Show AND PETTY EVERY now and again in the sessions of the city council some jack agapos exhilarated with the presumed importance of his official ln in fla nation tion forgetting his liability to be suddenly plunged plunge into the juice of bis normal iu insignificance significance jerks out some insulting reflection in relation to the methods of the city government of the past these smart alecks are either prompted by a coxcomb Je desire to create an impression of their own great greatness compared with the alleged incapacity of their predecessors or they are too advanced in idiocy to comprehend that methods which would be beneficent and applicable now would have been imprudent ind and even impossible in years gone by A person who does not understand that new conditions require new modes of administration has not sense enough to preside over a poultry yard to say nothing about dot doing dk business for an important municipal corporation now we make it a rule never to precipitate an initiatory assault but occasionally nally we try to take a hand han an aggressive polemic defense and if certain upstart members of the council Coi inell keep on manifesting their utter lack of official courtesy to their predecessors in office who are am not in a position to defend themselves we will be compelled to wield a baber in their behalf by exhibiting hi bi the fact that the insinuations would be more consistently engaged in sawing small wood than in their present official occupation we do not anticipate any special difficulty in performing this feat mev men if they can be so designated who are always looking backward in search of opportunities nit es for th throwing rowing mud over their shoulders are not of the genuine stamp and constantly afford plenty of material to enable the observer to show up their smallness |