Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-05
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Russia is said to have been the first
civilized nation to employ torpeaoes
in warfare. having used them IN ths
Crimean war in 1854
Judge Hubbard once told the Ceaas
Rapids Gazette editor 1T was oe'tei
to walk a hundred males than Write
letter. There are those in Iowa VINO
wish the judge had crawled to ICES
Moines rather than write that letter.
In this connection it might be proper
70 state that Judge Hubbard never
crawled and were he alive today would
smile grimly and take his medicine
without protest.
The paying over of the money VIII
probably force Panama to wear pants.
Pockets and pants go together, ana
Panama must have some place to carry
her money.
The manufacture and sale of tobac-
co is state monopoly In Austria
which nets the national treasury over
s27 100000 a year. The governments
purchases the raw material, mahuiac-
lures 1t into cigars. cigarets, smoking
tobacco and snuff, and sells it to the
consumer thru licensed agents, Who
receive a fixed commission, averaging
about 10 per cent, on the proceeds Oh
their sales.
Conditions some times reverse them
selves. A southern man is suing for
divorce because his wife is red headed
I'm here when a woman gets rel
headed she goes after the divorce her
self.
| Reuorts from Berlin state that the
Germans are losing heavily as result
| of their war on the natives of German
Southwest Africa. 1t is said that two
thirds of the officers and one-third OF
the men on duty in that country have
been killed or wounded or are SICK.
| The telephone was. used a Few Gays
ago for the first time N the history
the Roman Catholic church by its SUI
preme pontiff, at the vatican, when
Pope Plus Y teIephoned to Venice,
three hundred and fifty miles away,
and talked with Monsignor Cavallari.
whom he had just appointed patriarch
of that see. the office formerly occu-
pied by the Holy Father himself.
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The trolley cars being charged up
with being productive of appendicitis.
This is an argument the opposition
/ to the interurban appears to have
Overlooked.
| DR.. Edmond Klamke, a practising
physician and surgeon of Iwaco,
Wash, has been appointed by the
Russian government to a position in
the hospital service at the front. He
lis OF Danish birth, and received his
medical education in Copenhagen. He
has a strain of Russian blood in his
Veins
/ John Stonebrunner, living near
Springfield, o., uncovered gold coins
Valued at about $4,000 at depth OF
three feet in the earth. Stonebrunner
claims to have dreamed that the coins
lwere in the ground and digging found
them. Their face value Is something
like 81 500, but their age is such that
they are worth much more. The coins
Iare supposed to have been buried about
| the year 1745, by French traders.
Stonebrunner ought to get out dream
book.
/ The ranches OF Colorado June 1,
1880, numbered 24.700 and were valued
lat s106,344.03 OF this amount sl6.-
6o2,512, or Is per cent, represents the
value of buildings, and s90,341,523. or
lS5 per cent, the value of land and inn
Iprovements other than buildings. On
the same date the value of ranch
implements and machinery was s4.746,
T65, and OF live stock, $49,954,311.
REPRESENTATIVES added to that of ranches,
give s161.o45,ll1, the total value OF
farm property"
/ 1t is reported that the trunk of :,
large tree has been encountered at q
depth OF 1000 feet by oil drillers at
Crockett, Texas. Large pieces of
perfectly reserved bark and wood OF
clear grain have been brought to the
surftce. The wood is of very hard
texture, and the tree is estimated to
ihaye been between two and three feet
lin diameter.
,nwA npINIDNs AND NOTES.