Show THE courier de VIlli nois au authoritative french paper issued in chicago publishes a piece of news which may prove to be of great importance in helping to foreshadow fore hadow the near future as between france and germany and perhaps of the great powers of europe it says eliat tor some lime past the people of a village on the upper rhine which used to belong to france but is under german rule since the war of 1870 have witnessed strange scenes alie country was surveyed by german engineers and after they biad finished their labors numerous workmen came oi the scene constructing roads which are evidently to be ased for military movements the germans are preparing a fourth route by which tacy can invade france across the mountains with true gallic sang froid atio article concludes as follows conic on gentleman germans the little french force is waiting for you to wish you a veritable good day that is a polite hint of a welcome with hands to hospitable graves and apparently without a recollection of alie fact that the struggle at grave lotte eventuated the other ay SECRETARY rusk has issued a pamphlet giving the lii story of the agricultural experiment stations which have been established ander a recent law of contress Conn ress and are now conducting scientific and practical experiments in regard to soil tillage manures crops stock feeding dairying and horticulture in various states all the states and one territory dakota now have agricultural experiment stations the total number of stations now in operation is forty and including the branch stations nearly sixty they employ more than scientists and agriculturists and will this year receive from alie national government and about from the states and other sources A most cordial feeling id said to exist between the stations and tha department of agriculture which is charged by congress with the duty of supervising and aiding the work of stations WHEN a lady obtains a divorce from her husband writes E 8 and the court gives her the right to resume her maiden name of say emma smith what is the proper way of addressing her miss emma or sirs emma smith Is there any legal form or is it decided by mere custom it is decided by the preference of the lady if she is young and has no family she usually clio oses to call herself hiss smith as she has a perfect right to do if she is a mother or grandmother abe lias the same right but sho does not as a rule avail herself of it thirty years ago in pa john R reed and miss M E thompson were engaged to be married but for some reason parted reed went west traveled through california finally settled in braveh W T and mar riad cifes thompson married a mr brewer they heard nothing of each other for more than twenty five years both have grown up children brewer died last year and mrs reed also ac ciden read and mrs brewer learned these facts opened correspondence and they were married recently people all over have and are cleaning door yards and raking off lawns and burning trash it be a good idea for the city authorities to see that some of the vile lack and front streets are cleaned up there is need to do this before warm weather opens up in earnest and develops cheso deposits of tho winters slop into pestilence breeding places which will almost certainly infect the ermiro neighborhood in which they lie provo can easily preserve her as a cleanly and healthful city somebody Some boby wants to know what becomes of all the birds nearly all of them are conceded to be short lived and there are millions oi them but how rarely do we see a dead bird unless it be one that has fallen a victim to some ruthless slaughter of the innocents perhaps some student of nature can give a satisfactory answer to the query abaye THE of grand rapids michigan are fighters last year weston was elected mayor by nine plurality tho republicans contested the matter to abo supreme court and were beatea this year killean the democratic nominee was elected by a plurality of three and the republicans propose another contest indiana rhode island and wisconsin and the territory of montana leave adopted the australian system of voting if the experiment is satisfactory in these states it will be rapidly adopted by other states IT is manufacturing industries more than real estate boomers that wo are in ngod of now and it is to be hoped that every citizen will come to see the need of encouraging everything of this nature advertising has a twofold two fold effect it sells the goods of the man who pays for it and calls attention to the city in which he lives THE total number of acres surveyed in utah from the opening of the land office in to the present year were the country editor unlike his brother in tho eity does not sit in a far removed and isolated chamber spinning his theories about current human affairs from his inner conscious aness and feeling the public pulse by telephone he knows his constituents personally he goes among them constantly st asars thair individual views and is capable of mora accurately re fleeting their sentiments that falls bithia the scope of his duty or of modifying and correcting their opinions if auch seems advisable it is true his attention atten tion must been by many of the little things of life the neighborhood gossip the marriages the visitors the births deaths and curiosities but these are not necessarily devoid of dignity |