Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-08-21

AlNEnAL EOlNA, VAOCS AVIAN
DARIUS L. Corr, Rhode Island man,
has invented an electrical clock which
never runs down, and does besides many
wonderful things, such as lighting the
gas. awakening the servants, ringing the
breakfast bell. etc. If Mr.. Gcf would
now only apply his inventive genius In the
manufacture of similarly useful messen-
ger boy
For person to have potion that he
il an heir of the late A. I. Stewart and
entitled to slice of his estate is fast COM
ing to be recognized as distinct form OF
insanity. Already, according to the esti-
mate of the lawyers who were concerned
in the Stewart litigation, which was
brought to a peaceful conclusion some
time ago, nearly two thousand "cousins
have turned up to claim relationship and
money, while the number Of more remote
kindred is past computation. As the pro-
perty has been divided among the heirs
recognized by the court, the chance OF
future claimants cousins or otherwise, is
is exclusively small.
The success chat has attended the cul-
tivation Of the rubber plant in this coun-
try for purposes of household decoration,
and the knowledge of its peculiarities and
needs that has thus been obtained, have
led to the conclusion that, within the
limits of the United States, the rubber
tree might be proftably cultivated for its
Weld of gum. The requirements are
absence of frost and an abundance of water,
not less than the amount represented by
two hundred inches of rainfall per annum.
Safety from frost can be secured in south
ern Florida, in southern California, and
possibly in other parts of the country, and
lack of rain can easily he offset by lrrlga-
ton 1t is said that the plant, under
these conditions, grows with great rapid
ity, that tapping" may begin at the end
Vt the third year, and that the flow OF sap
,r milk which becomes rubber upon
the application of heat, increases year after
year.
The recent break in the Sault Ste Marie
canal serves as reminder that there are
in this country public works simply deserv'
ing of government aid. No one questions
that this waterway is of great Importance
to commerce and an appropriate object OF
patenaI care. tits the only means of COM
munieation between Lakes Huron and
Superior, its location being at the rapids
in the st. Mary river, which at this par
ticular point have fall of 20 feet IN a
mile. Fifty vessels passed through
the lock last month. The work so com
pletelv fits the definition of Il national
waterway that the demand for new and
larger lock has JUSTIFIED the Senate IN pro-
viding for its construction IN separate
bill that is now pending in the House, In
view of the past generosity of Congress
in this case there is no cause for fear that
the canal viii remain unprovided for,
A STORY is told of young New Yorker
who hired a whole hotel in London for the
purpose Of giving dinner TO another New
Yorker. The guests included at least one
Judge of the Supreme Court of New York,
and the ladies who did the dancing were
hired from the music halls. The orgie
that followed is described as slnguarly
disreputable and disgraceful. These are
the things that bring Americans into dis
repute abroad. They are ostentatiously
vulgar. They are mt once recklessly ex,
travagant and barbarously commonplace
They only unite what is low with what is
costly. But what is worst about them Is
the fact that they are accepted in Europe
as typical of America. There is only one
remedy for this sort of thing These mer
must be taught at home that they cannot
disgrace their country abroad with inn
punity. An American who hires a Lon
don tavern to exhibit his country as lo'
of drunken blackguards should oe made tC
feel the disapprobation of every worth!
American and his guests ought to share il
his disgrace.
The three gentlemen composing tn
commission appointed by the legislatur
of the state of New York in 1886, to inves