Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-03
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
There is but one more day for con-
gress and it can't be heightened out.

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| There is but one more day for con-
gress and it can't be heightened out.
| ANY victory the democrats in con-
gress may be able TO boast Of in the
closing days will be that of defeating
some measure of legislation which the
people desired to see enacted.
Forty acres of pure plaster of paris,
from ten to fifty feet thick, is the
result of the effort of two boys to smoke
a. rabbit out of a hole under ledge
on Gloss Mountain, Woods county,
Okla. The gypsum ledge was formerly
! the home of numberless wild creatures,
(which lived in the crevices of the
rocks, using dry COW chips sticks and
other rubbish for their nests. The whole
mountainside was a mass of flames
almost Immediately when fire was APP
piled, and 1t burned for days. Only
900 degrees is required to convert
gypsum into plaster of Paris, and the
ledge is being transformed into white
powder.
Ninety five per cent of mortgages, as
shown by the census. are made in order
to increase the original holding of prop
erty or to raise money for business op-
erations, and but per cent are because
of threatened disaster.
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deaths in Chicagos board of health re-
port for January.
The cornerstone of the new state
capitol at Jackson, Miss, is to be LAID
on June 8, Governor Longino. Chief
Justice Whitfield and Bishop Galloway
are expected to make addresses. The
has issued a general invitation to the
people of the state to be present, and
lit is especially desired to have there
all persons now living who witnessed
the laying of the cornerstone of the old
state house in 1874.
A serious joke is on New York man
tending physician told him he had
Bright's disease. The doctor discovered
his mistake at the post-mortem, but the
victim sleeps on in blissful Ignorance.
Nearly every pleasant afternoon the
Justices of the, United States supreme
court walk down Pennsylvania avenue
from the capitol to Fourteenth street,
about mile. Newcomers on the SUI
preme bench are expected to join in this
parade. Justice Holmes, who recently
took his seat, fell into line readily, be-
ing fond of walking but Justice Day,
who will soon be one of the august
body, does not like it. 1t Is quite likely,
however, that he will be broken in be-
fore couple of weeks have passed.
81. Louis is suffering from an extra
ordinary shortage in the supply OF SER
want girls. 1t is estimated by employ
ment agents that nearly 1000 servants
are needed The increasing number of
factories which employ girls is one OF
the principal reasons for the shortage.
A veraeious chronicler of the times
of Jonathan Edwards gives figures
which prove a liberal consumption OF
fuel in the household of the great the
ologian. In the winter of 1740-'41, the
town of Northampton supplied the Ed
wards parsonage with seventy five
loads Of wood; in the next season eigh-
ty-two loads We're delivered, for the
succeeding winter the total was seven
weight, and, year afterward the as
tonishing quantity of ninety-five loads
was supplied. There was no lack of fire
at the Edwards hearth Is it wonderful,
then, that he preached burning SER
mons?
Sixty per cent of the worlds output
of vessels during the last year was built
in British ship yards, from which, dur
ing the year, were launched total of
1868, vessels of 100000 total tonnage.
There were launched in this country in
1902 1862 vessels of $4,000 tons. Ger
many launched $50 vessels Of $4,000
tons.
A Partisan clothes dealer kicked a
dog out of his shop. The dog shot out
with some rapidity and knocked over ii
woman with jug of milk. The woman
broke the jug and upset an elderly gen.
tleman, and the jug cut both of them.
At that moment cyclist arrived and
was thrown off his machine by the
PROSTATE figures and simultaneously q
cart came up and smashed the bicycle.
The magistrate blandly advised the en-
tire squad to proceed against the dog,
and they are now looking for 1t.
Several members of the house We're
discussing theil plans for the coming
summer in Speaker Henderson's room
one morning when General Henderson
turned to Representative Gaines, OF
Tennessee, and said:
How are you going to spend your
summer, Gaires?"
II intend to take a rest. an absolute
rest" was the reply.
THAT means that you will resume
your law practice, | presume remark
ed the speaker, and a shout of laughter
greeted the presumption.
No Hero to His Son.-At Emporia
John Madden made a powerful plea in
a railroad damage case. His little son
went home and said: Mamma, heard
papa make a dandy speech today. And