Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-24
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

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The house committee has wisely de-
| cided not to tantalize congress in its
closing days with the ship subsidy bill
1 The Chicago & Northwestern has lei
contracts for building third track be-
tween De Kalb and Cortland, ILL.,. q dis
tance of five miles.
| While we have been suffering from
| severely cold weather Il heat wave has
struck Australia and is burning up the
vegetation in the pastoral districts, and
undoing the advantage derived from
the recent rains.
| When Uncle Sam decides to supply
his soldiers with a nsw outfit the order
he gives would stagger several OF the
largest establishments in the country.
He is about to place an order for $780,
600 worth, and the figures for the vari-
Gus articles ara correspondingly large.
The list of supplies includes 10000 reg :
ulation campaign hats, $4,000 pairs OF
heavy cotton stockings, 10000 pairs of
cotton flannel drawers. 100000 cotton
undershirts with col,arettes, $4,000
pairs of black calfskin shoes, 100000
yards of olive drab worsted shifting
flannel, $4,000 dress caps, new pattern .
5000 yards of d. c. cap cloth. 1900
forage caps, old style; 100000 gilt coll
lar ornaments, 10000 dull finish bronze
collar ornaments, 10000 letters ~. S. -
dull finish bronze, 100000 letters gilt,
and 100000 gilt cap ornaments.
"Montezuma" don't go with Arizona
and New Mexico and the name of a
combined state.
The president has been invited to at
tend the eleventh irrigation congress, to
be held in Ogden, Utah, Sept. Sill. FIe
responded that he would probably not
be able to attend.
The right to wear male attire in
France Is conferred on women by the
government as a great privilege. for
which, in addition, each must pay $40 q
year as tax The only women to
whom the right to wear male attira has
been given are George Sand, Rosa Bon
heur, Nine. Dieulafoy, the Persian
archaologist; Nine. Faucalt, the beard
ed woman, and Nina Fourreau and
Nine de Jeanette, both sculptors.
According to Rams Horn, MANY put
zero into the collection and then COM
plain that the church is cold"
1t is reported that idle men are par
aiding the streets in London in search
that city $1,000 was paid for small jug
of Fulham ware.
Half the citizens of Nome and the
other far north Alaskan cities have lost
parts of their bodies by freezing, ac-
cording to a returned miner. The gold
seekers have paid heavy price for the
metal secured. They are minus either
fingers, toes, noses, feet or legs. the
beads and trunks being the only parts
of the body left uninjured. The pros
pector in question is of the opinion that
there is hardly one entirely able
bodied man in the whole northern
country. He has experienced so degrees
below zero.
If everybody knew that your house
was for rent someone would want 1t.
A fifteen cent "for rent" ad in paper
everybody reads will tell them all about
it,
Henry Clews suggests that even If the
Aldrich bill passes providing for an ex-
pansion of the currency, and pinch
should come in despite of 1t next fall at
crop moving time, the secretary of the
treasury will not again possess the re-
sources to step in and help out He can
not be expected to do this every year,
nor is it considered good policy.
Pearl-Did you hear about the awful
fright George got on his wedding day?
Maude-Yes, i was there. saw her.
Brooklyn Eagle.
All the tramway car vestibules of
Denver Col, are to be fitted with mir
rors as fast as they can be placed upon
the cars This does not mean that the
motormen are going into the beauty
culture fad The mirrors, which are of
heavy plate glass, inclosed in solid cast
iron frames, are hung out at one side
of the vestibule at just such an angle,
that without turning his head the mo-