Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-09
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

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The isthmian canal seems to have the
Scylla of revolution on one side and a
volcanic Charybdis on the other.
The people of New York city are be-
ginning to realize the danger from aI-
tomobles that shy out into crowd and
kill and MAIN four or five citizens, and
are up in arms against them.
Bat Masterson, gun fighter, gam
| bier, referee of prize fights and all
around sport, was taken into custody
as an accomplice in a scheme to de-
fraud faro banks. Masterson has been
| considered a square sport" and his
conviction, IL accomplished, will go far
to disprove the impression that honor
exist in the class to which he belongs.
| Speaking of the centenary of trous-
ers, Fashion" an English journal, ex-
plains that they "came in on account
of the high living prevalent hundred
years ago. This produced a good deal
of govt, whose twinges the tight-titting
costume In use at that period made un-
bearable. Hence the invention of the
wider form of garments, which soon
became popular. Among the candles"
of the period, however. the new style
was regarded with contempt, and when
Almack's was at its height as a FASH
ionabie resort the great Duke of Well
lington himself was once refused adj
mission because he presented himself
in trousers intead of the, for the time,
orthodox neither garments.
The Charleston, S. c., exposition was
run at heavy loss. AS an advertise
ment of the state and its resources 1t
has hardly been worth its cost. Expo
sitions and other educational features
stand no show against the Tillman
family. They are the greatest adver-
tisers of South Carolina, and a left
handed one at that.
Howard M Snapp, of Joliet, was
nominated for congress by republicans
of the new Eleventh Illinois distric:
Saturday. That is right; he is just
what we need in all congressional cleo
tioIs.
When Mark Twain was beginning his
career as a humorous lecturer he one
day arranged with a woman acquaint-
anoe that she should sit in a box and
start the applause when he should
stroke his mustache. The lecturer
started off SO well that he did not need
any such help, however. for he caugh.
the audience from the first. BY and by
when not saying anything worthy of
particular notice, he happened to pull
his mustache, and his anxious ally in
the box at once broke into furious APP
plause Mark was all but broken UP by
the miSadventure, and ever afterward
carefully avoided employing such help
to success.
"The Living Church" quotes this
from a Connecticut woman's diary.
dated 1890: I'VE had roast pork for
dinner, and DR.. s.. who carved, held up
a rib on his fork, and said, Here, la
dies, is what Mother Eve was made of.
Yes said Sister Patty, and it's from
very much the same kind of critter.'"
Dun's index number of the course of
prices, with due allowance for the rel
alive Importance of each commodity,
was s101,16S on June 1, compared with
$102,29S on May 1, and $101,5S7 on Jan.
/; a decline of IL per cent during May, |
and a fall of A per cent compared with
the position at the opening of the year.
With the advancing season there comes
a natural decline in quotations of many
farm. dairy and garden products as