Show EDITORIAL NOTES SPITES there thele is very little chance that dakota will be admitted to the union as a state this session of congress the medical purveyor of the united beatea army at st bt louls louis makes the statement that the accumulation of worthless medici medicines nog nag disposed of from time to time by the government are bought up by dealers and resold re sold bold again to the out lying towns A washington paper suggests that the tho government Is ia as much discredited by the transact transaction tion lion as the other partie pantie sand that worthe wo rth legs less medicines ought to be destroyed instead of bold eold tho the new york sun vun truly remarks if there were more men like ross the express who bucce success 35 raily rully defended his car against a ga gang n g of outlaws on the central pacific railroad rall rali rond road on monday morning per haps we should of so BO many train robberies the robbers depend upon being able to intimidate their victims and they usually succeed but bui in this case they mota meta met mot a brave man mun who did not iese lose nig hig presence of mind at the sight eight ofa of a pistol oneff one of the tho commonest delusions among a certain class of irishmen bays says tile tiie liverpool courier la 19 that their countrymen form the great majority of the soldiers in the army ancl anci that it Is ia irishmen who win all the batt battles lea leg according to an official return just fust out the british army la Is composed of englishmen Scot Scotch chinen men rend and irishmen it itis is estimated that over 80 per cent of the sailors in the navy are englishmen at all events it a an overwhelming percentage A citizen of c carson city montcalm county mich read some where that it would take tahe out a gream grease spot from a board hoard to pour kerosene ne on it and heat the spot to dry up the kerosene hermene ker her mene there was waa a big gre grese grease se spot on the floor of his store he poured kerosene on it I 1 and set sat the tho kerosene on fire to beat it it took out the grease admirably likewise the floor and such tuch other things as it could reach the neighbors took out hla hia goods and finally the fire was put fut out john bull buli la Is considered slow by the piea mercurial curial eurial american yet there alel aih no faster mail trains in the world anan the flying scotch man between london and edan edinburg I 1 and the wild Irl lri irishman bet bei between london and dublin but these thel e are not fast enough for the british public postmaster general fawcett has just made arrangements by which maich an hour will be gained in the delivery of the irish malis malid and he is working to secure a faster service than the present for scotland and other parts of great britain it is not hard to win fame in these degenerate da days ys it is only necessary to give a certificate to the proprietor of ofa a patent medicine to have your name in every newspaper in the coun country tr end and read by fifty million people and anet yet famo fame Is mighty uncertain anyhow A chicago times lansing dig dip dispatch patch mentioning the appointment of james blair as member of the board of control of the boys reform school vice edwin F uhl declined spells the batters lat name edwin fahie fahle this Js Is pro bably babiy no not intended as a 4 reflection on the gent lemans judgment in declining the office |