Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-05
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

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Some Of the candidates will now put
| in little time getting ready for winter.
| While iowa and northern sections of
the nation have more than the usual
rainfall this year. it has been below
normal this year in Florida. Over the
central and west coast rain is greatly
NEEDED.
The republican victory is enough to
run up the old flag.
Information has been received at the
government agricultural department
/ recently that DR. S. A. Brown, treasurer
| of the Sioux Valley Medical Associa-
4 ton. is advocating the proposition that
hog cholera is spread almost altogether
nv dogs. and he has issued letters TO the
farmers of that section, explaining TINS
4 and advising them to watch their uogs.
Now the democrats (and others can
prepare for winter.
Kansas is shipping large quantities
of apples to Liverpool and London ana
+. finds appreciative people ready to buy
| them.
| Treasurer Roberts annual statement
! shows that the nations finances are IN
| exceptionally good condition. Gold is
piled no in the treasury In immense
quantities.
| Recently the Chicago health officer
! recomm ended that users of telephones
| should daily battle the mouthpieces of
| the instruments with an antiseptic or
| cover them with a gauze cloth soaked
| in an antiseptic preparation to kill
germs of disease likely to lodge in the
mouthpieces because of their use by
uncleanIy or disease-stricken persons.
| Now the ever atchful and considerate
| guardians of the public health recon-
| mend that persons exposed to infectious
| or contagious diseases shall carry dur
| ing the day and keep under the pillow
at night small box of formalin, whose
vapor should be inhaled thru the mouth
| and nostrils at intervals while there are
evidences of having taken cold. The
| health officials declare that pneumonia,
diphtheria and other contagious dis
eases ere now on the increase in Chi
cago hence the necessity for every pos
sible preventive. The department lays
stress on the fact that formalin has
rroved efficacious in disinfectine' bac-
terra Laden material. adding that it is
free from an unpleasant odor in dilu-
ton, is cheap, not injurious to any fab
ric and that its action is sure.
1t is now said that Colombia Is eager
to conclude canal treaty negotiations.
The sooner the better for the Panama
route.
Chicago is still building great sky
scrapers. 1t is now announced that a
seventeen story office building, which
vii, cost 100000. is 10 be erected at
the northwest corner OF Michigan ana
Jackson boulevards. 1t will be used
for Offices by large corporations.
A political topic is like last years
birds nest.
ST. Louis is beginning to feel elated.
4 letter from Sir Thomas Upton says
King Edward is taking an active inter-
est in the st. Louis fair and that the
prince of Wales is likely to head spe-
cial embassy.
The death of George Hull revives the
fact that he was the originator ana ex-
ploite,. of the Cardiff Giant, with winch
he humbugged the public. 1t was the
shrewdest hit of its time. Barnum, the
next tleverest, offered $4,000 for an
eighth interest in it, and SO many doc
! tors OF divinity We're taken in by 1T and
lied into fantastic Biblical theories about
| ii that the church at large and all It's
ministers, and everybody else for that
matter, ought to rejoice in it's final dis
appearance. OF Hull it need not be
said that he builded better than he
knew, but his absurd effigy, no doubt.
made ten or hundred times more noise
than he expected of 1t.
! Governor Yates. of Illinois, Is serious
| ~ i'll from an attack of typhoid fever,
and is delirious, but his physician says
! his case is not necessarily alarming.
Any such case, however, is attended
with great hazard.
| Forty of Chicago's leading merchants
| have gone south to establish better
| trade relations.
Emperor William, carrying out his
| purpose of converting the Grunewald
! into Il vast pleasure ground for the use
of the inhabitants Of Berlin, has APP
| proved plans for new roads, play
grounds, picnickers' glades and restau-
| rants. in the forest. One of the emper-
| or's objects is to encourage outdoor
| athletics. The forest contains 11,560
| acres. 1t is royal hunting preserve but
the soresters are now killing off the
deer and wild boar there.
| Several Missouri towns are preparing
| to make all tramps caught within their
| limits take baths. This will hasten the
movement southwark from that state.
Mrs. Goldsham, dooz your husband
| ever get drunk" Mrs. G. blushed
| furiCusly.