Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-30
TOPICS OF THE TINES
AS March goes out on Sunday it sure
w onrhf tn no Good

AS March goes out on Sunday it sure
" ought to be good.
| The Minnesota legislature has finally
adopted a board of control bill, pat
termed somewhat after the Iowa law.
Under this measure all the state inst
buttons except the Soldiers Home are
subject to supervision of the newly Gre
lated board of control.
The Boston bureau of anti-imperlal-s
Lists now has the opportunity to arouse
from its slumber to make an appeal for
Aguinaldo.
King Edward who, after the injury
to his knee. was Obliged to stop bicycle
riding has resumed that pastime and
has taken up fencing as being the best
of antidotes to he Increase of sedentary
work necessitated by his new state
duties.
The people of Kansas are booming
Cen Funston for senator or governor.
Nothing is too good for him at home al
present, ii seems.
An inventor is thus quoted in the
| Worlds Fair bulletin of ST. Louis: q
relieve in the erection Of a tower, say.
! 1000 feet high The Eiffel tower is 9S5
fleet high. Why could we not go the
French fifteen feet better? The idea of
a triangular tower, believe. is alto
gether new. There are quadrangularl
towers in profusion and towers With FIVE
rides and hexagonal. octagonal and va
rious other sorts OF towers, but have
never seen or heard much of three-cor-
Tered tower. M idea is 10 have the top
l.of the tower bell-shaped. This would
permit the carrying out of a pet idea of
Fmine. That is the construction of a
pendulum. II could hang on ball bear
Iings from the top of the bell like a
clapper, and extend down 10 just far
eonugh from the ground TO be conveni-
lcntly safe. Once Started this pendulum
would swing al thru the time the expo
sition was open The earth's motion
would be readily perceptibie.'
a Chicago Tribune cartoon represents
Uncle Sam seated with Aguinaldo over
his knee. receiving a spanking, while he
Braternally exclasrns. Now, will you be.
goed?s'
/ joaquin Miller, the poet, has removed
from San Francisco to his new home. a
farm in Nuces county. Texas. where.
T ne says, he will pass the remainder of
mis- days.
During a recent smallpox scare in the
south the mayor of a small town in
Alabama took the extraordinary pre-
caution Of appointing all the conductors
lon city and suburban lines as squaran-
| tine officers, and all persons coming
from adjacent infected districts were re-
| CURED to show a health certificate be-
Ling allowed to enter the city.
/ There is evidence to warrant the be-
lief that the Burlington railway system
Will soon be controlled by the Northern
Pacific and Great Northern.
$50
/ In answer to an inquiry from Swale-
dale concerning the fortress at Gibral-
qtar we would refer to the Encyclopedia
Britannica. The strategic Importance of
the rock was first discovered by the
Moors in the eighth century. During
the following ten centuries it was re-
peatedly besieged and finally, in the
course of the war of the Spanish sue
cession it was captured by combined
English and Dutch feet and the Eng
fish general left in charge ran up the
English flag The act was unNar-
ranted and aroused protest. but Eng
Hand stayed and has held the fortress
ever since. The fortress was taken in
1s0s. again in 1888. Three unsuccessful
ssieges followed, when in 1462 it was
again taken. 1t fell again in 1869 and
finally to the English and Dutch in
Iii77e...
Hiram CroEk. the last male pensioner
of the war of 1912, Still lives and draws
his pension in the town of Ava, nine
miles from Bonneville, Oneida county.
New York. He was born in frankfort,
Herkimer county, New York. April 80
1 1900, and in September 1914, he enlisted
4 in what was then called the mass
militia
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