Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-08
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Thrifty Missouri intended to keep all
| the worlds fair Jobs irside the state,
but other states making appropriations
for the big show propose to furnish a
share of the employees.
| Michigan has made a beginning in
the work of expiation ard reparaion of
her lnmbemnens crimes against Nature
by setting aside three townships Of land
/ in Moscommon county-about $4,000
acres-as state forest reserve, and
appr,spriating $500 per year to be
spent in connection Herewith. 1t APP
pears to be one of the regions already
devastated by the AK, SO that the work
will probably be mostly in the way Of
Ireplanting and protection. Encourage
ment for good returns, after While,
| Is found in the experiences OF private
| forestry in New England, where, as
stated by Professor Roth, there are TIM
Der tracts, with no trees over sixty
years old, which will cut over 10000
feet board measure to the acre.
During the popes illness there was
| q hc,st of callers at the apostolic lega-
ton in Washington. Their visits
brought into notice one OF the most re-
rnarkable negroes in the country. James
| J. NNattingly, who answers the doorbell.
He is II years old and iinguist. James
can talk In five different languages and
lis studying three or four more. The
boy talks fiuently in English, French,
Italian. Latin and Greek. and Is now
studying Spanish, Portuguese, German
and other languages. His parents can
hardly read or write.
Philadelphia physicians have saved
mans life by an electrical operation ir
reducing the size of an aneurism. AS
| an aneurism Is a swollen artery and the
operation proved complete success. its
application to swelled heads may prop
| erly be suggested.
| T'he citizens OF Honolulu are deter
mined to do all within their power to
| promote immigration TO the Islands.
With this end in view the Honolulu
Merchants Association and the cham
Der of commerce will advertise the adj
vantages of Hawaii to the outside
world, besides catering to the comfort
| OF visitors who arrive there. The Mer-
| chants Association has cabled Secreta-
| ry Root. of the war department, guar
anteeing constant supply OF coal for
army transports bound for the United
States, to and from Manila. and asking
that troops sent to the Philippines be
hereafter routed by way of Honolulu.
| O1tions on three steamers available for
Thu. government as revenue cutters have
been sent to Washington by e. r..
Stackable, collector of the port of Hon
olnlu. This action was taken in ac-
lccrdance with instructions received
some time since, the. treasury depart
ment being anxious to secure vessel
suitable for the use Of its officials in
Hawaii.
what prevents the ocean from over
flowing the land?" asked the teacher.
the tail Of the class.
Philadelphia Record.
Paper clothes are the latest novelty.
according to the Worlds Paper Trade
Neview. This journal tells us that
Terlin tailoring house Is now offering
complete paper suits for $3.50. The
| f,,n tpssf rtte f0r
measuring ones self, and the firm also
advertises in foreign journals, evident
liz expecting to do an export business.
The material is woven and pressed, OF
Il dull cream color. and apparently not
very light.
Sodium peroxide is the new fruit
bleach to be substituted for sulphur,
and it is hoped the German government
will not discriminate against 1t. This
Ills forlorn proposition, however, for
The German agrarians will be opposed
10 any kind of treatment which may be
given to American products.
The assessor of Los Angeles county,
California, is taxing The individual
graves in the cemetery--this in effect,
for the cemeteries insist that the lots
are private property, and some or the
little possessions hold but one tenant.
In some cases the lot holds whole
family, and none alive to pay the tax.
The cemetery companies dodge the re-
sponsiIbility, tho they do not make an
absolute transfer of the property. The
reputed individual owners can exercise
little or no control, can not sell the plot
without the permission of the company
or association. The owners dead or
alive have no actual ownership, being
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