Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-05
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

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Missouri has had an earthquake
Well. nothing short of an earthquake
would wake up that state.
Touring in the Alps like most other
snorts is not without it's danger. Last
wear nineteen people lost their lives IN
mountain climbing. A great number
are lost every year, and still the sport
goes on.
The dispatches state that during the
Interview granted to the ministers the
Chinese emperor was silent and impas-
sive turnout. No wonder, with the old
empress dowager concealed behlnd n
screen to catch every word! In spite
of woman's position in China the en-
reror is more afraid of the old woman
than he was of the allied troops, and he
would rather face all the powers COM
bined than incur her anger. Woman is
no figure head in that government.
Two republican members Of the
present house of representatives We're
delegates to the republican national
convention of 1864 which put in nomi-
nation the Lincoln and Johnson ticket
A scientist has invented talking
machine that can pronounce perfectly
all the vowels, and he hopes to make it
do more. Well, he may perfect it so as
10 pronounce all the consonants. but he
can't make it discount a woman's club.
Miss Stone and those brigands are
something like flea; when you're sure
you have him, he isn't there.
A farmer near Fredericktown, o.. lost
q dozen sheep in a very mysterious
manner. After several days he found
them comfortably housed inside straw
stack into which they had burrowed.
1t is not all wool that warns.
Oklahoma has but one poor farm,
that recently established by Payne
county. 1t will need a lot of them later
on.
That the German American editors
of the country banquet Prince Henry
while he is in New York is happy idea
originated by the New York Stats lei
tung. Berlin is particularly interested
in the proposition, and for manifest
reason. The prince thus brought into
close touch with the German element In
this country will get a better idea of
the secret of German success in the
United States than he could obtain in
any other way. Moreover, he will thus
have an opportunity to become ac-
quainted with German sentiment on
this side. He will find that sentiment
intensely loyal to our flag, while at the
same time proud of the fatherland. And
we opne that the speeches there made
mind that our German citizens consti-
tute bond of permanent peace be-
tween the two governments.
The new Tammany boss says he pro-
poses to drive out all the bad men in
lonesome with no one left but himself.
None of the other old members of the
national house appear to be envious of
Congressman Hulls strenuous life at
home.
Bishop Potter is good fighter and he
doesn't stop with fighting prohibition.
He recently attacked with savage pen
our American missionaries in India,
which brought down on his head the
wrath of his brethren. He said India
had a good religion of its own, which
along with it's people had been misrep-
resented. That our missionaries were
no good and ought to be called off.
OF course he didn't use exactly those
words, but then-that's what he meant.
There are about 100000 bearing
fruit trees in Kansas, but fruit lovers
up this way have little knowledge of
them.
A Plymouth Rock hen owned by Asa
Peyton. of Morehead. KY, has four legs.
She uses one pair until she gets tired,
then rests them and uses the other pair.
David Carson, of Kansas. who Is
teaching school in Zambales. near Ma
Mia, writes home: II teach in ruined
church, with bare brick walls and no
floor, and with benches like our fore
fathers used 200 years ago. We teach
by objects and pictures mostly, and
every morning I go to school with a
pocket full of rocks, sticks and leaves.
suppose my work has pleased the de-
partment, for they have raised by SAL
airy to S115 in gold per month. l have
four native assistants and one Ameri-
can teacher tho the latter is to be
transferred, and two girls one from
Boston and one from the Colorado Uni
versity. sent here to take his place."
William NJ. Ramsey, of California,
has just purchased Westover, the ia
nous country seat along the James
river, in Virginia, whose history is well
traced for two hundred years. He Will
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