Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-29

I New York city to the soldiers and sail
/ ors OF the civil war will be dedicated
/ this week. 1t is a circular Greek tenn
! pie surrounded by Corinthian columns
and stands on height near Riverside
drive. The recent dedication of the
great soldiers monument at Indianap-
oils is another proof of what the people
of the United States think of the serv-
ices of the army.
In ninety-nne English cities the
municipality owns the street ear lines.
By the time this government is as old
as Great Britain it may possibly make
as good a showing.
Jefferson's nerve in assuming the
ability and judgment necessary to edit
and blue pencil the New Testament is
on par with the present democratic
assumption Of the right to tear down
and throw mud at every act of the adj
ministratton or the people which is not
in line with the accession to power of
the democratic party. However. the
New Testament seems to be holding It's
grip upon the world, despite Mr. Jeffer-
sons eXpurgations and lamentations.
and similar result may be expected
from The democratic agitation agains.
the established order.
Writing from Yale University to
Science" on the day that the Dixie
sailed for the West Indies. Professor A.
f. Eerril advanced two interesting
opinions concerning the recent erup-
ton of Pelee. One was that the heat in
a volcano is sufficient at times not only
to vaporize water, but also to break it
up into its constituent gases, oxygen
and hydrogen. The other opinion was
that most of the people of st. Pierre
and vicinity We're killed by an explosion
of the hydrogen or some of its COM
pounds. Professor Verrill thinks that
these views are not in harmony with
those usually found in the text books.
Still. they find confederation in the
studies of Santorini. in the Aegean sea,
made by Fouque in 1866, and OF Vesu-
vius by Siemens in 1878. Both of these
men discovered free hydrogen in the
gases emitted, and Fouque made meas
urements which indicated that at times
the amount ranged from 80 to so per
cent. Since reaching Martinique Pro-
fessor Hill has expressed the belief that
the great death dealer on May S was
a blast of tornado violence from Pelee. |
The geological survey expert suspects
that the gas which exploded was super
heated steam, not hydrogen, but in the
main his theory accords with that Pro-
fessor Verrill. Unquestionably the idea
is comparatively modern, but it may be
going too far to call lit absolutely |
new as Professor Hill does.
A census report on button manufac-
turing shows that while in 1890 estab-
lishments were found in only nine
states and one territory, In 1900 they |
were distributed over nineteen states.
Iowa led in number. New York was
second, and New Jersey third OF the |
new plants, fifty three were located in |
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Iowa. where not one button factory ex-
listed ten years before. Besides iowa,
nine of the states reporting button fac
tories in 1900 had none in 1890. OF the
pearl button factories Iowa led with |
establishments, and pro-
ducts valued at s467,351. or 71.2 per
cent of the total. Illinois ranked next |
with seven establishments. and pro-
ducts valued at s134,104, or 20.4 per cent |
Of the total. Muscatine is the center of
he pearl button industry of this state
and more than forty factories We're at
me time in operation there.
The territory ceded to the United
States by Mexico at the close of the
Mexican war was added to this coun-
.ry and has been governed by it with
,ut the Formally of consent by the or
ginal inhabitants of the territory re-
erred to. This is one of those damnd-
,le Instances where the territory ac-
luired by conquest was not surren-
Tered to the aborigines and Mexicans
Who occupied it.
A recent vacancy in the consular ser
ice which attracted attention by the
act that there was not the usual rush
# applicants - fill it reminds Secre-
airy Hay of the story. There was a
,ost in South America, he said, in the
ropical region on the east coast, which
ao1f FIJI hot &c,
to get any consul to stay
here At last a man was found who
eemed to thrive on the climate and on
he malaria; after number of years {
ervice. however, his less fortunate y
wife succumbed to the conditions and
led, and soon he resigned and came ,,
ome. Several years passed by when /,
ne day the department received a let !
er from him, saying that he had mar |
led again, and had about made up his |
mind that he would like to go back with i
is new wife to the old consulate. /
Mrs. Buffers-The teller at that bank !, ,
avs you are just the meanest stingi-
St
Mr.. Buffers-Great Scott! Wha- !
hat is that? He says IL
Mrs. Buffers-Well, he didn't say it v
j so many words, but that is what he i
leant of course.
Mr.. Buffers-See here! What did the +
slow say?
Mrs. Buffers-He asked me to en- =