Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-13

afternoon he walked up Pennsylvania
avenue with some friends fro the
west. AS they were passing hat
store one of his friends, thinking to
have some fund with Tindall, said:
Nov, here is hat store. In Wash
| ington everybody must wear high
hat. Let's all go in and buy silk hats,
so we can be in the game right.
What. shouted Tindall, as he star
ted to gallop up the street, me buy
silk hat when my wife is out home
making soap? No, street"
Press dispatches Saturday failed to
locate Kuropatkins army The posi-
BILE explanation is that the army has
been 'up in the air. ever since the
Japs broke it's line at Mukden.
| The New York Tribune briefly an
nounces that Mr. Wfftelaw Reid, hav-
ing taken office abroad under the gov
eminent, retires from the editorship
|
|
| OF forty-eight pupils in one room in
| a Connecticut high school room, nine
teen girls and twenty boys were found
| to be using cigarets. Such condition
quite justifies the Rev. II. H. Kelsey,
of Hartford, in saying that "the use
of cigarets by minors is becoming APP
palling' The teacher in his particu-
| lar high school said that the cigaret
smokers were at least 10 per cent low
| err than their non smoking classmates
i'm scholarship, and that they were
untrustworthy, untruthful and deceit
full. Their smoking had untitled them
physically and mentally for sschool
work.
| A Scott county farmer was recently
| attacked in his farm yard and badly
| torn by hog. 1t is supposed he had
| cast some of those Mississippi pearls
before the animal.
| A buzz-a whirr-
|. A cloud Of dust
A Wild blood curdling yell
A CHASTITY object flashing by
Then silence-and a smell!
| Harvard Lampoon.
Mr.. Henthorn's ideas for a woman
| colony in Kansas may not be SO gro
tesuue as they sound. E. M. Henthorn
| is a land owner and a politician in
Grant county, Kansas, and he proposes
to bring in widows and single women
| from other parts of the country and in
duce them to take claims in his coun-
ty, which at present has population
of about only 400. There are many
Young ranchmen in the neighborhood
and Mr.. Henthorn believes others
would come and settle in the county
If It were generally known that there
was colony of nice, unattached Woh-
en- residing there. Mr.. Henthorn's per-
suasions have borne fruit in so tar as
thirtv-eight women of Garden City
Kansas. are concerned. They have
agreed to try this plan, and this spring
will settle near Ulysses, the county
seat. AS soon as they nave found nus
hands. other women will succeed them.
Inez Gates. the daughter of the keep
err of a small store in the suburbs OF
Rockford, ILL.,, has deposited IN the
Rockford National bank 11.70O pennies
iust to start savings account. Her
father has been turning over to ms
daughter each night all the pennies ne
had taken in, and the daughter had
kept them in a soap box. When she
made the deposit the pennies weighed
seventy pounds.
Standard time has been adopted by
Japan, by European residents in emma
and by the telegraphs and railways Oh
that country. Toxic is about fourteen
hours ahead of New York. For ln-
stance a naval battle opened in Jap
anese waters Monday forenoon would
he going on while it was still Sunday
afternoon in New York. Operations IN
Manchuria would come under Asian
coast time. which is thirteen hours
ia ster than New York. The orientals
on the other bend of the world, are al
ways half a day ahead of us chronol-
ogically. The line where time
changes" where a ship loses day
going west and gains one going east, is
drawn irregularly down the Pacific
coast. east of New Zealand, where the
time is nineteen and half hours faster
than San Francfsco's.
Aunt Nancy-Don't say she dropped
the locket in her bosom; that isn't
modest. Say she dropped it in her
neck.
LUCY see; and instead of saying
that the man unbosomed himself, l
must say he unnecked himself. = Bos-
ton Transcript.
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
The Grinnel Herald says 1.-The nom