Local Brevities

The children are looking up the Valentines. The Chequamegons played in Ypsilanti, Friday night. Ypsilanti will be obliged to purebase another pump for her waterworks. The mails were very rnuch delayed by the storms and the cold of last week. There is a bilí before the legislature to reduce the territorial limits of Ypsilanti. James Burke has purchased Silas Saxson's bay gelding which has a record of 2 :28. John V. Sheehan has been reelected a director of the Michigan Iron Mining company. Albert Fiegel, for some years clerk in VVadhams, Ryan &Reule's, has been made a member of the firm. Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer has resigned the deanship of the woman's department of the University of Chicago. The Normal School choir of 250 voices gives a concert at Ypsilanti tonight which promises to be a very fine entertainment. Two sleigh loads of Ypsilanti young people were entertained by ihe young people of the Baptist church, Friday evening. St. Valentines day is next Thursday and there are some signs of a revival of the old custom of mailing missives to friends on that day. Fraternity lodge, F. & A. M., presented Past Master John B. Dowdigan with a diamond masonic ring, Friday night. Senior Warden H. G. Prettyman made the presentation speech. Problem: - A fish's head is i-ro the length of a barley corn, and its tail and head are 1-5 the length of the whole fish, and the tail is 1-6 as long as the body. What is the length of the fish? Answer next week. W. The annual meeting of the Washtenaw County Sunday School association will be held in the Church of Christ in this city, March n and 12. Rev. Dr. Patterson will deliver the opening address on "Soul Wining. Dr. J. E. Talmage, president of the University of Utah, will deliver a lecture in University hall, Saturday evening, February 16, under auspices of the Students' Lecture association, on the subject, "Mormonism in Utah." There will be a special examination for teachers Friday and Saturday, March 8 and 9, at the court house. The regular examination for all grades will be held at the court house, Thursday and Friday, March 28 and 29. A committee consisting of Rev. Henry Tatlock, of this city, Hon. Samuel Post, of Ypsilanti, and Gen. Withington, of Jackson, are to wrestle with the members of the legislature over the bill proposing to tax church property. The Argus advises the legislature to take to the woods. This school district has now reduced its bonded indebtedness to 7500, school treasurer Gruner having paid $4,000 of the bonds, tebruary lst. Of the outstanding bonds, $4, 000 are for building the addition to the high school and $3,500 for the addition to the first ward school. Judge Waples addressed the Unity club last night. The G. A. R. post hold a ! ing this evening. The democratie county convention j is called for February 26. From 1,200 to 1,500 students are working in the gymnasium. Allen D. Hansen, of Milán, has been granted an original pension. Rev. VV. L. Tedrow is conducting a series of meetings in Constantine. A little daughter now gladdens the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Morton. The 224 new lockers for the gymnasium arrived from Indianapolis last night. The prohibition county convention will be held in the court house, tomorrow. Ternperance meetings are being held every night this week in tne M. E. church. A special song service will be held in the Unitarian church next Sunday evening. A cobweb social will be held at McMillan hall Fnday evening. Everybody is invited. Theodore Vlademiroff, lit 'g6, opens the Epworth League course in Emery, Friday night. E. H. Mensel, instructor in German, will occupy the English Lutheran pulpit next Sundry. The ladies of St. Andrew's parish hold their monthly social in rlarris hall next Thursday evening. The Michigan Press association will hold its winter meeting February icjth and 2oth, at Detroit. The little three months' okl child of Henry Waldron, of Geddes avenue, died of croup, Saturday. The Aun Arbor Rifles are preparing for their annnal Washington's Birthday inasquerade ball. Dr. V. C. Vaughan will address the next meeting of the Gradúate club on "Immunity from Disease Germs." A training class for Bible study has been organized by the Presbyterian Y. P. S. C. E., and meets on Sunday evenings. Right Rev. H. B. Rullison, bishop of Middle Pennsylvania, will deliver the annual address before the S.C.A. in University hall, February 24. At the Y. M. C. A. rooms, this evening, Prof. Bror Sundeen wil! give an exhibition of his wonderful skill in mind reading. Admission tree. E. J. Ottaway, of the Conrier, knows what it is to be vaccinated. He is confrnecl to the house, but when he gets out, give him plenty of elbow room. There will be a pupils' r cital VVednesday afternoon, February 13, at 4:30, and the last pupils' recital of the first semester Thursday evening, February 14, at 8 o'clock, in Frieze Memorial hall. A very pleasant surprise party was given to Edith Schleede by twenty-five of her friends, at her home oh E. Jefferson, Friday evening. Canvas was stretched and dancing was the important feature of the evening. Delicious refreshments were also served. The extremely cold weather has caused immense inroads upon the supplies in stock in the coal-yards in the city, but fresh consignments are coming in daily. It should be stated, in justice to the dealers, that they have not taken advantage of the situation to raise the price. The Ann Arbor Organ company has just shipped three orgams to Africa. The lovely daughter of Old King Ngwlpsqchawbjiji, of Mbungskiddlemejojo, named Mtptzxtmetah, has an overmastering passion for the I Arin Arbor Organ and often delights to come out from the woods in concert f uil dress - a brass nose ring - and play and sing in sad minor, as her father picks the ankle bone of the last missionary, "I'm lonely tonight love, without you." - Adrián Press. Burglars over in the Washtenaw Athens tried to rob the premises whereslept a reporter of the Courier, snoring with steady, regular ground swells. A sleeper in another room aroused him. "The Turk awoke." He had a pen and paste pot, but no sword, but deeming the paste pot mightier than either, he aróse and thus armed, chased the early moming hours and the burglars, with white robes and flying feet. The marauders íled, and with a swagger of victory and frozen toes, the triumphant reporter returned to his snores till the purple orb arose in the oriënt,