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make a lawa by Bowlng grass eed tha.n ti) transplant sotl. A rich seed bod is required fco make the transplan ted sod tako .root, a ml altliougli ñor a few diays it may look well, when dry weather coimes the sodded lawn ppesesrts a, sh&bby appearance. A seeded lawn will in a few weeks show a. lively grean, and it requii-es mucOi lc.-s watering in dry woather tlian doe? the 6od. Besides with a good h.'d,, the householder who makes his wn lawn oan select the kind of grasses itliat lie wants. Some sweet Bcented vci-iril tn-ass should always besown. It ás rarely oir never found in iso'ds cut for traiisplanting, as they ar usually gathered ca the commons or by the roadsldeThe legislature luis provided that the Eoiglish Bparrow is a legitímate object of attack by the small boy or the.large one either, the year around, and that the bouuty for each shall be threo cents. Bitt the boys should coinfiine themselves ütrictly to sparrows for Ihej aro lia ble to a line of $5 for "every other biird they may kill ta mitake ior the English pest, and that would take ofí a lot of profits. The epan-ow iias increased very f ast since bhe law -was chaaged in regard to tpnyiog bounty on!y a few months during the year. The lads -who (o most of tüie killiing seeming to care more for Fourth of July money thaa for Christnias monejT. AVelI, ihere is a (good chance aow, to get a good lot of pending money for the next FO'Urth. One üay in oach week, durlng ihe cotntinuance of tliO Art Loan Exhibit glvieii by tlhe Detroit Art Club. in that city, the M. C. II. II. will give in excursión to Detroit ifor people desirIng to attend. The exhibit will be one that will attract lovers of art froin thiis eaitire westera - or central - woa-ld. Mr. James E. Hauna, the secretary of the Detroit Art Club, writesus that "the exhibition wil! actually be ome of the finest given west of New Yoirk CSty, excepting at ihe "Woi-ld's Pair, oí coiirse. We ehall have aboiut $1,000,000 worth 01 pictaii-es to show, frcwn the brushes of the foremo&t Americain artists. The maaagememt have not attempted to import amy European woirks, but nev ertlieless will have a large nuniber of valuable omes loaned them." Many of out citizorus Jiave expressed their intemiioa of nttending this great exliibit, and now that the railroads pTopose to coniO to tihe aid of the enterpirise, ■-ivith a Beries of cheap rate days, tliere will sao doubt be a large attendanice f rom Aun Arbor and vicinity. I.ike the May Festival here, this exhibit will be the event oí a Híe-timo in jts particTilar line. The Art Loan exhibition at Detroit, íieretofore mentioned, conmeineesoaFriday next, May 17th.