A m-rry Cbristmas to all Argus reader :....

A m-rry Cbristmas to all Argus reader :. Hun. .T. L. O'Mualey, of Adrián, gaya that "those Chicago banks cloaed thdir doors just in time to stop that great tidal wave of porsperity from gmothering them to deatb." Ifc is understood that the republican itate central committee will open beadqnarters in Lansing soon, and ocnduct the oampaigu for jnstice of the snpreme conrt and regents of the university from that city. The ful] eleotion returns develops the fact that McKinley's popular plurality is not the largest on record, the flrst reports of a milliou popular plnrality having been cut down abnut 400,000, leaving hia plurality cousiderably smaller thau that of Graut's in 1872, bnt still enongh. Although the post office reoeipts at ADn Arbor feil off ten per cent in November as compared with November of a year ago, tbe falling off was not sq marked as in Detroit, where the receipts were about $7,000 or twelve per cent less than November, 1895. The December reoeipts in Anu Arbor give proinise of showing a srnall increase. The Argns editorial last week advocating the renumberiug of the city has been very favorably commented upon. Everyone who has given the subject any attention at all agrees with the view that there is pressing need of renombering the city. If it were to oost eeveral thousand dollars perhaps aetión might be secnred. Bat as it is not a particnlarly costly improvement, we may have to wait. Bat Aun Arbor should be rennmbered. According to the engineer's report the cost of improving Detroit Street was $2,948.80, fnd of improving the other streets leading to Detroit street by hanling Detroit street ïnnd on them was $3,283.20. If these figures are correct it would have been cheaper to have rnacadamized these side streets This proposition indioates the absurdity of charging the digging np of Detroit street to the side streets on which the dirt was hauled. The fact is that the total cost of tbe Detroit street improvement accordiug to the eneineer's fignres was $6,2ü2 - and that incidentally some of the side streets were improved. But any división of tbe expense mnst be a pnrely arbitrary one and certaiuly that made by the engiueer is hardly the correct one.