A Grass Lake News Yarn

Tlie fertile irnagination of tbc Grass Lake News man is only equaled by bis coramand of tlie Anglo Saxon tongue. Here is one of 'em : "Matt Keeler, Geo. C. Lord and Charlèy Cassidy met in front of tbis office Wednesday. Their talk turned on grasshoppers. Geo. C. said when lie lived in Ann Arbor be stuck a pitchfork in the ground one summer afternoon and left it standing Hiere. ïowards evening be wentto get it and fonnd the grasshuppers had eaten tlie hard white ash handle down to the very tines, not leaving a sliver as large as a cambric needie! Matt said he didn't doubt it, and went on to teil liow two or three yearsago he left a hayrake (we understood itto he a single horse affair) to go to dinner, and on returning found the hoppers had eaten up the wood-work completely, including the whifHetree and seven of tlie teeth ! So far Washtenaw seemed to have the lead and we began to feel i'aint and qualmish-lifce. Then Charley straightened up and said tliat last year he had 40 acers of what promised to be as fine clover as he ever laid eyes on. But one Sunday on coming home from cburch lie found that: the hoppers bad not only consumed that clover to the last leaf and stem, but had gone for the roots and before letting go had eaten stools, soil and all to a depth of ten inches over thé whole forty, and what was strange, this depth was so even that on nieasuring it, it was found to not vary a quarter of an inch anywhere in the field. As Charley paosed a forlorn expression overspread the countenances of Messrs. Lord and Keeller, but we feit good and Dan Clark, wbo Iieard it all, paced up and down wit 1 1 a aelf satisfied air that did credit to bis loyalty to home institutions. Jackson eounty agin the world.