Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-20
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A bride in some parts OF Switzerland
receives from her friends a Gruyere
cheese. 1t is not eaten. but is pre-
served by her, and al the important
family events are marked on the rind.
This accounts for the medieval odor of
much of the imported cheese.
The most curious paperweight in the
world belongs to the prince of Wales.
Il is the mummified hard of one of the
daughters of Pharaoh. The new prince
appears to differ somewhat in tastes
from his father. Edwards collecting
proclivities did not run to mummitied
The Mexican postal department
has taken a new and novel means OF in
forming the public of the weather bull
letins given out by the Weather Blu
rsau. Every letter which passes thru
the office is now stamped with the in
dications for the next twenty-four
hours. This stamping is done at the
same time that the postage stamps on
the letters are cancelled and the re-
ceiving a stamp affixed. The Yankee
may in this case learn something from
his neighbor on the south.
For five cents I'd shoot you!" ex-
claimed a colored excursionist from
Centerville Tuesday at the Soldiers
Home picnic grounds. shoot def
antly replied the colored maan address
ed. Il dab YOU to shoot Then the
first speaker shot and cropped out on
the second pass.
A Mount Vernon New York girl has
evolved something new il social recre-
alton. or rather has revived an Old Gus.
toom by giving q death party The
girl who is about nineteen years old,
has been in failing health for year.
Her doctor knew that she consumption,
but kept the news from her, fearing
that if she learned that she could not
live she would become melancholy. II
finally became necessary TO tell her that
she was going TO die, but instead OF be-
coming melancholy. as her family had
anticipated. she bore up cheerfully and
began arranging her farewell party
She invited all of the young women OF
he; acquaintance, and when they came
she informed them that she had sent
for them to bid them farewell. The
guests felt little hesitation at first
about being too jovial, but the hostess
took the lead by playing some popular
airs for them on her piano and treating
them all to ice cream and cake. The
hostess wore the elegant white Sill
dress in which She is to be buried
which may account to some extent fol
the party.
Dowie has warned his followers ii
the invasion of New York not to dis
grace him. DO all your drinking IL
Chicago said the modern Elijah. Con
sequently it will be a lors way between
drinks for the faithful.
The Keokuk Gate City invites Bur
llington people to Keokuk on Oct. 6 L
10 inclusive. learn how such at
| fairs should be conducted. Keokul
street affairs are models of good order
clean attractions. large attendance AM
satisfactory entertainment" The keo
kuk authorities are II anything to-
strict. If prisoner convicted of as
sault and battery in Keokuk squirm
against his fine he is Immediately re
arrested for doing the 'hooche
lcouchee."
AS an instance of the peculiar wa
misery matches up bedfellows the pro
lhibition- democrat merger in Blac
Hawk county will do.
81 see that prizefghters fight in
ring remarked Miss Giddygir
What kind of a ring is t:?"
AN engagement ring is used TO
srarring,'' replied the old bachelo
put when it is to be fight to fms
g wedding ring is used, believe
lChieago News.
Imoth discovered eighteen months az
lin siberia has at last, after twelv
months of labor and great expenditure
been safely secured in the museum {
the Imperial Academy in St Peters
burg. 1t was discovered on the lie,
bank of the river Beresovka, in re
eion that for ages has been the scene {
great landslips at the melting of III
SHOWS in spring. The discovery VIZ
made by a Siberian hunter. who secul
cd one of the tusks for sale. 1t We
. of almost incredible size. Scientis
estimate that the beast entombed by
landslip. has been laid up for quite tM
hundred centuries in the ice. which hi
Sc preserved 1t that the hair and hit
, are still intact.
The editor of The Chinese Dai
World" published in San Francisco,
graduate of Yale. ard, While retail
ing all the characteristic reticence
his race, he IS. nevertheless, rath
clever at repartee, as was recently IL
stanced when a rather dapper YOU
fellow called at the "World' once
sell a certain grade of paper. The ed
: tor affects the American style OF dres
4 and the paper house drummer thong
/ Ihe would be smart, ana oopened u