Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-23
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1t seems as hard to start Judge Par
ker talking as it is to make w. j..
Bryan quit.
If the standpattefe were to pay I'll
erim's Progress the Des Moines Capt.
tai would insist on j. w. Blythe in the
role of Christian. LATE would want to
play Providence himself.
One of the curiosities of the Nau-
can of which we hear little is the jour
nal published there daily This jour
nal consists of brief abstracts of every
thing of interest which the papers pub
lished in Germany, the United States,
England. France and other lands nave
recorded A large staff OF linguists
prepares this newspaper. The result
ing publication in Italian is intended
not only for his holiness. the pope.
but for the hundreds of attaches. or
course, such news as would not be OF
interest to vatican circles is omitted in
the resume.
mo, I'll not give you q chance to
throw me over" said young Snipkins'
you are too slow to make monkey
of me-" TOO late. you mean she an
swered in a tone softer than butter in
August.-Chicago News.
| During last week 297 new cases OF
| typhoid fever were reported in the city
| of Philadelphia 1t is said the epidemic
! is spreading in nearly all parts of the
| city. Since the first day of this year
and up to Saturday, there have been
4,O51 cases of the disease officially re-
ported; and there have been 361 deaths
| from that single cause.
Jack really loves me.
/ Brother-Well. you needn't. I've beer
borrowing money from him for the last
nine months, and he hasn't decreased
his visits-Brooklyn Life.
The Algona Republican tells of 9
grocer in it's town who has never solo
tobacco. He goes on and gives the
reasons why and says: Because We
don't believe in the stuff never usee
1t, and consider it the worst weed
| known" 1t is,lot known whether Mr.
grocery business to the fact that he re.
fuses to allow tobacco in his store
but it is safe to say that he occuple.
the unique position of being the only
| groceryman In the country who car
ries the ban on the obnoxious weed t.
the extent of not placing it on thu
shelf alongside of the prunes ant
dried apples.
The Dubuque Telegraph Herald ha!
a new press of $4,000 capacity. Ever
the democrats grow fat and hearty UNI
der republican administrations. Ant
the Telegraph was always sassy"
/ I'm so surprised to hear your wifi,
likes the house SO much; it's so small.
| Yes but there are lots of closets ii
It.
True, but they're extremely small
too"
That's just it. My wife is satisfe'
that not one of them is big enough t
hold a burglar."-Philadelph Ledger
When Joe Cannon and his kind Gus
it's news, but when the ordinary citizel
relieves his feelings after the sam
fashion it's vulgarity.
Advertising the fact that Philadei
phia had 321 cases of typhoid in on
week, American Medicine contends tina
corrupt and contented Philadelphia
is at fault and is guilty of crime. Sine
the beginning of the present year Phil
adelphia has had over 1000 cases 9
typhoid. This implies criminal negli
gence in public officials, since in 100
Englands death rate from typhoid wa
but 1.55 per 100000; that of Pari
: 3.91, and of Hamburg but 49, TIL
medical magazine believes that for ev
cry death by typhoid some one deserve
hanging but says the fatalism whic
has OF old dominated the human min
as to disease and death is still invetel
ate and it is almost impossible
arouse the truer perception that ever
! case of typhoid fever, represents,
/. reality, a crime somewhere, and thu
!, somebody has been guilty of Grimm;
5 negligence, which should be brougf
home to him. Every case as we a
know, is unnecessary. and unnecessar
). disease and death, is, in its last an
aIySiS n crime"