Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-31
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Doctors have discovered peril in the
kissing OF poodles by young ladies'
Perhaps this is the cause of the wash
day hydrophobia so common among
young women.
In the village of Bethlehem, Wayne
county, twelve families reside. OF these
twelve families three couples have
celebrated their golden wedding and
three of the men were born the same
year. viz, 1924. Their lives are near
| ly as old. and are among the oldest set
tiers Of the county.
Bishop Duhamel, of Ottawa, Canada,
il is reported has refused TO allow any
more of the exiled religious orders from
France to make a settlement in his do
cese. Members of orders already in
existence In Canada may join these
Communities burt he will tolerate no
| new ones. There are too many relig-
ious orders in Canada already, he says.
1t is said that Bishop Duhamel will be
supported in his stand hv all the bish-
OPS of the province of Quebec.
A Bancroft man gave check on a
bank thru which he expected funds, but
where he had none on deposit, and is
himself on time deposit in the Blue
Earth, Mimi, Jail at sixty days.
| 1t turns out that the Thor farmer
| who was accused of starving his stock
TO death was unfortunate instead of
guilty. The state veterinarian de-
lclares the cattle died of tuberculosis
and the farmer proposes to get even by
suing the newspapers.
! A growing movement in the Catholic
church ravors requesting boys to take
| the total abstinence pledge upon max
ling their first communion or at con-
| firmation Parents desiring their chill
dren excused may be accommodated.
| But, in ell other cases, The total absti-
Inence pledge is to be administered.
Catholic publication thi 1ks the general
establishment of this practice in our
country would not be g violent inno-
walton. Yet, If violent remedy We're
Ineedful, there is sufficiently crying
| evil TO justify it.
| Jefferson refused carnival COM
pany the right to use the public streets
| for a weeks fair. Under certain re-
| strictions the carnival will be per-
mitted, but no gambling or indecent
shows Will be tolerated jefferson was
(; always sensible town and the action
of its council is certificate of charac
ter to its citizens.
| AT Corwith according to the Hustler.
The mosquitoes have put peek-a- boo
waists out of business. Thus the most
daspised things find sooner or later a
field of usefulness.
| Professor Curie has found still an
other Wonderful property of the newly
Iheat emissions which remain un.
changed thru a wide range of tempera
ture, from that of an ordinary room ,e
that OF liquid air, and give out of
| greater heat when subjected to the
greatest cold known To scientists LID
|uid hydrogen. These experiments with
liquid hydrogen have LED to the discov-
| cry that freshly prepared solution of
radium has feeble power of giving off
| heat at all temperatures, but the power
steadily increases for about a month,
when it reaches its maximum activity,
which it then maintains apparently In
definitely.
| Lady (who is on a visit to her native
town. -How is Mrs. Gabb? / haven't
seen her in long time.
| Hostess-She is having her usual ups
and downs.
| Lady visltor-And what may that be-
pray?
| Hostess-oh, running UP bills and
running down her neighbors.
| brooklyn Life.
| The outlook for India brishtens.
reduction of % cents in the salt tax
| will be Welcomed by the wretched peas
ants, who have suffered grievously from
this oppressive impost. They all need
| salt. but many of them have been too
| poor to buy It, because Of the excessive
tax. The irrigation commission pro-
poses that $150,00O,O00 shall be spent in
twenty years for protective works, and
recommends that 100000 shall be lent
every twelvemonth for private enter
priscs in irrigation.
| A new idea in commercial law prac-
tice will be suggested by an article in
the London Lancet which discusses the
* cent suicide OF an English clergyman
of "a years. 1t says that the act was
automatically done and perfectly ac-
countable. 1t seems the man shot him.
self after a fall from a bicycle which
the Lancet writer concludes caused
kind of cerebral conclusion which per-