Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

TOPICS OF THE TIMES {
While Webster City is delighted Owe,
| the prospects Of securing skate fac-
/ tory Marshalltown residents have come
! to the conclusion that twenty-three are
| too many.
| An Oskaloosa policeman has resigned
bacl, to blacksmthing. He hopes to
| lead an easier life and cop" out more
coin at his trade than he has been able
10 accumulate as a copper for the city.
His resignation Is suggestive of the
strenuous life led by an Oskaloosa po-
lice officer and evokes suspicion that
the Register and Leader has inau-
gurated its peculiar method of news
paper delivery there as at MARSHALL
town.
The green-eyed monster crops out
When the Shell Rock News notes that
in looking over the official United States
in Iowa, including such places as Swan
ton, Caster and Clarksvijle.
In Ireland great efforts are being
made by the department of agriculture
to improve the methods OF farming. In
County Donegal poultry. flax show, live
stock and cottage, garden and farm
y,;.
None of these will, however, awaken
the intense interest among the Irish
peasant farmers that one day of Don
nybrook revival would evoke.
Statistics prepared by the census Of
flee show the city population to be 1913
per cent of the entire population of the
United States, while the country popu-
lstion is 51.9 per cent. and the sub
urban is los. In 1890 the rural popula-
ton was 5l.3 per cent of the entire pop
ulation.
That matrimonial agencies flourish in
Belgium as well as here s evidenced by
IL case that has just come to light in
Butte. Mont. Joseph Camus, a young
Belgian living in the western city,
decided he needed helpmeet, and ac-
cordingly sent explicit instructions to
a 'commisSionaire" in his home town
setting forth just what Kind of a wife
he desired sent him. In due time let
ter returned saying the right girl had
been found and as soon as her passage
fn,- !
warded she would start for Butte. Cam
us sent both, and the prospective wife
set out. Somewhere on the way, how 1
ever, she changed her mind and failed
to appear at the appointed time. Camus
notified the "commissionaire," who at
once replied that a substitute would be
Immediately. In due time
the second woman put in her appear
ance. She didn't come up to specifica-
tons, however, and now the young man !
IS trying to get his coin back and says |
ne will find wife for himself.
Before the Boer war the debt of Great |
Britain was $3,175O 100000. Now the
otal is S4,000,000,000, so the cost of the |
little war" in South Africa may bel
placed at $S25, 100000. The British ma
.ional debt is about four times that of
he United States.
The Jews free school, Spitalsfields, is
he largest school not only in London,
)ut on earth. There are forty-four class
ooms for boys and twenty-seven for
iris, and there are 1900 boys and 1,300
,irls in attendance. Each room IS fitted
IS completely as modern invention can
neke it. The fact that the school has
ever been closed owing to the spread
# any epidemic indicates the sanitacy
,eriection o. the enormous structure
low covering two acres Of ground. Mr..
!. f. .Abrahams, the head master, is in
lis fftieth year of service.
More rigid enforcement of the laws
gainst carrying concealed weap-
ms would have an effect not
My upon muderous assaults, but upon
occidental killings. Dozens of boys
re walking the streets of every city
18th pistols hidden in their pockets and
len of the shady class are rarely with
ut some such weapon. A revolver is az
in the hip pocket of the