Our Esteemed Cotemporaries

Tira, yes. "Me too." The Adrián lecord rcmarks: Genera] Grant will not aocept a penion. Then pass the $5,000 along tliis way.and onr word for it, it will strike omebody that is needy. The Michigan Farmer is no doubt the est agricultural puper tor a Michigan armer to take. If he take9 but one rural mper, he should not hesitate a moment n his choice. The paper has always been an admirable farm journal under ts present management, and it is better lus year than ever. The day of woman's righta rapidly raweth nigh, we should judge by the ollowing froin the Lansing Republicau: A queer sight waa witeased on a train eavlng Lansing one morning recently. As the train was pullingout a well-dressed wonian, one of the features of whose ttire was a handsome seal-ekin sacque, ralked into the smoking car, and setting own comfoitably tn aseatdrew from her )ocket a large briarwood pipe, tilled it nd pufted away with the nonchalance nd calm enjoyment of a veteran smoker. t required three solid pipofulls to satisfy he appetite of the femalo stnoker before he gracefully withdrew leaving the bold, )ad men, tbacco usir , to gaze at one nother witli mingled aotonishment and awe. The fnllowing artlcle, which has beeu going the rounds credited to "Ex." conains a heap of truth. Read it: It is strange when times get a little uil and money is hard to get, people hink of economizing by stopping their japer the flrst thing. Such economy is very unwise to say the least. Tivo cents a week will pay for a good paper, and urely no family is so poor tliey cannot pare that ainount. A few chews of tobacco, a few whifls of a cigar, a few drops of beer would pay for a paper. If you say you do not use such tliings, then a ew grams of coffee, a few spoonfuls of sugar would pay it. Better economize in lie food thut sustaiiiH the body than to do without that which feeds the mind. The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette speaks of a recent temperance sermón delivered by Rey. Dr. Savage, of Boston, which contains some remarkable statements lor a temperance advocate. While not approving some of the Ideas, in the malo they are sensible: For instance, he remarked that it is palpable nonsense for any tolerable man under forty to say that" in any of the oidinary exigencies of life he needs any stimulant; still more fóolish it is for him to indulge in its indiscriminate use on various occasions. After fort}' it may be wel i for him to make a températe use of alcohol, but he should even then remeuiber that it is a powerful drug, and not for promiseuous use. Drunkenntss bas ceased to be respectable. It is much to have drlven it under cover, and to have turned it into something of which people are ashamed. Tliose who allege that moderate drinking is the universal step to becoming a drungard misreprtscut facts. But a small portion of those wlio are moderate drinkers ever become drunkards. A great many intelligent people also suppose that beca use drinking is found in ussociation with crime we may abolish crime by simply doingaway with drunkenness. Are we to suppose that bate, jealoufly, envy, imbltion, hunger, anger, would not produce their natural resulta were there no alcohol ? Crime is older than drink, and drinking is only one of the manifei-tations of that defective type of organizution which is the conimon parent of that and all nther forms of evih