Roundabouts

Adrián is suffering from the "barbers1 itch." What, barbcr's itch too ! Incredible as it may appear, there ís a place in Monroe countv called Temperance. It is rumoree) that there is a "blind tiger' iu Wayne, and the officers are looking for it, for they are - very thirsty. Just when Jay Horton wished his colts to show off best at the Fowlerville fair, they threw him down and broke his collar bone. Some malicious fellow recently shot some turkeys owned by Seymour Combs, of South Moscow, and is likely to pass his Thanksgiving in jail. Myrtie Beach, of Ogden, Lenawee county, attempted to conmiit laudanum a few days ago, but a doctor and a stomach pump damaged her plans so much that she "gave it up." Goose bone, corn husk, woodchuck and , chipmunk symptoms, together with the advancing pnce of coal, leaves no doubt of a hard winter, in the estimation of the Morenci Observer. Samuel Barber, of Oakland couny, dropped dead last week while having. Better that Mj. Barber dropped dead trying to shave himelf, than endure the slow torture ot ome other barbers. A ministerial gentlemen at a Grass ake social, tried five chairs before nding one that fitted him. He is ery careful and polite to himself. He always begs his own pardon whenever he falls down. Mrs. Elftman, the Blissfield lady who recently lodged a ball near the eart while pulling some things out f a trunk, smokes cigarettes and uffed vigorously at one while ex)laining how it happened. Over in Lenawee county, Dr. Eaton, of Hudson, is in more trouble than a physician with a complicated :ase of obstetrics, on hand, to convince his own party that he ought to be elected over Senator Morrow. Candidate Fisher's white horse is kept, says his friend Edinborough, by that distinguished gentlemen, notwithstanding the trouble it is :ontinually getting him in, out of iure sympathy for the numerous redherded girls of West Bay City and vicinity. - Monroe Democrat. The Wayne Review man has been so annoyed by the howling of a dog at night and the crowing of a rooster in the morning that he will give largely in cold cash to the person who will rid him of his affliction and give him "an opportunity for sleep and reflection undogged and unroostered." A puzzling case of shooting , pened lately in Blissfield. A young wife says she was fooling with it, when it went off and bo.red a bullet hole in her breast. Others thinlc it an attempt at suicide and others still suspect the husband did it. The officers cannot see cause to suspect the husband. The good and the bad alike are subject to the visitations of Providence. Lightning has just killed a cow owned by Solomon Good, of Coldwater. True, that other Soloman - fellow with the 700 wives wrote, "AGood name is better than rubies." May be so; but lightning cracked it to Good's cow, just the same. After the game of football at Notre Dame last Saturday, in which our college team was defeated by a score of 14 to o and a lost front tooth, the boys are seriously contemplating removing their place of practice to the railroad yards, to see how proficient they can become in "bucking" the switch-engine. - Hillsdale Democrat. The republican party of Michigan are in search of an editor to write editorials during the campaign, who is capable of saying nothing and denying everything against the party. Take the editor of the Livingston Republican, gentlemen. - Livingston Democrat. How tiihes have changed! We have seen the day when one editor wouldn't give another credit for anything. Mrs. Hannah Chaffee, of Adnan, died Simday, aged 102 years. The Daily Telegram says: Deceased was without question the oldest person in Michigan. She was born at Pontford, 't., September 24, 1792, and spent lier childhood in that place. It was during this childhood that she rode 20 miles on a horse's back seated behind her brother, to have the privilege of shaking hands with General George Washington.