The Mid Winter Meeting Of The Mich

fean State Press Association wlll te fceld in Detroit, Feb. 22. The Kentucky república ns ought to pet together with regard to the senOTíhdp a-rad put a efcop to the kind of fooMshnps that may lead to ultímate defeat. Tt Is asserted tint the split in the ■proMMtioTi pnrty ranks tvíU be cement-ed, and nat - the party vrhl técahi resumo !ts normal átale nf inbsootious dpsnotude. A weddhvr lm Kenfcucky in whieh the troom was 103 aad + hp bride 101 may be en lied fin-df-siecle, but it ttohM more appropriate to say au end-oi-two-centuTlea affalr. Tho JjaSSy Maceabees recelved 1,313 THtv members in this stnte durinsr r)eeember, anti 33 oew latves tfere orBantzed, whlch miakes a total nf 683 hlres. and over 32,000 members. it Ss a Very prospernus arder. Onfl of the fchings thit tho republiean party proposes to do for tlie restoration of pood times is to substittrt a aebMimilnishina; a rtobtincreasiïüg policy In the management . of the Jiatiional iimances. About 600,000 trees are planted armwally by the schicvol shildren of S-preden. While the ta.sk is looked apon as an enjoyment, its effect on tbe future prosperiity of the country "ifiil be of hiigh importance. It is rather an wdd fact that the animal census ö[ liorses in "Massachusetts shaws an increase durimg last 7-ear of 3,085. The bicycle must be teaching the worlid to take an interet in all fo"ms of expediitious travel. The report of patents issued during 3890 credit a smaller number to Ml--pissippi binan to any oth-er state. ■3h fact, Mississippi lias never nvented anytMng worth mentioning exOept her plan to disfranchisse colored Tioters. Ii' 1875 the United Sta-tea waa Ödixl on the list owraj the largest tnationial debt, but now occupies the ixth place. Thtó is the only particular in which the republicain party is liikely to display a downward ■tendency. It is thought that Circuit Judge Bolin H. Person, of Laneing, wlll be tbe free silver democratie combine eandidate for associate justice of the eupreme oourt, agalnst Judge Chas. D. Long, who will probably be renomina-ted by the republicans without opposition. BuffaLo irnports natural gas from Oanada, and the qiiesticm has arisen "whether the gas is a raw or umnanuiactured article, subject to a duty Of 10 per ooat., or a mineral entttld to enter free. It iis a nice intertnational puzzle, but not one likely to cíiusí' aaother war flurry.