Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-01-04

mirror TO crimp the hair on her fore
head and temples. Her hair hanging
down her back caught fire from the
lamp and ignited her clothes. Her
motion as She ran shrieking for help
famed the flames, and before aid
could reach her her hair and clothes
were consumed. Miss Ingersoll was
teacher in Evangelist Moody's
school.
The single working girls of Boston
are organizing against married wo,
men who work in restaurants and big
stores for pin money The girls
think that women who have husbands
to support them ought TO stay at
home and not interfere With others
who are compelled to work for liv
ing. In many eases where married
women work in restaurants and big
stores they are the wage earners OF
some worthless husband Compare.
lively few married women drudge for
the pitance in big stores merely for
pin money.
There is talk now that Mrs. Matte
Hughes Cannon, who has already
served as state senator in Utah, may
be elected Il member of the United
States senate from that state, which
happens Just now to have vacancy.
This would be regarded by the Nor
mons as 'syindication' of Roberts,
especially since Mrs. Cannon holds
steadfastly to the early tenets of the
Latter Day Saints. George Frisbie
iloar has expressed the opinion that
nothing il the constitution forbids
t.,. Il, Al.
of the United States.
Augustus S. Gaudens, the eminent
American sculptor, who has been
elected correspondent in the sculpture
section of the Academic DIES BeauX
Arts of France, is still a very young
man. He is a graduate of the Cooper
Union Art school in New York and
studied in Paris and in Rome. lie was
born i'm Douhlin of French and Irish
parentage, but was brought to the
United States when an infant He
made the Farragut statue in New York
and designed the medal for the worlds
fair at Chicago.
There is a rumor in London that
new daily paper is to be started there
by Sir Charles Dixie for the purpose OF
criticisng and opposing the South
African war and that II. w. Massng-
ham. who left the Chronicle on 40.
count of his sympathy with the Beers,
is TO be the editor. a pamphlet pub
lisheehin Cape Town, by the way,
makes the assertion that both Mas
singham and Labouchere, editor of the
London Truth, are paid agents of the
Boer secret service.
Duncan n. Hood, son of the
famous confederate general, is now
fighting with the Beers in South Afri
ca. He. is the adopted son of John
Morris, a wealthy New Jersey citizen,
who at his death left young Hood some
money. Hood is graduate of West
Point and at the outbreak of the Span.
lsh war organized the so-calletl i'm.
mune regiments which served in Cuba. !
A member of congress, who shall BEL
nameless, received some time ago a
handsome pumpkin from one of HIS \
constituents: TIE gift was made ina
spirit of irony. however. as the note aci,
solnpanN.hM # said: II send you tAssI
best ilunfpkin iii my garden. AS lt'sI
got more brains than you've got, it
may lie SOME help to you this winter,
and theiLord knows you need it.H ~
Pugilist Jeffries-h has a cousin Of The 4
same name, who lives on farm near
strength: lie Is now IS Years old
weighs about $50 pounds, and, recent 4
ly while his father was visiting him
having occasion to move. a. COW from
one stall to another, picked her up and
moved her over the dividing partition
She weighed over 1000 pounds.
Natural affections and instincts are
the most beautiful of the Alnighty's
works, but like other beautiful works
of His. they must be reared and fos-
tered or it is as natural that they
should he wholly obscured and that
new feelings should usulp their place,
as it is that the sweetest productions
OF the earth, left INTENDED, should be
cboked with weeds and briars.
One of New Works yellow journals
having declared that Senator Jones,
of Nevada, is worth $1o,ooo,ooo, the
sage brush statesman makes this
statement: Tits pleasant to be rated
as worth that amount, but If anyone
will prove that my fortune is one,
tenth that amount | will gladly give
him half the sum"
Since boyhood. Joseph Chamberlain,
British colonial secretary, has worn q
mohocie. He was not unknown to
fame when he entered parliament.
When he made his appearance in the /
house, Premier Beaconsfield looked |
over him carefully and Remarked: ."He 4
wears his monocle like a gentleman" !
Marcel Provost, the French journal.
list and wit, was at Rennes during the
DreNfus trial. When it was announced
that Dreyfus had been found guilty
with eNtenuating circumstances. some
one asked him what he supposed these
circumstances We're His innocence
] suppose" said Provost.
Mrs. Carl Strakosch, once lannon's
IN the musical world as Clara Louise ]
Kellogg, is pow making her perma.
hent home in New Hartford, Conn.
Samuel ID. Hastings, who has re:
slened as treasurer of the prohibition
national committee, has held the. Office 1
Tor dozen years. He is s3 years OF
age and has-been a,resident of Wiscon-
SIN sI Tor hall a century. He served for
three terms as treasurer of the state
Queen Victoria. who eNpends every
year abouE 81 800. on toys; for her nu.
merous jn51ssh1niiile descendaanfts and the
childreil1f hefsleatiingl court ofiicia4s,d
has givenAMp iait instructions that,nc.J