Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-07
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

The pastor of Halstcad. Pa, church
who resigned his pastorate to accept a
position on a baseball team evidently
knew his capabilities,
Ringlings' big elephant took with a
chill while passing thru Wisconsin and
the drug stores of the villages thru
which the train passed were raided for
whisky to alleviate his illness. Thu
beast was dead when he arrived at
Chicago. All Iowa people except total
abstainers will make appropriate COM
ment.
From Columbis Ohio. comes an in
teresting hair-pin story. A certain
trolley car blew out its fuses and the
motorman was out" of them. A bliz-
zard was raging and the car was full
of worrying and tuning passengers.
The inventive motorman went into the
car and asked the women to lend him
some hair-pins for a second. He har-
vested about two dozen and with them
managed to get his car into the barn.
One hair-pin would last about four
blocks.
The Muscatine Journal seems to be
taking especial delight in emphasizing
is conviction that the man who pub
|lished and edited 1t for fifty years does
not know what genuine republicanism
really is.-1owa City Republican.
The Journal seems to be doing very
nicely, however, in attending to its own
business and conducting its editorial
columns along lines approved in its
own sanctum. Perhaps
An Italian professor Is said to have
invented a remarkable instrument,
which completely solves the problem of
lighting up the depths Of the sea. Even
with cheap apparatus the inventor is
said to have lit up with astonishing
brilliancy the bed of the sea at depth
Of go feet for distance Of a furlong,
and 1t is claimed that with more eff
cient instruments this distance could
be enormously increased IL authentic
the discovery will revo!utionize incipi-
ent theories Of submarine warfare. On
the other hand it will help the subma-
rine by lighting its course, but. on the
other, the battleship will be able to see
the submarine much farther away than
1t can at present.
A communication from a T.-R. SUBJ
scriber of long standing differs from
Judge German, of Philadelphia, who
has just said, obiter, in a case of prose-
cution under the Sunday blue law of
1894 that newspaper IS not a luxury
but a necessity" The subscriber re-
ferred to alleges that in the case of the
T.-R. 1t is both.
Until comparatively few years ago
Fee, the capital of Morocco, had prac-
tically a monopoly in the manufacture
LOT the Turkish natiohal head-dress
named after it-the 'fex"-as 1t was
supposed that the peculiar dull GRIM
son color of the tasselled skull cap could
only be obtained by using the dye made
from a certain berry largely grown in
the neighborhood of the city, which is
also much used In the dyeing of mo-
rocco leather. Now, however. France
and Turkey. and to certain extent
Austria, actively compete with Fee for
what is still very lucrative trade.
Noah and Shem, taking their first
walk from the stranded ark, came upon
a beautiful little pool on Mount Ararat,
porting themselves.
What splendid place to fish," said
Shem, delightedly.
"Bully!' acquiesced Noah, who had
lived on salt cod till he was tired of 1t,
"but, dash it all. we've only got two
worms!" Sporting Times.
Turf authorities in Europe and
America are giving careful study to the
need of more rigorous measures to pre-
vent the use OF drugs and stimulants
for Increasing the speed Of horses.
There never were in any previous time
so many wealthy, prominent and hon
orable owners of race horses, but the
amazing expansion of the sport has at
tracted f1ocks of vultures who are try
ing to plumber high-n1inded turfmen.
These birds of prey Should have their
wings clipped.
Lady Guest-Your father is such q
hospitable gentleman! He dearly loves
a full house doesn't he?
Jack-Well, yes; If it happens to be
on his side Of the table.
kansas City Journal.
The Real Grievance.-At Marysville,
Mo-, the other day man rushed be-
fore the county attorney and demanded
warrant for man who had run away
with his wife and one of his horses. II
will spend money" he said, ito bring
that scoundrel to justice. He took the
best horse in my barn."
A noble young fellow named Harry
Extravagant Carry did marry
Oh, the bills she incurred!
OF collectors a herd
Assembled to harry poor Harry!
With patience extra ordinary
He sought to evade and TO parry
The demands of the law,
Till he finally saw
That he never could carry this Garry!
And therefore poor, hopeless young