Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-05
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

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| What is so rare or raw as day in
June" with the mercury below 60?
The little town of Massos, in Sweden,
has a female contingent, $50 strong, in
its fire brigade. The water supply of
| the village consists simply of four great
tubs. and it is the duty of the women
| "fremen" to keep these full in cases of
fire. They stand in two continuous
/ lines from the tubs to the lake some
distance away, one line passing the full
| buckets and the other sending them
| back.
The French postoffiee estimates that
no fewer than $4,000 letters were stolen
last year from pillar-boXe in France.
| Experiments are being made by fitting
some of the boxes with steel teeth,
which prevent the extraction of letters,
in the hope of guarding against these
thefts in the future.
AS an indication Of public opinion the
Oregon election is notable. There the
congressional election has resulted in a
Republican triumph on the Philippine
Question, the only issue, involved, and
this is sufficient to show how the Pa
cifc states stand on this question
There will be no backward step there,
but the presidential policy will be Wig
orously sustained The election is sig
nificant and clearly indicates the trend
of opinion on the governments colonial
policy.
a correspondent corrects some err
no full moon, which appeared recently
in a paragraph quoted from Missouri.
paper. AS a matter of fact" he says
the month Of February, 1856, had a full
moon, which fell on the 18th, as refer
ence to the almanac for that year will
show. The month of February, 1888
however, had no full moon, nor did that
of 1866, and this is no infrequent occur
renee. but happens every twenty or
thirty years. The month of February
having, except in leap year only twen-
weight days, and the moons phases
being separated by an average of TWEEN
ty-nine days, it of necessity follows
that in February frequently only three
such phases occur. The phenomenon is
therefore neither rare nor of any inter-
est, and the only wonder is who could
first have started so foolish a story as
that no month without full moon had
occurred since the creation of the
world, nor would it recur again for two
and a half million years"
Since Senator William E. Mason, of
Illinois, voted with the democrats on
the Philippine bill it appears that the
movement in that state for. new re-
publican senator is not untimely
King Edward has asked parliament
to give Gen. Kitchener pot of $3.50, 900
for his South African services. The
amount is so large that Irish opposition
has been instantly aroused 1t would
seem that the prize should more nearly
harmonic with John Bulls empty
pocketbook and that others should be
remembered. There is no doubt that
Gen. Kitchener deserves much for his
brilliant services.
Archibald. dear" his wife said,
arousng him in the dead of night Il
wish you would walk with baby a little
While, He's going TO wake up
How can I do that, Lucinda?" ex-
postulated the sleepy husband You
know I've got the ping pong ankle
Then put him in his cradle and rock
him a while"
Il can't do that. either. I've got the
golf shoulder."-chicago Tribune.
The dozen or so American Million
aires comprising the Saskatchewan
Valley Land Company, who recently
Saskatchewan and Assiniboa, Cana la, !
intend to keep the land and worn it |
themselves. They will install steam
plows and the latest agricultural ma
chinery on the property. Among the
other Americans who have recently |
in Western Canada are r. L. Kenaston,
president of the Minneapolis Threshng
Machinery Company; G. f. Piper and |
C. Warner manager of the Linseed Oh |
Company, of Minneapolis; Frank |
Prince, manager of the First National |
Bank, of Minneapolis; F. A. Chamber
lain, manager of the Security National |
Bark, of Minneapolis; l.. e. Wells. of |
Chicago, president of the Continental |
Packing Company; j. w. Hood, of
Central City, Neb., who is a rancher
and owns ranch of 100000 acres in
Canada, and several others.
Owing to republican discussions the
people of Oregon elected democratic
governor, altho the remainder of the
state ticket is republican, together with
both members of congress and both
houses of the Legislature. The new
governor elect, George e. Chamberlain,
was born near Natchez, Miss, Jan. l
1854. In 1871 he entered Washington
and Lee University, Lexington, Va, and
was graduated from the college of let
tiers and the college of law in 1876. In
the fall of the same year he went to
Oregon settling at Albany, where he
taught school for some time. In 1879
he began the practice of law at Albany.
The following year Mr.. Chamberlain