Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-10

decrease of 1896 in ten years. Yet it
has two senators and a congressman,
though under the act OF 1871 173,9OI
people constitute the basis of congression-
al representation
EMPEROR WILLIAM is fast earning the
name of the great German traveller, for he
never seems so much at homs as when be
is,junketing abroad
The June crop report shows that Texas
will beat its record this year as cotton
| producing state. The acreage is larger
| than last year, and the con lition is very
| good.
IT is proposed in Portugal to sell nearly
all the colonies of that country in order to
extiuguish the 1ational debt. Should it
be done there would not be much left of
Portugal.
The Belgian authorities have peculiar
notions of what fresh meat signifies when
they confscate 500 boxes of American
hams, under the law prohibiting the i'm
portation of fresh meat
SUGAR bounties will not go begging for
takers in Vermont as seemed at first prob
able. Applications for licenses to produce
maple sugar under the bounnty act are
now pouring in upon the revenue officers
at lively rate. This more accords with
the Yankee character
The statue of the tie Hon. S. S. Cox, |
which has been paid for by contributions !
from the letter carriers of the different
cities, and was unveiled in New York
on July 4. Upon thepedestaI will appear
the names of the cities subscribing. in
which Boston will appear second to New
York.
SELLING young Polish girls for s. each
seems to have become quite thriving
business in Gotham. The cases brought !
to light are of the most shocking charac-
ter, and show that there are persons as |
low in the moral scale in New York as can
be found in the slave filled dens of Butte.
The cities generally throughout the
country are giving increased attention to |
sanitation. The disposal of garbage.
street cleaning, publication of water. and |
the smoke nuisance are all receiving con-
SIderatlon. There seems to be a general |
spirit Of reform all around. The 81. are
quite heaI,hfu
QUITE sensation has been caused |
among the clerks of the New York post |
office 10y the entrance of seven young wo-
men into the money order department as |
clerks during the last month. The girls |
obtained heir positions by surprising |
their male competitors at the civil service |
examination, and will receive the same |
pay us the male clerks
Mrs. NJ. French SHELDON, the plucky |
woman who Is conducting an expedition of !
ner own into the heart of Africa, has been
heard from and is making good progress. |
Stanley gave her many letters, and saying |
that if any woman could make the journey,
this lady was the one, presented her the
famous curtained cap he wore during his
last famous journey. Mrs. rench-Sheldon
will study the social side of the African
barbarlsm.
A WEAKENED trestie has just caused a |
terrible calamity in West Virginia, and |
yet no one is to blame! Railway COM |
panies are supposed to keep trained en-
glneers to inspect bridges and see that |
they do not become weakened" They |
should he held to as strict accountability |
for lives lost through their carelessness as |
are the trainmen who forget their orders |
and yet who can recall a case where
they have been arraigned for neglect of
duty
The latest expedition to Alaska is not
bent on exploration, but rather on exploit
| ing the mineral resources of the country.
| The party of IS on the stea Ter South
Coast is backed 10y Pittsburg capital, and
their definite object is to work the Omilik
and Pioneer lead and silver mines, which
are said to be richer than those of Colo
rada. The company supporting the enter.
prise propose to construct As miles of tram
way and to build two ocean freight steam
ers to run between Alaska and San
Francisco. This is but Il surface sigh of
the part Alaska seems destined to play in
the industrial future of America.
IT seems odd that the postage on a letter
from Canada to the United States should be
three cents, while that on a letter from the
United States to Canada is two cents; but,
this being so, it is not at all odd that
Canadians in many border towns, when
they have large number OF letters to send
to points in this country, mail them across
the line, thus deriving our postofice de-
partment altogether of any return for the
carriage of the missives
MISS KATE FIELD says in her Washing
ton paper: "Hailstones do not occur in
well wooded districts, according to the OBJ
servation cf noted Swiss forester. In
evidence of this he points out that dis
trict formerly exempt from such storms has
been visited by very fierce ones since gaps
| were made in the forests, and that upon
replanting the cleared ground with 'irs,
the storms ceased entirely"
, MARVELLOUS SURGERY.
t Another of those interesting surgical
1 operations which the surgeons nowadays
! are attempting with boldness and fre.
! quency was undergone by Mrs. ]. H,
e Weber at the university of Pennsylvania
! hospital last week, among the operator:
: being DR.. D. H. Agnew. Three inches oi
= the sciatic nerve taken from living dog
+ hip was transplanted into Mrs. Weber l
: upper arm to connect the disjointed ends
of nerve which had been cut out in Al
V operation for the removal of a tumor
i The dogs nerve was incased in a sheatl
:, of discalci6ed chicken bone. The sheatl
~ | will ha absorbed and meanwhile IL /