Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-12-27

OLD Vermont will soon send an agent tc
Sweden to induce colonists from that eoun-
try to settle in the Green Mountain State
OUR new eight-inch, all-American gun,
lust made at Watervliet, beats the world.
It's initial velocity was found to be l00
feet better than the best record of the same
class of Krupp guns.
BOB ISeERsoLL says that nearly all
the Joy of this earth is by the freside. =
Some people say that in the next world
Bob will get all sorts of joy that he wants
and little more.
BISMARCK is seriously considering the
expediency of Importing Cinnamon to
work the farms Emigration and mill
tary duty makes great scarcity of farm
laborers.
THE London Chronicles Berlin cores
pondent says that advices from Brazil by
mail report that the proclamation of the
Republic was received with enthusiasm in
all places where the German population
fredominates.
THERE is likely to be an exodus from
Canada pretty soon. The extradition
treaty recently negotiated makes embezzle-
ment an indictable crime. There.will be
a host Of defaulters emigrating soon.
Where can they 20 to!
ILLINOIS has an industrial training
school where city boys are taken out into
the country and taught farming 1t
would take about three such institutions
to the square mile to counteract the at
fractions Of the city to the country bred
boy.
THE question as 10 the arrangement Of
the forty-two stars on he flag, is exciting
some attention There is no prescribed
form. But the best suggestion seems to
be TO place the thirteen in a circle, and the
added twenty-nine in five pointed star
shape about the circle. There is room for
several artistic arrangements.
A Western inventor is endeavorinc to
interest capital in his electrical magic
lantern for casting or rejecting advertise
ments on the dark clouds that often hang
low over city. The inventor claims to
have secured contracts from several well
known firms for displaying their cards in
this manner. If the idea is fully develop
ed we may expect to see some very start
ling and grotesque effects.
LiTHE action Of the special House com
mittee of the SiIcott theft gives ominouq
indication Of a tendency to evade response
billty and, if possible find some means of
rcimbursing the defrauded Representa-
tiyes from the public treasury Such "A
course shouId net be considered for mo-
ment. Those who favor it should read the
history Of those who were responsible for
the salary grab and learn wisdom. 70
take one cent Of the peoples money to
make up for private losses made possible
by the slovenly business methods of its
members would be nothing but bare theft
and its iniquity would be remembered
against every PARTICIPANT
THERE seems a prospect that the United
States may conclude an extradition treaty
with England much broader than that
now in force, which will cat off the use of
Canada or our own country as an asylum
for embezzlers or others Of that ik who.
committing a crime in one country seek
refuge IN the other. The responsibility
for the fact that such an agreement was
not reached long since, rests principally
with the United States, the Canadians
having again and again shown their will
ingucss to meet us more than half way
most recently in the Weldon act The
substitution of Legislative measures for
treaty agreements in such cases is always
unsatisfactory.
TnE Mormon press has very little to say
about the ground of Judge Anderson's de
cislon, SO far rs it is based upon the charge
that the Mormon church is a reasonable
organization. The doctrine of blood
atonement, however, comes in for lengthy
review Judge Anderson, by his brave
exclusion of Mormon aliens from
citizenship, has delivered the most telling
blow that the priesthood has yet received
The confscution of church property gave
the leaders an opportunity to parade in
their old role of martyrs to the faith; hut
to be pillored before the world us traitors
to government and as vulgar thugs is
another thing The decision has given a
boom to real estate at Salt Lake City
Should the February elections be carried
10y the gentles, it will bc considered
nothing short of the dawn of Il new era
EN ERYBODY PREPARE 10 SNEEZE.
The Paris correspondent of the New
York Herald cables his paper that 100000
people are sick in that country with Rus
sian influenza. The military school of st,