Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-23
TOPICS OF THE TINES
At any rate we saved little money
while the city grocers were away on an
excursion. Why not send them abroad

AT any rate we saved little money
while the city grocers were away on an
excursion. Why not send them abroad
oftener?
There has just been completed at the
Charlestown navy yard for one of the
rev battleships of the United States
navy what is probably the largest
forged anchor that has ever been made.
The anchor, which weighs 13, 500 pounds
is resting now on some wooden sup
ports outside the forge and anchor shops
of the equipment department at the
yard awaiting assignment.
Time or place or sanctity has little in
fluence with men who carry pocket
guns A fight recently occurred in a
Mississippi court room in which three
men were fatally wounded.
The public health report just issued
by the marine hospital service shows
the existence of S,25S cases of smallpox
in the United States. against 3,342 at
the same time last year. Minnesota
had the largest number of cases
1,151. People will take only a languid
interest in these figures, but in the
early stages of the trouble they would
have been greatly excited over them.
The Cherry sisters came TO grief again
at Joliet, ILL.,, where their baggage was
seized for an unpaid board bill.
In the canton of Berne, Switzerland
compulsory vaccination was abolished
by popular vote seven years ago. Now a
serious epidemic has broken out ant
the natives are worried over its effec,
on the tourist season.
The American" says Julian Ralph ir
Harpers, who believes as thousands
do. that to betray ones nationality is tc
invite overcharging and extortion in tn,
West End shops of London is not onl,
hard pressed to choose the peculiar
words the English employ, but he ha.
quite as many and as deep pitfalls tc
avoid in the methods of pronunciation
will not refer to the false or ignorant
methods of illiterate persons, but viii
contine attention to some eccentricities
of pronunciation Of men and women OF
education. rank and breeding. They say
immejitly, injin for engine, militry, fig.
ger and figgers, clark for clerk. paytent
newfoundland 90 on thru long list
After comforting with President Nc.
kinley, Secretary of State Hay an.
nounces that the United States will mo-
intervene between any Of the countrie.
at variance in South America-whicf
will be generally approved as good pol
icy.
Washington is suffering from pest O
caterpillars. The beautiful shade tree!
of the city are being damaged and pc.
destriaDs greatly annoyed by the worm.
falling upon them. Efforts are being
made by workmen to scrape the cater
pillars from the trees along Pennsylva
ria avenue, and if their efforts NEE
with any success they will visit othel
principal streets of the city.
A New York paper notes 1t as a sing
ularly harmonious incident that mar
was killed by a freight train at Nod
away, Ia while asleep under boxcar
ss
Professors of Rush Medical College
Chicago, are planning series Of expert.
ments to determine the effects of differ.
ent foods upon the mental power OF In
dlviduals. They will experiment for tn,
most part upon students of the Chicago
Hospital School, 5401 Drexel avenue
which has been recently affiliated witt
Rush. The Students Of this school