Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-06-09

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consumes 80 loog n is de-
livery. A fsw days ago he appeared IN
oreAthiess haste because the caller had
said, ''Git up, Bill. you've only nfteen
N nuLes 70 make No. -" The tobacco
chewing girl rushed out TO greet her
Billy forgetting IN her hurry 10 remove
3 quld OF the fragrant ITO somel indian
weed which she had recently placed III
her dimpled cheek. What followed
Was OF character too sacred To be re-
vealed TO everybody IN solid brewer
FORM The fireman may pull through,
II brain fever doesn't set IN
Immigrants John Moser, John and
Marie Arndt and two children reached
Detroit tuesday. Tney came 70 thls
country on the steamer Saaie, which
arrived in New York infected with
smallpox. On the same ship were Vars.
August and LYDIA Nordlund, Karl
Bengtou, john Jungfeld and Erik
larsten boand for Nanistee, and Char
terina Metzger aud Elizabeth Becker
headed for Niles. The health officers
AZ Detroit gave that city's share OF the
ships load warm bath, then vaccin-
ated and fumigated them. The funny
part of II was that the male foreigners
thought they were being naturallzed.
At Paw Paw girl baby Is a living
illustration Of the truth of the scrip
tural statement regarding the sins OF
parents, etc, an operate high kicker
being clearly outlined on her right leg
Just above The knee. Tie youngsters
mother has worried great deal about
the blrthmark, but with maternal
philosophy consoles herself whenever
she feels like having a good cry by say
ing that when her darling grows up the
girl in 6esh-tinted tights will be out OF
slght--except in rainy weather. The
infants papa Is cigarette smoker.
At Jackson q wife depleted her hus-
bands luxurlant whiskers to the ex-
tent of q couple of handfuls because
he smiled at q younger and handsomer
woman. The operation WAS painful to
the man, and the festive. vagrant wind
doubtless felt agrieved at seeing one Of
his resorts so torn up, but the onlookers
enjoyed It and for the space of eight
minutes or more the little incident
gave the principal street of the SON.
nolent city an appearance OF real
animation.
You can't always tell what kind of q
fellow an Italian 10 by merely looking
at his name. Some names are mislead-
ing-very. Ernest Angelus, an Italian
fruit vendor who has been doing bust
ness on the only main corner in Adrian
for many revolutions of the earth has
skipped, leaving his wife without where.
withal To bless herself, and taking
about $500 belonging to Louis Schiap-
pacasse OF Detroit.
The mother of a young girl at Mar
quette wished to keep her from attend
ing party and locked her in room
with that end IN view. When she went
to look in mt her half an hour later she
discovered that her daughter had let
herself down with sheet and gone
away. The yielding mud under the
window contained the imprints OF two
sizes of shoes, too.
Lansing is bound to boom even if she
June %, the taxpayers of the city will
vote on proposition to bond the city
for 500, 900 for the purchase OF an cleo
trio light plant; $50, 900 for the erection
Of a city nall, and SIC. 900 for the con-
struction of q new bridge over the
Grand river at North Lansing.
A jury at Flint has decided that Carl
Jones, the young man who threw him.
self before fast train while his sense
generator was out of gear from think
ing too much of . Mt. Morris girl, "de-
liberately suiclded." The profound
knowledge manifested by coroners'
juries is sometimes startling,
Nature seems to be trying to keep
the equilibrium just right at Mendon.
Supervisor Worthington reports that on
taking the census of the township he
found that during the past year zen
men and ten women had died and to
make up for it ten boys and ten girls
had been born during the same period.
A man who can speak seven
languages and play any musical instru-
ment at sight is serving sentence in
an upper peninsula county jail because
he tried to render with variations the
refrain. "Mister, can't you give poor
man the price of nights lodging 2"
At social held at Ann Arbor Tues.
day night by WEIGH Post No. 1877, G.. A.
r., and the Woman's Relief corps,
Henry s. Dean, past commander of the
post, was presented with q handsome
leweled badge. w. K. Childs made the
presentation speech.
A Watervliet woman became angry
at her husband and impaled him with
q pitchfork. Then she was 90 sorry for
her conduct that she took laudanum
to drown her remorse. A doctor de-
layed her exit to another sphere.
A Van Buren, county man, who has
visited every township In the county
in the last few days, says that the
coming wheat crop In that territory
will not exceed so per cent of sn aver
age yield.
Maple Rapids, Crystal Lake and
other points northwest of st. Johns
are booming q scheme to secure rail-
way connections with the Detroit,
Grand Haven 4 Milwaukee road ct st.
Johns.
A Swiss girl 1T Negaunee Rugged q
grimy chimneysweep so hard that she
broker his lower left rib. He must
have sooted her.
Cadillac has an Improvement CON-
pany capitalized 1t 5000, divided into
200 shares.