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In sorae long-looked for, blessed day How happy will tliat mortal be Who eau with trutliíul ardor say, "There are uo flies on me !" -Detroit Free Press. IE you cau't take a vacation you can take aride on the street car, can't vou? Judge Taft, of the U. S. district court, has confirmed the last sale of the T. A. Kemember the K. of P. excursión to Toledo and Put-in-Bay, Thursday, Aug. lst. Mrs, Miller who now runs the Normandie will remove to 84 S. Main st., Aug. lst. A. & X. M. R. R. and overruled the inotion to set the same aside. Consequently the road will now stay sold. A citizen who neither paints, flxes up or improves his property has little enterprise, and cares less about the appearance ind prospeftity of the commuriity in which he resides. The people of Ann Arbor, many of whom were personally acquainted with ex-Gov. Winans, will be glad to learn tliat a flne and imposing monument, of Barre granite, has been erected over his grave at Hamburg. The Boston Globe of July 15, de votes sixteen pages to the Christian Endeavor Convention. It gives pictures purporting to be types of maidens from different states, which are pictures drawn from the artists imagination. The maid from Michigan is represented as a demure, insipid looking girl. The artist evidently did not meet her. There were about forty-five men in line at the inspection of Company A. Wednesday, and Maj. Howell compliinented the boys on the manner in which they perforuied their duties as soldiers, especially was he pleased with their sentinel duty. He also found the arras and acoutrements all in first class condition, and Capt. Fisher feels very proud of it. This company will be at the head of the list in the State encampment, just watch the prediction. I Ie asked her if from hor soft hair A lock for hiiu Bhe'd clip; A llttle eurl she gave to hini- A curl of the lip. -Kansas City Journal. Mrs. Ed. Miles moves from X. Main toWiliuot st. in a week or so. The atteiKlance at the coloree! camp meeting at Dixboro is inereasing much to the satisfaction of those in charge. The Y. M. C. A. excursión to Detroit July 25th. Only 85 cents for the round trip. Best of the season. Save your dimes and wait for the Y. M. C. A. boys. It has been suggested that the weather department needs a board of equalization, by which Michigan would be granted some of the rain that other states liave to spare. If you are in business, and really desireto reap a ricli harvest, the way to do it is to advertise in the Courier. It will like bread cast upon the waters, return an hundred fold. Many of the colored people of this city will go to Battle Creek Aug. lst to attend the great Emancipation celebration to be held there on that date. The M. C. bas made a cent a mile rate. Word has just come from Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Adams at Lawrence, Kans., of the birth to them of a second son. Mrs. Adams is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Breakey, of this city. There will be a bagyjage car accompaaying the.Y. M. (.'. A. excursión tomorrow for the accomniodation of lunch baskets, bicycles, etc. This fact will ue a great inducement for many to attend. Miss Sophie Scbleicher and Rev. Jolin Neuman have been chosen delegates from the Christian Endeavor society of Bethelhem church to the conS'ention of the Germán C. E. society at Cleveland the last of the ïuonth. Two wheelmen. collided on the campus walks a few evenings since. Both of them were thrown, but one of them flew through the air an actual distance of twenty-four feet before touching the ground ! Talk of flying machines, will you ? Some smart young fellow at corner of State and William sts. is causing the conductors on the Street railway considerable trouble by signalling them to stop and then instead óf getting on, laughing at them for stopping. This is a joke that may sometiuie work both ways. The annual Farmers's picnic will be held at Whitmore Lake August 24th. Among tlie notable speakers to be present will be ex-Senator Thos. W. Palmer, of Detroit; Hou. Wm. A. Moore, of Detroit ; Rev. Fr. Geldrick, of Xorthlield, and llon. Wm. Ball, of Hamburg. Passers alongour streets in the evening complain that the habit of iiooding. the side walks is growing to be quite a nuisance. Ladies are beginning to wear their rubber shoes when going out for a walk. Those wlïo sprinkle the street should be a little more careful of the conveinence of others. It will pay. TheMergenthaler and the Eogers Linotype type setting machines are now both owned by the same company, and the result will be a new machine, combining the best points of both, that will be close on to perfection. The Mergenthaler people gave over $400,000 in cash for the Roger's patents, and consider that they have made a cool half million by the transaction. The State Teacher's Institute for Washtenaw County will be held at Ann Arbor, commencing at 10 o'clrck a. m., Monda}-, July 29th, and closing at 4 p. in., Friday, August 2d. Superintendent of Public instruction Pattengill, will have charge of the institute and stiggests that, as the time for study will be limited, all those expecting to attend should review their arithmetic, grammar, geography, history, physiology, civil government, pedagogy, reading and orthography. Full particulars in regard to board, etc, may be obtained upon application to W. W. Wedemeyer, Ann Arbor. By the Sea.- The white wave is my pillow As I flrat and float at will; The landlord marks the: billow, Aud theu inakes out the bilí I -Atlanta Constitutiou. He kissed her quickiy on the lips. Which made her clieeks turn red ; Aud, whea he laughed at her for this, "I'd like them always so," she said. -Detroit Free Press. You can put away the garden hose now and trot out the lawn mower. M. Staebler has been granted the furnishing of the coal for the jail and eourt house, about 150 tons. The Ann Arbor Coinmandery Knights Templar have issued a very handsome pamplilet, entitled "Our Boston Trip." It is finely illustrated and gives full details. J. J. Kirby, traveling passenger agent of the T. & A., was in town Saturday afternoon looking up the prospects for a Sunday school excursión to Whitmore Lake and Ann Arbor.- Gratiot Journal. The law students in the summer school met Saturday and elected class officers. They are Edward Menkin, oL Pittsburg, Pa., president; 51asaichiro Mayoma, of ISTagono-Ken, Japan, vice-president. The electiou was peaceable but noisy. Miss Ida Austin, a former resident here and gradúate of the high school, who was married some two years ago to Mr. D. E. Davis, qL Chicago, died recently in that city, and the remains were brought to Dexter Thursday for interrrnent beside those of her father and sister. She was 36 years of age. J. B. Dowdigan, D. D. S., of Ann Arbor, arrived in the city Tuesday and bas opened dental parlors in the rooms ove'r the Kalamazoo Bargain store. Dr. Dowdigan comes tothe city mosthighly recommended by some of the best dental practitioners of the state and we wish him success in bis new field. - Owosso Times. John is a sure winner. If the Pontiac Daily Gazette and the Ann Arbor Daily Courier are mailed in those cities with the regularity whieh they are received here it must be interesting. Some days they do not appear at all and tlien again two or three days' publications will be received in one batch.- Northville Record. Now Uncle Samuel will you or some of your servants please arise and expain? Frank J. Lee, a prominent and well known dental student, whose home is at Benton Harbor died at that place Sunday. He was a successful student and appearedthe very embodiment of liealth and vitality. During the past year he underwent a slight operation at the hospital and it is probable that he never thoroughly recovered froni this. He would have graduated in 1896 if he had lived. Sheriff Judson picked up a man on the street Saturday morning, giving his name as E. C. Fuller, who is wanted in Ingham Co. on a charge of horse stealing, and for whom a reward of $35 is offered. We understand that he told the. Sheriff where to find the horse, which had been left át a stable in Lansing. It is also thought that this same man is wanted in Chicago for diamond steahng, and a telegram bas been sent there to ascertain whetherornot suchis the fact. At any rate the fine will probably net SherifF Judson $35. The following excellent paragraph is going the rounds of the press: "Backward, turn backward, oh, time in thy flight, feed me on gruel again just for to-night. I am so weary of sole leathei steak, petrified doughnuts and vulcanized cake ; oysters that sleep in the watery bath, and butter as stiong as Goliath of Gath.; Weary of paying for wbat I can'teat, chewing up rubber and calliug it meat. Backward, turn backward, for weary I am ! Give me a whack at my grandmother's jam; Let me drink milk that has never been skimmed; let me eat butter whose liaii has been trimmed ; let me once more have an oíd fashioned pie, and theu 1 will be willing to curl up and die." The patience of people with the slowness of plumbers, is something really astonishing at times. There is a house in the 6th ward where the plumbers started in before vacation to connect the water closet with the sewer. Yesterday the lady of the house, getting tired of the debris lying about all ■ the time, asked one of the workmen - the "workmen" on the job, by the way, consist of two young boys, whose "work" is inspected once a week or so by the boss - howmuch longer it would take to complete the job. "It will take us fully a month, Missus," was the encouraging answer. And the "Missus" thinks if she is obliged to wait until the job is completed before she takes her vacation, that she might as well give it up entirely. It might not be out of place to state that the entire job, if put in the hands of a competent man to do, would not take him to exceed a week, and perhaps not over three days. There was a man in our town. And he was wondrous wealthy ; He made mouey haud over fiat, By Courier ads large aud healthy. The Agricultural Ooilege commence:akes place August 7 to 13. Harvey Stofllet secured sixth place in the Detroit twenty-five mile road race, Saturday. Miss Anna O'Brien is back at her place in E. F. Mills & Co.'s after two week's vacation. Conrath's berry pickers made the streets jingle with their songs and yells Saturday evening. The annual convention of the Michigan Banker's Association will convene in Detroit Sept. 10-12. Rev. Mr. Biss returned missionary from India, gave an interesting talk at the Wall st. chapel Sunday uight. The new head of the weather bureau has done pretty well by us so far. Of oourse there's no danger of his oyerdoing the matter. The sheriff of Inghain county came here Saturday eveuinfi and took back with him E. C. Fuller who is wanted at Mason for horse stealing A crowd of Detroit wheelmen bound for Battle Creek and the races called at the Wolverine Cycle Club rooms Sunday. It was a jolly crowd. Here is an awful good motto for farmers and gardners as well : "When you see a weed, pull it; when you see abug, kill it; when you grow a erop, sell it." Itev. L. Allinger, presiding eider of this district will flll the pulpit of the Germán M. E. Church next Sunday. This will be the last quarterly meeting of the conference year. Fred Miller writes from the asylum at Pontiac that he is recovering slowly. The superintendent writes the same. Fred's friends here will be glad to learn of the possibility of his early return to A un Arbor. John E. Travis broke ground at the corner of E. Huron and X. División Sts. Monday for a new residence. Euler & Pipp have the contract for the carpenter work and John Koch for the mason work. Irene, the little daughter of Jerry Collins, while crossing 4th Ave., at the Arlington corner last Saturday evening, was run down by a careless drivér, and had he foot somewhat injured, though not seriously. "Are you going to Detroit Thursday, on the 85e excursión?" "You bet I am," is the universal question and answer of people on the street. The Y. M. C. A. will have a big crowd that day if the weather is pleasant. Bach & Butler have purchased a horse of Samuel Krause, and a road wagon of J. T. Jacobs, and are now prepared to hustle people more than ever. They rented an even dozen houses last week, which is a good indication, On Saturday morning July 20th, Frederick, son of Mrs. Sarah Staebler, of W. Liberty street, died at the home of his mother, aged 18 years. He had been ill only a couple of weeks, with brain fever. Funeral services were held this afternoon at Zion church at 2 :30 o'clock, and remains interred in Foreet Hill cemetery. Mary Henry, aged 18 years, died at the home of her mother on Spring St., Saturday, of inflammationof thebowels. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon froni the residence and interinent was it the city cemetery on the uorthside. The deceased's father, George Henry, was killed in the main "sewer treuch a year ago last winter. Chas. D. Bighain, of 72'o N. Main st., went home last Saturday night, and it being so warm and oppressive he sat down in a chair on the stoop to keep cool. Along about half past one o'clock he feil out of the chair on to the floor and theuce to the ground. In sleeping with his head inclined upon oue side the nerves or cords of the neck became somewhat rigid, and the sudden fall it is thought snapped some of them in two, as he has suflered great agony ever since, so much so that yesterday he begged of his faniily and the physician to put an end to his liie. Whether he will recover or not the physcians think very doubtful. It is wonderful how far kindness will ro to overeóme the native wildness of the auimal creation. In some parts of the city, especially on Hill street and Washtenaw ave., where the old oaks still stand, the grey squirrels delight to dweil and hold high carnival trooping over the beautiful lawns in quest of food which they often 'find near the houses where kind people delight to feed them, especially theirfavoritenuts, and they will actually take the food out of one's hand. At one house they have their play ground all over the roof, bnt one large fellow ventured too far, went down the water spout the other day to learn what was in it, and fetched up in the cistern a drowned squirrel.