Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-20

is by providing permanent improve
ments on Uncle Sans own land, and a
/ the same time spending the money
among the people, and in way enhance
/ the value of all surrounding property
| The friends of the public buildings eX-
4 penditure feel that with the existing
! surplus on hand, no matter how taxation
| may be reduced in the future. congress
ef appropriations.
There will be no representative of the
popuiist party in the United States SEN
ate when congress converes. and the
lines viii be strictly drawn between tho
democrats and republicans. No one
should express sorrow for the elimina-
ton of the gaseous element from the up
Per house.
Returns to the fisheries department of
Canada give the total sealing catch for
the season. including that of the British
Columbia coast, in the north Pacific, off
the Copper islands, Japan coast, and in
the Behring sea, at about 22,933 skins,
taken by thirty-nine schooners sailing
cut of Victoria. The catch of the fleet
of nine vessels, which hunted off the
Japan coast and Copper islands,
amounts to 6,e53 skins, an average of
about 695 to the schooner. The Behring
f,t, 1t-tn ka oh
ty-four vessels, four of those which
started being obliged to return from the
coast and anbandon their cruise because
of their inability to secure Indians. The
catch is much smaller than last year,
when S5,54s skins were taken by thirty
seven schooners.
The mill girls of Hazleton, Pa, have
forasworn all luxuries and will contrib
ute the money they formerly spent for
candy. chewing gum, etc. to the main
tenance of night school. which they
will attend in order to get an education
they otherwise could not obtain. Chart
table people of the region will assist
The city of Lacrosse, Wis, offers a
bonus of $4,000 for a Chicago Great
Western extension. This road grows
more desirable as the years pass.
Two bird stories come from France
According to LIE Figarosa canary breed
er named Bourez is going to raise red
canaries by feeding the parent birds
on cayenne pepper. He has succeeded
SO far in raising birds of an orange red
tint. French poachers are making big
hauls of partridges and other game
birds by using automobiles with nets
and bright light. They run the auto
mobiles at swift pace along the pub
lie roads, and the birds, attracted by
the light. fly into the nets. There seems
to be no violation of existing game
laws in the practice.
In Germany the proportion of univer-
sity students to the whole population
has doubled in thirty years. The total
number in 1870 was 1871 which gave
$50 students to every 10000 German
males, while in 1900 it was 1880 o,
1878 to every 10,.0 The comparative
figures for the different institutions of
higher learning are as follows: univer-
stiles proper 1854 and 32,,S34; tech
meal schools 2,92S and 1912: mining
schools LA and 753; veterinary schools
267 and 1,343 and agricultural schools
357 and 500. The forestry schools re-
main stationary, the figures being 261
and 27s.
While in Pittsburg the other day
Andrew Carnegie was forced to leave
the house In which he was staying by
a rear door and drive off in a carriage
to escape a crowd of people begging
money for charitable objects-many of
them for libraries. Mr.. Carnegie re-
day.
Peter Deville has arrived in San
Francisco after two years travel in
Alaska. He was in the Moon country.
between the Porcupine and Mackenzie
rivers, and asserts that he found there
a race of white people who, he thinks,
are Sir John Franklin's descendants.
Deville tried them with French,
Russian Spanish and English, but they
could not understand any of them.