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The Greatest Dramatist The World Ever

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1
Month
May
Year
1890
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Public Domain
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saw was born at Stratford-upon-Avon, 326 years ago last Wednesday. He diedjust52 years later. His fame increases every day. Out of a total of 17,760 publications, 11,189 or two-thirds of the whole are rated by Rowell's newspaper directory fox 1890, as ha ving an average issue of lese than 1,000. The Register is glad to be found in the minority this time. It is somewhat of risk for any town to stake any amount on its being superior to any other town as a place of safety in which to dweil. If it does not lie under an immense reservoir threatening its destruction at almost any moment as was the case with Johnstown, yet electricity in the sky may open a passing water-cloud when least expected and drown it out in that way, or hurl down npon the doomed place great hail stones "measuring two inches in circumference and weighing more than four ounces each," as it did in Baltimore last Sunday. An Arbor is without proper pólice protection. This fact was plainly sbown last week when two burglaries were committed on two of the business streets of the city. The present force of a chief and one patrolman does as well as can be expected, but one man cannot possibly give Ann Arbor the protection that is needed. The council should see to it, without going into an expensive system or any great outlay of money, that, at least, the night patrol is enlarged so that our merchants and citizens may feel safe from such burglaries as were committed last week. Senator Morrill shows some of the fallacies of free trade in the last number of the North American Review. He says: "Supplemental to British free trade and inseparable from it will be found the following: A land and house tax, paid byoccupiers as well as owners; tax on legacies and successions; a stamp tax on bilis of exchange, receipts and patente; a tax on carriages, horses, man servants, guns and dogs; an excise on gin and all other spirits, and a tax on incomes." The masses do not think or even know of these objections to free trade and they are carefully kept in the back ground by the papers they are accustomed to read. How would the American people fancy having a similar list of taxes permanently saddled upon them by the national government, as would be the case if they should adopt the advice given them by the democratie press of the present day? It would be foolish to attemptto compute the value to every community of the recent discoveries in the practical application of electricity to the various uses in which it serves mankind. Here the telephone and electric lighting are the greatest resulta of late advances in the knowledge of the subtile fluid. Soon we hope to have electric street cars. If we had to wait for the horse car system, it would probably be a long time before cars would move along the streets of this city. A writer in the current number of the Century shows why the electric system is superior to the old horse car system, and why it is possible for us to have the luxury of street cars in our moderately sized city. He says: The rapid extensión of the electric street car system wbich has taken place (especially in this country), naturally leads to the question of the cause thereof. To have gained such pre-eminence it must be able to do not only what other systems can do but, still more, it must be able to do it at a decreased cost. Again, removal of thousands of horses from the streets of a city, involving, as it does, the doing away with the noiseand dirt, is another disünct gain to its residents. But if one g)es still further, and contemplates the diíference between a stable, housing thousands of horses, and an electric-car station of sufficient size to opérate a road with the same effiviency, one is al once struck with the advantages on the side of the electric system, which, indeed, are incontrovertible. Instead o! a large. ill-smelling building whose odors are wafted for many blocis (making the tenancy of houses within half a mile almost unbearable, and involving a large depreciation of property in the neighborhood), there is a neat Bubstantial building equipped with a steam plant and dynamos, and occupying hardly one-tenth the space requirec for an equivalent number of horses Therefore, not only is there effected a removal of the nuisances attached to a stable, but a large saving in the cost o real estáte, and the far greater amoun involved in the known depreciation o the surrounding property. Besid'l his, the atables are of necessity required to be in close proximity to the track, whereas the electric power staion, which furnishes current to the car, may be situated a mile from the track in Bouie suitable place, as for instance, beside a river, where, with condensing enginef, power may be generated at a minimum of cost.

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