Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-27
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The car is reported keeping fast fo
the success of the Russian arms. Th'
Japanese however, are keeping a httlt
! faster in the other direction.
According to the Tribune. an Allison
man "bagged a fine jack rabbit the
other morning, shooting it inside the
city limits" A rabbit with city limits
must have been laid out before. y
Clarksville Star.
The Sioux City ministers are reported
as giving up the idea of forming a union
ON the plan of organized labor They
| figure that in event of a strike a Sioux
| City congregation would go fishing and
forget all about it.
Down in Page county. township beef
clubs seem to be popular. A beef Is to
be killed each week and distributed
Der is to furnish a beef during the
week that the club runs and a regular
butcher is to kill It, getting the hide and
tahlow for killing. Standard weight for
the beef is 400 pounds dressed: If the
beef is short of that amount the one
who furnishes it is to pay the difference
at the rate of six cents per pound.
The advertiser in the Shenandoah
World certainly gets his moneys worth
when his local reading notice is run into
an important Death notice under a two
column head.
The feat of the Ackley man who ate
forty eight raw eggs in twenty minutes
is nothing to crow over.
British bluebooks recently laid before
parliament show that Russia has been
coqueting with the ruler of Tibet and
has also been warning the British off,
through the country Is 1000 miles far
ther from Russian territory than 1t Is
from India. The present British milf
:ary expedition from India into Tibet
is not. therefore, merely to secure OBJ
servance Of a commercial treaty. but to
convince the Dalai Lama at Lhasa that
he must eschew political relations with
Russia. A Russian agent is said to re-
side at Lnasa, but English are excluded.
The prestige OF the English needs
strengthening. it appears. and the pre-
OCCUPATION of Russia with Japan gives
the English an easy opportunity to
improve it without present risk OF re-
talaation. The British force wintering
at Phari Fort. on the road to Lhasa.
will make, it is thought, an easy de-
scent upon the Tibetan capital in the
spring and try to convince the Dalai
Lama that he must be pro-British or
nothing.
"Radfum intellect is the term used
by the Waterloo Reporter in speaking
of the fluorescent think tank OF Its
contemporary the Courier.
Keokuk has appealed TO the state
board OF health against the local water
company. Typhoid has broken out 40
result of impure water according TO
the physicians ana relief OF some kind
is imperative.
The Australian method Of handling
cranks like Dowie appears to be as ef-
fectiye as the Australian ballot sy's-
tenn.
Reron de Rogniot may blum Mr.
schwab on the field of the honor but
tust let Charlie catch him out in the
field OF finance.
Jananese success on the water after
ali. 10 only natural. The Japanese people
know more about ways of utilizing the
resources of the waters than any other
race in the world. and the cultivation
OF certain marine vegetables is extern
sively practiced. The Japs derive from
such ocean gardens, crops valued at
about 100000. In our own country
marine vegetables are utilized more
largely than Is generally supposed. On
Cape Cod the gathering of sea moss"
is an important industry. the product
being widely employed in the making
Of certain desserts. and there is reason
to believe that money might be made by
farming OH the bottom OF the sea, in
the shadows along the Atlantic coast IL
Yankees would take up the
business.
The usual legislative prejudice to for
eign insurance companies doing busl-
ness in a state will receive u jar when
it is learned that the losers in the Bal
timore fire Will call upon European fire
insurance companies for $6.76S,200.
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