From The Adrain Press

A released inmate of the Washtenaw ounty jail has impartod in confidetace to tho Chelsca Standard, that the mcasses department is run on a corrupt asis. He asserts that whether therc re two prisoners or twenty, the allownce of molasses per meal is exaetly vo (juarts. On this probably prejudiced eport, the Standard is yellins for n.orm in the admistration of molasses. Some smart Alees have been making í a business of late to break down advortising boards through the country in the vicinity of Monroe, and some of the merchante are eontemplating; following them with the law. - Monroe Dotnoerat A merchant of real good sense will do nothing of the kind, but will follow his nose to the newspaper office and place his advertisoment undor the noses of its readers. Did you ever have a newspaper advertiseraent split off the boards with'Stones, or filled with bullets and bird-shotV Gigantic preparations for the annual Washtonaw horse, buil, ajricultural, mochanical and literary exposition, next fall, are already in progress. If he hopos of the management are realized, the late world's fair would be n comparsion as a huckelberry to a ïubbard squash, or a pin-tail calf to a irize steer. The wheel harrow is not arther ahead of the old"crotch drag'' than the modern Washtenaw fair, of its predeeessors. It was the brain of a Ypsilantian that at last brought forth perpetual motion. Mr. Mott is the inventor. Bon, Mott! You have a good thing. The devica so shifts the seat of power that the energy is constantly self-applied, never runs down, and assuming that the concern would not wear itself out, would run on and on and never stop. It is wound up liko a populist orator - for permanent "keeps." Probably the bost drainage in Ann Arbor is attorded by the new Hill-st lateral sewer, the discharge being a therate of $36.18 on $1,000 of valuation "Traps'' will be put in the taxpayers to restrain the "sewer gas" by order o the board of public works. Just to show that he "wasen"t no politician, nor nothinjr, and wouldn't go to congress, nor nothing, if he had a chanco, but was aplain, humblo farmer, whose greatest pride would be to soe his ewes graze, his lambs suck, and hi whoat drop into tho half bushei, Law yer John F. Lawrence of Ann Arbo helped thresh his own ffrain the otho day. John's hands are awfully callous Ever see urn? If there is any justifiable ï'eason wh a Michi-HCÍr should Btrut with hi plug hat over one ear, and hands suj porting his sciatic muscles. it reets i the fact that in the last contest opon t the United States, the University o Michigan captured two out of the fou fellowships olïered by Greece. Ann Arbor is grasping after Ypsilanti's underwear tactory. This is likely to unravel the friendship of the twins. vvhich nevei' was very iirraly knit.