Our Esteemed Cotemporaries

¦1 lie following froui the Vermoatville lawk, is pretty sound advice, after all: Hit is hoped tliatthe republicana in the ftxt leurislature will not bolt their plat¦rm, but will take right hold and lielp le fusionists pas that prohibitory ainendBent, , and tlms gct this much perplexing ¦estion out of party politics. ¦ Nowyou're tdktn. Frora the Three ¦ivers Tribune: llt is becominr quite common for a ¦ ined giil to avenge her wrong by slioot1{ her seducer and bctrayer and she has Ir sympathy in the execution of the lenzied act, but, if alie would only lincture the villain when he first re¦ialed his k'clierous purpose, she would lerit our admlration as well as our kmmlseratlon. iRutlier of a singular error is referred I by the Detroit Post in the following: ll'he Kansas City Times says that "the lugwuuips have cut their bridges behind Bern." This cornos of their sitting down lith the demócrata in council. But the ¦ansas City Times should discharge its ¦¦oof-reader for allowing the intelligent Innpositor to substitute "bridgcs" for ¦¦eeclie. I Tho Sparta Sentinel has about the right I' it: ¦One would think froni the way thatHen¦icks talks in his parade around the miintrv that he was going to be the real lovver behind the throne, but if we are Bt mistaken in the cliaracter of Gov. ¦U'veland, his ambitions will be about Ike those of the ïnilkmaid that we used m hear of, wlio was tfoing to parchase a lik gown, from the proceeils of the Kilk that shelcarried In a pail on lier Kad. In her joy she strutted so loftily nat away went the pail inilk and all. I The Marshall Statesman gires some Bscellent adviee to a couple of polltical I O. beligerents. Hearit: ¦ We lind a great moral speetaele bcing Bresented in a small village in Tnscola Kunty,wliere :i dcinocrat and afjreenbackT areVti-ugglini to fret the postoftlce umler Cleveland. Wliy don't these tiercé otlice seekers compromise and fuse and one of tliein run the postofflce in the forenoon, he other in the afternoon, and ftllow a St. Jolmite to sell staraps In the evenlnjt? The compensation of the postmaster is about $43 per iiniium in this village.