A Quiet Little Laugh

The members of the house are having a quiet little laiijth at the expense of Mr. Harper, of Washtenaw county. Early In the session Mr. Hurper introduced a bil! to organize the union school district of the villaje of Salem, detiniDg the tci-ritory to be embraced in the district and giving the district " the powerg con f er red upon praded school dirtrlcU by act nuniber 174 public acts of 1881." The bill was reponed aMver.-ely by the committee on enucation md referred to the coinmittee on judiciary, which reconiineiided the passage of the bill. It was pwnd and approved by the governor on April 11. The memtiers of the bard iiiimefl In tlie begim to familiarice themselves wiih their dutics alter the appmral of tbe act, and examlned act 174 of 1881. Thcy wen surprlsed to fiml that thty were empow ered by that act '"to prevent the spread of the yellows, acontagionsdisease aniong peacli, iilmond, apricot and nectarine trees," and to provlde meastirea fr the emdication of tlie sume." The metnbert of the board wrote to Mr. Ilarpei, and that was tlie tïrst IntlulátioD he had liad that act 174 bad been tiamed by mistakifor the general fírailed school act. Il wal too late to d anything, lioucver. The tlmeallowed for the introdnetion of bill had passed, and the act could be neithei repealed nor amended. TUeiefoie, the school fruí-tees of the union district of Salem will have to confine thetnelves (luiinir tlie next two3ears to the work 61 preventing lite fprd f the yellowtí Ui peach, aluioiul and nectiirine trees.