Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-18
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The nearly fatal mistake of the Bat
tie Creek doctor who ate rat biscuit for
the real thing, while unfortunate, Is
not surprising to those who have at
tempted to sustain life on the sanitar-
ium menu.
A childles;s couple in New Jersey
prayed for baby boy thru thirty years
of disappointment. A practical joker
inserted a want ad. in the local parer
with which resulted in a pair of twins
left on the back porch of the childless
pair the Same evening. The moral is
plain. Don't wait thirty years before
trying the want ad. column. 1t brings
results. The T.-R. takes your request
to more than 10000 readers Gor ceat
a word.
Mayor Sears of Sioux City, who was
elected as "a reform CO ndidate has
agreed to license gambl ng rooms at
$500 per month and slot machines at
sla5 per month, and the Ministerial
Association is INDUCING in what APP
pears to be entirely justifable criticism
of the mayor it helped to elect.
Mr.. Hearst declares he will not bolt
the nominee of the st. LOUIS conNen-
ton. This may be taken to mean that
the nominee will be thoroughly chew
ed IN before Mr.. Hearst gets ready
to swallow him.
DIR. s. Weir Mitchell has received
letter from DIR. Nogucfi. of JAPAN,
who has been working mt the Serum
Institution. in Copenha gen, setting
forth the discovery of a serum which
will cure the sufferer from the bite
of a rattlesnake. DIR. Noguchi comes
late. This country has long been sat
isiied with it's remedy for snake bite.
What we are short on is sufficient
number of rattlesnakes to go with the
remedy.
1--WE come to tell you, sir, that the
photographs you took of us the other
my husband looks like an ape.'
We'll, madam, you should have
thought of that before you had them
taken.'-The Woman's Journal.
Recent legal actions growing out of
a fatal duel in Paris, between Charles
Ebelot and Henri Lauti,sr. show how
dueling is regarded by the French law.
Ebelot, the survivor, was charged
with having by blows and wounds
caused the death unintentionally. The
family of the deceased took no part IN
the criminal prosecutions but obtained
In the civil action, one franc damages
and costs which is after all more than
enough to pay for the personal dam
age.
II develops now that japan has near
" twice as many men In the field as
Russia, showing that the early Russian
reports were badly exaggerated. The
fact is while Russia has men it is not
an easy matter to transport them,
with provisions, 5000 miles over
single track road, that has poor
equipment Russia's claim of
500. 900 soldiers in Manchuria, may be
divided by two. The Japanese appear
to have every advantage in the inter-
ior that she has on the sea coast.
SO
Chairman Cannon's control of the
Illinois convention makes little thing
like the speakership Of the house seem
ridiculously easy.
most of her leap year privilege II the
press dispatches are to be credited.
She not only proposed to the youth
of her choice, but, in order that SIZE
might marry him, he being under age,
she adopted him and then, as his legal
guardian, gave her consent to his mar
rage. She is the Charley Schwab of
the matrimonial market.
st. Louis papers tell about barber
down there who attempted to collect
s1.70 from customer for a shave and
shine, and who struck the customer
over the head with loroomstick be-
cause he demonstrated. Visitors to the
worlds fair will do welt to slip razor
in their pockets as a means of con-
venienee and even self defence.
table has been prepared and is
sued by the department of commerce
and labor, indicating that despite the
great size of the appropriations this
country is per capita more cheaply
maintained than any other in the
world, with the exception of China and
India, and possibly Russia. 1t costs,
according to this, Just 1927 year TO:
each man, woman anil child in the
United States to run the government,
as against $3.50 for Csnadn, s9.45 for
the German empire, $.54 for Sweden,
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