Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-08
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

The Christian Register Coilueihiis ~
so-called "Chautauqua salute, whlch
has been popularized at religious gam
erings. and which consists of waving
handkerchiefs simultaneously. Unless
all The handkerchiefs are clean" 1T
says, think of the microbes with whlch
the atmos sphere is charged after nun
dreos of them have been waving In the
air of hall closely packed with human
beings
While this country is talking about
reviving ship building England goes
uracticing it, The Liverpool (Eng)
Post states that the Cunard Steamship
Company will build two steamers that
will be larger than anything now afioat.
They will be over 700 feet long. Their
engines will be of $4,000 horse power,
and they will have q speed of twenty
FIVE knots.
Senator Hoar thinks the president
should have military bodyguard at
tend him on all occasions. But Senator
ltOar COIlJuTeS up luttHS SA1ttASS 1890
others refuse to adopt.
Congressman Galusha A. Grow, OF
Pennsylvania, the veteran member OF
the house of representatives. is much
pleased with Prince Henry, and is quot
ed as saying recently: Everybody in
the house was pleased with the prince,
and we gave him a reception that was
genuinely hearty. He impressed me as
an extremely sensible young man; and
he knows how to be very pleasant, too
After the services in honor of President
ed. were over, the house held levee,
and we all met him. The little speeches
that he made to different members were
all happy. He speaks English so per-
fectly that the reception was free from
any stiffness. representative Williams,
of Mississippi, and one other member,
went to school in Germany, so they
greeted the prince together. They told
him that they had seen him in the
street when he was boy. Indeed,
said he, What a pity that didn't meet
YOU then. We would have been old
friends now After he left the house he
went to the senate, and sat in the
speakers chair for twenty minutes. He
was greatly interested in that body's
efforts to find cut what control it has
over it's own members"
If Massachusetts should need another
eulogy, one different from that pro-
nounced by Daniel Webster, but almost
as eloquent, might be found In the fact
that there are 1,593.640 depositors in it's
savings banks.
NO" said Miss Canada. don't like
the way the home government treats
me at ALL
You wouldn't have to complain that
way" said Uncle Sam, "if you only had
a little sense"
Indeed? How much sense, for In
Just enough to come in out of the
n."-Catholic Standard.
"Mexican laboring men," says Kan
sas man who has been visiting in Mex
leo, work for IL cents day. This may
seem incredible, but it Is a fact. You
see more copper cents in that country
and more are used perhaps, than in any
country on the globe. 1t Is not uncom-
mon to see q Mexican woman go to
market and buy cents worth of corn
or coffee and stalk of cane. She will
make fire in the center of her adobe
house and prepare meal for the fam
lily. They eat cane as we would an
apple. The OK cart and wooden plow
are still in use. The OK teams are har-
messed so the pressure of the load
comes upon the head, just in front of
the horns, instead of the shoulder and
neck"
Yes" said the old doctor, you
should try to have your own carriage,
by all means. Because when you want
to get to patient quickly"
"Oh!" interrupted the young M. D.,
~ don't think any patient who sent for
me would be likely to die before i
reached him"
mo; but he might recover before you
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