Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-24
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

Congress will reassemble week
from today, and will settle some of the
coniectural guesses as to what it will
do.
A typewriter for the pocket is one of
the latest bits of American ingenuity,
specially designed to meet the require
ments of journalists and authors who
need to take notes under conditions
where a pencil and paper would not be
convenient. 1t may be worked without
removing the hands from the pocket.
So look out for the reporter with his
hands in his pockets.
There are some pleasant features
about being the home of trusts. New
Jersey begins and ends its fiscal year
on Nov. L. and on that date this year
the cash balance in the state treasury
was $2,744,71S.
Perhaps the wittiest speaker in the
last house OF representatives was Con-
gresham Cushman of Washington. 1t
is likely that his supremacy as a con-
gressional lumorist will be contested
next winter by j. Adam Bede Of Pine
City, Mimi. Mr.. Bede is in great de-
mand as an afternoon talker, and his
lectures, of which he has three or four,
are said to be among the funniest
things going. Personally he is regard
ed as "a dead ringer" for Whitcomb
Riley.
That railway engineer is required
to keep his eye out in precautionary
way is we'll understood In England, on
the London & Northwestern railway
alone there are 1900 signals lighted
every night, and an engine driver
working from Crewe to London and
back for his days work is controlled by
no fewer than $40 signals, to say MOTH
ing of those coming under his observa-
ton which do not affect the working of
his train.
Amusing Indeed.-'I guess we would
be amused if we could see ourselves as
others see US.
But think how amused others would
be If they could see us as we see our
selves. philadelphia Press.
A fountain of the sixteenth century
which formerly stood in princely
grounds on the shore of Lake Como, It
ally, has been bought by William Rookie
Teller as a gift to the New York city
geological park in the Bronx, and it
will probably be set up there before
Christmas. 1t is of granite, the
basin twenty five feet in diameter,
with excellent sculptures of mermaids
and little tritons on sea horses, and for
the center, dragons on rough rock
base, support an urn in which rests a
column supported by swan. This will
have cost Mr.. Rockefeller $4,000 when
it shall be put in place.
Three cases of smallpox among school
children in Sioux City justify the need
of proper precautionary work else
where.
Kansas City will have a genuine"
bull fight in Convention hall on
Thanksgiving night, unless the Mexi
can bull fighters who came here for the
| event are restrained by law. All ar
rangements for a bull fight have been
| made; the Convention hall directors
| have voted to rent the hall for the bull
| fight; wild bulls brought from Chihua :
| hua, Mexico, are at the stock yards; a
ring ninety feet in diameter is being
| built in Convention hall and five swar-
| thy Mexicans are here ready to enter
the arena and do battle with the ami
mails Altho the managers of the bull
fight say the contests will be bloodless
some objections have already been
raised.
The Chicago papers are offering 6
/ commission of $3.50 to rural carriers fol
wear subscriptions on routes where
those papers can not reach the reader
until the second day after they are
printed. The Times Republican mar
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