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extracts from the interest and tax lawa passed by the recent legislature. The ection relative to the taxaiion of mortgages will doubtless prove interesting to all. The alliain-e Judge McKay, of Kan. sas, has got into considerable trouble beeause he refused to obey the decrees of the supreme court. Had he come to Ann Arbor, as he at one time expected to do, he would have learned enough in three months to prevent any such ridicnlous actions on his part. Tin píate can be made in the United States, the assertions of free traders to the contrary notwithstanding. The Register has received a sample of roofing tin, the Taylor "old style," which is made in Philadelphia by the N. & G. Taylor Company. It is jusf. as pretty and durable as the Britiah artide, for which Democrats and Mugwumps have an un warranted preference. On the 3Oth of June the amount of paper money circulating in the United States, exclusive of greenbaqks, was $468,667,712, secured by $537,516,094.64 gold and silver reserves in the treasury. The greenbacks amounted to $345,079,272. Against these there was a gold reserve of $100,000,000. These figures do not tend to corrobórate the charge, made by unpatriotic politicians, that the nation is bankrnpt. William C. Whitney, brother-in-law of Standard Oil Payne and ex-secretary of the navy, has attained high position in the councils of Tammany Hall, which wganization, rumor whispers, is to be urned over to Grover Cleveland. The ignorance and viciousness of Tammany Hall, combined with the boundless wealth of the Standard Oil company, will prove no mean allies of the fat soothsaver. And this is why Cleveland's friends are so confident. At the next meeting of the Roman Catholic p(;elates of this country, a me. morial will be sent to the pope, thanking Mmforhisrefusaltograntthepetition of HerrCahensly, who wishes to divide the church into Irisb, French and Germán bishoprics, thus preserving and fostering foreign ideas and ties among the TaBt numbers of immigrant laymen. This action of thebishops is significant. It shows that the Catholícs are not so anti-American as they are sometimes represented. Patriotism is by no means wholly confined to the Protestants. Minnesota lias a governor of the true mettle. Last week hedeclared emïfcatjcally that the proposed fight beiween Pugilists Hall and Fitzsimmons ehould nottake place-and it did not. The eivil authorities in this land are pretty veil at one in their determination not to allow entertainment in which two brotes pummel each other for the delectation of several thousand other brutea. It would be the rankest hypocrisy for the United States to censure Mexico for Ha ball-fights and at the same time countenance stil 1 more disgusting men fights. A writkr in the Forum maintains very cogently, that the evils of immigration are not the only ones that menace the nation. Foreigners have done much to enrich the United States, both materially and intellectually. (ierman profundity and Irish versatility are both important factors in our civiliiation. Undoubtedly immigration does beget e nis, but these are not tobe compared with the growing centralization of wealth and the growing slavery of the wage-earner- evils for which Yankee thrift and selfishness r largely responsible. The nrembers of the various farmers' arsociations throughout the country are going to make a corner on wheat which will redound to their own advantage and not to that of the speeulator- that is to say, they are going to try to do 80. This action they justify on the specious plea that the devil must be fought with his own weapons. Do they reflect, howeyer, that n such t warfare the devil is at home and has an insuperable advantage? The speeulator can wait till doomsday, if need be, before he buys, but the farmer cannot; he must have immediately the wherewithal to purchase food, raiment and shelter. For this reason the proposed "corner" is not likely to be more successful than the average strike. Referring to the National Press Asso ciation, which recently met at St. Paul, the Pioneer Press of that city says: "The great majority of delegates are the edkors of weekly papers published in the smaller cities and villages of the countrv, or, what, for short, are called country editors. Many of them are strong and able men, leaders of thought and molders of opinión, not only withinthe local spheres of their circulation, but throughout the states where they reside. It must not be supposed that rural newspapers are mere conduits thiough which the news and opinions of tliemetropolitan pressaredistributed in the rural districts. On the contrary, they are the critics and censors of the great city dailies. They have more time tothink than the writers for the latter, whose often hasty and superficial editorials are frequently of lesa real valué than the productions of the man who has a week to mature bis reflections upon the topics of his cboice. The country newspapers are in many cases the sources of rnuch original thought which finds its way into the city dailies; the nursery of ideas which are transplanted and developed in the city hot house." These remarks, applying, as they do, to the vast number of weekly papers published in towns the size of Ann Arbor and under, contain much truth. It is doubtful if the press of Detroit employs more able talent or exerts more influence than such papers as the Coldwater Republican, Allegan Gazette, Allegan Journal, Adrián Press, Adrián Times, Lansing Republican, Lansing Journal, and many others equally worthy, several of which are found in Washtenaw county. The country newspaper, if it be true to itself, must, in a certain sense, be the schoolmaster of the reading community.