Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-03-15

tended by two funkies in brilliant liv- u
cries. He left Lisbon in Aprif and fl
drove through Spain, France. north il
ern Italy, through the St. Bernard
pass to Switzerland and thence by !,
way of Munich through Syria to .
Vienna
Rev. DR. Henry Van Dyke, who has el
resigned the passionate of Brick Pres W
byterian church. New Iesll city, to (,
accept the professorship of English !,
literature at Princeton, has been pre- y,
sented with 100000 by 800 members of u
the church named as a testimonial of W
their personal regard. \ like sum was u
given to Rev. DR.. McIlvane, DIR. Van a
Dykes associate, when he retired u
from the church after seventeen
years service. a
The supreme court of California has h
decided in favor of the constitutions W
ality of the late Senator Fairs trust *
will, so that Mrs. Craven will get at II
most only the $50 left by Senator Fair C
TO any unexpected widow who might
appear. This decision will probably
end the widow industry in California, g
or fix $50 as the allowance for such lie
extra relics as may discover that they p;
have been married to rich men. &c
Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, sc
though not stingy man, is none the q
less a careful one. He always buys six st
street car tickets at time in Wash IN
ington thus being able to get one ride w
for l-6 cents. He once rebuked a
none too prosperous friend for not do NJ
ing so. II am comfortably off, he p'
said, but never felt that l could p'
afford to pay five cents for Il ride Ia
when could get six for quarter" q
j. c. w. Beckham. who claims to be dl
the de jure governor of kentucky, al
comes of one of the oldest families in
kentucky. His father was William n. W
Beckham of Nelson county, and his 81
I.other is The daughter of Ex-Governor in
Robert c. Wickliife of Louisiana. On st
the first day he was eligible to hold ri
the office he was nominated by the ia
democracy of Nelson to represent it he
in the house of representatives.
The government of New Zealand ia
now sends communications by car on
rier pigeons between Auckland and Iii
Great britain island a distance across b,
the water of thirty miles. The SER kl
vice is controlled by the postoflice de- b,
partment. The fee for u single mes lo
sage is one shilling. and a stamp for
this amount has to be bought at the ~
postotlice. 81
From Cleveland comes the report ~
that Tom l.. johnson, on his removal ~
to that city, will announce himself as - :,
candidate for congress in opposition =;
to L. Il. Burton. who will doubtless re- T., ~
ceive unanimous republican nominal ~
tion. Eight years ago johnson ran -.
against and defeated Burton, and W
Cleveland democrats think he can do !,
it again. "
The navy department has issued an NJ
order to place metal furntnre ON the 81
cruiser Atlanta. 1t was found that a
the presence of the wood furniture w
aboard the war ship during the late III
war was a most serious menace to the OF
men. More injury was done by the "
flying splinters than was directly III
done by the shells of the enemy. dc
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Conan Doyle, the author has recent as
ly invented new sighting appliance, II
showing the proper angle at which a 81
rifle should be held to enable the rs
marksman to drop bullet at any h;
given range. He expects to sail for nc
South Africa soon with the Irish am IL
bulance corps. fitted out at u cost of
100000 by Lord Weagh. &C
At ietholm in Scotland, man VI
named Faa was crowned king of the y,
gypsies in succession to his late ~ u
mother, who was crowned as Queen w
Esther. The crown of tin and tinsel u.
was placed on his head by the village ~ d,
blacksmith, whose family is said to y
possess the hereditary right of crown :,
ing the gypsy soveregns. p
The admission fee to the Paris ex- I'll
position will be, before 10 a. m, two la
francs. or about 40 cents to the exhi- I'll
bition, between the hours of 10 a. m.
and p. nj. a franc will be the charge, d.
and after 8 p. M, on week days. two az
francs. while on Sunday the fee is not al
to be raised for the evening hours. hi
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Congressman Champ Clark. of Mis- ci
souri,. is deplorably rreverent when NJ
speaking of the United States senate hi
In the course of speech in congress
the other day he quoted from an adj te
dress delivered by Senator Carter of g.
Montana, whom he referred to as "a fe
venerable member of the house of CO
ancients.' III
The twentieth century will have the +,
greatest number of leap years possible ~
"a. Easter will occur the latest pos -
sible-April &c, in 1913. Three times NJ
February will have five Sundays-in .,
lcGU, IJ4S ana 1910. "a
Widespread comment is aroused \,
among Hebrews by the announcement l.,
of Rabbi Max Wertheimer of Dayton. -,
o.. that he has been converted to =;
Christian Science. He is understood :;
to be the first Jewish clergyman to "
take such action. l.,
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Here is iquestion in war mathe-
matics:. lift takes an army ninety a.
four days'to march from Frere to d
Ladysmiths seventeen miles, how long w
will it take the same army to march OF
from Ladysmith to Pretoria, 3a5
miles? $.
An European saloon has instituted fe
reform. The following notice is post q
ed on its wall: Discussions on the tt
war and the twentieth century will NJ
rot be allowed until both are closed" b
This primitive way o + cooking am f,
eGg is sometimes used BY eastern
Nhnr herf1c. Tho auU &c ,,I.no,1 -, :,