An Anti-slang Society

A friend hands us the item which follows, with the intiination that it occurred at Ypsilanti, but it is the Courier's opinión that it's friend is mistaken : A number of ladies in a neighboring city one evening met recently for the purpose of organizing an anti-slang society. Miss was elected president. Before taking her seat she said in a clear, calm, well inodulated voice, "Really, girls, I am too much rattled by the honor conferred upon me to give you much of rny gab. It is the flrst time I ever tumbled to anything of this sort, and I hardly know how to catch on. However I will try to be sufficiently up to snuff not to let any flies light upon me while doing the president of this society act. I am with you in this move, and we ought to extend an invitation to the married ladies. Let our motto be : 'Shoot the slangist.' " Japan has won a great victory and a place ataong enterprising nations. It has added to its territory, and the payment of the Chinese indemnity gives it large amount of inoney to invest. Some of tliis surplus cash will go into warships, but the bulk of it will probably be spent in internal improvements and in adding to the commercial and mamifacturing facilities of ihe country. American business men should keep a close watch for new opportunities with our rising neighbor across the Pacific.