Among Our Exchanges

The Reed City Clarion thiuks the legislaturo has the right to regúlate transportaron, ete. The time whioh the Farwell Register has been in existenoe, should have read ten years instead of eighteen, as given in our last issue. The Midland Republican, without aay fear of futuro punishment, perpetrates the folio wing : There s many a slip 'twixt the candidato and the - voter. The Stanton Clipper has a genius amoog its compositora who sets up portraits of defeated candidates, using only common types to do it with. He ought to go to Rome and study sculpture. Any editor who will deliberately write such an item as the following from the Ovid Register, ougbt to be punished : Conundrum for the sugar season : Wby is the tire undcr the sap boiler like a gem? Because it is a sapphire, of oourse? The Otisville Weekly Telegram oommenced the month with a change of form. It is now a good sized folio, and displays a wonderful growth for its age and location. Smithson hasevidently struek into a good thing. Here is what the Dundee Reporter says about the recent election in Monroe : "The world moves and so does civilizatioD, and still there is vet time for the regenérate to reform. Burt Parker, republican, has been elected mayor of the city of Monroe. Now let us take courage. Our down-the-Huron neighbor, the Ypsilantian, strikes the right key about thi grammar business : Our exchanges, many of thetn, are pickidg each other up on grammar and orthography. The most sarcastio critic among them is the poorest scholar in the lou Last Friday, at the funeral of the late H. G. Chapín, editor of the Caro Advertiaer, who was found dead at Lapeer (whioh was noted in our last issue), there was a very large attendance; half-mast flags were displayud on some of the prominent buildings and business houaes ciosed. He was universally respected. The Clinton News has entered upon ita third year. Clougli makes some big promises for the futuie. He makes gome big puns sometimes, too, and we have hard work to forgive him for that. But then, if he keeps on as well as he has begun, the people of Clinton can not have it to say that they haven' t a most excellent weekly journal to represent tueir interest. John G. Holmes states in the Buchaoan Record that he has been connected with that paper for the last six years. In niaking an excellent paper for Buchanamtes he recites some of his experiences : Du ring ibis time there have oocurred many pleasant things, besides others not jp pleasant. Among the former may be enumerated about four hundred promisesof a threshing, one $10,000 libel suit, and the prooii.se of a half-dozen more, and many other similar appurtenances to an editor's life. Among the latter, the fact that none of the threshings were ever administered, or any of tbe libel uits brought to trial. This can probably bo accounted for froru the fact of the prevalent idea that editors can live on promises. The Masón News has a very good idea here; A pretty and new departure from the usual routine of school management was that of a Sunday school in a neiliborinn city last week, wiien at their anniversary, instead of bon-bons or picture carda, there were distributed to tho scholars packages of fluwer seeds with clear, simple instructions as to the sowing and care of theni. The superintendent of the school offered a prize to be given at midsummer at a horticultura! ezhibition by the scholars, for the beat result of this gift in cut or potted flowers. Could not our flower ruissions take a hint here? A package of flower seeds, a pot and earth costs only a few cents, yet what infinite enjoyment, beauty and lite would they bring into many a miserable, filthy tenement-room or cellar I We are pleased to see a great change for the better in the Michigan School Moderator. Mr. Walbridge takes hold of the helm with a 6trong hand and intends to steer the ship in a straightforward cour.e, endoavoring to assist every craft, little or big, belonging to the educational fleet. The policy of dropping anchor for a time to "warp" soine kipper, schoener or sidewheel steamer over the head - or where the head ought to be - with his oara (as was the habit with one of his predecessors) has been abandoned. This, we doubt not, will prove an aid to the Moderator' locomotivo powers, as all will now more heartily hulp raise tho wind to keep her sails filled.