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February
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1895
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He was learnltiR to skate, And bow every cold duy, When seeklnar forhim, Yon'll fiudhimiM.w sim. The days are growimig quite a bit loaiger. Tíhursday was pay day at the P. O., about $1,400 is put in. circulatioii thereby. Accordimg to Game Warden Hamptoin, there were 8,000 deer killed in Jídchigam during 1804. Oh, dear ! Look out Jor the cry : "The peaches are all ruiïied." It is time now lor it to start in. EepubHcans will please note the cali for the eaucuses to be found in their proper place. Mrs. WUIiam Schiller presentad her husband with a handsome little boy last Tuesday morning. The republicans oí Pittsfield meet Feb. llth, at 2 o'clock p. m., to elect delegates to tlie couuty convention. James E. Ha.rlóns says hO is not ambitious tor aldoimamic honors. The trutli remaiais, just the same, that he would mafce a good alderinan. It is seldom Aim Arboir has ever ieen so g'ay, as far as recepUons are ■coaicerned. Tüie "At Homes" are immemsely popular this winter. Lady Tiisitors will be admitted to the Waterman gymnasium during the hO'Urs occupied by tlie ladies' classes on Tuesdays and Saturdays. "Wim. E. Boyden wül succ&ed Edwin Phelps of Pontiae, as a member of he state board of agrieulture. A better eelectiom for the position could not be made. A very pleasaait birthday party, elebrat-ing the anniversaries of Mrg. Ottinar Noli aaid Mias Mary Giessa, was held Tuesday e-waüig', at Mre. Xoll's i'esidemoe., on Go'tt st. The Ann Arbor Oourier palts up the exploits of tnO etreet cars showing how braTely they push their way throiug-h the snow drifts. Ought to see the Adrián cai-s. Tliey are out of sight 1 - Adi-ian Press. TSie iindioations lure tliat Judge Kinne will go into the state convention with his comgreeelionaJ district solid as a rock Kor him. That will be au immenise wedge that will go a long way toward the strength of hiis oppoments. John Iv. Robiison, a natiTe Ann Arborean, has been appohited by Pres. Cleveland, assístant englneer on the new war idiip Olympia, of 'the Pacific squadrom, and left his father's home in Detroit Tuesday evening to join his new assignm'ent. B. Rohrabaeher, of East Cohoctah, brought suït against the Ann Arbor MJlling icoimpany for settlement of account. The case was heard before Justice Stowe the last of the week and the jury gave the Ann Arbor company a judgment of $20.- Howell Republican. Di-. J. A. Weissinger ís in receipt of soone of Aron.son's diphtheiria antitoxüie, direct firom Germany. This antitoxine is used to "vaccinate" people against diphtlieria, an extended account of the modus operandi of which appeared In these columns recently. Andersoai, the solo ilute playea1, of TheodO're Thomas' orchestra, iwho commiftted suicide in Buch a tragis mamner in Chicago a few days' since, is #r&membered by several of our musical people in Ann Arbor, wlio met hi.m diarios the concerts given in Ann Arbor by that organization. Trilby, Trilby, give us a rest, oh, do ! Earth soon will be tired to death of you, You're not the girl for marriage, Eitber with or without a carriage, tio with those feet, So trim and neat, Walk off for a year or two ! Ma-, and Mms. Jolin Iieoiz, of Pibtefield, are happy in the airrival oí their first child., a fine baby boy. ■ The Ann Arboir Ongan Co. ie tickled becaiuje a contract bas just been concluded with a Chicago firm, whereby the compamy will ïurnish them 000 Ann Arboir O-rguns ifahis year. John F. Packard, of Superior, died Jan. 27, aged 64 J'ears, of heai-t disease s-uperáiduoed by la grippe. Funeral services vreve lield Wednesday frO'm tt.he rceidemce in Superior. Repa-eseintati-e Kempf's coogresslonal appoiintment bill, which Avill be found in another column, combines "Washtaiaw With Lenawee, Hillsdale and Branca, counties, in the 3d district, baring a, noi-mal republican majority oi 650. That suits Washbenaw all right. Hnry 'X. Castle, of Honolulú, a co-usiai of Mr. Carter, wiho was killed at the recent uprising in that city, was a passenger on the ill fated stonnuT Elbe, of the North Germán Lloyd lime, which sank from a collisioo at sea AVednesday, with nearly all on board. One iniisfortune follows anot'licr hastdly soanetimes. Mr. and Mr.-. l!(iss Granger have beeai put to oooslderable expense and aainoya-nce by the touTSfclng of water pipes a.t their dancing academy ,on Maynaid tt.. Mucli oí the ceüing and side' waJls were greatly injured aind dist-olored by ithe escapiing ter. The yonjmgsbara are improving the sleiighing notwithstanding the irigid atmosphere, and every nig-ht at abcrat half-past 4 o'clock, aiumerous loads are glidhig aboiut the sfcreets, and thioee who have weafc voices supplement tJhe isame with tin horas that mate a nioise for thein. Miss Finley, who is to start a. children's elass in elocution at the School of ilusiic Momday afternoon, is a ! yOumg lady who has given this special subject a great deal oi attention, and study, naid who is thoTonglily iitted for the work bot.h by a natural] taste tlvereíiM' and a complet training. It is a line that she canj not but succeed in. Il the Amn Arbor Liig-ht Infantry does iwrt mató a magniificent success of tlie entertainment to be given on Feb. llth a.nd 12tli, at the grand opera ihouse, it will be mo faulti of the boys. They are malciaig every effort to ghe thO Auui Arboir public somethiaig better tMan it has ever ototained before ii tJie way of a home affair. Better make your preparations to attemid this entertainment, for ifc will be oaie oï tlie most popular evnts of tlie year. This is Avhat Peter Cooper, who died wo-rtli mamy mülions, said of a newspaper : "In all towns whore a newspaper ie published overy man sliould adiertiise in it if notliing niore th,aji a card liis name and the business lie is eng'aged in. It does not onily pay thO ad%rtis&r, but Iets p'&ople at u distaiice know that the tow.n in whicli you reside is a prosperous commiinit-y of business men. Never pull clown your sign while yon speet ito dto business." There are ninety-üie streets in Ann Arbor, ovot ooiunting tlie east aad west and ïiortli and south divisions. It is estimated that eadi street will average ane and one-half miles in lemgth. Tliis would amake about one hundred and tilty miles of streets for tlie smow plovVs to traverse twlce, tor a Bidewalk usnally runs on eacli side of the etre&t, after each storm. Wdiy wouldn't it be a good thing to make i)t the diuty of some city offixïial to make the circuit of all the streets of the city, and ascertain if all of them had been properly snowplowed. Up at Petoskey the ixae is piled' up im drifts fifteein f eet high. As ice that floa-ts ís tUways two-thirds submea'ged, 'tliea-e must be quite a good sized miO'untain of it ai-ound this peninsular state just now. Accordüig to the woa-king of licieoitific ï-easoning Ave shall lia%Te a late in 'Michigan lliU year. One suoh reasoner assei-ts 'Uiat it will take toto June to thaw out tlie huge ice bei-gs that have formed ín Líike Michigan aaid Lake Superior, und t,lia.t it will be way into June before the Sta-aits will le safely open for navig-atioii. Some peopíe re always dreading things Uhat neier happen. A Detroit clergyman says that no newspaper that tells the truth and the whole truth can make a pecuni;irv success. To which the Portland Observer man says : "We say in returning "the compliment that the minister who will at all times and under all circumstainces teil the whole truth about his members, alive or dead, will not occupy tliie pulpit more than one Suaiday nnd Unen he wül find it necessary to leave town in a Tlie presa amd tlie go hand in hand wlth whitewash bnishes a.nd pleasant words, magniiying little virtues int o Wg ones. The pulpit, tlie prese and the gTavstones are the great niakimg triumvirate." Rauscheaiberger & Co. have made and deüvered two new ca-rrler's cases and one new distributing case, for use ut the P. O. which ara very neat and handy. Tlie pa-ogranime fo rtiie Farmer's Institute to be held at the opera house puu vjnotei 'osiwb 6X 'l-I ÏFaoh ! tüie meeting will surely be an entertaiming and instructive one. ThO trustees of the Unitaria.n church liad a Satawday nlght and organized by tlhe electijon of W. H. Pettee as president ; .Tos. I. Whitlai-k ,treasurer ; W. Iv. Cnüds, secretary. The At Home given by Mrs. H. S. Dean and daugiiter Thursday afterjioon and evening was one oí the nicest social affaire of the kind that has lce.n given in ifchis city for a long time. Scores of ladies and gentlemen pald tlieir compliment to the liberal hostesees. Tlhe afternoon reception given by Mis. O. M. Martin and Mrs. Alice Haven, at tlie resMience oí Mts. Martin, on S. Fifth. avie., yesterday, was an exceedingly pleasant affair, and atteaided by a vwy large number of ladU-s. Sunday, Feb. 16, Dr. C. M. Cobern proanises a S'unday lecture on "The Old Syriiac Gospels just Discovered on Mt. Sioai." These are the oldest transía tiio ns of the Bible extant, and Dr. Cobern bas been studying theni for a long tinne. George Aitken, a txrakeman on the Ann Arbor raad, ivas blown from tóe tram as it stood on a bridge near Hamburg. He caugüit the rail but coaild not pull himself up or get off the car. KnowLnig ithat tlie etarting of tiie train meant death, lie jumped to the ice below, breaking his leg at tlie liip.- Xorthville News. X. D. Corbin of Ann Arbor was in tiie city this reek looking up his chances tor the YpsLlanti delegation in the coming coinveaition. He does not believe any of the candidates for sdiool coimmifcsloner will le nominated on the first ballot. - Ypsilantian. G-uess .tiiat is a pretty straight guess. With thiiee stro'ng candidates in the field no one of them can hope( to win on tche start. J. S. Gillespie of Ca.ro, Mich, had the miisfortune to fall Friday a. ni. while his way down the Ashly st. hill, to the T., A. A. & X. M. depot, and break Jiis arm between the elbow and wrist. Tlie hill is very slippery and Mr. Gillespie was hurryijig ito catcli the train. He is an old gentleman of perhaps seventy yeai-s of age. Dr. J. A. "We.ssinger set the breken bone. Here iis a stumner foi' some( of the studente ïn gramlmar classes- it might even puzzle iwme in the grainmar schoei a.nd abae : "To love" is a Merb. The word "love" in one of the Indian dkilects is "chemlendamoiingihkmagogagTii." (Fancy a sweet forest maiden telling her copper-coloi'ed braATe tJnat ehe "chemlendamonglikmagogaguijs" hini.) The conJugatioin af the verb "to love" in that dialect is the sUunner. "The dog killer unay be around but the ïool killer is evideoitly asleep,'" was tlie .rem ark of a gentleman who read one of tlie nldermanic 3d ward items in the Daily Courieir recently. That was simply hls opinión. Almost eery ome has an opinión of their own. It is oinly wlien those individual opinions Combine and a strike that anythtog is done. Sometimes one man who is o, natural leader and is endowed witJi bull-dog persistency, and pusli, makes liis own opinión the opinión of the anajority, but sucli cases are exceptioeal. Tlie field appears to be open iai the 3di ward all riglit. The sprimg examinatioai for teachers of all grades ím tliis county, will take place at the court house, in the city of Ano Arbor on Tliui-sday and Friday, March 28 and 29. All appllcants for third grade certificates will le given one and one-half days in which to complete their work. Special examinations will be held at the same place on Friday and Saturday Feb. 15 and 16, and on Friday and Saturday Mareli Sth and 9th. All moraing eessions will commence at 9 o'clock, and nll applicants for ce-rtilicates ia.re expected to appear on the tiaist day of these sessions, promptly om tiiirne. How maaiy oí us are longing for the balniy, genial, spring time, wlu-n all nature ariays lioi'Self in a new (Ircss of beauty, and eoogsters if the feathered tribe make ethos öt the forests resoavnd witli their melodious carols ? And yet wea-e we now enjoying the delights of spring and suinmer tilde, ima.nj' of us would wisti again for t.he season of the jrear when the earth is ï-obed in a coloring of white and tlie music of sleigh bella and merry laughter of the frolicking supplies the song-s of the birds. "Twas evev tihus for poor weak human ñatime to avUIi for tlio impossible. It is mucili better to êncounter the evils that are, rather tlian fly to ills wc know not of. In defiance to all rutes of pilvilosophy however, the small boy sighs for swimming in January a.nd skating in July. Soon will the fickle. love-lorn youtU Prepare- the tiaugbty eliurl- To inake last year's valen tine Do for another gtrl. The Suiminer Dudes will give a party in Granger'.s Hall on the evening of Feb. lst. Mr. and Mrs. Koss Granger will gtve a Washingtom's Birtliday party ín their acadeniy on the evening of Feb. 22d. Fr. F. J. Van Antwerp, of Detroit, will leoture next Sunday evening in St. Thomas' church. Subject, "The Necessity of a Teaching Church." The I.adies' AM Society of the M. E. church will give its regular nionthly tea in the parlors. of the church next Thursday evening at half-past six o'clock. There s-eems to be no wild seramble of lasptramts for the nominations for regemts of tQie 1'ni versity. Are Itegesnts Buttci-ïielil and Hebard to succeed themsedvea without a. struggle V Prof. A. A. Stanley announces the dates of tlie May Festival to ba Friday and Saturday May 17 and 18. The dates are fixed tlius early in the year in ordrr tiiat the time mny leooine definitely underatood tlu-oushO'ut the state. The Art and Mirror Glass Co. ,of MHwaukiee, will receive the contract for iurnishins the stnined glass windows of the tiew Tiinity Iviitheran cli-urch. Tbese wiudows wil] cost $825, and they will be arnong tlie finest church Windows in the city. (has. R. "Whitman annoiunces liis lntention of reinoving hls law office to Detroiit. He will rétalo his residence in this city, godng into Detroit each moraing and returning home on the evening train. He has engaged offices in tlie Buhl block. Rev. Dr. Camden H. Cobern will lea vb the middle ol this month for tSt. Paul, where he will deliver a series of lectures during the week of Feb. 16-22, on Egyptology, dealing with the Egyptian nionuments and the l!ible. Saturday, Feb. 22, he will lecture before the state Epworth league coaivention of "Wisconsin, meeting at Appletomj and on the following Sunday will pi-eacli belore the same body. During tlie fo.llowing week he will fleliver his coairse of lectures on "Egyptology at Dawreoce University, Aplleton, Wis. Mr. Waiiam Henne. wíuo has just retired froim the Ilrm of Koch &' Henne, will, toget'.ier with Nate Stanger and 'Samuel Henne, open a new furniture bto-re in the "Walker block on "W. "VVashingtoin lït., in la short time. If exrperience counts far anything, the new ifii-m will bO a hiUtstler sure. Mr. "Williain Henne lias been for eeven years the Jum'jOir partner in the firm from wh:cli he r. tires, Mr. Stanger has been with the same firm far thirteen years as carpet ared drapery salesmaoi, land Samuel Henne has spent fiftoem [yea.rs of liiiis life in the upholstering business. Tlie etirement of "W. G. Diieterle and the starting of the new Btore will leave the f urniture business just even.

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