Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-20
Topics Of the Times

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The report that Charles NJ. Schwab
has been asked to supervise the build
ing of big Russian shipyard suggests
that Russia is getting ready to syndi-
cate it's former eastern fleet
The Cedar Rapids Republican Is un-
fortunate in its discoveries. One Of
these which made Baskerville the
birthplace of the word blizzard" has
been exploded and the other that made
Jim Trewin the plumed knight of rail-
way reform didn't need exploding.
I'm going to endow one Of the uni
versities," said the going
to establish a CHAIR"
CHAR of what?" asked his friend.
We'll, l don't what what you'd call
it for short, but It's a chair that's bad
ly needed chair to teach graduates
how to get job.'-Brooklyn Life.
Japan pays the mikado an annual
salary of 100000 and he seems to
come nearer earning it than some
people do $40 a week.
The Colorado man who voted all the
forenoon at dollar a vote and made
go much money that his employers cut
him down SO per cent in the afternoon
might find a wider field for his talent
in Indiana if Governor Durbin's price
list is authentic.
The stage Irishwoman has been ban
ished from Sugar Creek township in
Cedar county without appeal to in
junction proceedings. At lyceuln in
a country school house one Of the char
acters represented an Irish woman to
great disgust of a lady of Hibelnian
extraction among the spectators, and
who, stung at last beyond endurance,
rose and put the libel on Milesian wo-
manhood out of business there and
then. Then the waters of Sugar Creek
then sour and the justice courts have
been busy ever since pouring oil on its
troubled waters.
The Berlin press announces cam
paign against British industries, whose
processes it denounces with great We
hemence. 1t appears, according to
those German papers, that the great
English manufacturers keep in Ger
many numerous agents having nc 9TH
err mission, but that Of copying tho new
models produced by German factories
and procuring the secrets Of their fab
rication. Lately thirty members Of the
Engineers Institute of London visited
Berlin, and were received by the direc-
tors of different mills and factories.
Taking advantage of the occasions
when the directors remained behind
explaining matters to some of their
guests, some English engineers, 1t is
charged, provided with pocket instru-
ments, or kodaks, took photographs OF
certain objects, in the next hall, and
also took notes in their memorandum
books. Numerous German manufac-
turers are writing to the newspapers,
encouraging them in their campaign.
and they declare that hereafter they
will never admit British visitors to
their establishments.
The great Halifax dockyard, estab-
lished one hundred and fifty years ago,
is to be abandoned by the British adj
miralty. It's closing with only weeks
notice threw tire hundred men out OF
employment The chief reasons for the
closing were the expense, Its pay roll
amounting to $4,000 year, and the
fact that, in the opinion of the admir-
atty board, it's maintenance WAS no
longer necessary in the new scheme Of
imperial defence.
Difficult, Indeed.-Old Friend: rs
your part very difficult to play?'
Transformer: ''Well, rather! I'm liv-
ing on one meal a day and playing the
role Of a man with the gout!"-De-
troit Free Press.
When the beef Investigation has
been finished an analysis of liverwurst
might properly be in order.
Why She Missed It.-Mrs. Halter
son: Il didn't see you at the lecture
on the Simple Life"
Mrs. Catterson: why, no; had no
idea 1t was going to be such swell
affair."-Brooklyn Life.
.
In After Years.-Old Fogey Father:
my father never supplied ME with
money to squander on fast horses.
theater parties, late dinners and the
like
Up-to-date Son: "oh. that's all right,
dad You must remember that come
of a more aristocratic family than you
did"-Chicago News.