Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-04
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
Indications favor rise rather thar
a decline in the price of stocks.

a decline in the price of stocks.
Is Iowa to become the home of
swarm of little octopi? Articles of
incorporation are being numerously
filed with the secretary of state OF
business concerns that favor the stock
plan of organization.
/ Destructive gales on the sea and
billiards on the land are features OF
4 February opening in the east.
! Advices from Washington state that
the reciprocity treaties now penang
before the senate will be reported from
the senate committee on foreign rela-
lions. This is the determination of
Senator Cullom. 1t does not mean
I that they viii be approved nor that
they viii be rejected. 1t does mean
/ that the senator from Illinois has de-
4 cided to get them out of the com
lmittee stage and place the senate on
record as to their final disposition.
The Chicago Tribune remarks that
There are two sides to every ques-
ton The Hon. Ben Tillman is usu-
ally on one side and the rest of the
country on the other"
| young Irish priest, in his first ser
mon, likened the Roman Cathoiic
church to a magnificent full rugged ship
I AZ h11f faS-
| ing every storm riding upon every
wave and floating upon every tide.
and why does it float? Because 1t is
founded upon a rock
President Day of the Mckinley Ma
tional Memorial Association, has re-
ceivel from Joseph Jefferson. the actor,
a check for 500 for the memorial fund.
"If Los Angeles keeps up it's present
lick, in less than two decades 1t will
have gone ahead of San Francisco in
population says resident OF that
city 1.-The building permits now ag-
gregate weekly construction OF $780,
600, and there isn't enough building ma
terial or men to carry on the work. The
completion of an inter- oceanic canal
| will make our town the metropolis OF
the coast We will then be able to get
our fruits thru to New York in fourteen
days, instead of twenty-eight as at
present"
| Our states on the Pacific coast.
young as they are. lead the world in
mission. In the state of Washington
an installation of Snoqualmie falls
hold the record of an everyday trans
mission of 215 miles. The power house
at the falls is reached by q shaft 250
feet deep at which level, in white
are situated the six generators. 1t was
to escape the spray at the foot of the
falls that the plant was thus located.
TWO long distance plants recently es-
tablished in California are among the
most remarkable in the world. They
water in ditch from five ta fifty
miles long, combined with river rapids.
The current is transmitted for use oven
a maximum of 200 miles.
! DR.. Paul GARNER, the French statis-
tician, says juvenile criminality is rel
Iatively increasing, and he attributes
the evil to alcoholic heredity.
| From the realm of club women
comes the statement that the city fed
Grafton of Barre, VT, has engaged a
| trained nurse to visit from house to
house in the poorer districts. not only
to care for the sick, but to show the
families liow to make themselves and
their invalids more comfortable. II g
| family thus served is able to pay q
fee of 90 cents the same is paid into
the treasury of the city federation
The service however. does not depend
upon the ability to pay.
Dr. Runge says that insanity from
disappointment in love is rare. Both
sexes doubtless realize the excellence
of the fish that remain to be caught.
|
I'm mild weather" says gentleman
Trainer quoted by the Philadelphia Rec
ord, my horses and cattle sleep afield
and sometimes l wander softly among
them in the moonlight. 1t is strange
to see how they lie, with every head
| pointed in the same direction--tha di-
rection from which the wind is blowing
DO you know why that is? 1t is be-
cause they have In them an instinct oil
fear and they front the wind so thai
their keen noses may catch instantly
the first breath of an approaching dan
ger. Poor things! All you have to do is
to approach softly from behind. ane
you can be right in among them before
they are aware of 1t. My horses are
even more cautious than my cattle fol
they, in addition to facing the wind
sleep also with one ear cooked forward
Then have dog that sleeps not onl.
| facing the wind and with one ear cock.
ed, but with one eye open also. He is
for sure, coward"
A couple of sun dogs We're out this
morning looking for that offending
ground-hog
Democrats who have been claiming
credit for the establishment of rura
delivery have had the laugh turned