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The Grand Traverse Herald is retting out a cook book, which It offers as a premium. Oh dear! deur! Wou't J. Lloyd howl wlieu he reads the Livingston Kepublican's familiarity in this item. Plain Jim! Ye Gods! Has it come to this? : The Detroit Times, under James Brezee's management, is a very lively sheet, but its typographical beauty is lost by the narrowing of its columns. '¦ Ho! soumi the toesta f rom the tower, and lire the culveriu." The niillenium must be BOtnewhere near Chesaning. Itenü this from the Argus : Oneofourokl tried and true subscri" bers, Samuel J. Church, paid us four years in advanoe ($5.00) tor the Argus last week. That's the kind of a friend we like. Frank Moulton, the staunch friend of Theodore Tilton, and Ihe famous witness in the Tüton-Beecher case, died at his home in Brooklyn on Wecinesday. By the way, what has become of Elizabeth ? It is a long time since we heard from her. - Jacksou Star. No trouble in hearing of Elizabeth's " best friend," however, for Henry Ward bas as miicb to say as ever. It takes something besides scandal to kill hini off. It might be advisable for Midland people to organize a citizens' law and order league, for the benefit of such law breakers as the Republican of that place speaks of: Query: Is t a good thing, and according to law, for a saloon to keep open tbrpugb tlie night in the vicinity of a dance, till the dance closes - say tliree o'clocU a. m. or later; and is it good for young men or boys to ro from the d;mce to the saloon and back and foith till they are visibly affected by what they drink? The Caro Jeffersonian has a level head on the tobáceo rjoestlon : Tobacco is au article of snöh reneral use and so largely a necesenrj of life - thouh an artificial on - that the proposition to remove the excise tax from t rinda considerable favor. A little retlection will show, we tliink, that the proposition is not entitled to favor. It is really a sclietne to reduce the surplus without touching the tariff, a protectionist proposition in disguise; and the promoten trust very strongly in the aroused sympathy of the tobáceo users. To that sympathy they have no claim. The removal of the tax wou ld make very little difference to the consunier. The chief beneflts would accrue to the manufactuier. The tax is easily levied and collected, and bears very lightly on the consumer. It would be a grave mistake to remove it for the purpose of perpetuating the oppressive revenue taxes.