Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-13
TOPICS OF THE TINES

MS is tHe iotIi YET the January st'ii
has been shining brilliantly, just the
same.
President Roosevelt will find 1t ne
cessary to appoint another member of
the cabinet, providing the bill passes
creating a new department of COM
merce.
The eleventh biennial report of the
state board of health soon to be issued,
contains the following interesting and
practical articles, besides a large
amount of secretarial matter and some
valuable reprints: Growth of Pre-
ventive Medicine" by DR.. r. f. Con-
mfr. member, Municipal Sanitary En-
cheering" by Charles L. Frances, civil
engineer: Methods of Infection and
Notes on Distinction by DR.. Eli
Grimes. bacteriologist: and Relation
of Chemistry to Present day Santa
ton by Prof. S. r. Macy, chemist of
the state board of health.
The Chicago Tribune says: THE
Hon. Leslie NJ. Shaw, we are told. once
sawed wood for living. He did it to
some purpose He has saved goodly
quantity of dust" He is saying moth
| ing now and
During the two weeks following
Christmas there is more gold coin in
circulation in New York city, says the
Sun, than at any other time of the
year. AT one office, where the total
receipts for day never exceed 500,
five gold pieces We're turned in in pay
ments recently. Gold has been paid
in at the department stores in much
larger quantities than usual this sea-
son and q few pieces have been even
offered to conductors of street cars
1t is evident that the gold pieces were
received as Christmas gifts, and their
than a week the temptation to spend
them. Two weeks appears to be the
limit of the time that the average per-
son can keep them, however; then
need of the money oVercomes Senti
ment. The gold will not remain long
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form of currency. Undoubtedly all
the gold pieces now in circulation will
soon find their way back to the sub
treasury and the banks from which
they were withdrawn before the holt
days.
In the frightful railroad collision in
a tunnel in New York last week, where
Is people We're killed outright and Al
injured. there was noticeable break
ing of legs. OF the injured, one lost
leg in the wreck. two underwent am
putation of leg, two broke both legs
and nine more broke each one leg.
The Iowa legislature began today it's
effort to make n better out of the best
state in the union.
subscriber at Victor noticing in
the press dispatches that ten blue
jackets from the u. S. cruiser Albany
would take part in the ceremonies at
Senator Depew's wedding in France.
writes the T.-R. If such attention is the
right of every senator, or by what
right Senator Depew was SO honored.
We presume that those blue jackets
received their orders from their COM
mander per request of the secretary
of the navy, and while no U. S. senator
has any right to demand such atten-
ton the courtesy shown Senator De-
pew upon an occasion of this kind in a
& tn, ocfa
A u. S. senator is an official of high
rank, and 1t was but a mark of re-
spect due a man of his position for the
government of the United States to
recognize the dignity of his office to
order it's military to salute him with
guard of ten marines upon the oc-
casion of his marriage in a foreign
land.
Minnesota is to have an extra session
of her legislature to consider the COM
pelted work of commission appointed
to revise and codify the laws relative to
taxation. OF course any such laws must
rave the right-of-way at once.
Mining statistics show that the
United States has passed the $1,000
100000 mark in production and of this
vast sum coal and iron make up more
than one half. The United States
leads the world in these two industrial
fields, as it is also leading them in
others.
The man with the trap that never fails
should come to the front at once. 1t is
announced that rats are overrunning
the white house in Washington, making
the structure almost uninhabitable for
the president and family.
A messenger boy from the war de-
partment last Tuesday delivered TO the
president $500 parchment army COM
missions for his signature. Having to
sign such commissions is one of the
hardships of being president, for it is
hard to write on parchment with a pen
II it had not been discovered that
powdered fishbone applied to the place
where the president has to sign makes
the work much easier he would be
month at the job. These 1,S00 com
missions cover the officers appointed
and promoted during the congressional
recess and confirmed after congress
met. Each parchement costs the gov
eminent so cents, and, as many are in
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