Our Lounger

Our Lounger has been invited to assist in shoving the street cars through the ice which incumbered their tracks the past week. The invitation -carne from one who said that our Lounger could do much more good that way than he could by grumbling as he did last week. People who taik like that forget that it is an unalienable right of American citizens to grumble. Otfr Lounger is a grumbler by nature and if he couldn't grumble he would feel that he was deprived of one of his dearest rights. Our Lounger has heard considerable complaint about coasting. This is to be expected at this time of the year, especially, when the coasting is so good as it is now. Some of the complaints, however, are in loud and profane talk especially on Sunday evenings, kept up till after midnight. This disreputable conduct, for it cannot be termed less, calis for a severe reprimand at least of those who indulge in it. A week or two ago two boys were coasting on the sidewalk on Miller avenue. Two ladies were going down the sidewalk. The boys carne down full tilt calling " Hailey, hailey," and ran into one of the ladies, who feil back on the sled. When reprimanded one of the young scamps said: "Why, I called hailey. hailey, and she didn't hailey and so I ran into her." The long coast down the Broadway hiil ofcen makes it dangerous for teams going out of the city, especially as the sleds now coast with such rapidity. The two accidents on the State street hill, Wednesday evening, will probably make the boys much more ( liary of coasting on that dangerhill. Considerable danger is also incurred by coasting across the Ann Arbor railroad tracks. Some of the residents of the city complain that after they have thoroughly removed the snow from the sidewalks, the boys have carted the snow back on for the purpose of making a track for coasting, And they have been pretty hot about it, too. Our Lounger has been informed that very satisfactory progress has been made on the revisión of the ordinances of the city. The council will take ar, evening to the consideration of new ordinances next Monday, and jt looks as if soon the people could find out just what the ordinances of the city are. There is a great dearth of candidates for city offices this spring. It behooves the leaders of the two great political parties to hunt up their best men and insist that they take the nominations. It is of more real importance to the people of Ann Arbor that they have a good mayor than that the state should elect a ' good United States senator. It is a little strange that although you can find plenty of good men willing to take a place on the board of public works, an arduous place, you could not induce these same men to run for mayor. Is it because there is too little honor or emoluments in the office to pay for testing their pesonal popularity with their fellowmen ?