Morning journal and courier., 1892-11-25
NEW HAVEN CONN. MORNING, NOVEMBER 1892.

Gently took place in an English town.
The dead man, who had been the captain
of a bicycle club, requested, before his
death, that his body should be conveyed TO
the cemetery on bicycles, and, to make the
event complete, the members of the club
went on bicycles.
A Frenchman died not long ago and left
a large estate, which was divided among
the heirs without qusrrelling-sll but an
umbrella which had been in the family for
over fifty years. This was fought for in q
lively way, and the aid of the court had
finally to be invoked to quiet the disturb
ance. An umbrella which has escaped be-
ing stolen for fifty years, or fifty weeks, is
a curiosity worth fighting over.
Some people are little slow to act. This
is illustrated by the circumstances of the
killing of Captain Veal, for which DR..
Jones is now on trial at Dallas, Texas. DIR.
Jones claims that his victim had assaulted
his wife, and that honor required that the
miscreant should die. But the original
offense was committed in 1869, the lady
being at the time a widow. She seems to
have said nothing about the matter, and
two years later she married DR.. Jones.
Still she kept her own counsel, and 1t was
only after she had been married for ninH-
teen years that she confded the story to
her husband. But even then the doctor
did not seize his pistol and rush out to
clay the scoundrel. He thought the mat
ter over for one year more before he finally
made up his mind that his wife's honor
demanded blood.
Under decision rendered by the United
States Supreme court this week, the in
ventor of the cable road appears to have
lost whatever pecuniary benefit might
come to him by reason of having invented
this method of propelling street cars The
inventor brought suit to recover royalties
for the use of his system by one of the
street car companies in New York. The
plaintiff held that his invention did not
come within the two years limitation of
the patent laws, for the reason that the
first use of the device in San Francisco
was an experiment. The court holds that
this contention is not supported by the
facts, and that the device was put in pub
Lie and not in simple experimental use.
The patent law provides that no patent
shall be given where the invention has
been in public use for more than two years.
Nj fha ar,n1u for his
patent until four years after his system
had been put in operation, the fruit of his
genius has become the property of the
public.
Minnesota's exhibit of woods at the
Worlds fair will include specimens of
white OAK, red oak, white pine, yellow
pine, white poplar, yellow poplar, black
ash, white ash, water elm, rock elm, white
birch, yellow birch, sugar maple, with
birdseye, soft maple, fir balsam, white
spruce, tamarack, white cedar, red
cedar, hornbeam or ironwood, two varie-
ties of red pine, Norway spruce, diamond
willow, basswood, butternut, and hack
berry. All of these specimens are in
digenous to the State. Mr.. J. o. Barrett,
Secretary of the State Forestry associa-
ton, has supervised the work of selecting
the logs, and the northern part of the
State has been his most fertile field
Since the latter part of September Mr..
Barrett has been camping out in Itssca
County, and from day to day he has
picked out the trees to be felled by his
assistants. In this portion of the State
black bears are plentiful, and on one or
two of the logs which he had gathered
can be seen the marks of their claws
where they have climbed the tree when it
WAS standing. The logs will be cut into
geometrical figures and will be thoroughly
dried by the steam process, after which
they will be varniehed. Ferns and moses,
of which there are 200 varieties in Mime
sofa, will also be exhibi ted, and a peculiar
woody excrescence in the shape of a Chi
nese god, which is to be polished and used
as fountain, the water to issue from the
upper part of the head.