Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-27
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

In Missouri the good roads movement
is attracting more favorable comment
In all parts Of the state than anything
the legislators have yet proposed.
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George w. Alger opens the February
Atlantic with a notable article on Sen-
sational Journalism and the Law, in
which he discusses the methods and
excuses of yellow journalism. +
ticularly in its efforts to influence leg
lslation and the judiciary.
colonel of a German regiment OF infan-
try sent for his sergeants and observsd:
There will be an eclirse of the sun to-
morrow. The regiment will meet on the
parade grounds in undress. I will come
and explain the eclipse before drill. II
the day is cloudy the men will meet in
the drill shed as usual" Whereupon
the ssrgeants drew UP the following or
der of the day: Tomorrow morning,
by order of the colonel. there will be an
GGil pSS VI III SuIl. lit IcSlIlIelll VIII
assemble on the parade ground. where
the colonel will come and superintend
the eclipse in person. If the sky is
cloudy the eclipse will take place in
the drill she'd"
Secretary Root is losing s125,ooo a
veal while he is in the war department,
as his law practice is worth that much
tC him.
Congressman Ollie James, Of Ken
lucky, will be among the heaviest men
flashes lightly for all his avoirdupois.
He was in the middle of a public adj
dress not long ago when an auditor
who had dined freely suddenly shot this
question at him: whats the differ
nee between Grover Cleveland and
Theodore Roosevelt Mr.. James, who
has no particular love for either Of the
gentlemen named, ,raplied on the in
slant: II should say that Cleveland is
too lazy to hunt and Roosevelt is too
restless to fish"
What do you consider the great es-
sentIal of q flying machine?"
And after much elaboration the
aerial navigator replied:
"A good parachute"
While Iowa is practically doing moth
ing with the beet sugar industry, our
Eeighboring state on the west is deNel-
oping a fine record. The report of Labor
Commissioner Watson. which will be
ready for distribution in a few days,
contains some interesting information
of tha beet sugar industry In Nebraska.
The factories are located at Grand
Island, Norfolk and Ames During the
year the factories have made 22,S90,00O
pounds of sugar. n have received
1902. S5S tons of bests. The average price
per ton was SIS. The employees number
700 and their pay. excepting the office
forces amounted to $4,000. The fac
tories used 10000 tons of limestone
taken from the auar1ies near Platts-
mouth: 1,400 tons of coke, $4,000 tons OF
coal, and 22S,900 bags, purchased in
omaha. The freigE. in and out
amounted to $780, 600. The total acre.
age of beets was 11.152, mostly in Hall,
Dodge, Madison. Lincoln and Buffalo
counties. Besides this 415 acres We're
raised in Iowa.
Joseph Powell, IS years old, whose
home is in New Albany, Ind, has grown
twelve inches in height in the last six
months, and broken his skin, which
did not increase in size at a rate as fast
as that of the rest OF the body. Dur
ing some of the time that the boy was
growing he was at the point of death
from typhoid fever. That he was grow
ing was first noticed when he com
planned that his cot was too short, and
he had to be placed ON a bed. He be-