The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-02-13
DIAMOND DRILL CORES.

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The mid-winter meeting OF the Michi-
gan Press Association will be held at
Detroit. Monday and Tuesday, Febru-
airy % and 90.
| A LETTER from our New York cousin
telling Us OF the glorious time he had az
the Bradley-Martin ball did not arrive
unex pectedly in this mornings mail, but
will probably not reach here early next
week.
SIXTEEN years OF good political work
and strict adherence TO party principles
have been rewarded, and Hon. Thomas
C. Platt is again elected to the United
States senate from New York, position
he resigned sixteen years ago.
EDITOR LEcLAIR, OF the bright little
Gladstone Tribune, permitted IA breezy
poem anent two young ladies in mas
querade costume TO appear in his paper
on Jan. %. Last week the young ladies
obtained possession OF a horsewhip,
much to the discomfort of our unior-
tunate brother.
THE gentlemen OF the Iron Mountain |
Dispatch might better have skipped"
an issue than TO have forced upon the
public such typographical slop as was
issued by them Monday evening. Had
the work been left in charge OF the aver
age printers devil, he would undoubted- !
ly have kicked the type OF the chase
rather than let il go to press.
SAGINAW now boasts of girl boot
black. She is well dressed, pretty, |
modest and most engaging in her man
ners. Entering a store, she asks the
proprietor "would you like something
for nothing2" Oicourse, the proprietor
does. whereupon she pushes back her
sleeves, and with her own pretty hands |
blacks his shoes When the job is over
she looks up with a sweet smile and
suggests that the patron buy a box OF
blacking for twenty-five cents.
A CONVENTION OF delegates representing
the Republican clubs OF Michigan will be
held in the parlors Of the Hotel Cad lilac,
at Detroit, on Monday, Feb. % Each
Republican club in the state is titled
to one delegate, and one additional
delegate for every fifty members and
moiety thereof The convention *
called for the purpose OF eleeting officers
Of the Michigan League Of Republican
Clubs for the ensuing year and To elect
delegates TO the national convention to
be held in Detroit in July next.
COLONEL DAN LANNON'S department
needs oyerhauling. At recent civil
service examination fora 81, 800 clerk
ship the only one that passed success.
fully was woman, Miss Maud Stalker
OF Washington. ID. c.. The examination
required that the applicant should be
able to translate into English military
works in French, German, Italian, and
Spanish TO do typeSriting in all these
languages to do prooiroading and pre-
pare manuscript for the press to bc
familiar with library methods, catn-
logning, indexing, etc. also to be tested
in the use OF the English language and
literary composition. She passed the
examination with honor, and yet was
refused the appointment because she
was woman. That was not very civil
service to say the least Inter Ocean.
THE indebtedness Of the ire-de-
vastated village OF Ontonagon il no
longer matter OF interest TO that un-
fortunate village only. The framing OF
bill asking the legislature to make the
debt payable by the state, has made il
OF state interest Ontonagon has an
outstanding indebtedness Of about
$50, 900, that its businessmen in time
could and undoubtedly would pay.
Last summer, the village was destroyed
by fire. Almost. il not everyone OF its
businessmen. and property owners
suffered "A personal loss. All things CON
sdered, the debt, standing AZ "a barrier
between outside capital and the little
village in It's rebuilding, is n burden that
cannot fail to keep Ontonagon down
unless relieved by the state. Again,
when it il considered That TO the great
state OF Michigan the payment 81 this
debt would be but mere bagatellc, Is il
any wonder that we entertain no doubt
that the state will come TO the relief OF
oyer-burdenod Ontonagon
SCHOOL NEWS.