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26
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February
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1896
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The Man Who Dares : I envy Bings whene'er he sings, So much does he deserve ; 'Tis not his voice makes me rejoiee- I envy him his nerve. - Judge. The Elks increased their niembership toy four last Thursday evening. A new society has been organized by studente attending the University School of Muisic. The last of the preliininary oratorical contests wlll te held Frlday evening, Feb. 28, in the law lecture room, öy the senior lawis. The Ann Arbor K'y has settled wlti Khe farmers north of town whose farms it is desired to cross in straightntng tfhie track between this city and "Whitmore Ijake. It Avill not be' party but personality tbat -vill win In the coming city elec, iáon. The people have to a great xtent cast off party lines in municipal affairs aaid they vate for the one they litó At the meeting of the National Education Association in Jacksonville, Pla., last week, Proí. B. A. Hinsdalo, of the University of Michigan, re d a paper that was prnoounet'd ■ u great interest. "Wlien parents claim that the ir cli'ldren bave not got suitable clothes to wear to school, but whose clothes are good enough to exhibit on tlie etreets all day and half the night, it is too thin- the excuse, we ïnean. Bev. "Washburn of Flint, characterizes the low necked ball dress as hockingly indecent and blisters the authorlties of the University for permitting iull dress balls. The eider íb right. Tlie regulation ball dress ia very like some mea's religión- a little too short at both ends.- Monroe Democrat. It is quite evident that onr friend from t!he "marshes of Monroe," is not conversant with the costumo lie tspeaks of. It isn't sliort fit both ends. Whatare my books? My frieuds, itiy loves, My church, my tavero aml my wealth ; My garden ; yea, my nowers" my bees, my doves; My only doctors- and my only health. -Richard Le tíallienne. Among tdie speakers at the Y. M. C. A. state convention, to be held at Kalamazoo this "week, is Prof. J. A. C. Hildner of this city. A North Michigan paper makes the following pointed remark : 'Don't bring any more wood on subscription, we can't eat it." In toonor of the 22d óf February, Randall's gallery displayed a number of political cartoons and pictures dating iback to 18-iO, over a half. century ago. The pictures have attracted much attention. The Political Equality Club wlll rneet on Monday afternoon uext, at at the borne of Mrs. Olivia B. Hall, on Washtenaw ave., the Rev. Anna Shaw and Miss Busan B. Anthony will be guesbs of the club. The Ann Artxor Chair Co. is the name of a new manufacturing enterprise in Aun Arbor. The incorporators are Wm. H. Iüclimond, who invented the chair to be manufactured, and who holds -the patents, J. D. Eyan, W. W. Wadlhams, Andrew Eeule, et al. The particular chair to be manufactured is a ewing chair of the hammock order, sometihing entirely new and novel. The state Y. M. C. A. aneets mi Kalamazoo to-morrow, lasting until Monday next. A fine program has been arranged, and the meeting wil be productive of much good. The local organization is entitled to eleven delegates, and it is thought that the delegation will be more than full, as some fifteen or twenty are trying to make the necessary arrangements to attend. The national society of the Sons oí the American Revolution, has authorized President Angelí to offer, in its behalf, ia silver medal as a prize to any student who will produce the best essay on "The Principies Fought for in the American Ilevolution." President Angelí has the details in hand. It is propoeed to make this a regular yearly event. Similar medals are offered in other institutions, and the winners in each will be submitted to a special oommitleo, and the essay adjudged the best w ill bring it's autlior a gold medal worth $200. The Moinroe Democrat makes these remarks : "Through the indomitable energy and spirit of Mrs. J. Willard Babbitt, of Ypsilanti, wiie of Probate Judge Babbitt, a monument in honof the venerable and good ex-Govornor Alplieus Felch, may be erected beioie the sim of his well spent life shall b hid below the horizon. Gov. Felch was 91 years old in September. The monument project is favorably received and it is hoped, the result will prove uatrue the words of Shakespeare : "He, who in life provideth not his own monument, shall live no longer in memory than the bell rincs and the widow weeps." A waste of poetry : Wit b care he writes a valentine Unto his best bel ved one. She merely wonders wliv each line Is with a capital begun. -Washington Star. The Light Infantry had a parade .Saturday, 'but not an elabórate ítlfair. The Oriental dogree of the K. 0. T. 'M's was conrerred in great iorm by the Aixn Ai-bor tent last Friday evening. George R. Cooper of this city, was among the class who took the Scottl 11 Rite degrees of Masonry at Detroit last week. A new and elegant residence is to be erected by Prof. A. G. Hall, at the corner of Tappan and Oaklánd ste., this summer. Those dellghtfully fussy, feathery things the ladies wore about their necks in dog days last summer would be very useful these days, but they have all been lald away. A man will hump himself on a bicycle for miles in the summer time, whio can't shovel snow off 'ais walk in winter, foecause it hurts him to bend over. Oongressman R. P. Bishop of Ludi-ngton, was an Ann Arbor visitor last Thursday, o nhiis way to the República Club banquet at Detroit. He visited his sou who is in the University. The Ann Arbor Press Club will extend its sympathy to Marcus T. Woodruff, who feil and was injured while attompting to alight írom a moving railway car last Saturday at Ypsilanti. Wm. Wals'h says that he has already sold a car load oí harvesting machinery for the Deering Co., at this station, and the same will be delivered (here soom. He is making a hustle and one that counts, too. There was not a great observance of the birthday oi the father of his country last Saturday. The banke the postoffice and the saloons were closed according to law, but that was all. Nevertheless, it was a pretty quiet day. There will be an annual social oí Goethe Commandery No. 28, Uuitetf Friends of Michigan, on Tuesday evenMarch 2d. Dr. Kirker and E. f, Liamb, of Detroit, will be present to iddress the Order. All inembers are xequested to be present. The Flimt Globe has this item : "The 'black snow' storm that covered Chicago yesterday struck Aon Arbor also. Those oities must be getting pretty near the bottomless pit." Ine editor iof the Globe must have had a bad dreani, or Bomething. The Washington Birthday social at the English Lutheran church last Friday eveniag was a euccess in every way. Among the other pleasing evnts of the evening was the clats drill of Mrs. F. E. Mills, and a paper written 'by II. S. Greenwood on Mi. Vernon, and read by Miss Xellie Mingay. Tliere (is conóiderable t-peculation as to who the two caiulldatee on either side ior aldermen oi the -tth ward will toe. It is understood that Aid. JBrown will decline to run again. - Daily Times. Wliy sliould there te any niore speculation now than usual ? And why more than tor any other ward ? On Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, at tlie family residence, No. 94 S. State st., occurred the funeral services of Miss Florence G., daugüter of Mie. J. "W. Leydecker, who died on the Wednesday previous. She was 21 years, Í) months old, and the ni'Othjer has the sincere sym,pathy of many friende in hier affliction. Occasionally a teacher discovers a gLi't of condesenation in a chüd at school. One teacher in a ptimaiy school the other day, told her small pupils tfhe story of the ass who put on a lion's skin; and then she commanded each child to write down and Jiand im a moral for the fable. This was the moral which one little girl aged ix, handed in : "Don't be what you ain't !" If all our falsecolor people would frame that moral and hang it up o-n their walls, it would Ie well.- Ypsilanti Commercial. Rev. Anna Shaw, who is to lecture here before the Woman's League, on next Saturday. Feb. 29th, stands second -to no lady speaker in the country to-day. Mrs. livermore says : "Her training for taie platform has been thorough, and no lecturer of the time is better equipped for general public lecturing than she. With a good volee, a pleasing style of oratory, diistinct and clear enunciation, she combines scholarship, a largo íund of general Information and enlivens her dlscourses with such sparkling and genial wit as renders her a general favorite." No admission fee will be ch&rged. m A needle lovrd a ball of yarn, And nearly hjid fit. BeeausK lt didn'l care n darn, And only answrrvl " Nit." - Philadelphla Record. The next annual encampment of the M. N. G., will be at Island Lake, Aug. 19. Wfoat's the matter with Mackinac? The silver aruiiversary of the Woniam's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society will be observed Friday Feb. 28 from 3 fco 5, at Mie home oí Mis. J. Nelswn Lewis, 106 E. Hurón st. Rev. A. B. Btornis, nmv pastor oí tlie Cass ave. M. E. church, Detroit, a gradúate of the Uaiversity, and a Washtenaw county boy, is being talked up íor the M. E. pulpit in this city after Rev. Dr. Oobern leaves. Farrand & Votey will attaeh the Aeoliau to the Columbian Organ in Gniversity Hall on Friday evening, o! next week, Marcli 6, and the concert will be in charge of Orla D. Allen, oi Detroit. Ttoe afiair T-ill be a lime tone, and the 'organ with this attaohment, is expected to do grand work. The Loyal Temperance Legión, a society for fhe children, meets every Saturday, at two o'clock, in tlie hall over Calkin's drugstore on St-ate st. Paxents who are interested in the caujse, and in the purity and saiety of tneir children, wrill iind these meetings of valuablO assistance, tmplantiwg seedis of truth that shall certainly yield a luxrvest of good. A motihers meeting, condncted by Mis. XJamer will tie an attractive feature ot tihe W. C. T. tJ. meeting, tomorro-iv a-fternoon, at three o'clotk, in fhe P. O. block. It is hoped that ttoe attendance will be large, and ttoat a, special effort will be made to secure -tibe presence oí mothers and all interested in -the care and training of the young. Next Monday evening, March d, will be the Grand Anny Evening, In the Unity Club course, at the Unitarian church. The evening's program will commence at 7:45 sharp. Col. H. i. Dean will deliver an address entitled "VThat is the Grand Anny oí tb Itepublic ?" James B. Saunders will teil his pereonal experience in Rebel Prisons. There will also be readings and recitar itms by Cari H. Hiirriman and othei-s. Excellent musdc, conaisting of war pleces, both Instrumental and vocal. Admission 15 cents, rfstihool children teu cents. A new telephone company has been organized in Ann Arbo-r wiLh some of our prominent business men tiis pnomoters. It Is proposed to pnt in telephones at less than half the price now being paid the Bell Company, or $24 for business piiones and $15 for residences. The scheme is certainly a good one as far as our citizens are concerned. There are humdreds of people -who would put in telephones and have the convenient luxury in their own homes, i f they could do it at at rato withln their means.

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