Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-17

to time. The sons of the families she
found did hardly anything beyond eat
ing and smoking, scarcely superntend-
ing the work of the farms, which is
carried on by slaves" The farmers
were better contented with the English
government than the people in the
town, yet all benefit by it, except a few
African war and the interest it has
awakened has led to the republication
of the book.
Santos Dumont is in considerable
disrepute at present in France, where
the newspapers are accusing him of
avarice, conceit and discourtesy His
statement in London that his further
experiments would be conducted in
the United States or England has
piqued the pride of the French people
The Sioux City Tribune presents a
bouquet of beatitudes, among which are
the following:
Blessed is the man who resides in a
large town. for only a part of the people
know how mean he is.
blessed is the unmarried man at
Easter time, for he neither has to pur-
chase millinery or buy eggs for the
children.
BLESSED is the woman with swell
toys, for verify she has won half the
battle.
Blessed is the frog, for he can croak
and croak and no one will consider him
nuisance.
Blessed are the dead, for they will
escape that tired feeling this spring"
From the large lumber centers come
the reports that lumber has not been so
scarce an article in years as it is now,
and the Indications are that the de-
mand for all grades of flrst-class lum-
Der will be stronger during most of the
months this year than it has been for a
long time. There is in fact an abnor-
NAL demand for 1t.
The Chicago Inter Ocean took up the
task of finding rhyme for Hindoo with
this APPALLING result:
THE poor, benighted Hindoo,
He does the best he kindo;
He sticks to his caste from first to last,
And for pants he makes his skindo"
The discovery of a new and sup
posedly infallble test, whereby to
between death and state
of catalepsy. or suspended animation
from whatever cause has been an
nounced by German chemist. If
solution of fluorescin, powerful coll
oring matter, is injected under the
the skin especially the mucous MEM
brane, is strongly colored and the
body has the appearance of suffering
from acute jaundice. The white of
the eyes assumes clear green tinge,
the pupil disappears, and the eye looks
as If it were brilliant emerald set
In the face. A drop of blood in glass
Of water colors it green. In two hours
all the phenomena disappear. In case
the subject were dead none of these
effects would be produced.
There is movement on foot in
France looking toward a tax on books |
Of fiction. 1t is proposed to assess
each volume four cents. An American |
BORN alderman of Paris is the author
IF the measure. He considers fiction
lemoralizing and says: Novel read
one's self-like opium, whisky, or wine
If we tax beer, why not fiction?"
The extraordinary effect of lyddite,
he English explosive, has been re-
sealed by the statement that, during
he recent experiments with the hulk
If the old battleship Belle Isle, shells |
that explosive refracted |
fragments upon the attacking vessels, /
which We're three hundred yards dis
ant. Other fragments dropped close
% gunboat situated 1000 yards
lbeam of the line of fire 1t is the
opinion of naval experts that the yes
'el using lyddite is in almost as great
LANCER as the one attacked, especially |
1t the short ranges.
In London just now dry goods
Jerk is reigning social lion because
lie is the acknowledged champion at
,ing- pong. He is invited everywhere
md all drawing rooms are open to
i'm. The game is sort of parlor
ennis and played with net, ball and
acket on parlor table. The war in
south Africa is said to be forgotten
" the society leaders who are en-
rossed in this somewhat silly game
Laborers engaged In digging a drain
n County Mayo, Ireland, lately I'M
arthed a wooden boat which antiq-
arians pronounce 1000 years old
he boat is beautifully carved from
he trunk of an oak tree. 1t is forty I
tx feet long and shows absolutely no
igns Of decay. The wood was so ,
ard that hatchets made scarcely no
IMPRESSION on 1t. 1t will be placed in
ne Dublin museum.
poet labored patiently and long II
n Gas he trusted) an immortal song. t
lis little girl disturbed him with her :
play,
nd angrily he sent the child away.