For the next six weeks nierchants doing ...

For the next six weeks merchants doing business on unpaved streets will have daily object lessons on the utility of such public improvements.

At the meeting of the board of regents today Col. Dean was still firmly anchored in the seat for which Col. Eli Sutton made his race against time.

And after all of the talk which was fired at random, and otherwise, during the campaign it develops that Mr. Pingree was the principal issue in Michigan politics.

Lieut. Nirdlinger proposes to sail through the air from New York to Washington. Senator Burrows has been practicing that trick for some months and he isn't quite sure of success yet.

Those who mourn the defeat of the redoubtable Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, for a re-election to congress may have the satisfaction of knowing that, like a true westerner, Jerry died with his boots on.

If the supreme court finds that Mrs. Merrie Abbott, who has just been elected to the office of prosecuting attorney in Ogemaw county is ineligible there will probably be a merrie row in the land of pine and hemlock.

At a conference of vessel owners it has been decided that hereafter all trans-Atlantic lines shall pursue separate paths. This is a conclusion at which numerous politicians have also arrived since the recent election.

After March 1899 it is predicted that the bimetallists who have been hanging like grim death to the promises of the St. Louis platform will have a dose of gold standard rammed down their throats that will be an eye opener of the most effective character.

The administration has decided that the last Spanish soldier must shake the dust of Cuba from his heels by Jan. 1, 1899. The departure of the Spaniard from the western hemisphere after 400 years of wanton rule will not be the occasion of sincere regrets.

The crokers have been saying for several years that Ann Arbor is overbuilding, yet the hundreds of new houses that have been built in the last five years are all filled and the few houses that are empty at the present time are old and undesirable places for habitation.

Michigan is not the only state where the "regulars" and the "irregulars" in the republican camp are engaged in ripping each other up the back. Delaware has Addicks republicans and anti-Addicks republicans and the selection of a United States senator from that state depends upon which side kills the other off first.

The republican losses in the national "house of representatives are offset by their gains in the senate and the gold men will have full control of both houses after the 4th of March, 1899. It is entirely probable that international bimetallism as an article of republican faith will disappear shortly after that date.

After having so nobly rewarded Frank Jones the republican party of old Washtenaw should remember Editor Helber. Rumor has it that Mr. Helber is slated for the republican nomination for mayor next spring and that failing to realize that ambition, Congressman Smith will recommend him for a consulate at Lard Island.

Ann Arbor has enjoyed a rapid and healthy growth by virtue of its location and its advantages as an educational center and not through any effort of those interested in the prosperity of the city to build it up. The time has arrived, however, when concerted action upon the part of our business men and property owners, carefully directed can double the population within the next decade. Ann Arbor is now a city of homes and educational institutions. It will detract nothing from those attractions to make it a city of manufactures also. We have the location the surroundings, the railroad connections and everything necessary for a successful inland manufacturing town. What we need to cultivate now is a disposition upon the part of our people to encourage such enterprises.