Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-01
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

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The featherless chicken may be hard
TO produce, but the bristless hog is
dead easy.
to drill That seems to have been
the idea back of Admiral Dewey's ex-
pressicns. If necessary the fleet was
ready to drill holes thru foreign yes
sells interfering conspicuously with the
Monroe doctrine.
DR.. Cyrus Adler. librarian of the
Smithsonian Institution, tells of an
incident which, on the authority OF
Professor Solomon Scbechter, took
place not long ago in the British Mu-
scum. can English provincial. who had
visited London for the first time. went
to see the British Museum collection.
1t was cleaning day and the museum
was closed to visitors. The Englishman
stormed-he was British taxpayer
and yet was excluded from the national
collections! A polite official informed
him that the staff was absent and that
the museum was not open to the pub
lie. That was no sort of excuse for
him. Where are the members of the
staff anyhow demanded the irate tax
payer. At last the official, in despair,
said: One of the mumnies in the mu-
scum is dead. and as mark of respect
the curators have gone "a the funeral
The taxpayer departed perfectly salts
fed.
George Hitchcock. an American ar
fist, has been honored by Emperor
Francis Joseph. who has conferred
upon him the cross of Officer of the
Francis Joseph Order. Mr.. Hitchcock
was born in Providence, r. l.. in 1850.
He is graduate of Brown University,
LII. B. from Harvard in 1874. He is Il
pupil of Boulanger and Lefebvre. He
is corresponding member of the Paris
Society of American Painters, cheva-
lier of the Legion of Honor, Munich Sc
cession and Vienna Academy Of Arts.
The fifty-four vessels that were sent
Indies are said to have been sent there
An historical committee OF sixty-nine
confederate veterans OF Arkansas has
been appointed to prepare as complete
& roster as is now possible of the off,
GERS and enlisted men from Arkansas
who served in the confederate army.
The states records In the capitol at
Little Rock are represented to be la
mentally deficient: in fact, so far as
the archives OF the state disclose, there
is little. If any, evidence that Arkan-
sas ever furnished any troops to the
confederate army. The work is under
taken in pursuance OF an order issued
by General B. w. Green, major general,
commanding the Arkansas division of
the United Confederate Veterans.
Now let us have a commission Of ar
bitration between the mine owner and
the consumer.
Press dispatches from Paris tell
remarkable tale of an invention by Pro-
fessor Peter Stiens which is said to
convey visual image directly to the
brain and is thus adapted to give sight
to the blind. The inventor, 1t is said,
refuses to give details, or to explain
the working of the instrument, and sell
entific men can scarcely be blamed for
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story.
General Chaffee was AT one time dur
ing the civil war stationed at Jackson,
Miss. While there he contracted yell
low fever, says Harpers. Now 1t is
said the gallant young captain feared
not shot nor she'll, but had a desperate
fear of yellow jack he insisted that
a clergyman be sent for at once, as he
knew that he would die. In a short
while the young clergyman in charge
of the parish arrived. and begansto read,
as requested, the Prayers for the Dy-
ing Some soldiers just outside the
door became somewhat boisterous, and
an oath or two was heard in the sick
room. Captain Chaffee raised up and
said, Indignantly: Tell those fellows
to be quiet there. I'll DC - il they
shall cuss In the presence of the minis
teri" Mr.. c. with difficulty finished
the prayers; but he had hope of the
captains recovery.
The other day a little, red-faced
Irishman approached a pc stoffice. which
had three letter boxes outside. One
was labeled CITY" another Domestic"
and the third Foreign He looked at
the three in turn. and them as a puz-
zled expression crossed his face,
scratched his head. "Faith," he was
heard to mutter, II dont know in which
wan to put tn letter. Sure, katie's
domestick, an she lives in the city, all
right, an she's furr.ner. too; but.
begobs, damtino, how tn domned thing
can go in both of tn three holes at
vance" Columbia Jester.
A. keen-eyed woman observer of the
times remarks that "the insatiate love
OF pleasure is the mos salient feature
of these early twentieth century days.
This craving for amusement pervades
all classes and all ages. In fact the
mothers and grandmotfers manifest
this trait in an even more marked de-
4i,op 1,o,,,un, .ynYoon and the