Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-22

sections of the prairie. With thi
knowledge gained, plans will be pre-
pared to lower the grades where neces
sary, and generally improve the road t
allow of the haulage of the maximum
tonnage in both directions. 1t is prob
able that such a train. or perhaps
longer one, would not be at all impos
slble to the Northwestern or the Bur
/ lington.
Peoria, H., is having a serious tim
with frebugs, who managed to star
five blazes in different parts of the cit,
| about the same time Monday night
Mayor Bryan has acted in the matte
! and offered a reward of $500 for tn
apprehension of the guilty ones.
A southern Iowa minister tells
| story of a little boy he knew on tn,
| frontier, who belonged to u family VIII,
| lad trained him to believe in the deel
water form OF baptism, and was expert.
nenting with the household cat and {
! bucket of water The animal evident
| ly did not believe in immersion, for She
resisted bit and scratched, until finally
tie little boy, with his hands covered
with scratches and with tears In his
| eyes, gave up the effort to effect the
regeneration of the cat. Dog gone
you,' he cried, "go and be an Episcopal
cat If Won want to-"
The postoffice department has issued
an order forbidding profanity in fourth
class postof1ices. No matter what sur.
rrising news the fourth class postnlas-
ter may find upon the postal cards his
objurgations or explanatory surprise
must not hereafter get beyond Gosh
A farmer correspondent of the
Times Republican from Vienna town
ship has noticed that when corn is COM
ing up in Iowa it is going down on the
board of trade.
81 remember" says brakeman quot
ed by the Philadelphia Record" when
was boy and one of the fellows
would get a new base ball bat, how he
would all want to take hold of it, bal
ance it critically, swing it at an i'm
aginary ball and give wise opinions as
10 its merits. Well, these golf players
are much the same way, only they are
grown men, and some of them pretty
well along in years, too. They generally
get together UP in the baggage car, and
such & line of talk you never. heard any
where outside lunatic asylum. But
when one of them produces new stick
it always reminds me of the old days
and the base ball bat. Each man takes
it in turn, strikes an attitude as tho
there was a golf ball on the floor of the
car, and swings at 1t With all his might
And they are so very serious about it
and so terribly in earnest. tell you,
they are a queer lot"
The Norwegian inventor who boasts
that he can build an electric magnetic
cannon which will send a projectile
two tons a distance of ninety
the construction of his prodigy, should
form partnership with Santos-Du-
mont, who declares that he can carry |
100 passengers over the Atlantic in two |
days In an airship, If he can get money
enough for the building of an aerial
vessel of the right sort.
They We're neither of them brilliant |
but they liked to move with
-he times as regards their knowledge of
current events, 80 the daily newspapers
were regularly delivered at their hum
o read out during breakfast time all
he most interesting items of the day.
One morning, after wading thru the
attest intelligence from the front. she
urned to another page of the paper and
aid:
"Herbie, it says here that another oc-
ogenarians dead. What's an octogen-
rian?
well, 1 don't quite know what they
re. but they must be very sicl1ly Great
,
hey're dying.
London Answer.
There is marked difference between
he American or rather the un-Ameri- |
an Wellington and the English hiss {
orical parsonage best known by that
ppelation. There was once a style of l
DOT named the Wellington after the l
on duke. and there seems no reason
.hy a half souled American should
OF carry the same name.
About the time Frank r. Stockton's
The Lady or the Tiger?" was at the +
eight of its vogue, and when the au 4
Tor was being deluged daily with let t
rs asking for an answer to the aues- t