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but a short time, canie down in a manner to make glad the farmer'a heart. One can only wish that we could have had more of it. One nuisance that the council should put an end to is the use of the streets around the court house square as headquarters for a lot of draymen with their poor horses and unsightly vehicles. They have no more right to use the streets for such purposes than farmers have to use them as a market place. This, however,would not be allowed for a moment. The immigration reports show that among the great llood of foreigners coming to our country, the Italians are more numerous than that of any other race. This is certainly unfortunate, and if it continúes will soon cali for stringent measures to keep this undesirable race out of the country. We already have more of that class of people than we can well take care of. Detroit is beaming all over with pleasure this week at the success of the Exposilion. and well it may do so. It is a .big thing, and will do more to bring the city beforethe people of the country at large than any other one thing that has ever occured there. The men who set the matter on foot and then backed it financially are deserving of the auccess with which the Exposition is meeting. Detroit may well be proud of such enterprisingcitizens. Ypsilanti has a fair next week. It wants to have a big crowd,but evidently fears competition, and so refuses to allow the Detroit Exposition posters to be used in decorating the city. Of course the Ypsilanti show is the bigger of the two. It is fortúnate that successful mea8ures have been taken to prevent the people in our prosperous suburb from hearing of the little affair at Detroit and being beguiled into spending their money there instead of patronizing homeenterprises. The managers of the Detroit Exposition probably meant alright when they arranged with the railroads for the sale of admission tickets as a coupon to the railroad ticket sold at reduced rates. This, bowever, renders useless the greater part of the press tickets furnished by the exposition managers to newspaper men outside of the city as they are obliged to purchase a ticket to the Exposition in order to obtain the reduced fare. This is an undeserved hardship as the papers have fully earned all the press tickets they have received by the advertising they have done for the Exposition. The suggestions made by our correspondent of the sixth ward are good. It would cost us but little to try a system of dry earth closets. The expense of of giving this method a trial would probably not be more than the interest would be upon the debt which it would be necessary to incur in order to put in a system of sewers. This being the case the city can afford to give this method of disposing of waste matter a fair test. We are, however, doubtful as to its being possible to get very satisfactory results out of of such a system. It would be a good dea to try dry closets any way , so that if they were not a success all complaints in the uture that a cheaper system would have done just as well, will not have any force. "Miss Alice Stone Blackwell has an ■editorial on woman's wages in the Woma&'g Journal, and mentions a curious fait in connectlon with a competition of sculptors in Boston. The matter on foot was the erection of a statue to a distinguished citizen who had recently died. All sculptors were invited to send models of the deceased citizen, and with it their name in a sealed enyelope. Miss Anne Wkitney's model was decided to be the best, but when her envelope was opened the judges reversed their decisión, na it was too nmch honor to bestow upon a woiuan." The above appeared in a late issue of. the Boston Transcript. With John L Sullivan and such relies of the dark ages as the judges referred to above, B jston tukes the lead. One might expect to hear of such ridiculous decisions being made among the South Sea Islanders, or the Hottentots, but fiom classic Boston, never. The Registeií's agitation of the question of a city sewer system is having a .good effect. It has set people to thinking, and, what is better, the almost universal opinión seems to be in the right direction. This is as it should be. Now that it bas been plainly shown what the people want, the common council should feel it their duty to investígate the matter thoroughly. It is no easy thing to decide just what system of sewers is best adapted to Ann Arbor, and how they can be put in most economically. Experts should be employed to look the ground over, and their ad vice given the consideration such ad vice deserves. In such affaire too mucl care cannot be taken in the start. For every dollar judiciously expended in thoroughly investigatingthe subject be fore a plan is adopted, hundreds may be saved in carrying out such plans.