Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-08

name from the stains cut, in the cliff,
which is quite high here. for the inhabi-
tants to get down to the sea. III is a
great summer resort for the cockneys,
because they can get there from Lon
don by rail or boat at q small expense.
CT. II. n.
/ TOPICS OF THE TINES ;
King Edwards dinner to the half
million poor of London is regarded as
one of the greatest acts of his life.
Considerably over 400 columns of the
Congressional Record are occupied
with speeches on the isthmian canal
bill Senator Morgans eight speeches
on the subject fill 1I2 columns, Senators
Hanna and Mitchell coming next With
forty-two columns and two speeches.
The shortest talk of the lot was one of
o column by Senator Hawley
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sage machine has sign in his window
reading Prepare for the wurst.'
II have never succeeded in politics.. -
said the old Kansan, because | could
not make a speech" And L. said the
other OLD Kansan. "have never sue
cceded in politics because l could"
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The Nebraska potato crop promises
to be very heavy one.
Some new and at least striking meta
.phors have been sprung in congress
recently. Representative Corliss, OF
Michigan, is responsible for this query:
Shall the wheels of progress be
shackled by the cable oetopus?' One
critic ventures the suggestion that it
would be difficult to use an eight-armed
sephalopod for Stacking purposes on a
wheel at the bottom of the Pacific.
Senator Proctor spoke the other day Of
"holding out the butt end of the olive
branch"
Another Good Way.-Chmmy: "Wot
is de best way to teach a girl to SWINE"
JOHNNY: well, yer want to take her
gently by de hand, lead her gently down
to de water, put yer arm gently round
her waist. and
"Chimmy: "Oh, cut it out! It's me
sister!'
Johnny: ooh! Push her off de dock
Puck
King Edward is wise in desiring to
have the coronation ceremony as early
as possible In order to get it off his
hands.
That was an unusual Fourth of July
at Evanston, Wyo., where snow fell for
twenty -four hours and reached depth
OF two to six inches on ting ground in
the mountains, with the mercury at the
freezing point.
Il. L. Mcdonnell of Michigan. has
left will in which it is supposed he.
intended to bequeath 100000 to found a
home for INDECENT old women at Fair.
mount, Ind. but it appears he used the
word indignant" instead of "indigent"
in describing the worthy beneficiaries.
The home will not be built, owing to the
testator's slip of the pen.
A farmer living near Smithville. Mo-,
set out 1000 tobacco plants recently
from which he expects to derive an an
nual income of about 5000. Altho he
Understands how to raise tobacco he
never smokes or chews it.
Robert Womack, the discoverer OF
Cripple Creek, was entertained there on
july 4 at a celebration given in his
honor. Womack was cowboy and
ary, 1891. The year of it's first exploit
tation the Cripple Creek field produced
100000 in gold. Last year its output
was $23,000,00O. Womack is no richer
for his discovery. He sold out his claim
early, and spent the money in true cow
boy style, but he is said to have no re-
greet for the wealth that might have
been his. Poverty has been the COM
mon lot of the gold pioneers. Marshall
and Suffer, who found the precious
metal in California; 1fairweather, the
Irospector of Alder Gulch; Russell and
Gregory, the pioneers of Colorado, all
Gied poor. Comstock, who unearthed
the Comstock lode, the richest silver
vein, committed suicide because of his
hard luck.
-Four persons dead and III injured
composed Chicago's Fourth Of July
record.
The Keokuls Gate. City's articles on
the Civilization of Wastes" would be
more interesting to young people If
spelled the other way.
The city of Peoria, Ill.,, Is doing a
great deal of building this season. Dur
ing the five months of the year 165
building permits for structures aggre-
eating 100000 We're issued in that city,
which is seventy-six more buildings
and over $121,000 of value than for the
corresponding period last year.
N. Chew, a second deputy auditor in
the postot1ice department, Washington,
does little but sign his name for about
eight hours every day. 1t is said that