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recommendations of the Board of Health relative to the necessity of the uee of dieiniëctants. Prompt attention to sch things will save the Board the trouble of attending to the matter itself at conaiderable expense to those neglecting it. Evidbntly some villain bas got it into his had to burn Prof. de Pont's bouse. He may be successful, but the chances are that the officers will also be euccessful in time, and the rascal, whoever he may be, will be given a formal introduction and have a continued acquaintance with Warden Hatch at Jackm. _____ ___ The editora of Chicago have taken it apon themselves to boom that city as the proper place in wbich to hold the posltion in 18Ö2. The Few York advocates may now ejtpect some liyely competition. It is an exceedingly off , day when the Chicago press does not .f ucceed in doing what it sets out to do, o that thé Soenér New York thróws up the sponge the tnore easily it will be ble to do it gracefully. Detroit, even had it tried, could not hare hit upon a better scheme for advertising its exposition than that indi rectiy obtained by the national editoria convention now in session there. Every one of the large journals represented there will make mention, and favorable mention, too, we believe, of this great enterprise. It wou ld be difficult to estímate the resulta, hut doubtless they will be very considerable. It is commendable to witness the revolt tbat is being made against tbe "tipping" abuse. Nowadays one's travling expenses are increased from fifty to one hundred per cent. by this custotn.and one is compelled to fall in line and pay the exhorbitant fees or else iubmit to any amount of ill-treatment from officious servants. But the abuse bas been carried too far, and, fortunately for the traveling public, there is gome possibility that a day of better things may soon arrive. In one thing, at least, St. Louis is abead of Chicago. This is evidenced by the fact that thecitizensare forming a combination against the Chinese laumirymeii. The sight of an ordinary Chinese laundry is enough to disgust any ordinary man. An insight into the real methods employed, if people could once obtain Fuch insight, would soon lose such shojis the patronage they now receive. The Board of Education at Cadillac appreciates the value of a large attendance at tbeir public schools and are liberally advertising the advantages which they are able to offer. By this method the Board hopes to attract foreign pupils. and in this way reduce the expenses of the school, aud they will doubtless succeed in doing so. The Board at Ann Arbor realize a goodly una each year in the tnition of suchpupils. The taxpayers would not object if astrougereffortwere madeto increase this fource of revenue to our public schools. Thk meagreness of s)ul which soine people exhibitisexceedingly contemptible. It would be difficult to conceive of a meaner spirit than that exhibited by certain people in Detroit who insist that the property of the Art Museum shall be taxed. After liberal hearted citizens have donated large sums of money in order to establish what is purely a public benefaction, it is the faeight of folly to insist that the property ehall be taxed. That is indeed an excellent way to foster such institutions. The Alderman who thinks the law exempting such property from taxation uncon8titutional may be right, tfaoughwe doubtit. He would place hiinself in a far more favorable light among right thinking people if he would apply his weighty intellect tothe work of assistingthe honorable Board to which be belongs to make fewer violations of the constitution. Minnesota has fallen into line among the states in which the law against dressed beef has been declared uncontitutional. A stiong effort was made to pass just such a law in Michigan, but its advocates conld not find a suf' ficíent number of gullible legislators to place such a law upon our statute books. Thi Rkíistbe said at the time that snch an act would be unconstitutional and unjust. Every judge who has had ' an opportunity to pass upon such legislative enactments has taken the same Tiew and set the law aside. Such an attempt to prevent competition and thus raise the price of such an important article of food is radically unjust and deaerves the fate which it has met wherever a legislature has passed the law. It would be just as reasonable to top by legislative enactment the running of all passenger trains on our railroads so as not to have them interfere with those who wished to carry passengere by the old-fashioned stage coach. The horrible "strangling" ofoneof the four murderers who were hanged in New York City last Friday will be used as an argument by those in favor of the use of electricity in legal executions. It is just such bungling on the part of hangmen that will cause a successful demand to be made in the near future for the use of electricity. A sufflcient amount of electricity properly applied will, no doubt, kill, as has been proved time and again beyond a reasonable doubt ; but some other features must be taken into consideration. There are very few people who have a Bufficient knowledge of electrical appliances, and who would care to act in the capacity of public executioner, to successfully apply it in every case. The result would be that the attempt to use electricity would soon cause a much greater oppo ition to it than there now is to the resent method of execution. The movement on foot looking towards the study of Oerman in our ward schools has the support of a number of onr German-American citizens. In a city like Ann Arbor there is much that may be said in favor of such a change in the course of study. There ia probably no other city in the West where so large a per cent. of the pupils from the ward schools take a high school course, where Germán is usually one of the' regUlttr studies, and where an early training ín thé laneuace would be of Í great advantage. Then, too, the large number of Germán people among our citizens mak es it quite necessary for a young man to understand and be able to speak the Germán language in order to secare a position in many of our business houses. This, considered with the fact that the study of any foreign tongue is beneficial, would seem to indicate that there could be no reasonable excuse for not complying with the request that the study of Germán be made optional in at least two of our ward schools, especially if those who take up the study are required to pay a reasonable fee for such a privilege. The objection that the pupils are ready overworked will be obviated by making the additional study optional with certain others thus leaving the number of studies the same as before. The opposition with which the sche me will meet will be that of the additional expense which will be added to our already heavy school taxes. It is claimed that the feescharged will pay all the extra expense. We are disposed to doubt this, especially for the flrst year, though we may be mistaken. There is another and much more far reaching cducational question which the School Board will be called upon to consider. It is the extent to which this small beginning may grow. If there is any possibility that it may eventually develop into as elabórate a system as that which bas been adopted at Saginaw, it would be asking too much of our people. Before coming to any definite conclusión about the matter it should be carefully considered, and not rushed through as such things often are. There is no doubt the Board will giye this question theattention it deserves, and if they find it possible to give those who desire to have Germán taught in somo of our ward schools, without too much additional expense, it is reasonable to suppose that thev will do so.