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How raany secret marriages turn 011 happily? A niariiage in secret as wel as a marriage in haste leads to repenl anee at leisure. Prediotiocs are freely hazarded tha the next congress will not be republi can, and these prediotions are made by republicans as well as democrats. This indioates what the people are thinking 1 oí tí$ Dingley tariff bill and prosperSf n In the death of Hon. George V. N. LothrnpM, iohigan loses one of its grandest men. As an orator fae was without a peer at the Michigan bar. He wonld have been an honored membet of the United States Senate, a position whioh be would have adorned, had not his party been in a hopeless minority in the state. Hicks, the weather prophet, has prophesied once too often to be oonsidered infallible. Daring the hot weather of last week, we were consoled with Hick's prophecy, that however hot last week was, it was as oool as Greenland temperature, in comparison with the weather we were to have this week. Hicks' reputation is now gone. The extra session of congress is stil grinding its slow and weary oonrse endeavoring to devise new or increased taxes for the people The heat of Wash ington is not condncive to long hours uf labor, and its enervating influence has doubtless been feit by the congress men. Let them adjonrn for oooler weatber and the country will not be the loser. Publio sentiment is awakening to the necessity of a bicyole ordinance. Every day some bioycle rider has his life put in jeopardy or some driverhashis horse nearly rnn in to by a bicycler whose approaoh cannot be seen in the darknes?. The noiseless wheel sbould be lighted. Ann Arbor shonld "get a move on," and not f all behind the processioD. There is a growing ontcry among the inasses of the people against fads in the public schools. The schools of today are not turning out any better scholars than the schools of twenty years ago. The people are right. The children hoold be more fully gronnded in English, and the frills and fads sbonld be given a back seat, and the four R's brought to the front once more. Our own and only Pollaski frarned up at Detroit last week as a candidate for president of the Repnblioan League. He didn't get there. Republicana did aot recognize his brilliaut parts, too dazzling for plain ordinary minds. But he is yet nndaunted and annonnces tbat e is now a candidate for governor of Illinois. Pollaski is well remembered in Ann Arbor where be got his edncation. It behooves newspaper writers to get their pay regnlarly in Michigan as their claims for back salary are not vievred in the light of preferred claims by the supreme conrt of Michigan and the court has jusfc rendered a deoision to that effect. Col. M. A Aldrich, editorial writer, Charles J. Toots, mailing olerk, Edwin J.Bulkley, proof reader and reporter, and William M. Hathaway, reporter, all employed by the old Grand Rapids Democrat, had their claims for salary allowed by Circuit Jadge Adsit, as preferred labor olaims. The Michigan Trast Co., for the bondholders, appealed to the suprema court, which has reversed the decisión as to all the employés, except Toots. The court holds that the labor performed by the petitioners, with the exception of Toots, was that of professional men, rather than laborers, and not such as is covered by the statute relative to preferred labor claims. Our looal columns give some account of the exact extent of the transactions of the Ann Arbor post office. It may be interesting in tbis oonneotion to know that in the wtfole United States only about 2,000 times as many two cent stamps were sold as were sold in this city, while the country has 6,000 times as many people in it as this oity contains. Aside from the newspapers there was sent out about 170 pieoes of rnail matter for each habitant of the city, while the average for the United States inclnding newspapers was only 80 pieces. The United States has 184,607 men employed in some capacity in the mail service and has over ?0,000 postoffices, and handles more mail than any country in the world ; Germany stands second with 36,000 post offices, employing 168,000 men, and Great Britain third with 20,270 post offioes and 138,738 employees. India, Canada, Franoe and Russiaoomenext. There are, however, ooly 7,084 post offices in the whole of the Russian Empire. The United States has six times the length of railroad post routes that any other nation has.