Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-01-07

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that the year, beginning with 1900, be
divided into 10 months. We still have
with us quantities of folks who decline
to sit at a table with II others; with
10 months in the year they would want
to get off the earth.
The discussion now current in
France as to whether President Faure
has the constitutional right to leave
the country to visit Russia has never
had parallel here, we believe. Our
presidents have never thought of such
a thing because, very likely, there are
no nearby countries they have found
it necessary to visit.
The Manhattan elevated railroad
company in New York have decided to
light their cars by the Pintsch system
of compressed gas Dating from Jan
uary ! next, 40 cars every week are
to be equipped with that light. Here
tofore the light has been kerosene.
The additional expense will be $4,000
year. 1t is rather odd to find gas
adopted instead of an electric system.
News comes by the way of London
Of the death on November IL of the
president of the republic of Liberia.
This is purely negro state, and it is
we'll known that it's controlling ele-
ment is that of emigrants from this
country. The Late chief magistrate,
John Joseph Cheeseman, was elected
president for two years on May 5, 1891,
and had been since twice reelected,
his term ending in the fall of 1897
Vice-President w. D. Coleman was at
once inaugurated as president to serve
out this term
An assault on church bells is being
made in New York Largely it seems
to be made by such well-to-do persons
as inhabit Stuyvesant square, who do
not want to be called out of bed TO
go to church. The common people en-
joy the bells, one of the losses of
modern life is the music of the bells.
which are getting fewer everywhere.
A restriction of the ringing of bells
to hours when everybody ought to be
awake except newspaper workers, tele-
graph operators and few others is
called for. Nobody ought to be ian
gled out of sleep at o'clock for early
mass
The beauty of Kew gardens, one of
the show places OF London. is being
greatly injured by the mania of Direc-
tor Thiselten-Dyer for ''arboreal indi-
vidualisnl," which he is carrying out
by the slashing of trees, and old trees
at that, in every part of the grounds.
80 as to destroy groups and leave isol-
ated specimens. Now while IL might
be admirable 10 plant new arboretum
with the object of getting the best
growth of solitary trees, the destrlc-
ton OF the group plan of an old gar
den like Kew is manifestly foolish.
Mr. Thiselton-Dyer is a famous botan-
list, and he has been assistant director
OF Kew for 20 years and is now direc-
tor, but his hand should be stayed
Every American naturalist who has
seen Kew would agree to that
The taxpayers of New York state
are getting discouraged, though not
OF course, to the point of open pro-
test. More Improvements" are to be
made in the capitol at Albany. the
order having gone forth to have GER
tain parts of the library remodeled
Tor legislative uses The cost OF the
changes is placed at s50,000-a mere
nothing compared with the 1922, 900. 900
which the whole property has cost, but
probably involving an actual outlay
much greater than the estimate That
has been the way with the capitol con
struction and reconstruction in Albany
since the time of BOSS" Tweed. and
no one looks for more righteous meth
DDS in the present job. New York
papers do not hesitate to call the
scheme Legislative grab" and they
are hooking to see some of the sleek
politicians divide up a considerable
part of the appropriation.
Col Waring has come back from a
European trip, to say that Vienna is
better paved than New York, and
when anybody spits there, he takes
care to spit in the street and not ON
the sidewalk and at the same time
TO confront charge that the Italian
laborers have to pay money TO get on
the street laborers' list in New York.
The accusation remains to be proved,
but the colonel knows that he has
get points on street cleaning from
Europe, not because he Is un-Ameri-
can but because they do things OF the