Let ds hope that Cuba will soon be fiee....

Let ds hope that Cuba will soon be fiee. The Spanisb exhibit some signs of disconragemeot and the Cubans are becoining more aotive. Cease the use of that stone crusher in Anti Arbor. Sell it, give it away, or let it fall into iunoonons desuetnde. It is too expensive a luxnry for Ann Arbar. The republioan ex-state anditor of Nebraska who embezzled $230,328 frorn the state, confessed to taking the money but claimed it was no orime to do so. Funn.v consoiences these repubJioan ofiBcials have sometimes. Tbe republican issue in New York is the indorsement of Low or the nomination of a straight ticket. The Platt or straight tioket men have eleoted most of the delegates from the borough of New York, while the Low men have eleoted most of the delegates from the borongh of Brooklyn. The prospeots for a large attendance in the university are extreruely flattering. So many new honses have been built in the city in the past few years, most of whioh have rooms for stndents, that it is extremely lnoky for those renting rooms that the attendance will probably be mnoh larger than ever before. Tbere wil!, however, be a great suffioienoy of rooms to rent. Let ns take in Cuba and Hawaii too. Many were opposed to Texas coming in and failed to approve the measures by which we gofc California, yet we wonld be loath to part with these states. The pnrchase of Alaska was thought to be a foolish waste of inoney, yet our only regret now is that we didn't take in a little more territory and get the whole of the gold flelds. So it wonld bewith Hawaii and Cuba, both fertile islands needing just and stable government to beeome of great valne. Ann Arbor is not the only oity which has found a stone crusher not "a thing of beauty and a joy forever. " Middletown, N. Y., reoently bonght one and when it carne to pay fur it, the counoil was badly divided, the olaim being made that the crusher did not do the work promised and the expense of running it was much greater. The aldermen called eacb other "Hars," "dirty sneaks" and other endaring epithets, and the stone crusher has created much ill feeling among the aldermen as it will among the tax payers if its use is persisted in. Erastus Corning, of New York, who died last month, inherited a fortune of f 12,000,000 from his father 25 years ago. He died a poor man. He was said to be a good business man bat he did not attend to business. He spent aooney like a prince. He kept an army of servants. He gave $6,500 for a few yards of lace. He was a good man and a religious man and gave mach in charity. He owned a model farm and it is said to have cost him $2,000,000. Farming was one of the ways in which he managed to dissipate a fortune óf f 12,000,000 in 25 years.