The speakership contest seems to be betw...

The speakership contest seems to be between Crisp and Mills. The republican national convention will be held June 7. Which will it be, Blaine or Harrison? The republicans decided to hold their convention in Minneapolis to aid in keeping Minnesota in the repulican columns. It is now said that ex-Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, will lócate in the west. The west is to be pitied. The New York World makes the guess that Congressman Gorman will on the first ballot vote for McMillan as speaker of the house. A moie certain statement may be made next month. Although Cornell wou the foot-ball game with Michigan last Saturday, Michigan made more points than all thé other clubs which have played with Cornell this year. In spite of the millions poured into the republican committee by the protected monopolies of the east during the campaign of 1888, the committee is reported as $100,000 in debt. What enormous sums they must have spent to carry the election of 1888. The name of the new provisional president of Braziüs Floriano Peixoto. He succeeds Deodoro da Fonseea, who retired to avert a civil war. The South American republics are not yet so firmly established as to be relieved from danger from civil war to settle internal dissensions. - . The Detroit Tribune quotes Senator Stockbridge as saying that Michigan would give 5,000 republican ïnajority if Detroit got the republican national convention next year, and as putting that forth as a strong argument in favor of its going to Detroit. Query: What does Stockbridge think Michigan's democratie majority will be now that the convention has been given to Minneapolis. Some people turn everything into advertising. M an instance of a peculiar display of bad taste in this regard may be taken an advertisement inserted in the Mount Pleasant (Iowa) Journal on the occasion of a recent visit by Mrs. Russell B. Harrisonto her cousin, Mrs. J. C. Bowman: "President Harrison's son's wife is passing a few days at J. C. Bowman's and will be pleased to see the Mount Pleasant people. Everybody cordially invited to cali at their novelty store and meet this distinguished lady."