The assassin's blarte has slain the pres...

The assassin's blarte has slain the president of France. The event is the probable introduction of another era of cowardly raurders of public men. Lizzie Halliday, convicted at Monticello, N. Y., of the rnurder of Mrs. McQuinlan, has been sentenced to die by electricity. If her features are correctly represented by the newspaper cuts, it will be a sturdy dynamo that can furnish power enough to kill her. Senator Matthew Stanley Quay admits that he speculated in sugar stock, says he will do it again and just as many times as he may please and with characteristic impudence wants to know "what you are going to do about it." His position has the merit of candor, at least. Scientists have discovered that the earth is moving with a slightly erratic gait which they attribute to the more rapid piling up of ice at the south pole than at the opposite pole. Our esteemed neighbor, the Courrier, expreses some apprehension of the result of this lack of equipoise. It need have no concern. The rapid congelation, now taking place between Farmers Plattand Richwill soon restore the oíd balance and leave us nothing to fear except another glacial epoch in the north. President Carnot, of the French republic, was murdered in the city of Lyons, Sunday, by a young ian anarchist who sprung upon the steps of the president's carriage and drove a long-bladed knife into his heart. Carnot is the first of the French presidents to be assassinated. Like our own martyred Lincoln, he was one of the best of presidents. Anarchism must be crushed out with a strong hand. It wars with all authority. lts devotees are unreasoning fanatics. Murder is their creed. As they combine against the world, the world in self defence must extermínate them. Sugar beet culture is coming to be a considerable industry in this country. There are at the present time 20,000 acres of land under cultivation for beets, and the average yield is about ten tons per acre. Seven factories, representing an invested capital of $2,000,000, handle the product. The beets are worth $4.50 per ton, delivered at the factory. This would seem to imply that the erop is a profitable one, but owing to the fact that it requires much care while growing and rich and consequently costly lands, the profits are not as large as might be supposed. This branch of agricul- ture will probably always be limited on account of the above requirements, and the farther facts that the industry is in the nature of scientific farming, and requires certain favorable climatic conditions. The pólice of the city should make a determined eftort to stop ball playing on the streets. As we chronicled ia our news columns last week, a bright young lady has already lost her lite by the continuance of this practice. A couple of weeks ago, while two or three young men were playing catch with a ball on State street a lady passed along the street. They threw the ball over her head once or twice while she was passing and just after she had got past the ball was thrown again; the catcher missed it and the ball struck the lady on the back with considerable forcé. There are many horses in the city which are greatly frightened when they see a ball tossed, as they have been hit in times past. The city officials owe it to Ann Arbor to see that it is safe to walk or drive about the city. Ball playing on the streets by boys or young men must be stopped. The republican editors and politicians of the state, representing the various factions into which the g. o. p. is rent, are very industriously engaged in painting each other a bright vermilion hue. They seem greatly to enjoy the delectable and saintlike business of calling one another "soreheads," "demagogues," "conspirators," "tyrants" and various other appropriate names. The Rich bravés are especially bitter toward' the followers of Pingree, Bliss, Luce, et al. and with stiletto in hand lose no opportunity for getting at their adversarles just underneath the fifth rib. The fellows who got an office and have been able to keep their doings sufficiently in the dark to prevent being fired out and indicted are for Rich; while those who did not get one, yet are consumed with a desire to be "called," gether with those who were taken by the nape of the neck and the seat of the pantaloons and thrust out of official position, are "agin" him. Nothing tempts these bretheren to "let up" fora moment in their venomous viturperation of each other, except the involuntary habit of emitting an occasional howl about the democracy being so "split up the back" as to prevent al) possibility of healing. That which most interests the onlookers in all this, is how the fellows are going to pull themselves together after the convention. That act will be called I "taking your medicine," but the dose will be so nauseating that surely many will decline to swallow the quac's nostrum. There is probably much truth in what these people say of each other and the public should act on the information thus obtained and place a set of officials in charge at Lansing who will not dishonor the state as has been done by the present regime.