1891-09-24; Saline Observer

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aline Observe
A. J. WARREN. Publisher.
SALINE, WASHTENAW CO,, MICH., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1891.
VOL/XL—NO. 48.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
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PROFESSIONAL.
P  E. JONES.
,   Attorney at Law.
all Business attended' to with Promptness and
Care.   Office on McKay street.
SALINE,
MIOH.
Q.   R. WILLIAMS
Attorney at Law,
Especial attention paid to Pension Claims of all
kinds.   Newcomb Block,
MILAN, - - MICH.
O"   A. NICHOLS, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN and 8UHGE0B.
Office atNicho s 1 ros\ drag store.
SALINE, - MICH.
p   F. UNTERKIRCHER, Nl. D.,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Calls promptly attended to at all hours.
Office in Hauser block, Chicago street.
SALINE, -       - MICH.
C   W. CHANDLER, Wl  D.,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Uflice on Adrian Street, first door south of the
Wallace Block,
-     SALINE, -        - MICH.
NEIGHBORHOOD GLEANINGS.
Newsy Notes and Occasional Occurrences
From our Near Neighbors.
TJ Q. HELLER, D. O   S.
DENTIST.
Headquarters ior the best Tooth Powder
in the market.
Office over Nichols Bros', drug store.
SALINE, - -        MICH.
("*•    C. SLAGHT,
Veterinary Surgeon.
Graduate of Chicago Veterinary College,
Kcsicleuce 1*4 miles east of Pennington s Corners.   Calls may Deleft at either of the
stores at the Corners.    All calls
promptly attended to.
MACON, - - MICH.
MISCELLANEOUS.
WATERMAN'S
PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY.
(Miss Gilletfs old stand.)
Will he in Saline every Wednesday and shall be
plensed to meet all in need of work iu my line.
"Jail and see samples of our work.
P   GORDON,
The Pioneer Painter.
Over Forty Tears Experience.
.'arriiige. Sign and Ornamental Painting, Paper
Hanging, Frescoing, Etc.
SALINE, - MICH.
A New Use for Book Plates.
yy*   Wl. BRIGSS,
Practical Painter.
louse painting, graining, paper   hanging and
kalsomhiin'j.    All work promptly and
neatly   done,  and   satisfaction
guaranteed,
SALINE, - - MICH.
VTANDUZER'S
Barber Shop.
fair Cutting.   ■Shaving,   Shampooing  and   all
Work in flee Barber Line.
Bath room In connection.   Hot or cold baths at
«y times. A. B. VAN DUZER.
SALINE, - - MICH.
4. MILLEB & SON.
(Successors to J. A. Aloer>.
First-class rigs at reasonable rates
Commercial travelers and their bag-
guge carried to and from adjoining
towns witli promptness and at living
rates.
Old American Rouse Barn,
SALINE, - - MICH.
John Baumgardner,
tSuecesso  to Anton*Eisle,)
 DEALER IX	
Foreign and American
fVJarble,
Granite and   Building
stone.
Corner of Detroit and Catherine Sts.
ANN ARBOR,
MICH.
S. JOSENHANS'
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REPAIRING    DONE     ON     SHORT
NOTICE.
All kinds of Forging, Repairing Horseshoeing,
and general Jobbing.
SATISFACTION" GUARANTEED and prices reasonable.     Shop   on   Ann Arbor street,
near Main.
3ALINE,      -      -       -      -      MICH
Three marriages at Northville last
week.   Where is Saline'-'
The Hillsdale Standard will issue a
daily during* the fair.
A carload of pickles was shipped from
Grass Lake to Detroit, last Thursday.
The school board of Chelsea have
X*)laced a $300 order for desks for the
new school building.
Assault and battery cases among the
women of North*i*i]le seems to be the
latest of its kind. A suspended sentence of two weeks followed.
C. S. Burroughs is about to erect a
steam gum factory at Clinton. What
a jaw-aching there will be there when
the thing gets to going.
Grass Lake wants a carriage factory,
and a meeting of citizens was called
last Monday evening to consider the
question, aud sound the pocket books.
Money will buy it.
The young Tecumseh couple who
couldn't get married at home ou account
of the youthfulness of the groom went
to Canada the other day and were married in Windsor.—Hillsdale -Standard.
There is an old superstition about the
weather which very few people know
of. It is that, however gloomy and dull
it may be on Wednesday, the sun is
sure to show itself, if only for a few
minutes, as Wednesday was the day on
which it was created.—Democrat.
Prof. Walker made another balloon
ascension at Tecumseh, last Saturday,
but no parachute drop, this part of the
play dropped oil just as Mr. W. with
his sky nag started and he was left to
the mercy of his own strength and grit
to carry him the natural journey and re-
turu,as the trapese had also loosed itself
at one eud aud hung perpendicular.
This he gripped firmly, and thus he
hung until the hot air filling cooled off
and all came down together about three
miles in tho country.
On Saturday evening, on the 10
o'clock train, Mrs. iVugust Hutzel and
daughter, Miss Charlotte Hutzel, returned from a six months" trip iu Europe. They visited relatives in Wur-
tenburgh and in Switzerland, and had
a delightful trip. Upon Mrs. Hub-el's
arrival at her homeon W. Washington,
st., she found tho grounds illuminated
with Chinese lanterns, and as she
stepped into the yard a quantity of lire-
works and red-light were burned. Her
children and grand-children were assembled to greet her, and such a welcome given as but few people have ever
had the privilege of enjoying.—Courier.
A serious accident occurred to Henry
Teemaii, of Pittsfield, a young man
about seventeen years of age, Monday.
While driving home ou the middle Ypsilanti road, the horse became frightened and ran away. Wheu the wagon
went over the tracks of the Hillsdale
railroad the wagon box bounded up, he
lost control of the team, his foot was
caught.in the wheel and he was throwu
out, resulting in the breaking of both
bones of the left, leg about four inches
above the ankle, so that they protruded
through the flesh. In nearly all cases
of this kind amputation has been necessary, but Dr. Darling thinks that the
limb can bo saved in this lustance,—
Courier.
During the past few weeks Messrs. O.
Lenieu and C. B. Herbert have been
working amoug the horsemen of our
vicinity insuring horses and up to date
report a fine business. The Farmers'
and Horsemen's Mutual Live Stock Insurance Co. has proven a satisfactory
Insurance to our people and we give
below the names of some of those who
have joined the society:
E. P. Harper, C. C. Warner, John M.
Gross, C. B. Herbert, A. Myers. J. C.
Dancer, Wm. Clements, Henry Walker,
Emmauueb-H, Koch, Jacob Sturm,Hen-
ry Coe, Peter Cook, Geo. April, Daniel
D. Seyler, Wm. P. Nissly, Ransom
Salsbury, Thomas P. Dexter, Chas.
Gauntlett, Lee Taft, Chas. Schmidt,
Prank L. Hotchkin, Irene B. Gauntlett,
R. H. Marsh, David Gordon, N. A.
Wood, Paul Carr, Alfred Seit-z, C. B.
Cobb, Ira E. Wood,Harvey McMiehael,
George. H. Olas, M. A. Day, Hector
Drake, Prank: J. Salsbury, Theodore
and Harvey Jacobs, James H. Webb,
C. Laubengayer, T. Sutherland, Nelson
Bell, P. E. Parsons, W. W. Coe, H.
Teaman, G. Keimold, P. P. Kanouse,
A. Klampp, Wcelper Bros., H. D. Lindensehmidt, P. S. Olds, Jacob Rathfuss,
J. A. Smith, Josenhans Bros., J. S.
Kyte; M., W., P., C. andE.Reutchler*
G' Zahn," O. Kelsey, G. Av*ebber, C.
Lambarth; C, G. and J. Peldkamp: P.
H. Rouse; Jacob, John and George
Schaible*. J. J. Knapp, J. Steirle, F .
Tower, J. Clough, Clough Bros., F.
Binder, J. aud P. Kappler, James Tol-
iyer, Fred Brenion, Geo. Schmid,
I have a bookish acquaintance who
has conceived a new and by no means
a bad use for the plates of one of his
hooks. About live years ago be wrote
a novel which was quite successful,
that is, it Sold through three or four
editions. Its title would be perfectly
familiar to any literary person were I
to print it. Por the last year the book
has ceased to sell, and, as quite a number of copies of the novel were on
hand, any further priuting would be
improbable. This summer my friend
built a new summer-house, and when
tbe builders reached the fireplace in his
study an idea struck him. He forthwith opened negotiations with his publishers to sell him the plates of his
novel. The deal was consummated, and
the author, as he will sit before his fire
next Autumn, will have the pleasure
of seeing his entire fireplace made of
the plates of his book, and it is not
such a foolish idea, by long odds.—
Chicago EeralcPs Ar. Y. Letter.
Cape Cod Being "Washed Away.
It is said to be beyond doubt that
Cape Cod is Irieiug gradually eaten
away by the hungry ocean. Not a
century ago the government placed a
lighthouse on the headland of the cape.
The deed to the property calls for ten
acres of land, but at the present time
the inclosure measures scant six acres.
On a point just north of the marine
stations at Highlaud light the face of
the bluff has moved in nearly 250 j'eet
in'the last seven years. A.t this rate
it is only a question of time when
Cape Cod will lie a thing of the patt.
HIGH ART BOOT POLISHING.
How a Conceited Old Darkey's Quips and
Cracks Bring Him Trade.
On a street corner on the upper part
of Sixth avenue is a bootblack stand
presided over by a middle-aged darkey
named Joe. whose odd ways have
secured for him a number of lucrative
customers, says the N. Y. Telegram.
He firmly believes that shoe polishiug
has a high rank among the arts and
sciences, and regrets that among the
hundreds of bootblacks to be found in
the city so few attain the skill and
knowledge of the business which, with
due modestj*, he claims to possess. It
is amusing to watch him in his efforts
to impress a new customer with the
importance of his profession and this
profundity of his "knowledge and experience in it.
Joe first rubs the shoes of the customer for several minutes with his
hands in a solemn way. occasionally
stopping to examine them closely with
a critical eye. This naturally excites
the curiosity of the owner of the
shoes, and then Joe explains in a confidential tone that in order to give a
perfect polish the quality and condition of the leather must be thoroughly known. He then pulls out from the
under part of the stand a large drawer
tilled with dozens of brushes, from
among which he carefully selects one,
As he passes his hand over the .face of
the brush the conceited old bootblack
glances at the' shoes of the customer,
as though determining whether that
particular brush is best suited to the
grain of leather* to be operated upon.
A similar performance is goue through
with in choosing the blacking to be
used on the occasion. Joe then goes to
work and polishes the shoes in question
with many a mysterious flourish and
cabalistic curve. When he finishes, it
is worth the price to see his evident admiration of his own handiwork,
Two Usef ul Pet Lions.
The lioness appeared to amuse herself by playing pranks on human
strangers "of her own sex, lying in ambush for them under the diuiug-table.
The writer continues: Fearing that
something serious might occur if I allowed my pets their liberty any longer
I had a large cage constructed, and
for the first week or two was obliged
to speud much time in it with them
The lioness fretted a great deal, and
the only way I bad of quieting her
was to go in and lie down, using the
lion as a pillow, while she stretched
herself beside me with her head ou my
chest.
One  day the sheriff informed   me
that ho had a summons in his office for
me to serve as a juryman.   I   begged
off, but he   was  inexorable.   A few
days afterward he rode up to my gate,
and I called mv servant to opeu it for
him while I hurried to the lion's  cage.
Presently I heard him calling me,   and
ou my answering he gradually fouud
his way to the den,   in   which   I   was
seated on the lion's recumbent   body,
while the lioness sat behind   me   with
her chin resting on mi' Shoulder.   As
soon as he saw me he sprang back and
cried:   '■Come out of there!"    "Hand
that summons in here and  I   will   do
So."   "Do you want my arm torn off?"'
j "No. but I want you to make a legal
j service of that paper by handing it to
I me."    "I shall not take auy such risk,
but I will tuar up the paper if you will
[ only come out and save me from   see-
I ing vou torn to pieces."    "All   right.
Do s'o, aud I will try to get out alive."
j The paper was torn up aud I stepped
i out of the cage, much to   my   friend's
j relief.   A short time after I met   the
t judge iu the   street,   who   wished   to
i kuo"w if my mode of dodging jury duty
was the one   commonly   practiced   iu
my own couuiry.—Forest and Stream.
A Philadelphia surgeon says that by
three strokes of the 'lancet   he   could
!' paralyze the nerves acted ou  lo make
: a maii get  mad,   and   thereafter  any
one could pull liis nose, cuff  his cars.
j and spit oii his boots,   and   he   would
simply smile a soft, bland smite.
A LETTER FROM MISS ADDIE
SLAYTON.
Work at the general Census office
at Washington, D. C.
Dear Friends:—As I now havenoth-
ing to do, I will spend my time "by
scribbling to you.    My work in the
office being scarce a few days, leaves
time to read, write or play, so the
Chief says.   Most of the clerks in our
division are punching cards with greatest precision.   That work is hard and
tires one badly.   When 'tis time for
work I begin the day sadly—thinking
of those whose unfortune fate places
them at a "puncher'"—but 'twill soon
be too late to waste pity on them, for
ere I;m aware, I too shall need pity,
for I shall  be  there punching away
from nine until four, six fifty to make,
wishing I could do more.   Punching
away as if for dear life—(sometimes a
husband we credit as "wife").   Sometimes a card is spoiled in the making,
which causes some trouble for lask of
pains-taking.    As* the  cards  are all
numbered we must use greatest ear©
that none are destroyed, hut all orderly there.    If one is lost,   spoiled  or
strayed  from   its   place   another   is
punched,numbered,and put in its space.
The schedules are placed on a rack ou
the tahle, and the work begins soon,
with all who are able, by numbering*
each sheet the same as the card;—you
don't understand?   Well it is very hard
to explain one branch, or a email part
even, of the wonderful work in  this
Census Eleven.   And if I could tell you
quite all I remember, I am sure it would
take from now to September.   But some
funny things we find on our way,which
gives to our work the savor of play.
Of all the queer names that were e*f ei*
created, I think they are hero with
birth-places stated—of  the owners  I
mean, for no one could tell where the
names were invented—some we can't
even spell.   The enumerators show'not
all, but yet many) that their learniug
is poor—scarcely worth a ''red penny."
At least they write hurridly and ought
to do better, for sometimes it is hard to
tell even a letter.   We study and guess,
sometimes give up in despair and wish
all were taught to write "plainly, with
care."   If only they'd given the right
word its right place and left not a blank
but filled every space, 'twould be hard
enough then and work enough, too, to
do the work orderly and give returns
true.   But perhaps it is better as it is,
for now we're provided with plenty  of
"biz;" and if we work well and are here
every day, we're sure twice a mouth to
receive our just pay.   This is a good
school, and, if we're apt scholars, while
we used to earn dimes,  we now may
earn dollars.   The work will last (maybe) a year or more, then wo hope for
all, something good is iu store.   I called
this a "school" and indeed* it is so—
vast different from auy you've been to,
I know, but yet much the same in some
of its features.   We've plenty of scholars   and   plenty   of   teachers.       Our
division alone, the 4th as you see, numbers now only just fifteen hundred aud
three.   Messrs. Porter.Childs, Wardle,
and several   more, as superintendent
and board, oft i>ass through the door to
visit the school and inspect the work.
Of course we're all busy—they see not
a shirk.   Now in this school where so
many assemble, where none are alike
yet many resemble, if we care much to
study we have a good chance to study
the faces, for with just a glance we
kuow them to he quite an interesting
crowd, from the timid young girl to the
boisterous and loud.   There are messenger boys still wearing knee pants—
gray headed old men playing frisky
gallants.     Widows  and orphans and
happy old maids,—some seeking more
light and some wearing"shades.   Teachers who try very hard to please all,—
girls  talking  of theatre,  opera, and
ball.   Young widows whom most of the
male sex admire,   (talking of fashion
and  beaux   they ne'er tire).     Wilty
youuff ladies making speeches so blight,
—pretty doll faces which with paint
are a sight.   All shades of character is
shown in the face, good deeds or  bad
deeds leave plainly their trace.   Truly
for some shines a brighter to-morrow,
for  plainly  they  show patient trust
through their sorrow.    Many shades
of complexion as well as of hair—black,
white, brown, bleached, red, they all
are found here.   Some people so dull
and others so slow, it seems a great
effort to keep on the go.   Some are so
smart they must evei-be beating.   Some
are so hungry they're continually eating.   Some are so homely to see them
is pain—others we hope to see often
again.   Poor unfortunate cripples we
also see here.   Let us all treat them
kindly, they have much to bear.   Now
truly'these people—my office schoolmates—do well represeut their several
states.    "Tis here they assemble from
near and from far and sometime? our
peace is disturbed hy a jar.   There aro
people here from North, South.  East
and West: if a choice can be made as
to which does the best, I should like to
know how, for, as far as I see, all are
united, and striving to be faitliful,good
workers, doing their best, hoping with
'promotion that they may *5o blest.
Ebb   M   ■
THE   OBIS   PHIGE
20 SOUTH MAIN STREET,
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ANN ARBOR.
Our Complete Fall Stock
Is npw in and surprises everyone by its variety and the enormous quautities
displayed.   Never has Ana Arbor seen such a magnificent selection of
seasonable goods. Never have prices been made so low. You will need
New Dresses,
Domestic Goods,
Underwear,
Hosiery, Etc.
Why not save money, time and patience by coming to our fine City Stock to
select, instead of trying to get what you want in small stocks and paying fancy prices for what you do not care for.
IMMENSE STOCK OF HEW DRESS GOODS.
Over 10,000 yards just in.   Prices  made to please.   The new silks are
elegant in every particular.
Our bargaiu Surahs at 25c can't be matched In Ann Arbor.
Our SI Black Faille at 83c is decidedly cheap.
Our complete line of 7oc Silk Vests are worth SI.
Our success has been surprising.    It's owing to our pleasing every customer and
giying them the best values for their money to be had in Ann Arbor.
Dry Goods, Carpets, Curtains and Gents' Furnishings
We still have a'niee assortment of
LIGHT WEIGHT OVERCOATS
In Stock, all new—no old styles to work
off.  ISTo man should be without one of
these Coats.   Remember they are
to be closed out at greatly reduced prices.   Quite a large
assortment of
Children's   School   Suits
to be closed out at one-third oif former Price
THE J, T. JACOBS CO.,
Headquarters for Clothing,       -       27 and 29 Main st., AimArbpr
P. P. MAST & 00,'S TRAIN.
Description of the G-reat Train which will
Leave for the West July 4th.
(From the Springfield, Ohio Daily Republic-Times, June 28, 1891.)
At 8 o'clock on the morning of the
Fourth of July a reruarkabl e tran will
leav"e the Arcade depot over te Big
Four, the I., I. & I., and S.intaFe routes
for Kansas City and the Great West.
It will consist of forty cars, all exactly
alike in size and color, each of a carrying capacity of 60.000, lbs. loaded with
BUCKEYE LOAN" DOWX DlilLXS
of all styles and sizes, over 1,600 in
number, including pin hoc drills,sprin<;
hoe drills and shoe drills of from eight
to twenty-four shoes or hoes, si-me
with press wheels and some without,
nnd rigged for from two to six horses;
aud including quite a large lot of the
combined grain and grass feed fertilizer
(hills, which the people of Kansas are
beginniug to call for, and which have
for years been used in the East.
This will be the largest shinment of
drills ever sent out by any factory, and
will be greater than the entire product
of some good-sized factories. Some
idea of its magnitude may be gathered
from the facts that the weight of, the
drills will be about 1,450,000 pounds,
their value, at wholesale, between 880.-
000 and S90.000, and the freight charges
between 89,000 and 810.000.
Each car will bs elaborately decorated with hanners, Hags, aud bunting and
will be made otherwise attractive.
A special feature ofthe train  will be
TWO ADVEKTISIXG CARS.
One, an open platform car on which
will be a pair of handsome dapple-grev
horses, 151 hands high, harnessed to a
Buckeye Low Down Shoe Drill, and at
all stops the people will be given an
opportunity lo examine, the drill, and,
by competent attendant, will be shown
the advantages of the low- c"c»n. ] lin
ciple, the four wheels, the   lirtlir u u
gue and the single  lever.   Both  tho
car aud the.  horses will  be decorated
and will make an exhibit worth going
miles to see.
From the'other advertising car, which
will be the last in the train, will be distributed, very liberally, iii the lown
en route, souvenirs of the great ship
ruent in the form of au elegant, speeiaj
ly imported picture cards commemorative of the occasion* also other adver
Using noveities'iii useful and attractive
fiirius. The train ivill not be run at
night in order that all towns may be
passed in daylight.
The drills in this are sold to dealers
in Kansas and Western Missouri, and,
wilh the exception of a few car loads,
which will be set out at different points
in Missouri, the solid train will be run
through to Kansas City, where it will
he diyided, and each car fordwarded to
its destination.
This shipment is the opening of the
season, only a starter for the tremendous fall trade which is already assured
and another large shipment will soon
follow to St. Louis, to supply the trade
tributary to that point in Southern 111
inois and Eastern Missouri. Still another will soon be started for Texas,
aud later on another for Kansas and
Western ."Missouri, us this lot does not
till nearly all the orders from that section, and many car loads* are not to be
shipped until Aug. 1st to loth, or Inter.
This shipment clearly breaks the
record in the drill business, and shows
the popularity of the Buckeye Low
Down Drills throughout the West.
E.W.
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