Neighborhood Notes

A coiiipiuiv has just begun at Ann Arbor '.he manufacture oí water-gas. It will not be a competer oí' tlie di papers there, as it is íor illuminating purposes.- Adrián Press. A Jonesville inan is out in a eard thanking liis neighbors ior ttu-ir assistauce at the burning of his barn. They carried out a pair of oíd boba and a setting hen.- GraM Lake News. The most economical traveling man we have heard of in some time is the one who got iei'ton the aftemoon train last Frlday and vralked to Ann Arbor rather than pay a dollar livery bül. That man's hoiise should raise his silary.- Dexter Leader. How do you knowbntwhat he oharged the dollar up to the house. Morell Goodrich celebrated thi I anniversary of his arrival in this village last Monday. He reached henSept. 18, 1827. There are but Urne other persons in this vicinity who are so long residente. Mrs. 8. W. Dexter came in June, 1827, and Messrs. W. II. Arnold and Geo. A. Peters in 1826, on. year earlier.- Dexter Leader. The farmer who adultérate the product of his niaple "sugar busb," by a Michigan law which has just become operative, is liable to a line of $50 and the dealer wiio mixes maple sugar can be made to pay S350 tor his avance.- Tecumseh Herald. It must be a Democratie la'.v that would make it necessary to impote a fine for mixing the law witli the sugar. Mrs. Margaret Keelan, an old and respected resident, ot Chelsea, died after a long illness on Friday, Sept. ló, 1893. She was about 80 years of ag. Her furneral was held from St. Marj 'a cln r h on Bunday, Sept. 17th at 3 p. m., and was largely attended, Bev. l'ather Considine oiliciating. The remaina were laid away to rest in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Chelsea.- Chelsea Herald. An observing genius says there are some curious things about corn, and one is, where do the red ears and the speckíed ears come from when you don't plant any but white ears ? And another is, why don't we find an ear with an odd number on It V You can 'ind a four-leaf clover, but we have never found the odd row on an ear of -corn yet. It is always 14, IC or 80, or some other even number, and it would be interesting to understand what corn knows about mathematics and what objection nature has to odd numbers. - Ex. J; J. Robison drove over to the burng" swarap in Freedoui last Friday aiternoon. While inspeeting the devastation he became lost and wandered about for soine hours. He never fully realized the meaning of desolatlon until that niglit. No answering voice replied to his repeated cries; the wind moaned and ho wied among the branches; tlie rain blew in gusts about his slight formjthe Dightowlscreeched and Qapped his wings as )i circled ibove him addlne to the gruesomi of the scène. He fiaaliy fonud eaidance of ;i fcnu.' which led I the road, and footsore and wearj he it last reached home between two and three o'clock Öaturday morning. turning at day dawu tbey found his utaadiug, and he : the scènes of the niL;Iu one