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The, Canada thistle eau beat any American tliistle known. Wbat a Scotch " Thislle" can do remains to be proven. Tlie Chicago revenue office receives $900 per dny for oleomargarine. A great place for frauds, that Chicago. It seoms to love them better than the genuine article, even when branded. There is a man in Lockport, N. Y., who has a hand 13 inches long and a foot 17 luches long. Talk about the hand of Provideuce, or the foot of Fate ! President Cleveland had better hire that fellow to accoinpany him on his western tour. We are always glad to publisb obltunries, find if there 1 any legal nolicen to be pubUslied afterwards we llke to publlsh tliem :iKn. - Belleville Enterprise. That is not a bad way to combine business and plea9iire. The obituary is soldoui forgotten, luit the legal notice rarely follows in the paper asked to publisti the obituary. , Neal Dow says that the prohibitionists dofeated the repubücans in 1884, and " will do so again next year, even if an ouUand-otit temperance man or even a prohibitionist is put up as a caudidute." He further says: "The temperance men are waging war against the republican party, and you muy fay prohibition can o ily succeed with the death of the republican party." Mr. Dow is more frank tb ui others we know of. The time for fair items is all the year round, and the time for un-fair items should be never - but they will creep In occaiionally. But this is strictly a fair item. It is wel] known that the managers of the State fair decided to lócate the big show this year at Jackson, and Sept. 19th to 23d has been tixed upon as the date. The programme is simply colossal. Sheep, swine, cattle, horses, speed trials, etc, etc, are so promincntly brought out in the patriotic red and blue ink on white paper, that it confuses the average mind to enumérate all the attractions. Get your spare change ready for a reduced fare ticket on the railroad. Gov. Luce, in his speech at Whitmore Lake S.iturday, did not 8ay so, but he iuferred that the University " was growing very niütli f:ster tlian the farmers were, and so it ought to stop awhile until they caught up." At least, ba said he was in favor of educating the masses, and had been from carly boybood, but that we must look wt'll to it and not allow the head to get away from the feet. He also said that the farmers were the great foundation stone of the nation ; that all trades, all professioiiF, all enterprUes reuted upon them as a class; but he didn't say n word why he lailed to appoint the warmeet supporter and friend he ever had because the railroad monopolists- with whom the f.irmers are in dcadly conflict- wee opposed to hiin.