Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-11
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Governor Nardaman. of Mississippi,
has saved another negro from lynch
ing Governor Nardaman,s bite is
much better than his bark.
According to consular reports rom
Germany, the number of accidents on
the railroads of Germany during the
wear 1903. in spite of the increase IN
the number of trains run. was consld-
erably smaller than in previous years.
The casualties We're 40 per cent less
than in 1902. or about 1000. Railroad
officials in Germany are taught to val
lie lives. even at the cast of running
a train behind the schedule.
senator Allison ventures the opinion
that congress will adjourn by May /.
John D. Rockefeller's prediction that
10 600. 900 laborers will be out of work
and burning the Cities in 1907 probaniS
comes from d severe attack OF heart-
burn. II it should prove true RocKe-
Teller could raise the price of Kerosene
for kindling and profit by the Calamity.
4 sss
Market quotations show that Belgian
hares are held at SIPS pair. the price
of a brace of the choicest chickens for
broiling. A few years ago IL was
claimed that these long-legged fellows
were so prolific that they would be-
come in a short time one of the princl-
nal articles of food in this country at
prices which would prove to be ex-
tremely beneficial to people OF moder-
ate means. while the skins would be IN
urgent demand for manufactures OF
various sorts Something has evident
ly gone amiss with the Belgian hare
/ President Cleveland thinks the
i democratic platform should be short
Possibly to match the democratic vote
/ which is likely to be considerably short
this year.
/ He rose at seven. did this sire,
And first he roundly punched the fire;
The breakfast then he kicked about;
He snatched match and put 1t out;
He clinched his teeth on a cigar
And struck gait. and beat car;
He killed an "ad'' for lack OF wit,
He at a mining venture bit;
Ife cut a bore acquaintance dead;
He gouged customer. it's safdi
Blew UP a clerk in his employ.
And sat upon an errand boy;
I. <,fr ri
\ harmless grocer seems. in fact!
Smart Set
There had been a change OF curates
in the parish. and Larry Doolin was
lasked how he liked the new man.
"Middlin'," replied Larry; but he
/ can't come UP to Father Jam IS Twas
he could tell you all about he'll Shure,
TO hear him describin' It. you'd think
he was bred, born and reared there.
sporting Times.
| A Denver dispatch. which very like
lly is greater mutilation of veracity
than the proposed fnutilation the
i correspondent make S the foundation
may get photographs of the face of
man in the greatest agony for repro
Iduetion in realistic painting, Mrs.
Josephine De Voir, an artist of Nor
ristown N. T., has hired a man who
will consent to have his hand mutilated
while the camera acts. This is the
story told by Clark Rudy, of the Wind
sor Hotel. where Mrs. De Voir stopped
while engaged in a search for man
who would undergo agony for the adj
/ vancement of art--and a consideration.
Eudy quotes Mrs. De Voir as saying
that the ordeal will be gone thru with
some time within the next month, and
that the hand is to be crushed by
i locomotive Mrs. De Noir wishes to
use the photographs in obtaining ex-
preston. for an oil painting. Custom
has made return to the classics for
circus Jokes, etc, permissible, but 1t
/ seems little strained when a CORE
spondent digs up the Parhassius story
and springs it as a news item.
why don't you try to drive that
mule without profanity" 1t wouldn't
do any good" answered the canal
boat,nan ut amt fair to the mule to
ask it to start in at it's time O life to
learn whole lot o. polite synonymes."
Washington Star.
In France every carriers and every
market cart, instead of injuring the
highway, improves 1T. Many of the
tires are ten inches wide. In the
] four wheeled vehicles of that country
the rear axle is fourteen inches long
err than the fore. and as a result the
rear wheels run In a line about an inch
outside the level rolled by the front
wheel. After a few loaded wagons
have passed over a road the highway
i locks as il steam roller had been at
work. A national law in Germany
prescribes that wagons heavily loaded
/ must have tires not less than four
inches wide. In Austria the minimum
for similar vehicles is six and half
inches, in Switzerland six inches.
Roland B. Snortum. of this place,
who took the apple and egg cure for
the liquor habit. has gone to drinking