Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-25
luenr an,ua Friday garrh IS 1904

the London Chronicle. But even this
is an immense amount in a country
In which the wages of q skillful artisan
are often not more than three yen =
! week. The Japanese currency system
is decimal. Thus the yen, or the dollar
| is divided tito 10 sen or cents; tbs
/ sen into 10 lin; the rim into 10 mo; the
mo into 10 slu, and the shu finally. in
| to 10 kotsu Government accounts &c
not take note of any value smaller than
a rim, but es Inmates by private trades
men otter descend to mo and shu. which
are incredibly minute fractions of a
! farthing. Nd coin exists however, to
represent these lilipuian sums.
| The British have accomplished in
peace what they have never been able
| to do in war, captured an American
fleet Mr.. Morgan's flyer at a CONSOLE
dation of the ocean steamship lines left
| him short of cash when the squeezing
process began in the stock markets and
the merger has fallen into the hands
| of the British capitalists who held the
best financial hand.
| A notable addition to the broomstick
and the hat pin has been made by the
Oskaloosa woman who drenched a
drunken brule who attempted to break
into her home with ammonia.
| The Lackawanna, Lehigh Valley and
Pennsylvania. railroads have forced
Baer's abdic;tion as king of coal pric-
es. The roads mentioned have issued
circulars off sring the usual discounts
to dealers in spite of Baer's attempt
ed dictatorship. Baer attempted to re-
coup the cost of the coal strike by
keeping up the price during the spring
ana summer.
japanese woman, when abandoned
by her lover, takes a peculiar and pic
turesque revenge. When she no longer
has any doubt as to his faithlessness
she gets UP in the middle of the night
and put on a pleasing dress and wood
she carries three lighted candles, and
suSpened TO her neck hangs a small
mirror. She takes in her left hand
straw effigy of the faithless one, and
in her right hammer and nails. Walk
ing gravely to the sanctuary she sell
the effigy securely to the trunk She
then prays for the death of the traitor.
vowing that If her wish is granted she
will take out the nails which trouble her
god since they are fastened to sacred
tree. Night after night she comes to
the tree adding one or two nails and re-
peating her prayers, persuaded that the
god will not hesitate to sacrifice the
man to save the tree.
Larry sent Maude garter snake
in alcohol for a joke.
Harry-What did she do?
Larry-Oh. she returned it in the
same spirit in which it was sent.-Prin-
ceton Tiger.
Captain Hobson's prospects of cleo
ton to congress from the Sixth Ala
bama district over Congressman Bank
head are said to be excellent. He has
made the campaign with the nerve and
snap that distinguished him in the
navy, controlled his tendencies toward
OSCILLATION in public and the experts are
prophesying his success. His oppon-
emit is an confederate and has been
extremely popular in the district.
There's significant difference be-
tween the Russians and the japanese"
whats that?"
"Well the Russians look white and
act yellow, while the japanese look yel-
low and act white Life.
Rev. Z. A. Schnell, who has obtained
judgment aginst DR.. Parkhurst for
$4,000 for libel, doubtless feels that
reform is fertile field. What DR..
Parkhurst thinks, would. IL put into
words, furnish good material for
church trial.