The Great Burdette

The Fresbyterian church was filled full with people last evening, who were there to hear üie inimitable Robert J. Burdette, ín his latcst lecture, "Our Mission to Mams.' The speaker has a droll way of talking to his audJence, sométhing aftei the fiaehdon of a down enst Yankee. He talks rapidly, and says more in ten minfltes tlmn ordiuary leeturers do in a half hour. He skims along so swiftly that the audience often fail to catx:h the drift of a hit until he te in the middle of auother one- then yon see it makes the laugh come in in the wrong place. Kut it never confusos Bob. He keeps right on as if nothing had liappened and srinds out his hnmorous ideas with electrtc speed. What he says eonttiins considerable nonsense, and much that is good sense. He keeps his hearers convulsed with laughter most of the time, and yet there is a peculiar pathos about much that he has to say that starts the moistuie in your eyes at times.. The Y. M. O. A., onder whose aiispices Mr. Burdette appeared, made no misrtake in securing ham, and his leoture adds another Buooessful entertaiinment to the association's list. It is to be hopetl in time that the Y. M. C. A. of our city will have a building of its own, and these entertainments have been startei with a view of making money for that purpose. The cause is a. good one, and should receive the hearty and cordial support of every one in Ann Arbor. There are two more entertainments in the regular course, aiid it is intimated that a surprise extra is being worked up for the friends of the association.