Local

When narrow tires cease good roads will increase. Clover bas been an especially fine erop this year. The representati ve of the L. A. W. for Ann Arbor, is H. G. Prettyman. The canteen systetn will not be in vogue at the state encampmer.t this year. After all the cry of hard times, there is a deal of building going on in Ann Arbor this summer. There are more stacks of hay and grain to be seen on the farms in this vicinity than before in many years. The Choir boys of St. Andrew's cliürch are to have a week's outing at Whitinore Lake commencing uext week. Many who supposed they went throghtbe hot weather all ïight, have been suft'ering from its eftects since that time. Maybelle A., daughter of Mr. and Mis. Arthello II. Gage, died on the 21st, aged 1!) years. The remains were taken to Ypsilanti for interment. The Lyra Singing Society has been having a gay time at Whitmore Lake for a week or so in camp. They had Bome flfty visitors Sunday. That Hnron Iiiver mystery at Ann Arbor turns out to have been the dead carcasa of a hores. - Stockbridge Sun. That's a horse on the Sun. Oh, the human race is a funny snap ; When the babies cry they gain a lap; But the grand mothers finish first, perhap Because they have such a handy cap. L. A. W. Bulletin. It isn't the good points about a high way that punctures the wheelman's tires. Quite a number of our citizens are contemplating joining the W. R. C. excursión to Detroit and Port Hurón uex Tuesday. W. S. Prettyman oL this place, ant W. P. Bowen, of Ypsilanti, are upon the official ticket of the L. A. W., for election this fall, as members of the State board. If Manager Lisemer of the grand opera house lacks material for a leadiug man in some of the companies that come along, he might take the place himself. fie could do it, too. The dentists of the city are now men of leisure Saturday afternoons. From novv until .Sept. llth they will close their offices at noou Saturdays, and go a Jishiug - if they want to. . _ Byron Cady, of the Northside, had two riba broken and a bad gash cut in his head by the giving away of a hayrack on which he was hauling some people to the island Saturday, where a picnic was beiug held. - f ter scanning the pages of Bach & Butler's Better Times we have come to the conclusión that if any one desires to rent oí buy a place in Aim Arbor, such persons would have little difficulty in finding an opportuuity. Wil] F. Wanziek, who has been with Warren, in his State st. barber shop for the past year or so has rented the store next to Caspar Rinsey's, on E. Huron st., and will open up a barber shop therein. Will is a good barber. "Gee whiz !" said a chocolate colored boy the other day as a fine looking Afro-American girl of the sweet sixteen order passed by, "dat ar gurl is sweetah to me dan bnmbel bee honey ! Yes she am ! Suah as you're bawn ! And ('at am nojolley." A forcé of workinen put up the bilis for Barnum & Bailey's circus on a stand opposite this office in about five minutes last Thursday. They did what it ordinarily takes several hours to do. They were artista in bill posting, and as good as a circus to see. Sheep feeders are beginning to look over the prospects for stock ior next winter alid find that the larger part of their supplies must come from the west. The farmers have abundance of pasturage now, and they will very likely begin shipping in their sheep early. Our road law appears to be a dead letter, and the almost absolute neglect to work out the road tax, by the farmers in many sections, is increasiüg the opinión among people who travel by wheel or carriage, that a new law should be passed to assist in building better roads. The eoroner's jury in the case of Jsathau Pierce, whose death was noted last week, returned a verdict of death from congestión of the brain. The deceased had had brain trouble for some time, and the post mortem examination developed the fact that he had been attacked with softening of the braiu. Everything seems to have a tendency to drain the money out of town. The rush ior Europe costs Ann Arbor many thousands of dollars, and the numerous excursions to Detroit, Toledo, and elsewhere, each costs the town many hundreds of dollars. Now the question suggests itself, what is Ann Arbor doiug to replenish this outgo? The very last of the season, with no return engagement for the year takes place to-morrow - an eclipse of the sun. It will commence at 6:50 in the morning and last all day uutil 10 o'clock in the evening. It will be visible to people here if the clouds don't get mad about it and pull a curtain over the scène. Heavy rains are scheduled to follow the event, which no oue here will object to. In the world's broad business battle, If you care to win a prize, Be not like dumb, driveu cattlc, Whoop things up, and advertise. Tliere is to be au excursión to Jackson and Clarke Lake on the 20th of next month, given by the Modern Woodmen. The various societies of tlie Bethleliem chureh are to join in au excursión to Detroit and Put-in-Bay on Wednesday, Aug. 4. The new Vandarwarker store on S. Main st., has been rented by Martin Schaller, who will move his bookstore thereto at once. Dr. Frotliingham is to have his three houses at the corner of División and Washington sta. repainted and W. W. Wetmore will do the work. The Salvation Army have given the "Arts" up as a bad job, and have moved their tent to the Northside, where they liope to meet with much success. Mud on the crossings and dust in the street. There will be a prize offered one of these days for the street sprinkler or other person who will reverse that order. The Schneider Bros. are doing the best work in constructing sewers that any flrm has heretofore doné for the city. So everybody says, and eveiybody must be right about it. After several weeks of hanging fire the deal has at last been consummated by which the Chi Psi fraternity become the owner of the liandsome residence of Chas. Ii. YVhitman, on E. Huron St. All the arguments against a Protective Tariff can be auswered by the fact that, when we have had a protective tariff we have had prosperity ; and whenever we have not had such a tariff we have had panic andpoverty. - Louisville, Ky., "Commercial," June 23, 1897. There is some one or ones, along the bicycle path who evidently have little love for wheelmen. They are doing something mean and contemptible all the time. They .may not know that there is a heavy penalty for obstructing the higliway, but there is, and as nearly all the oourts are wheelmen that penalty is liable to be pronounced. Last week Marshall Sweet receivec a letter from Chas. A. Witter, of Au Sable, stating that his wife had left him a week or two previous, and he believec her to be in Arm Arbor. The Marsh a looked her up and found that she was living here, bnt was opposed to going back to live with her husband, because he made life so unpleasant for her. Au accident happened at the gas workslast Frida}', by which Ferdinanc Hoffrein carne near having a serious time. He was covering a gas pipe witl hot tar when'the pipe exploded, throwing the tar in his face, burning him very bad. Dr. Breakey attended hiir and reporta that his eye sight will be nninjured. t P. T. Barnum (and though he is deac he still lives) once said : "If you have ten dollars to put in use, put up one for the article and the other nine for advertising. I can out talk any man but a printer. The man that can stick type and the next morning talk to a thousand people while I am talking to one is the man I ani afraid of and I want him for my friend." Chas. G. Palmer, engineer '96, of Detroit, lias gone to the Klondike gold fields, sailing from Portland on June 12th last. He was accompained by his sister, Mrs. Edward A. Henderson, and lier little 2 year oíd daughter. Mr. Palmer wrote lióme to his father, Ervin Palmer, from St. Miehaels, reporting ;hat the trip there had been a very rough one, and that they had arrived ust flve days to late for the Youkon river steamer. The scenery he describes as being something grand. He confirma the reports of the gold finds here. "I just think it's shameful the way ,h at girl spits slang," saidone Ypsilanti girl to another on a motor car yesterday. ' My ! If I twirled my talker as she does, my blooming oíd dad would tan ti y duds until the dust was thicker than fleas in fly time." "You betcher brass, and serve you right," replied the other 'oung lady. "My parents are sunlowers of the same hue, and if I should nake a raw crack in my conversation hey'd thrash the cussedness out of my angeüc anatomy quicker than chain ightning." And then they proceeded ;o suck lemou juice through a stick of andy.