A Terrible Retribution

Tliis, ïrniii th" Ailiai l'r. ss, is truly appalling : The Piess i-ai 1 tlint Aun Arbor wíis too busy discovering cometa and nminmies, to secun; the Lima Northern, and the Courier wauls t know " What's he matter with A Irain's knowledge liirtin ■'■"' uddiug, "Nu one bas ever discovered auy of it'.s disuuveriea have they?" Yessir; in the solul and successfui careersot ne.ul. jall itsVrailuates. The prufessora do not h e raid "a new cornet" every time a fire ílv ílits aeruss the disk of the telescope, nor "reconstituí" a ruiaphoryncliosaurus from the tail of a dead cat, and explain tliat it exi?ted aeons ere the reignof ice louked the world in hibernal tlumber and sein its inhabitants i) tlie awful sileuce of universal death, wlien it is patent to everybody except the reconstructionists uith tl 10 bullí', that. had the city fuueral director buried the cat a little deeper, lier tail would ne ver have anfolded the secaets of the "glacial epoch1' and oonuealed thu lack-yard hoot-jack tragedy of tin1 year of our lord, 189(5. Vfntj au'tu that science that staffs the present with the ".st(I"s" of the nioulderiii;; past! Woe unto the j.u-kals tlia: li;_; up tlnj graves' of Drawinian decay ! VVoe unto ilie professors of anthropology - "wliited sepnlchres, full of all marnier of nnuleanlinoss and dead meu'sbones!" W'oah, Einina! You'Jl jjet no Lima Nort.'iern railroad !