Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-27

delphia mint in October than any other
month in its history. This was due to the
Well PRESIDENT, REINHART of Atchi-
son company says that the line has not less
than $4,000 net receipts monthly from
sources other than from direct railway
operations, while the st. Louis and San
Fancisco company is easily earning all its
fixed charges and requirements, so that 1T
is self-sustaining in every way.
81 HAVE suspended the clerk, wrote
Postmaster General John Wanamaker on
a telegraph blank, and handed it in for
transmission by wire. The telegraph op
orator sent it off, leaving off the last two
words, and making the telegram read: 81
have suspended" The excitement caused
knows no bounds, because Mr.. Wanamaker
was known to have been LONG on Read
ing.
ELECTRICITY will yet illumine ali the
recesses of civilization. Some one has in
vented mode of incosing All electric light
in canes and umbrella handles. Unscrew-
ing lid on the end reveals an incandesc-
emit light operated by tiny battery in
the stick. 1t will burn good many hours
without renewal. 1t will be very conven-
lent for the man who has trouble to dis
tlnguish his own house as he comes HON
late from the club or lodge
MISS FRANCES WILLARD, president of
the woman Christian temperance union,
may be bishop before many years. The
admission of women as delegates to the
general conference of the Methodist
church, it is said, would make her a for
midabe candidate for such an ecclesiasti-
cal office. But Miss Willard can be a bishop
under the present condition if 1.-THE men
will vote for her. 1t usually takes $50
votes to secure bishopric and there is no
constitutional objection to her being voted
for by anyone, man or woman.
In is not altogether encouraging to
hopes for European peace that the French
government feels that it must increase
the military strength of the country on
account Of the added armament of Ger
many. The Emperor William may be
deeply Interested in the condition of the
working people of his kingdom, may be
inclined to experiment with socialism and
may encourage consumptiye hospitals and
other phlanthropic schemes At the
same time the rest of Europe feels it nee
essary to keep a sharp eye upon the young
kaiser
AMERICANS have often been amused by
English accounts Of current and historical
events in the United States. Since the
days of Arrowsmith's famous journeys IN
search of American horrors there has not
narrative to excel IA passage in a preten
tious article published by Moreton Frewen
in the November number of the Fortnight
ly Review. The article is Il dissertation on
The National Policy of the United
States, and in describing how our coun
try became union it says this But
Rhode Island perhaps because she was am
island declined to accept the constitution.
Six months later, finding that every port on
the mainland was closed to her surplus
products, Rhode Island came into the
union. The good citizens of Prov
idence should especially enjoy this wis
dom of an iusular embarrassment.
BEsANcoN and Hermits, respectively an
aeronaut and astronomer of Paris are still
considering the feasibility of a trip to the
north pole by means of a balloon. They
propose to start from Spitzbergin in = fa-
vorable wind, and expect to be about 10
days in the air, making good use of the
time mean while in photographing the
country or sea bel,w. They have no idea
where they would finally descend-and
probably the world would never know.
Their balloon will be made of two thick
neeyof Chinese silk, and will hold AZ,
600 cubic feet of hydrogen gas. With
provisions for month they expect to do
something if the balloon will stay up long
enough That is the point that puzzles
the aerial voyagers just now, but they hope
to decide by tests of such problems of navi'
CATION before May 1892, when they propose
to start The most facinating feature o
this scheme is its theoretical FEASIBILITY
ALTHOUGH Jay Gould denies the story
that he intended TO succeed Charles Fran
els Adams as president of the Union
Pacific, it is generally believed that he and
others interested with him have picked up
a large amount of that stock at the present
panic prices for the purpose of forcing
a big combination of the southwestern and
transcontinental roads Since the alliance
with the Northwestern, the Union Pacific
has not been particularly peaceful ele-
ment in the western railway situation and
the Gould story is gplausable Things are