Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-15
Observation-Disclosures.
Topics Of the Times


II is an III Wlllu IIlit DioWS no SOoi.
The report that "A pookethook was car
ried twcnty-three miles by the recent
disastrous cyclone shows how far it is
| possible to make money go In Okla
homa.
Don't fail to begin with the first
| number of the series of Sherlock
Hollnes stories to be published i'm
nlediately in the Times Republican, Sir
| Conan Doyle has resurrected the most
absorbingly interesting detective liz
| fiction and the T.-R. has secured the
right to publish his further adventures.
! Japanese statesmen evidently arc
not obliged to figure on the parochial
school vote. The Japanese have adop-
ted a compulsory system of national
education "A boy and girl must attend
school as soon as they attain the age
| of 6, and remain there until the age OF
| IA. The first four years they teach
them the Japanese and Chinese Ian
gunges, and the latter four years they
| add English; when boy and girl are
graduated from the Japanese common
| schools they can read and speak Eng
lsh.
BY breeding and feeding his fowls in
a special way, a chemist In Wiesbaden,
Germany, has been able so to increase
the natural quantity of iron in eggs
that they are medical and useful for
the cure of various diseases. Perhaps
the prescription of the future may read
more like menu card than Latin
heroglyphic or Chinese puzzle, and
call for omelet souffle instead Of calo-
mel.
The state of education in Russia may
be Judged from the fact that there Is
only one village school for every l2,OoJ
persons.
"The senatorial fight between Dolli-
yer and Cummins was one OF the
quickest ever fought in Iowa, says the
vinton Eagle THE newspapers oil the
Tenth district settled It,"
Sneers OF this kind from one state
officer toward another are unbecoming
to full grown men. The senatorial
fight" was begun malciously by the
Des Moines Capital and never got be-
yond it's columns No one knows this
better than the state printer.
only a tri1e more than half of the
wheat crop of the country grows west
of the Mississippi. Illinois. Indiana
and Ohio still produce SO0O0,OO0 bush
els which is more than any far west
ern state and over one eighth OF the
whole crop. Virginia, Kentucky, Ten
nessee and North Carolina, raise 25,-
OoO, 900 bushels. Little Delaware raises
more than all New England. eNew
York produces about as much as Wis
consin, and Maryland more than eth
er. Texas doubles New York's pro-
duct, and Pennsylvania trebles It,
Minneapolis is the flour milling center
of the country and can grind $4,000
barrels day, New York making
rather poor second with $4,000 barrels.
Minnesota is the banner state for pro-
duction, raising two hundred times the
present crop of Vermont, tho the lat
ter state used, and not SO long ago. to
be the granary of New York City, and
high up among the states in Its annual
crop returns. Rochester, formerly CALL
ed the flour city, and the principal
milling center of the country, hardly
grinds enough now to make paste for
it's billposters. BY these tokens the
mutations of the business are shown,
and 1t is in no wise likely that they
are yet over with.
No Choice-Ted-Do you think that
old millionaire will do any good with
his money?
Ned-Hell have to. He has six
Bits.
Judge Tucker, of the criminal court
of Boston, looks like a countryman.
One day recently he was walking
along the street carrying a faded cot
ton umbrella, when a bunco steerer
stepped up to him and claimed ac-
QudllldIlCe. OOll'l SCSHl "
Der you said the judge. Upon being
urged to refresh his memory, the judge
seeing thru the little game, calmly
said: WELL my friend, have sent
SO many of you fellows to Jail can't
remember you all, you know"
"There's Just one thing I wanted to
say to you," began Mrs. Acid to her
better half
Only one, Mria?" queried he, solicit
tously. Amt you feeling well?"-Tit-
Bits.
Mrs. Hi Flyre-They say that Mrs.
AL de Mustard's beautiful new house is
simply crowded with Murillos and
Telasquezes.
Mrs Justin de Bunch-Mercy! Has
she tried pouring gasoline in the cracks
and fumigating with formaldehyde? p
Cleveland Leader.
Congressman Livingston of Georgia,
tells this story of his boy, George.
"One day said to him. Mamma says
you've been very naughty today. sir;