Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-30

| But tue next best thing to defeat IS post
ponement.
| MONKEYS play the mischief with tele
! graph wires in Southern Mexico. They
! delight to climb the poles and indulge in
! gymnastic exercises on the wires. Some
| times a hundred monkeys may be seen
| swinging on the wires, festo0ned, moQkey
fashion, by looping their tales, and their
weight and the continuous vibrations
loosen the wires from their fastenings.
ANOTHER piano prodigy is playing in
London, O:to Hegner, 10 years old, with
'the confidence and bearing of a man of
3d." He has been brought up to be a
pianist and his technic is called superior
to the little HOfman's. The accounts in
dlcate that his personality is devoid of
that charm that rests in the native child
ishness of Holman, and do not encourage
one to expect anything more in him than
clever mechanicIan, while there is no
doubt that Josef Holman is genius.
GEN. BoULANGER and Count de l. cps,
the two mon who have beon considered
the most popular characters of this gener-
alton, are 10th making appeals to the
French Chamber of Deputies. BOulanger
wants to return to his command, and De
Lesseps wants authority to issuo another
lottery loan of 3fOO0O,OOO francs They
will boUh be disappointed, if the signs can
DO trusted. There is n limit to monu
meutal assumption, and the French Par
Lament can be trusted to administer the
proper rebuke.
MASSACHUSETTS, wins her suit against the
Western Union telegraph company in the
United States Supreme Court. This case
involved $40 $50 of taxes, md the decs-
ion, which sustains the points made in
the argument of Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Bliss, will cover the entire $37,3I8
which the telegraph company owes the
state. Similar suits are pending il Cali
fornia and New Jersey, ana this decision
regarding the right to impose tho com
mon franchise or corporation tax upon
the Western Union will command wide
attention. The decision against the
company is a sweeping one.
THE foreigners who after living in this
country few years insist that they are
worse Off than before they came do not
make much headway in convincing their
cuuntrymen on the other side of the water
that this is a poor country TO como to.
The number of foreigners who arrived
in this country during February was 49,
i57, as against 1877 for the same month
in 1897. The arrivals for the first two
months of the present year, number 32,-
G95, as against 2i,6l9 during the same
period last year. The immigration for
1887 amounted to something over 45O, 900,
and If the increase for the first two
months in 1888 be maintained the for
eign population of the country will be in
Such an increase may not be good for the
United States, but it indicates that great
many foreigners think that 1t will be
good for them. These figures are more
convincing than reams of denunciatiOn
of American institutions can possibly be
REV. DIR. MoRuAN DIX, the rector of
Trinity Church, New York, has stirred up
the biggest kind of hornets nest, by
delivering Lenten sermon Overhowing
with accusations against what are known
as the higher classes IN society"-mep
who demoralize young women, and wOm-
en- who lose their sense of shame and pro
priety by too free association with vic
ious mon. The doctor was very severe
against the too free and-easy tendencies
of modern society, and some of the proud
and aristocratic women OF his parish
make a show of virtuous indignation at his
outsPoken structures. They accuse him
of gross exnGgeration and injustice.
And yet he probably kept closely within
facts, aud is not unlikely that the Gut-
tering comes from those who were hit
Chicago Evening journal.