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Rev J. M. Arnold, of Detroit, has been re elected editor of the Michigan Cbristian Advocate. The Stanton Clipper hasjust passed ita first birthday. It 3 a vigorous and prosperous yearling. The Grand Rapids Kaglu ventured two of its largest fowls on the Vcnuont victory. They were so vigorous wecould almost hear them crow over on this side of the state. The Educational Weekly has resumed its regular visits, having taken the usual vacations allottcd to schools. The number for September 2d has 18 pages of advertiscments and six pages of reading matter, sbowing a prosperous condition. The last i-sue of the Battle Creok Journal coming to our sanctuui gave unuiistakable evidence of whcro those snake stories originated, spoken of last week. No one could posf-ibly niake out a word of the print, so terribly had the sheet been effected by jim-jams or souiething similar. The Adrián Times draws this picture of domestic bliss : ' ' These oool evenings an open fire is very pleasant. And the firelight dancing on the window shades and diselosing the figures of two young people in close comiuunion forms an entertaining shadow pantomime. The young people appcar toliko it, and the outsiders oertainly enjoy it." The St. Jo. County Republioan, publihed at Centerville, very unkindly twits upon facts, as follows : " The fastest race on record is that of St. Juüen, in 2:11!; the slowest on record is that of tho democratie party, running for twenty years and tho wining post stlll in the dim obseurity of an infinite perspective. " The Lansing Republican is wspeatibie for the followiriL' definition by asharp liltle one of that place : "Afkc years-old in the 5th ward, on seeing the beer-wagon teaded with kegs, asked her mother what the man had in those barrels ? The mother answéred, ' beer.' ' Oh,' said the littlo one, ' I thoughtit was swill for the hogs.' " The Allegan Tribune quietly retnarks: "The laborer with plenty of work good pay, good money, has no motive to desire a cbange in the government. The denioeratic party couldn't make the state of the country any better - it might make it worsc- the Southern portion of it is hungry for money, and ready to stcal it froin the treasury." The Cedar Springs Clipper is very unkind toward a probably well meaningclaas of people: "A cbild that had been dcad for a day or two, lying upon a table in one room, another child about dyior, lying on a bench in another room, and a woman, the mother of the two, lying drunk in tbc middle of the floor, was the scène presented to a pólice officer, when he visited a house on St. John street, Philadelphia, last week, and still thêy say, the foreign missionary societies are doing good work." The Kalamazoo Telegraph thus refers to the democratie enthusiasm : "The vcracious Free Press in a dispatch from this place on Saturday evening gives the list of Dominees of tbc convention and says ' the town is wild with enthusiasm ! ' This is the most humorous thing which has appeared in the funny Free Press in ayear. The ' wildness ' of Kalamazoo overa democratie noinination is rich - half a score of bummers following a file and drum band and stopping wherever candidates would treat ! " The fiend who manipulates the quill, the ink bottle, the Faber, the scisaors and the paste pot on the üellevue Gazette perpetrates the following right in tho heat of a politica! eampaign: "An exchange says that at Lansing, the capital of a state eelebrated for the education of the ruasses, an enterprising gobbler is trying to hatch turkeys from potatoes. " YeGods! to what base uses are those instruments turned ? When people are expected to have no ideas iiatchea but political ones, to thue descend to the ridiculous ! The Battle Creek Tribune solcmnly asks its readers to.believe this : "Some little time sinco a gentleman moved into this vicinity who is possessed of considerable wcaltb, and who is known to be a driving business man, and who is obliged to condense every action into tho briefest possible time. Understanding that ho was a church member, 3. deacon of the denominador) to which he belonged called upon him and proposed a season of praycr. The wcalthy man's reply was cbaracteristic of him : ' Yes, yes ; all right ; only be brief- bc brief.' " It secms that citizens of Michigan have rights which even dogs - or their owners - are bound to respect. The Clinton News gives the following legal dog loro: "If anybody is attackeu on any highway by a dog the party has a right to kill the dog, and the owner can be held accountable for any injury inflicted by the animal. Even un tho premisos of the owncr of the dog, should a party be attacked and injured, after endeavoring to protect lnmself, the owner oan be made responsible for damage inflicted, provided it can be shown that at the timo he was in pursuit of business or on a friendly visit. If a dog by barking at passing horses and vehiclee occasions aDy damage its owner is Hable for any loss sustained. Thus the law very properly affords imple protection for loss or injury caused jy dogs." Saginaw Herald : "Has all the official ïistory of the United States government, 'or the past twenty years, been a stupendous lic ? One might think so, and indeed must think so, if all the recklessandcheeky assertions of democratie stump orators, demagogues and journals are to be believed. 5ut the facts are down in black and white, bat the democratie party in all that time tas been the persistent and malignant foc of all the chief measures by which the reellion was subdued, by which dismantled states were roconstructed, by which money vas raised, by which the national credit bas een maintained, by which specie payment las been resumed, by which a vast sum of he debt has been paid, by which financial and industrial interests have been protected and aided and the present era of prosperity made possible." The Iosco Gazette, published at Tawas, clls the following which deserves to be told and re-told, for brave and manly deeds deerve perpetuation : " When Capt. Van jieu, of the tug Grayling, discovered that hc" Marine City was on fire, he immcdiatey cut the lincs, headed the tug for the mrnhig steamer, and haatening below gavo he following orders : ' Kngineer, there are nany lives depending on us. Get there or )low up this boat ! ' His orders were obeyd, and with everyounce of steam theboilrs would stand his tug flew over tbat long tretchof seven miles, ai-riviug at the scene n time to save muiiy itruggliog ones from a watery grave. At the same time Capt. lackett, of the tug Vuban, was in liko manier straining every nerve to reach the burnng boat and rescue it. passongers. Fortunately, hc was much nearer, and got thero nueb sooncr, and heroioal'y held bis boat eside the burnins steamer until scores of )anicstricken nassongers were transferred o her deoks. Thcn slowly sailing around be wreek he picked up many others, his row mcantimo circling around with their loats in the wake of the burning steamer, escuing the living and the bodies of the dead."