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Every Little While We Hear Some

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
January
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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tliing go Ping ! Ping ! Members of eongress should remeniber that reciprocity is quite as important as tarlff. "fl'oe unto the scribe of the Adrián Press, -n-hen the Monroe Democrat man reacis this : "The night liter Christmas 32 Monroeites were locked up in the city lock np. Wasn't a newspaper man left to write up the 'locáis "bilí the fines had been paid. Great town that of Monroe." TVm. Haggard, a Scotchman and a tramp, appüed for lodging at tüie Saginaw lockup the other day. He had with him a bible, well preserved -vhich hiB father had given liini 21 years ago. ' Saginaw joHcemen never saw a book of the kind beJore, and -svere so surprised they gave him a night's lodging free, and tried to buy the book as a curiosity. - Adrián Press. Iceland has 80,000 inhabitants, and 6trange as it may seem, among that number are 300 lepers. It is a disease that appears to thrive as well in the cold of the arctic región as in the scorching air of the equator, or the varying temperature of the températe zone. It peems strange that tivo islands oi the sea, so V.íferent in every way, Icéland and Ha■vvaii, should be afflicted with this curse of leprosy as they art). Thomas Jefferson was a pretty good American. He eaid in 1808 that the main object of the United States "must be to' cxohide all "European influence in this hemisphere." That was fifteen yeare lefore the promulgation of the Monroe doctrine. In 1823. wben President Monroe a?ked Jefferson's advice about cnunciating the doctrine. Jefferson said : "Our first and fundamental niaxim tihould be never to entang'e ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to inter-meddle with cis - Atlantic affairs."- Indianapolis Journal. The economical man, and the eareful buyer is holding on to his dollar. The purchasing power of the people lm ving heen restrlcted this year, there is a large accumulation oí goods both in who'.esale and retail housee, especiaUy oí clothAng. A big drop ín pricee is loofced ior after fthe beginning of this year and then, perhaps, the ivage earner, who has been at work only during six. out of the twelve montte, may be able to make a modest purohase oí some -winter clothing. He wlU not, however, replenish his wardrdbe as in 1892. The Salvution Army had its birth in the slums of London. Beginning as a Methodist pastor, Gen. Booth found himself hampered in hts -work for the lowly and the outcasts by the regulations of the church, and he Iwoke away and began an independent work. At first he had no idea of organizing the "army" of which he is iiow the head. Tliifi carne as a natural developmrir. . bae army titles being at first discouraged and resisted by him. But later he yielded to what seemed a necessity and his humble work, now grown to such vast proportions here, and so widely scattered in foreign lands, has everywhere assumed an army form and

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier