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The Mystery

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
December
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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The singular and mysterious case of the onding of a child buried in a basket in an Ann Arbor cellar calis for prompt and active efforts on the part of our officials to discover the perpetrator of the terrible murder. That it was a cold, delibérate murder, it needs no physician or jury to determine. The facts are given in The Register with no attempt at sensationalism. The person or persons who committod the dastardly deed have probably been punished severely by their guilty and terrified souls. But that is not enough. They should be brought before the laws of man, and made to answer for the crime. Our county officials will be derelict in their duty if they leave anything undone to unravel this mystery. Murder is becoming so common that there is danger of this singularly cruel one not attracting much more than passing notice. It is made the subject of jest by many ; some want it hushed up ; and large numbers are indifferent. We believe, however, that public sentiment will not tolérate any effort to hush this matter up. Mysterious as it is, it ought to give way to the detective's skill. If this goes unpunished, people will begin to wonder whose cellar is safe from such intruders. Every Washtenaw horticulturist and lover of horticulture should secure a copy of Bulletin No. 31 of the Michigan Agricultural college. It is just out. It is the annual report of that able and very promising young professor of horticulture. L. H. Bailey. jr., who is doing so much to make a science of horticulture distinct from the art. Most people affect to feel distressed whenever a pun, good, bad, or indifferent, is uttered ; but they usually laugh at them slyly, and when a particularly bright one occurs to them they are a little proud of it. It requires, however, some courage to defend punning, and we shall not commit ourselves. But a writer in the January Popular Science Monthly boldly declares that it does not receiveenough attention. Sidney Smith said it was the foundation of all wit. This bold writer, Dr. J. Hughlings Jackson, says that punning is the least evolved system of joking, that wit is evolved out of punning, and that humor is evolved out of wit. Late telegrams announce that the govemment commissioners have ordered a general reduction of rente in Ireland averaging about 14 per cent., thus nipping $10,000,000 from the landlords' comfortable incomes. Still the landlords can live on the proceeds of others' toil, and in that respect they are ike tramps and paupers.

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Ann Arbor Register