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Manager Atkinson has arranged with C. F. Watkins, pitcher on the varsity last , year, to coach the nine timing the coming season. Watkins was one of the chief meuibers of the team last year and is well qnalified to take charge of the work. He is already ou the ground and wilt begin work atouce. The track men have been invited to send representiitives to the University of Penngylvauia relay races at Philadelphia April 10. Tiiw wtll probably be accepted. Anna C. Loinbarth, of Lodi, died yesterday at the ripe uld age oí 8i). The funeral services occur Wednesday, at 11 a. m. at the house; interinent in the Bridge ater cemetery. Deceased came to the Uuited States in 1848 (rom Spielberg, Wittenberg. Slie lias been inarried for öl years and leaves four children, Mis. Mary Welliauf, of Chelsea: Cliristian Fiegel, of Lodi; Mrs. Courad Geisel, oí Lodi; and Mrs. John Fiegel, of Aim Arbor. She leaves 47 grandehildreu and 22 great grandchildren. - Daily Times. Orders have been received and were read at the meeting of the Arm Arbor Light Infantry, on Wednesday evening, appoiuting Corporal Noble Monroe as regimental color ser geant. Although the company loses a good nienibr froin its rolls by this appointiiieiit all Sergeant Noble's friends congratúlate him on his appóintment. At the same meeting Capt. Granger appointed A. C. Wilsou a corporal in the company to succeed Corporal Karl Keru, whose term of enlistment has expired and who retires from the service. - Ann Arbor Argus. The supreme court luis granted au order requiring .ludge Kinue to show cause on March 2 why mandamus shonld not issue to coinpel him to dissolve the injuuction restraiuing the auditor-general from deeding to E. B. Wood, of Lansing, the Ives farm at Monroe, which he recently purchased on a bid of $82, for the taxes of 1801 . The injunction was granted by Judge Kinne on condition that the owner of the property pay the assessmenton the proper description, which was done yesterday. - Daily Times Feb. 18. The Fisk University Jubilee Singers will appear at the Congregational church n Ann Arbor, Tuesday night March 3. One member of tlie original troupe who went out twenty-six years ajo will be with them at Ann Arbor. Admittance to the concert will be frpe, bnt collection' will be taken toward extinguighing the lebt upon the American Missionary Assoeiation in this its jubilee year, for which this trouwe bas already raised about ten thoueand dollars in this way s-iuce the annual meetimg in BoRton last all. Many Ypsilanti people will teel inerested botli in the entertainment and in its purpose. - Commerciid. The I. O. F. made a record in Port Huron Monday, Feb., lst, for prompt payment of a beneflciary claim in the case of Fred II. Batbey, killed in the tunnel Friday afternoon. Mr. Batbey was obligaled in the order only a couple of days before he met his death. On rimrsday last the papers were sent to the head office at Toronto. His medical examination was approved Friday mornirg and be was killed Friday afternoon. Saturday niornnrthe proofsof death were made out and Monday evening, four hours after the funeral, the widow was paid $3,000, the amount of the policy. - Michigan Forester. Tliere are ten things for wliich no ono has ever leen sorry : For doing good to al] for s) reading evil to none ; for hearing before jndging; tor thinking before speaking; for holding an angry tongue for being kind to the distressed : for asking pardon for all wrongs ; íor being patient toward every body ; for stopping the ears to a talebearer; for disbeliving most of the ill reporta. The Scientific American givcs the follovving simple recipe for thawing out frozen water pipes : "Place unshicked linie around the pipes, cover with straw, and then pour on water. The lieat generated by the slacking of the ime will thaw out the pipes if the operation is properly carried out. Pipes nay also be protected from freezing by tirst wrapping with straw, then putug on a layer of unslacked lime, and finally again irovering with straw. The gradual slacking of the lime by the moisture of the atmosphere evolves Eufficieiit heat to prevent water pipes from freezing for i whole season." Every business man sliould remember that it won't help the hard times to be continually couiplainiug. Make the best of it. If you feel blue look out for somethiug bright and try not to communicate your blue feelings to others. A hu-ge part of the trouhle in this world is made to order and it doesn't pay. No good can come of wishing for foriner conditions. The best one can do is to adjust oneself to present conditions, since itis a "condition and not a theory that confrouts us." But go aliead determined to getall thereis. Business in a great state like Michigan is not goiug to dry up though it may lag for a time. We cau't prevent streaks of misfortune,' but we can prevent them making us chronic grumblers. There is a good deal iu the point of view. Get in the habit of lookiug on the bright side and you will (iud a reflected light on the things of everyday life. The following item, clipped from the Chelsea Herald, contains sensible advice and if our readers heed it when the contribution box confronta them, we will not have published it in vain: In chnrch, people who can afford it should be iseneroiw. It is singular that wellto do-people can have the contrilnition plate pawwed undertheir direct notice aud it like sttitues, unresponsive and uumoved givingitthe marble "face" Many hpedless people, well meaning but so indifferent to the expenses of the church services, will come and euioy the good things prepared for them, and thinlv their pan is well done if they occasionally drop a penny or a uickel on the plate. Should any one treat with such indifference an iñstituhon so venerable and worthy as the