Editorial Notes

The New York Press, one of the liveliest newspapers in the United States, increased Us subscription list l'7íi,i74 copies during the month of April, over the previous year. According to newspaper reporta a new society is being formad at Washington, D. O. having for its object 'to secare a tsoastitutional provisión that no governtnent aid shall be given to sectarian ■schools. ?' ■'Old Hulch," the Chicago speculator, "who has made millions of dollars in jambling in stocks, etc., on the Chicago board of trade, has recently lost mach of his easily gotten gains, but is still said 4obe wort ii $000,000. Queen Victoria has heen1, obliged to hand over sonie íf2,000,tKX) to pay the gamblini; debts of her son, the Prince of Wales, who may be king some day, il' the old lady herself ever concludes to relinquish reigning over Great Britain, ludia and Canada. Mr. Washburne, the new republican ayorof Chicago, is starting out in a comtaendable marnier. Thegambling houses nd other disreputable dens are being cleaned out, saloons are obliged to close p at 12 o'clock, and the sale of lottery tickets is prohibited. The same legislatura that delibératela síole two seáis to which republicana were elected has refused to vote an appropriation to entertain the national meeting of ;. A. B. veterans, to be held in Detroit daring August. The old soliliers who hclpeil the democratie party win its victury last fall have now sr.eived payment ï'or their trouble. The wife of August Grostic gets a judgment o; $18,143,50 against the Detroit, Lansing & Northern B. B., at Howell, for the killing of herhusband. The case ■will be appealed to the supreme court, ■and we will wageï apples to pennies that "öie Terdict will be set aside aa Qxcessive. 'That jury could not have been familiar ■with Ü3?Jr trade. St. Joseph and Beuton Harbor have been united and rechristened under the name of Port Michigan, llere was a great opportunity for this wonderful legslature to secure faine everlasting to ïtself. Why did it not cali the united -cities "Squawbuck" or "Fridlender," or somethins; nice like that? The people of those places might have objected, but iwhat does this legislatura care for sach i trivial matter as that? X Pittsfiehl farmer a year ago raised 1030 bushela of barley and was o Jt cents per Jiundred puunda for it. Be conclnde,]. however, to hold it until 6he McKinley bill went into effect, and aow he thitka that bill is all o. k. as he Sjot $1.50 per hundred, or 80 cents per hnndred more. - Chelsea Standard. Heferred to the farmers who have been getting tbeir .McKinley l.ill knowl!ge through snch sources as the Ann Arbor Argus and the Adrián Press. Anii Arbor citizens last year dug the ■pa ves and fllled thciu with the soulless bodies of two hundred drunkards. - Register, May 7. The report of the board of health made April lst, 1891, gives the entlre number ■f deatlis daring the year )ast, of men, women and children, from all ei at 148. Besidea being a falsehood, the bove statement is a shameless one for ■aay "eitizen of Aun Arbor" to make. There is a trite old niaxim that the JSegisterbetter read: "It is a dirty bird 'ihsJk fouls its umi nest." "a tlie constitutional wiseacres get 'Ün-oat-h with 3Ir. Cutcheon they may have inore respect for his opinión in regard to the constitutionality of the Miner Electoral law than they did at the start. The law is certainly agains1 the spirit il aot the express wordfl oí the constitutioa, and it ought to be tested ïefore that body. Further.it aeriously infringes upon the dearly beloved doctrine, so pereistently jireaehed by democrats, of state sovereij;nty. It destroys the influence of tlie state in the electoral college, and accomplighes just 'hai the constitution desired to guard against, viz : what is known down east as "the rotten burrough system." Tlie -w is a partisan disgrace to ilichigan. It is estimated tliat 400,000 Catholics are coming into this country every year froin Europe. These estimates are by the Catholics themsevles. Query - AVill Mr. Cleveland succeed in hedging before the convention of his party next year? If not, what a dilemma his party will be in. The (tallan government now proposes t cali in all the powere of Europe to assist in making the U. S. pay for the dead mafias at New Orleans. They ean't do it. Michigan 's squawbuek legislature will long be heldin the memory.of the people as the most partisan and outrageoua body of the kind ever assembled at her capitol. It's only aim is to pass some act that it thinks will be t the advantage of the democratie party. The partisan enactment known as the Miner law, providing for the ehoice of presidential electors by congressional districts, is being universally eondemned by the presa of the country regardless of politics. Even the democratie press while not admitting its unconstitutionality, term it "revolutionary," and "against k'ood policy."