Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-04-15
Items From Peck'S Sun.

The emigration of gold to this
country has set in again, and mil
lions Of dollars are arriving weekly.
1t is Just as welcome as the emigrant
who comes to take up land.
Malone, of Virginia, the glucose
democrat, is said to be sick with ner-
vous debility lie can't sleep nights.
We should think he wousd hire a
man to read one of his own speeches
to him.
The New York legislature has
passed q bill for the regulation Of
plumbers. We don't know what is
the necessity Of that. They are the
most regular men we have out west
here. You always know where to
find them.
In the senate the other day John
Sherman declared that the demo-
Gratis were revolutionary. If that is
the case they can point to precedents
that will justify them. For instance,
there was the congress that framed
the declaration Of independence
Washington himself was Il revolu-
ZIONIST OF the ranlcst kind
Gov. Smith will not call an extra
session of the legislature to have the
apportionment bill passed. The late
legislature, in making up the appor-
tionment, only left out one town,
and the governor thinks the state
can consider itself in luck. If he
called them together again, III warm
weather, they might leave out whole
counties, SO he thinks it is better to
limp along with one town gone.
4 member Of the legislature who
had introduced eleven bills and
didn't get any of them passed was
going home on the cars with a party
Of friends, when the newsboy Of the
train threw a book in his lap The
legislator took it up and read the IT,
tie, y Fools Errand, and turning
to a companion asked Glow the
deuce did that boy know that | was
a member of the legislature? He
hit me the first time
Among the gangs Of men who
have been employed the past winter
in clearing the snow from railroad
tracks there have been numerous
cases Of snowblindness. Men would
be suddenly struck blind while work
ing, and would have to be led away,
and it would be days before they
could tell one card from another.
They were as blind as rich rela-
ZION, that YOU meet on the street.
Col. Villas, of Madison, one of the
eminent men of our times, proposes
novel method of beating the re-
publican party in Wisconsin. His
idea is for the democrats to make no
nominations for state officers next
fall, and not 60 the polls at all. Let
the republicans have things all their
own way. Well, that is what the
democrats have been letting the re
publicans have as long as we can re-
member However, it will be
cheaper to make no nominations,
and the result viii be about the
same.
This IS the season of the year
when we read that So and Sos cir
Gus is having a hundred new cars
made to transport its plumber over
the country And they are the
most magnificent cars ever built, too.
When the show comes along in the
summer, the small boy goes to the
depot to count the hundred cars,
and if he finds twenty-five he is in
luck. And when he finds them
they are ordinary platform cars with
a cattle fence around them. To
look at circus train on 4 bill board,
with lis hundreds of decorated cars,
is one thing. and to see the cars at
the depot is another. Whatever
the circus man does, ne should not
lie about his cars, as every boy counts
them, and remembers the deception
to his dying day.