Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-06
TOPICS OF THE TIMES


lie precisely what he is responsible for.
N A pension applicant from Marylan
when requested by the pension burea
to explain how he incurred physic;
disabilities sent in the following min
;s utey graphic statement:
The way l got my war ingery was
ketchin of hog. The Hog war so
hog and ur captain wanted her fo
forege. We was chasin the SOW, an
she crawled threw a hoal in a raj
y fence. II wah big hoal. and I thot
: war about the sis of the hog, and trie
: to crawl threw, but I stuk and trir
a to wigle out l throde the rales off an
;. one hit me on my he'd and nocked M
had nothing to do with my line O
duty, for / did not koch the hog. Vic
she never war caut."
e Iowa has $4,000 farms.
.
0 The Webster City Graphic Heral,
!. complains of the brands OF whisky OF
s6lS ana lOI d DcltST SIdNe u
goods. The present article sold at Web
ster City tends to develop insanity in
stead of merely making the drum
come. The only way out seems to be fol
Graphic Herald to buy cut of town.
| The German Baptist brethren, other.
wise called the Dunkards, have gone or
record at their international conference
held in Bellefontaine. Ohio. as opposed
to life insurance.
A French traveller has discovered a
new species of ant in Siam, or. at least,
4 4 new trait he has never before seen
recorded. The creatures were small of
a gray color, and lived in damp places.
They travelled often and in troops which
seemed to be under the direction of a
commander, who rode on horseback"
NJ. Nj. Mefssen, the Frenciiman who no.
ticed this popularity, was attracted to
these groups by discovering that each
company contained large ant that
travelled more rapidly than the others
| Observing them more closely he no
| ticed that each large ant always carried
u small gray ant upon its back. tho the
remainder of the troops were on foot
This mounted ant would ride out from
the line. travel swiftly along the col
umn from head to rear and apparently
overlook their maneuvers. NJ. Nielsen
concluded from what he saw that this
species of ant, while on it's travels, is
under the direction of commander, tho
such "ant horses" as the general rides
must be rare and valuable, for he
scarcely ever found more than one
mounted ant in colony.
The Davenport Democrat thinks that
President Roosevelt overdid matters
when he wore his rough rider suit thru
Iowa. The Democrat thinks he invited
criticism. But Roosevelt. Is In posi-
ton to stand democratic criticism afra-
bly,.
Contributions of $1,000 by Alice |
daughter Of the poet, and |
OF $500 by Mrs. Bayard Taylor raise the
Emerson fund to $3.50 05, and assure
the erection of the new Emerson hall of
at Harvard. The conditions
were that $4,000 should be raised be-
fore Emerson's birthday. The new
building will be south of Sever Hall,
facing Robinson Hall.
The poetry" with which Webster
City greeted the president is no worse
than the Des Mones Capitals reference
to 1t as the work of a local Alfred
Austing." .
While mining in Mexico William P.
Durham. of Denver visited what is +,
considered the highest waterfall in the ,
world. 1t bears the Indian name of {
and is located about 1870 c
niles west of the city of Chihuahua, l
rear the summit of the Sierra Madre
The elevation of the mount
lin is $500 feet above the sea level. The
,ascade falls 97s feet.
Dubuque has 141 teachers in the pub
ic schools. The average price paid /,
,rade teachers is $39.1S. This is some I
What less than the average price paid Z
or cleaning the sewers of the city. +
Ii
A treasury surplus of about $4,000
90 is in prospect for the fiscal year
nding with the present month. The
var taxes were abolished last year, but !,
he republican balance on the right "
ide is still entirely satisfactory. $