Local

It rains easy these days. If the ame admirable feature will continue during the summer the people will rejosco and give tlianks. Fred L. Ingraham, who recently took the oratorical prize at Chicago has been offered a chair in the Nor,mal school faculty at Ypsilanti. The regular mointhly tea social, giren by the lady member of tJfe. Andrew's parish, will be held at Harris Hall, on Thursday evening. Tea served at 0 o'clock. Saturday was ane of the old-time Memorial Days- it rained. Kor sevral years this especial day was sure to bring a rain, but the two' years previous to tihls one have been exceptions. Hundreds of young people took their hinches wiíth them last Saturday nnd wandered up or down the rirer ns t.toey pleased. No many ef them caujght any fish, lut a large number go caught- in the rain, without even aa uinbreHa. The Gas Engime Ca. Avill have tlielr first engine out to-morrow at the city fcvundry on "W. Huron st. Mr. Taylar of the UnieTsity has been working on the engine thie week. The patent is a new one, being called the (?ecord Engine. The Daily Times has leased the Broes store on S. Main st., for a period oí ten years, and the 'building will be litted up for the use of that paper. A new front will be put in, new floors lald, and the entire building wil! te pu't in tip-top shape. The editorial and counting rooms will be o nthe lst floor, the Hausfreund will have the 2d floor, and tfhe prees room will oceupy tbe rear of the iirst floor. N. Main Bt. will be sorry to loso this office. The ch&nge will be made about July lst. The residents of Ann Arbor are just now enjoying aseries of graduating recitals at the School of Music tliat at almost any other time woukl créate a fu rore. To select any particular one is being superior would be unjust, but we feel sure that those who attended tlie recital given by Miss Emma C. White of New Haven, Conn., on Thursday last, will pardon this brief reference to its excellence. It was very fine indeed, and well deserves especial mention. The friends of the School of Music as well as those of Miss White, will be greatly pleased to learn that she has been retained the coming year as a member of the faculty. The U. oí M.- Chica ?ro ame -whlch was declared off at Detroit because of the ram, will be played to-morrow, Thursday, at the athletx field. ït will toe a great game, andi thero wiU be a great crowd to "witness it, if the vveather is pleasant. A horse at Ann Arbor, glanced in tSi djrectiom of a street car and feil doad. gome say be wm fri'ghtened at the car, and ethers a'.iirm with avlwsmeince thiit the rood should secure motormen who are devoid of that fferce look. - Monroe Democrat. Prof IStanley Bays he expects to spend tbe snimme" in Ann Arbor, whicb Ji wmiW nat object to if It was not for tbe intolerable dust. He thinks if the stneets of Ann Arbor could be sprinkled, handreds öf people would come (here to remata during the bummer. The hien that leaves her nest after a day's setting because she does not hear the chirp oif chicks, is something like the merchant whO' quits adver7 tteing aft-er the firs-t few "thro'ws" lecause hte first calis havea't filled liis Btore vvviith clamoring customiprg.'- Priinter's Ink. The Congregational people of Ypsilanti have inaugurated the excursión seascm, and it looks novr, as if they had made a 1ig hit foy starting their train irotti here next Saturday. It will cast only 80 cents, children under 12 years tialf rates, td spend the day in Detroit or Belle Isle. It is an ill wind that blows no one any good. The recent cyclones have Eiren our agenta some business. Withm the past week W. K. Childs ■has written up over $18,000 in cyelone iúsurance, and it is blowing ín to him yet. He has a, goodi and a ■reasonable Mitíhigan company. There was very little Borrow expressed among many old soldlers and their friends over the rain last tëaturday interfering with the base ball game between the U. of 51. and, Chicago, at Detroit. There is a strong ieeling that these gamiea are a desecration of the diay. They say that Mie University faculty would at once "set clown on" the Btudents for playing a game on Sunday, andi yet here iis au occasion as sacred as Bunday, which they allow to be desecrated without protest even. The Y. M. C. A. Lyceum courso has been secured for the coming year, and names and dates will be made public in due time. There will be Bix entertainments - as fine ones as the great lecture bureaus present. The course will be givem in the Presbyterian church and season tickets will be the same as last year, $1, although the course is a far more expensive one. The association has set its stake at the $500 mark thi year. .UI to go into the new building Jund. Help this aloog, can't you ? ■ ■ The debate between the Lyceum and Crescent societies at the High School building Friday night was slimly atended, but was interesting and hard 'ought throughout. The speakers vere: Lyceum - Messrs. Fox, Boylan and Seery, and Crescent- Messrs. Pearice and Cross and Miss Downing. ?he local society won the decisión, but he Chescents went home to Ypsilanti eeling that they had made a good flght. The high school orcnestra furnished the music and the judges were Messrs. Wedemeyer, Ingraham and VanKirk.- Daily Times. The Niashville, Tenn., American of May 21st, had tJiiB item which wil] te of interest to many o{ our readers who fcnOAV Will : "The promotion of Ca.pt. "W. R. Payne to baig engirceer, witih the rank and title fcf Oolonel has given more general satisfactiom tiran any appointment yet made. Col. Payne is one of best warkimg Pybhiams In the Btate. He bas mare applicatioms to nis credit tban any olie person probably in the ■w.orld. He hos prtoposed to hlfe lodge over 200 new members. He Is alsö a good worker in the Uniform and Bndowfment Ranks of the order." In the archivas of the court house at Ann Arbor, may be found the bound volumes of the nevpaper first publiehed in the county, datiaig lack to Not. 18, 1829. A glance at the paper, and a cursory examination of th jouraalistic lyiing of that date, comparei) witto the columns of the newspapere of that city to date, shows the steady advancement made1 in teaching of Annanias, and illustaiates the doctrine of evolution by the rear fla.nk. Thte is explained by the fact that the paper of 1829J did nob contain a line of editorial, ou eittoer tariff, Cuba, ftnance or Pingree.- Adrián Press. The Press man is isucli a consummate tariff ;and: ïree silver liar húasolf tliat he has come to look upon everyboay else wlth lenses reflocting his own concentrated art iele. "We have just received our third Bhipment of Baby Carriages. Our low prices and good styles sell them. Haller's Furniture Store. I In tttie Athletic events at Tvansing laist week Friday and Saturday, Aan Arbor dict not even take second place Grand Eapids took Simt witti 22 poinbs and Detroit second with 15 pointis. Hall v,on 2d in ieatlherweieïit boxing ; Davis 2d in lightweight boxing ; Loud 2d in ileather weight wrestling ; Neal 2d In jniddle weiWht wresiUimg, all hfeh school boys. May Costello Firestone, of Chicago daughter of Mrs. Ambrose Kearney of this city, has just written a book which is attracting considerable atten tion. It is entitled "Whence We Carne, Whither We are Tending," and issues in paper covers from the pres of Donahue & Henneberry. It is a book of 208 pages and treats of the currency question and the tariff ques tion, and the millionaires are handled without gloves.- Daily Times. The Chattamooga Daily Times of May 14, in lts account o: the TennesBe? State Homeopathie Society's annuai meeting in that city, has this paragnaph : "Dr. Harriet Carbaugh, o Lookout Mountain, presented a very valuable paper on "Typhoid Fever, and thO Successful Treafcment of that Disease." Mrs. Carbaugh is known to Ann 'Arobr people as Miss Hatttie S wathei, and graduated in the Homeopathie department with the class o '80. The regular annual convocation of the diocese of Michigan will be held in Detroit next week, eommencing Wedinesday. June 9th, and continuing through ITiursday, at Emanue] church. St. Andrew's parish of this city, will be repreeented by Hev.s. Heni-y Tatlock and Lawrence T. Cole, and by türee lay delegates, Col. B. M. Thiompson, Prof. C. S. Deniison and Cieo. H. Pond. The annual meeting of the "Waman's Auxiliary will be held on the Tuesday p recedims . Th Knights of the Ixyal Guard Is tíhe neTv fraternal insurance order, which was organized at Flint in Feb. 1895. It now has 75 diTisions and 5,000 members, a phenominal growtlh, and has paid out $20,000 to 17 different families and had tmly three agsesgmente. A división is leing oirganized in Ann Arbor by W. H. S. Wdod of Howell and B. IC Boyd of Fenton. A g'oodly number haxe already been examlned by Dr. Belser over the National Bank and others who wish to secure charter rates sliould be examined at once. The Motnroe Democrat reuiarks : "The editor of the Adrián Press shyly intimates that he is a singer ; but -n'hen on the occasion of hiisi last public appearance as a prima doana, he let loose tShe solo, 'I'm Baddest "When I Siing,' the audience, witli modst eyes, declared that it had the name effect on otihere. Courtesy to a newspaper brotlicr compels us to refer as delicately as possible to Mr. iStearns' A-oice, and we will no more tlian state tihat when Mr. Stearns was about half through with.his solo, a saw filer rose and left Vhe aud-ience and was never seen afterward." The Clack Book is the rather unique name given a very neat and tasty publication oí tlie magazinette. (if we can be allowed to coin the word) to fit the periodical) order. It lias its home im Lansing, Wells & Hudson being tlie proprietors. It ontaius verse, fictlon, original ideas, art sketches, and quaint illustrations. The June number has a ver y reaúable dialect story trom the pen of George R. Baxker, Ut '98, one Oí the Wrinkle editore. The subscription price is 50 cents per year, and U future numbers are as nieritorious as fthe one befare us, it ought to be extremely succesöful in oibtaining subscribers. TVTiea the Ann Arbor Regiister Publiislüng Ooinpajiy got into a row with Jtself tliree years ago, Selby A. Moran took possession" of the newspaper end of it and hung on with. hi teeth and eyebrows -vvhfle he fought his enejnies twífeh botli, liando. When clubbed over the nose lne sknply bhut Ms eyes tiighit and tightened his Ja-w hold. Hip and thigh, over and under, they had it, ibut Moran never let go. He hos just secured titular possession by eettlement out of court. Now let eosne friend of Moran, pry his jaws loóse wttíh a crowbar. Tliey need rest. - Monroe Democrat. "Miss Virgiüia Dox tells the thrilling story of 'How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon,' with a power, a self-restraint, a sustained interest tihat holdB her hearers' absolute attention from start to finish. Those wlto have never before heard of 'AYhitman's patriot deed learn in one Bliori hour a now and most significant lesson in American history and .Christifln eelf-sacrifice." -The above it from Rev. D. M. Fisk, D. 1, Toledo, Ohio. Miss Dox will teil the above story to the Young Men's Sunday evening Club, of tbe Congregational cliurch, Suaday evening, June 7th. A cordial invitation is extended to all. Jacobs & Allmand have a change of ad. this week, which is quite interestng to wearers of shoes. We all know hey mean just what they say.