Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-17

] TOPICS Of THE TIMES

TOPICS Of THE TIMES
The western and northern sections OF
New York are covered with snow.
Bank clearings show an Increase of
14.1 per cent as compared with last
year.
The humble citizen may convince
himself tia, he has a hard time of 1t,
tM. .shs~e are others There is a sus-
piston that the car of Russia is suf-
fe.:ny from poison wickedly admins
tered and the emperor of Germany re-
Gently had a Ratchet flung at him by an
irate woman
The wicked stand on slippery
places remarked the facetious
preacher to his p%arishioner, who had
fallen on an icy walk. Yes, but I
can't" was the quick retort.
There are symptoms of a big canal
fight in Westinghouse an attempt of
the Panama company 10 shoulder its
project upon the government.
The Earl of Rosebery, in a stirring APP
peal for the integrity of the British en-
pire, declares the twentieth century will
be a period of keen, intelligent and al
most fierce international competition
more. probably, in the arts of peace
even than in the arts of war. Therefore.
he added, it is necessary TO undertake
periodical stock taking, to remodel the
state machinery and educational meth
DDS, and 10 become more business-like.
He evidently sees that John Bull must
%enliven his pace to keep up with Uncle
sam.
Senator Davis condition is more
hopeful. tho his friends are alarmed
over his grave Illness.
Colorado hurled missiles at Roosevelt.
Colorado Went democratic. And now
She has burned a negro criminal at the
stake. Perhaps she will next be
knocking for sisterhood in the galaxy
of which Arkansas and Mississippi are
distinguished members. There is ex-
pansive room for missionary work
there.
Senator Dolliver opens the Y. NJ. C. "A.
course in st. Paul by a lecture Monday
night.
The United States consul at Magde-
burg, Germany, describes an electrical
farm operated in Germany in which the
power for generating the electric cur
rent was derived from a stream whose
waters We're damned up TO secure the
necessary fall to turn a large turbine
wheel. Nearly all the farm machinery.
including pumps, harvesters, feed cut
tiers, thresl1ing machines. churns and
Iplows, We're operated by the electricity
thus generated, which was conducted 10
all parts of the farm on overhead wires.
Thieves with wagons marked "Chica-
go Telephone Company Thursday
stlipped six miles Of copper wire from
telephone poles IN the Daering street po-
lice district IF Chicago. The other cops
wera apparently absent.
The M~arshalltoMn citizen tips his hat
to Waterloo and Fort Dodge for sun
passing in the census showing. He will
see Them later.
In New York state a number of farm
lers In Oswego county have found chest
mutt trees q ource or great profit this
fall. One man near Pannellville gath
cred over fifty-fiye bushels and sold
them for $3.50 to s7Eper bushel.
One of the lnarreis of American civil
cation has been the rapidly with which
the huge herds of buffalo on the Ameri-
can plains We're swept from the face Of
the earth! "A recent careful count by a
competent person places the whele num-
Der or animals of the kind living today
at only 1,024. DIR. William T. Hornaday
says in his book concerning the bns-
falo that 1t would have been as a to
count the number of leaves in a forest
as to calculate the number of ~buffaloes
living at any given time during the his
tory of the species previous to 1870.
1t may be hat the winter will be a
mild one, but a coal pile of satisfactory
proportions should not be neglected.
The veteran actor, Joseph Jefferson,
lectured on The Drama Thursday in
Alexander hall. Princeton, before 1000
students and t~ownspeople. Ex-l'resi-
dent Cleveland accompanied Mr.. Jsffer-
son to the hall and occupied a seat on
the rostrum.
The Pittsburg Coal Company has in
a~ugurated a plan whereby its 90, 900 en-
ployes are not only to become stock
holders in the company. but will have
an accident and death fund, to be fol-
lowed later on by a system for pension
ing all those employed by the company
in any capacity. This Is a combination
Of capital and labor that is to be com
mended.
The next national musical festival
will be held at Cleveland April 30 and
May 4, 2 and 8, 1901.
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