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The Weekly Courier And The N.y.

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
December
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tribune for 76 cents tor lxnh papers one yc-ir. Don't delay and sin a war ttoe day of gruce, but (subscribo now for the CoiiriiT and the N. Y. Tribune, for 75 cents. It is reported that among otherthings to be found in President Cleveland's message, is a deficit in the treasury. Quite a flnd ! At the last round up there were just an even dozen candidatos for associate justice of the supreme court from different parts of the state. One mtlllon oí dolíais every ttoree days ! That ie the way the goy&rnmont is pJumg.ng down liill and into debt now. It is g.'tauply terriffic ! A friend wlio had the courage to read the president's message clear through, says the mostnoticeable thingin itaside from wild cat currency, is the president's gout. It permeates the entire document. All bonds of the United States should bemade payable in lawful money of the TTnited States, whether it be gold, silver or paper money. No goverment bond should be made payable in either gold or silver alone. The president comee out strong for civil service reform once more. "We are glad to spe that in that respect at least toe manifests some oí the vigor ■nhich once charncteirized bis treatment of mattere of state. Ittook $1,700,000 topay the pensioners by the pension agent at Detroit, this quarter. That much money being thrown into general circulation even thougb it is scattered all over the state, must have an euliveing effect upon business. The Ann Arbor Courier suggests that our coming legislature limit their session to sixty days, and no jangling. That will eertainly be ampie time in which to do all the business necessary to the welfare of this state. - Northville Record. The pension bureau bas decided not to grant any more pensions to widows, unlcss thpy are entirely without an tacóme. It is most al way s the case that the money paid widows is used for better purposes than is the money paid the men. Over one hundred years ago the laws of Ma88achü8etts declared that any man who held land in idleness three years, lost his title to it and it becarne the property of the man who cultivated it. Pingree should have such a law passed here for lus potato raisers. Miss Helen Teel, a grandaughter of he famous English statesman, has emulated Mrs. Peary by taking an Arctic voyage from England to the Kara sea. of course Miss Peel will not m'ake the samo gort of a diseoverv up in that country that .Mrs. Peary did. At a reeent fair held in Dallas, Texas, a book bindery of that place had a line display of its work. In the display were the books for Dallas county which were all inluid on the side with the Stars and Stripes in red, white and blue calf, and were the first books of the kind ever seen in the State. Au Exhibition of Printing is now in progress at St. Petersburg, Russia. Ainongst the exhibits is a hand press, formerly belonging to Peter the Great, another which was found among the baggage of Napolen I. onhisretreat from Russia in 1S12, and alsoone which was the property of the Russian Empress, Catherine II.

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Ann Arbor Courier