Michigan State News

MICHIGAN STATE NEWS.

It is not always safe to interfere with other people's quarrels. An old gobbler whose age should have taught him better, attempted to separate two roosters that were having a setto at Port Huron the other day, but the latter turned upon Mr. Gobbler and cleaned him out in short order.

Although the Christian science scheme has already invaded a host of Michigan towns, no doctor's shop has yet been reported closed for repairs.

A citizen of Grand Rapids had a tussle with a locomotive the other day, but aside from having his coat and vest pulled off, he's about as good as new.

Gladwin's beacon light still shineth, inviting some competent miller to locate there who's desirous of tolling a handsome competence.

Middleville is a staid little burg, her village council having ordained that gaming of all sorts shall henceforth and forever be illegal.

A Detroit paper announces that Saugatuck has too many dogs, while the very next item states that a neighboring town will soon have a new meat market. No further explanation seems necessary.

An Albion farmer has traveled 7,600 miles during the past five years in carrying his children to school, although he lives but two miles from town.

A traditional history of the Ottawa and Chippewa tribes has been written by Blackbird, an Indian chief of Harbor Springs. Blackbird was a student at the State Normal at Ypsilanti many years ago.

The arrangement of the public school house and grounds sometimes reaches the acme of mechanical ingenuity. At Harbor Springs the pupils reach the school grounds by climbing a stairway of 100 steps.

There are 1,650 students in attendance at the State university, the largest number ever enrolled at that institution.

The American Trotting association has twenty-six Michigan members.

Walled Lake's pickle crop is being shipped by the car-load. Somebody is evidently trying to stimulate an appetite.

It is claimed that New York city obtains more eggs from Michigan than any other state in the Union. Canadian hens also do their full share toward appeasing that city's egg appetite which calls for 10,000,000 weekly.

Milford has a company that is doing its share toward the cultivation of the earth. It will have 1,000 cultivators ready for the spring trade.

Professor L.H. Bailey, Jr., of the state agricultural college, has been offered the chair of applied botany at Cornell university, with a salary of $3,000 per annum.

An Adrian business man claims to have four mothers-in-law. How tastes do differ. The average man seems to be pervaded by a strange unrest because he has even one.

Of the 475 boys at Lansing reform school, sixty are taking a course of measles.

Greenville farmers raised potatoes enough for their own use last season, and contributed, for a consideration, 90,000 bushels to other people's hash.

An Adrian hotel clerk is named Jet, but for all that is said to be an unusually white fellow.

The Kalamazoo county lady who charged her father with incest now alleges that she was the object of a criminal assault from another citizen of that county, who is above 70 years of age.

It required $208,000 to run Detroit's police department during 1887 and according to the press of that city, its only observable efficiency was on pay-day.

Michigan railroads raked in a little over $80,000,000 for services rendered during 1887, an increase of the $10,000,000 over the preceding year. The inter-state law seems to have been a good scheme - for the railways.

A couple of East Saginawers had another citizen arrested on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. The defendant was acquitted and then brought an action for damages against his accusers on the ground of false imprisonment. And the jury in the case awarded him $1,000.

Frankfort has great hopes of yet being a railroad town. She can become the northern terminus of Jim Ashley's road by putting up the requisite amount of stuff, and is seriously inclined, just now. It hath been observed, however, that pay day is sometimes the most serious epoch in a town's history.

A Sault Ste. Marie woman brought suit against her liege lord for divorce, and now it transpires that the couple had never been married. This discovery resulted in a sudden cestation of hostilities.

The managers of an Ithaca church socia determined to introduce a variation in the line of amusement, and they succeeded. A sawing contest, in which several young ladies engaged, was the great attraction, a school-ma'am winning the first prize.

A Chelsea couple were married recently, each of the contracting parties being 70 years old. Never too old to learn.

Solid salt trains are now being run from the Saginaw valley to Chicago, without change.

The Grand Trunk people have completed a new freight house at Lansing, 112x90 feet, and will now welcome an increase of business.

East Saginaw is to have a $200,000 windmill factory. Lake Huron breezes don't blow in vain.

During the past eight years, Marquette has more than doubled her population. Upper peninsula towns have evidently come to stay.

Eugene Todd, a Genesee county citizen, was killed by a bursting pulley while running a wood sawing machine.

The bursting of a saw in Morgan & McKeever's shingle-mill at Chippewa, resulted in the death of John Burns, an employee.

Jackson folks use nearly 2,000,000 gallons of water daily, but just how it's done is a mystery to those people acquainted with her beer gardens.

An Ithaca man tells quite a basswood story. The tree scaled 2,351 feet with material enough to spare for six cords of heading bolts.

George McCrary, an East Saginaw boy of 5 summers, drank from the spout of a boiling tea kettle and died in great agony several hours afterward.

Col. William B. McCreery, a citizen of Flint, was one of the 109 Union officers who escaped from Libby prison in 1864 by means of the famous tunnel, planned and constructed by Col. Rose. Of the original number many have since passed over to the unexplored country.

Dr. J. B. Holcomb, the Schoolcraft physician recently found dead at his home, was living alone at the time, his wife being absent on a visit to Indiana friends. Holcomb is supposed to have been dead several days before his demise was discovered.

Progressive pedro is said to have an uncommon charm for the average Grand Rapids citizen. Some of the people, however, are playing a strong hand in the game of life.

The stability of the social club scheme will soon be tested in the state supreme court, the case of Dustan, of the Otsego club, having been taken before that tribunal.

An extensive bed of peat has been discovered near Baraga that makes excellent fuel. It also has a concentrated odor that gives the fellow that handles it an extra appetite.

Lansing's condensed milk factory employs sixty hands, and makes a bushel of clean cash every season.

A Clyde farmer hauled seven cords of wood into Port Huron the other day at a single trip. It took two wagons to haul the wood, but it "got there" just the same.

A pedestrian club is being organized by some of the ladies and gentlemen of Lansing. Summer incursions into the surrounding country are on the programme, and wire fences will doubtless be more popular than ever with the farmers.

A Three Rivers citizen recently advertised for a housekeeper. He not only got one the next day, but had to refuse twelve extra applications. And yet some people don't believe that advertising pays.

Michigan pioneers will hold a seance at Lansing on June 12 and 13, when reminiscences of ye olden time will be indulged in.

A Maple Rapids youth of 6 summers is being taught worldly wisdom from Shakespeare by his father, while his mother is instructing him how to be good with Bible precepts. There's doubtless a future in store for that boy.

The east shore of Lake Michigan is dotted with handsome icebergs of a hight of thirty to forty feet, and some of the people along the shore have had the fun of trying to climb 'em.

A Grand Rapids genius has invented a car stove so arranged that when the car makes a lurch for the ditch the fire will wink out. Accommodating contrivance.

There's a sore-eyed epidemic at Mosherville that's making the people of that town squint in a very unpleasant manner.

An Elkhart man spent several weeks at Three Rivers, ostensibly for the purpose of organizing a creamery. But he left suddenly without even so much as paying for the butter he ate at a hotel in that burg.

Rev. J. H. Webber, in a four weeks' campaign at Bronson, gathered 140 sinners into the fold, who reciprocated with a cash purse of $220.

By the time Gladstone is a year old she will have two miles of paved streets. Another U.P. town that's forging ahead.

An Ovid factory is turning out fifty buggies per each working day. By and by the wheels and the dust will begin to fly.

The new street car line to connect Lansing with the state agricultural college will begin operation July 1.

A Belleville boy is just now taking a little exercise by walking to Tennessee.

Rev. Theodore W. Haven, the missing Battle Creek divine who brought up at Berlin, Germany, announces his intention of permanently relinquishing ministerial work. He will henceforth devote himself to the practice of medicine.

Kalamazoo is to have a safe deposit company with $50,000 capital and a capsule factory that will employ 500 hands. The land of celery ought to be happy now.

Competition has brought the price of milk down to 3 cents a quart at Chelsea, and it wasn't wind-mill competition, either.

The Methodist and Congregational societies of Farwell have joined forces, and are plucking many a brand from the burning.

Shubert Yonker, a Holland hunter, lost both eyes on a recent expedition by his gun shooting the wrong way.

A Douglass, Montcalm county, lady tried to hurry up her fire the other morning with kerosene. The fire went, but the operator will be a cripple for life.

Goguac lake, Battle Creek's summer resort, is to be fixed up in apple-pie order, so as to make the heated term one long tranquil dream for all who may seek its classic shades.

The Adrian straw works are doing their full share toward the summer campaign, having turned out over 4,000 cases of hats and bonnets. Each case contains four to six dozen "shapes," all ready for the milliner's bill.

A youth of 19 sunny summers named Smith, has applied to the Jackson circuit court for a dissolution of matrimonial partnership. He's been married two long years and can endure the bondage no longer.

A locomotive overtook Mary Haltrop, near Grandville the other day, and although she was picked up and tossed fifty feet away the job was so tenderly performed that no bones were broken.