declares Dr. Yau.ulian of the liúver-itr, to be the foremost Chemfet of this continent, and addta that he to bet ter known in KnulniHl than Amerit-a, and more apprecaiatel In. New York than in MichIgBm. Quite likely, in bot.li (m. The fact to, tliat her.', iu the Michigan imcklelK'i-ry tmshes, there are so many ot ns are ULstinguisluHl, that we don't ajiprcciate eocb otlier. The ea-l IB betgbxolog to find out tliat low-ne( ked clanis, lonir-tailed coats and ttue gold Standard, never yet diseiAered tyrot oxifou in cheese.- Adrian Press.. Yhen the laws passed by the last begtelature are publlshed so 4hat the people may kiiow what tiiey are, aomie curióos will no doubt bc developed. Il now stated that everal ini]ortant chances ere made kn the t'lection law by tlu' last legislatuire. aanong whlch Uone that pro!.!e l!tat 110 ch'ctioin district shall COntaJn nwwc than (!.",() voter-, based 1 1 i!n' puil list of the preceding electë a, whicli is 150 more than the limit lieretoiorc. Anotlier is that all caucuses must be held betweem 2 aadl S p. m., that nnti.es oí tile cauCU--.1-S mus! be publtehea n the local niewspapcrs iive lays belore date of tin' eau. lis. and t ha l notices must be jiosteil up in three public places in the district whcre the caucus is 10 'be held. The grit oi a young lad is often ureater tlian mie thloks íor. A little incident toak place liere 11 Ann Arlii'i- a lew day'.s since tliat illustrated that point admii-alily. One of our proinánent i-iti.ens was returnIng home ü'roin the country, with his family receintly, and in the carriage was a little nejUiew about ten year.s oí age. To teit the grit of the boy he made him an offeir of a dollar a da.y íor five days, provlding he would irom tliart minute keej) silent and not speak a word to a person. He must not peak a word in the entire five ilays if be desired to win the temptiai.H' ]rize. The lad acrepted t In oííer by his silenre. and although he was lempted in every way by neigbbors and lri.ends who knew ot' the task he liad undertaken, not a word escapcd liis Ups (or the period of time meaitioueil, wheu iie was jirnmptly on hand íor Ote $.", whicli as jiromptly paid. Tlie liero 01' this truc story is Iicllull 'lravis, and lie was lieard to quietly remark, alter the. aííair as over. tliat he didn't tliink it was always tlie boys who talked too much, but tliat there werc instancis ot' older people putting their toot in it occa-ionally. Hiere i i Bttle reeeipt for maklng paete, Bometihtng itiiat every hourevi:. iiccd-í ti a greater or lew exteint, that may be oí greal mtvícc to maay of onir readers : Dtóeolve In water i n square iuc'.ifs oí prluc and tíne same quantlty oí alum. üoil witJi flour just a.s ( you were maktng fimir paste and Btlr mti rery smooth. When cool stir in tWO tc;ispcKmínl.s of oü of lavendcr. Tliis ought to make a pint of paste. It will keep ns long aa yon to keep it- a year, U aeeeaaary.

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