From The People

Aun Arbor, May 15, '95. 39 S. Ingalls St. Editor of the Courier. Dear gir :_i wish to cali the attention of our citizeusi to a serious danger menacing our shade and other trees from a scale insect which is uow infestingthemin different parts of the city, and which will cause gveat loss if effectual measures are not soon taken to exterminate these pests. The scales are very numerous on many maples along our streets, and I have seen thein on a plum tree, on red currant and flowering currant bushes, and on grape vines. Ordinary spraying mixtures, I believe, are not very satisfactory against the mature insect, as ït is protected by a scale whichcompletely covers it as the creature adheres closely to the bark. The natural enemy of the Rrale insect is the lady bug, and last summerl saw an unusual number of them, and many of their larva were crawling over the sidewalks. These should be strktly protected, aud propagated as rapidly as possible, as our best hope of staying the ravages of the scale. Some years ago, the orange groves of California were threatened with extinction by the attacks of a scale insect, and the Kovernment sent an expert logist to Australia, to secure a peculiar species of lady bug whicli bas cleared tbe orange trees tbere of tliis scale. A few of these lady bugs were brought to California, and wtaen distrlbuted in tbe infested districts, they rapidly multiplied, exterminating tlieir foes, and relieving tbe orange grower of further trouble. I think we shall have to adopt a similar course, if we can fïnd the right species of lady bug to do the work. I would respectfully ask Professor J. B. Steere, Entomologist to our Count Horticultnral Society, to give us bis views on this important subject. Respectfully yours, IIf.n'ky Purfield. Editor Cotjbieb : Dear Sir:- The third ward Tigers went to Chelsea, Saturday, with the inteution of playing boys, but when they got there they were very much surprised to see what tbey had to play. The Tijrers are all under íifteen years oL age, and the Chelsea boys were between fifteen and twenty-tbree years of age. The score stood 32 to 10, in favor of the umpire. This was the first time the Tigers bave been defeated this season. Oxe of 'em. Editor of Courier. Dear Sik:- May 22d was the sixtieth anniversary of my reaching the United States. I have üved chiefly in Ohio, but am now a resident of thls beantiful city, Ann Arbor. In 1841 being in Napolin, and court being in session 1 took out my first naturalization papers. My home was in the part of Lucas county, that is now Fulton county. At the expiration of two years I applied for niy second papers. Judge Potter presiding (he is stil! living, at ninety years of age, and a few weeks ago he was confirmed in Trinity church, Toledo, Ohio, a lady from Ann Arbor was present at the eeremony,) he looked at my papers and said the legal time had not expired. it lacked two days, so I took my papers and wenthometwenty miles on foot. At the next court I appeared again with two good witnesses ready to testify that I was plenty good enough to be a citizen. He took iny paper again and said there was a mistake in the dates, one date said 1841, and the othersaid 1844. It was only 1843. When I was ofleriug the paper the Judge said it must go back to the clerk of Henry county to be riglited so I sent it to rny lawyer in Napolln and lie wrote back tliat he would meet me at the next court of Lucas county, but neither he or the paper appeared, so I abandoned the idea of becoming an American citizen, and I became tired of living in the wilderness and I moved to Maumee City and am well worthiy and lugbly bonored. Chief Justice AVaite'then lived in Maurnee City. I met hirn one day and he asked me if I had got my papers. I said 110, I had given it up, and I had concluded to die an alien. My wife was three or iour generations American, and my children were eitizens, and I would stay out in the cold. He said " 111 get your papers, without one penny cost." So I have been an American citizen fifty years.