Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-30
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

Meanwhile all business in the senat;
remains in statu QUAY.
Four of the public schools in Indian
apolis are closed on account of small
pox among the pupils. Several of the
large cities of the Hoosier state are
fighting this pest.
Thirty-one huge and exceedingly
strong Havana cigars are the daily al
lowance of King Carlos of Portugal. tls
biggest and fattest C. all the relgnine
monarchs of the old world.
that an old lady in reduced circum-
stances had a fine portrait of Daniel
Webster. The senator, who owns the
largest collection of Websteriana in the
country. hurried to the address given
and shortly owned the painting, which
is from the brush of Chester Harding,
well known in art circles sixty years
ago. He thinks it is one of the finest
portraits of Webster in existence.
Is our twenty-be1ow-zero weather
being reserved for February?
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Down in Missouri Nodaway county
man has discovered Il process whereby
he. hopes to make new kind of break
fast food out of cornstalks. He has
probably been comnuning with stock
that learned this secret in the long ago.
When Helen NJ. Cougar. of equal suf-
frage fame, met Aguinaldo in Manila
this week she said to the interpreter:
Tell Mr.. Aguinaldo we feel 1t great
honor to pay our compliments to him.
Tell him we desire to express our APP
probation and admiration of the brave
fight he made for the independence Of
his country. Tell Mr.. Aguinaldo that
expect and hope before long to see him
the president of the real Filipino repub-
lie, with complete independence" This
leads the Kansas City Star to reflect
that 1.-The reasons why equal suffrage
is impractical are thus made more OBJ
vious than ever
Chicago people have already col
lected $4,000 for the starving people OF
northern Sweden.
California is awakening to the merits
of the voting machine, and bill has
been introduced in the legislature to
facilitate the adoption of the machine
plan by any county or city desiring to
adopt 1t.
A Germantown man has been enjoy
ing the usual latitude of the traveller.
Strange" he says, ARE some of the
farming methods of California. One day
in the vine country heard a tremen-
dous bang, bang. banging, and started
from my seat. thinking that dreadful
explosion had occurred; but my host
told me. with laugh, that his men
were merely blowing with dynamite.
Then he went on to explain that when
it was desired to loosen up the soil to a
depth of three feet or so, dynamite cart
ridges were set in the earth and fired
off. They broke up the ground beauti-
fully. They did the work much better
and much more cheaply than any ma
chine or any manual labor could do and
in addition to this they destroyed the
parasite called the phylloxera, the bane
Of the vine grower. No vineyard whose
soil had been dynamited, my host said,
ever suffered from the phylloxera after
ward"
The above recalls the story of the
stranger who was travelling in a stage
coach in an early day in New England.
While passing over the hills he heard a
discharge Of guns, and in
quired of the coach driver what the
people were shooting. Shooting,
stranger, shooting! Why, they are
corn!" They found it neces-
sary to shoot the grain in between the
rocks.
The f1rst-"when he proposed to me
he acted like regular idiot
The second-"Well. my dear, you
must remember that he was doing
something idiotic." Smart Set.
The Rev. w. A. Spooner, an English
is afflicted with habit Of
mixing up words in I'm absurd fashion.
He once astonished his congregation by
saying that some one present doubtless
had in his heart a half warmed fish,"
He meant to say half formed wish"
A hymn beginning "Conquering kings
their title take" was turned into "Kink-
ering kongs their titles take" and the
fifty first Psalm was announced as
..fusty fifth This recalls the effort of =
Marshalltown clergyman to say ripper
and richer" but his tongue persisted in
twisting 1t into ripper and richer"
In the concert of The nations
Uncle Sam now takes a hand;
p,,t he doesn't like the music