Notes Editorial

Gen. Hancock pays Gen. Arthur a very handsome compliment, and says tliat he "is an honest, fearless, putriotir gentleman." Xo one doubts it. Wm. i Amlrus, of Kent county, who was a state senator during the session o 1877, has become insane froni the effects o: a wound received during the battle o Mission Ridge. While being taken to Kal amazoo, recently, he escapcd froin lii keeper and has not been seen since. The Kalamazoo Telegrapli in a recen issue published a long list of " men who suffered in rebel prisons," with their ad dress. The secretary of the state - rtrtotlm of prlsoners of war, Dr. R. P. James, 'requests persons knowing the name of any rebel-prison survivor to forward the same to him at Kalamazoo. Oh dear! What rittl] we men, who love to see woman sensibly and tastcfully arrayed, ever do? The latest fushion re porta say that the old fashioned crinoline is again cominr uto vogue. If our memory serves us right, the women dressed In the height of fashlou in the old hoop-skirt days, looked more like walklng hogsheads than human beings. We are sorry that fashion has decreed this resurrection. In ex-Gov. Baifley's will is a provisión for a public drfoklng fountain, to be erected upon the campus mnrtius, in Detroit, at a cost not to exceed $5,000, the city to keep the water cool and palatable. We understand that the people representing the liquor interests of Detroit have already signitied their intention of opposing ita erection, on the ground that a public fountain of that kind would injure the sale of beer and wine. It remaní-, to be seen what action the famous council of that city will take upon the subject. Herr Herbst, a leading liberal in Austria, in making a public address, on the 15th uit., in Bohemia, in referring to the suflering in Kuropeau governments from the military gystems prevailing, sjoke of t lic complete freedom of the United - from this nightmarc, and henee of the rapidity with whieli we ar.' paying off our hnge public debt. He regarded the prospect in Europc as very serious, especial ly as it was leading to unlimited immigration to this country. The blessings of peace are clearly shown in this compatison. Sonie time ago a poor girl, bv name of Kate Shelly, the daughter of a widow- her father being killed in the railway service- who lives in Boone county, Iowa, walked a distance of tive miles, through the wilderness, and the downpouring of a terrific storm, to reach a telegraph station and save ¦ passenger train from dcstruction. 8he was exhausted and fainted as her crraml was succes8fully coinpleted. Slio received BO reiinnu'ration at the time, but her brave and thoroughly miselfish deed attracted the attention of the newspapen, and tln-y have brought her noble action into promi nence. A finid is now being raised for her by the Chicago Tiinea, and it ought to reach such proimrtions, that the glri and her widowed mother shall hereaflcr be lilacee abuve want. AUvertisemcnts have appcarcd in prominemt Chicago dailies, warnlng people ngaiusi travcling in ships owned ly tlie . üens of (irert Britain. We look upon the thing merely ui a baghcnr, published in hope of f uring people Inriincd to le timkl, und go imliMfalg tliem to travel tlian British íbies, njuriiig the i ' -¦,!- of the KiitUh sliip ouncr. The rpal iriemls Of the Irisli iwople woulil no more ro into the business of hlnwing np, by uieaiiH o Infernal machines, theso prreat ocean sliips wllli tlieir hundritls of passenger on board belongingtoall nationalities, than thcy woujd deliberately put pMol to their lic:iil and blow tlic-ir brains out. The resul t would be Uie sume in each instance. The Cpüowlng paragraph, written with the scissors, tells " a beap " of wholesome truth: " It is an easy matter to say to men coniell(Ml to labor duriug rlio depressing hot weUher of our sunimer?, "take tliins easy," '-go sluw," "4on't to in a hnny The fact is that men lm ar empelled to Work with hand or head can't take thlngs easy if they would. Do the very b.-t bc eau the worker is compelled to toil for bread, that is to nourish and sustain him and his. Men and woincn mul chililreii must at tuough the un shines hot, and the air stand still, and the bread winner oitiiiiot cease frotn toil if he would, for a vacation. There is, however. k po-sibility that the worker may makc toil lighter by the observance of certain rules durlng the heated temí. A baüi or wash at niijht is a luxury that the (Ktorest can have; add to this teinperance fu eating and drinking, and with care as to unnecessary over-cxertion, the worRer win dc iUc t ihc cti suinmcr, to challenge the man ho bas taken his vacation, to n comparison a8 to lualth and physical Strengt!). It Isn't the work that hints tlie mu, so ofton na it is the fret and worry and discontent that come when the work and the worker are not i 11 harmony."