Michigan State News

MICHIGAN STATE NEWS.

   Mr. and Mrs. Elias Baker, of Bay City, are the happy parents of three daughters named Faith, Hope and Charity. They are a lot of healthy, rosy-cheeked girls, each 11 years o!d, and are therefore - triplets.

   Governor Luce still presides over the destinies over this great state, but by way of diversion he occasionaIly indulges in a grange lecture as he was wont to do before he entered the fateful arena of politics.

   An Alpena firm ground up 3,500,0000 pounds of paper pulp the past year.

   The twenty Grand Rapid schoolma'ams who inscribed their autographs in the order book of an encyclopedia agent "just to help the dear fellow," and afterward had $20 worth of books each to pay for, have suddenly gained a bit of worldly wisdom.

   Manistee folks have grown rich out of pine forests from the surface and salt from beneath it, and yet are not satisfied. Col. Fowler, of that town, is in pursuit of a silver mine supposed to be located somewhere in Arkansas.

    Those having streams suitable for the propagation of trout can obtain the necessary trout by applying to M. D. Marks, superintendent of the state hatchery at Paris.

   Kalamazoo county electors will express their preferences at the April election on the question of building a new poorhouse.

   Gratiot county's prosecuting attorney tried 117 criminal cases in the year of grace, 1887. From which it is apparent that the people of that region are somewhat give a to stepping over the line, and that the aforesaid lawyer has been kept busy in trying to make the high-steppers toe the mark.

  Several towns of the state are viewing with each other as to the length of their respective toboggan slides. Alpena apparently leads the race with her slide of a third of a mile in length. There's lots of fun sailing down that slide, but just think of the climbing, return trip.

   The Michigan Engineering society will convene in its ninth annual session at Kalamazoo Jan. 17.

   Proceedings in a civil suit at Grand Rapids were stopped the other day and the convivial defendant sent to the bastile to sober up.

   Port Huron is booked for another big elevator, which is to be completed in time for another season's business.

   Coasting is a prohibited pastime on the streets and walks of Romeo, but the boys manage to get an occasional glide, nevertheless, in spite of the local ordinance.

   The Michigan Forestry association convenes at Grand Rapids on Jan. 26. Governor Luce will wield the gavel.

   A Wakeshma subscriber of the old-time Kalamazoo Mail owed that journal $4.50 on subscription at the time of its demise, but concluded not to pay for a Mead horse" of that color. But he changed his mind at the end of a lawsuit and also paid $3.55 costs assessed by a local justice.

   Gogebic county has voted to in vest $50,000 in a new court house and jail The upper peninsula country isn't noted for Italian climate, but it's forging ahead just the same.

   During the last three months of '87 it cost $5,200 to care for the poor of St. Clair county and mighty poor care it was according to the published reports.

   John O'Gau, a Manistee county farmer, while returning home from the county seat, was thrown from his sleigh against a tree, and sustained injuries that resulted in his death. He was 60 years' old, and leaves a family.

   Two business houses were burned out at Negaunee on Wednesday morning. Loss, about $4,000; insurance, $2,500.

   Levi Murray, en employee of Ransom's sawmill, near Vicksburg, fell against the saw and was badly cut, losing a leg. He may recover.

    John J. Major, of Centerville, who was reported ill from inocculation with glander poisoning, is dead. He was 60 years of age, an esteemed citizen and one of the wealthiest farmers of St. Joseph county.

   Scarlet fever is getting in its deadly work at Galesburg.

   East Saginaw people rather suspect that the ice harvest by the local dealers comes from water that would hardly bear an investigation, and yet they've sec an expert chemist at the job.

   A Sherwood couple, who have traversed the matrimonial vale of tears for the past twenty-one years, are rejoicing in the advent of their first born. Better late than never.

   Marine City wants a railroad, and she wants it badly too, so her people are putting their hands way down into their pocket to see if one can be enticed their way.

   A Grand Rapids lady tried eating the hot end of a box of matches, and had a Lucifer time of it afterward, but will recover.

   Blissfield is a bustling, busy town just now. The G. A. R.'s are going to have a dance, local option petitions are in pursuit of signatures. A dealer in "wet" goods is tied up with rheumatism, while the girls are making things hum with their leap year antics.

   A Hersey lady supports an invalid husband and tour little children by donning a lumberman's suit and hauling Iogs, just like any other citizen. And this, too, while many an able-bodied fellow loafs around the corner grocery, complaining of hard times and ornamenting the stove with liquid tobacco.

   The localizar of The Manistique Pioneer thinks that lifting one's hat on meeting a lady on the street is a cool custom in that northern latitude. He tried it once, and has been relentlessly pursued by consuming cold in the head ever since.

   A Bay City greenhouse was roasted $3,000 worth the other morning. No insurance.

   North Muskegon rejoiceth over the proposed erection of a huge tub and pail factory.

   The John Spry Lumber mill, the largest one located in Sault Ste. Marie, burned Thursday night. Loss, 65,000; partially insured. The fire is supposed to be of incendiary origin. The mill will be rebuilt on a still larger scale.

   Opium smuggling is carried on to such an extent from across the Canadian line, that the Lake Huron shore is to be patrolled by customs officers.

   The Chicago & Grand Trunk railway is hauling thirty-six freight trains daily over its main line.

   Disappointment is the common lot of all.  A Sherwood editor contracted for forty loads of wood on subscription and got just- one.

   For eight week's services a Kalamazoo parson received enough to pay his board, leaving a surplus of 87 cents. 'Tis said that the man of God is mighty thankful to that congregation that they didn't run him in debt.

   The plum industry ranks second on the list of fruit-growing specialties in Ottawa county, peach culture occupying first rank. Soil and locations are both favorable, and the business has proven exceptionally remunerative.

   A Genesee county farmer recently located in North Carolina, writes back that h likes the country, the climate, and the people, but that the native butter is n. g. He tried lubricating his buggy with the stuff and it was salivated so that it would only go by running backward.