Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-11
Topics Of the Times

If Admiral Togo takes the advice Of
one &c D-y he will accept no
houses and lots as the first INSTALL
ment on debt of glory.
Senator Gormans decision to never
run for office again may mean much
less than appears on the face of it.
The senator never actually ran for
office He slipped around the back
way and craAled in thru window.
1t seems to be about time the GEMS
TOYS got busy in Color ado.
Examination of the Minnesota man
revealed his possession of two perfect
ly developed stomachs. He is suppos-
ed to be one of those who voted for
Dunn last fall.
Cedar Rapids papers are warning
ware of using water for drinking pur-
poses Mulct law or typhoid?
The ''pton Advertiser tells of n Ce-
7ar county woman who delivered a
load of 1870 chickens and so turkeys
for which she received in cash $17S.65.
This suggests the possibilities in poul-
try raising. If her husband had driv-
en- twenty-five 200 pound hogs to mar
ket on the same day for $176 at the
market price, the object lesson would
have been complete.
The Marengo Republicans solution
of the drink question is to cut off the
profit in the traffic. The most effective
method. however. will be found in
cutting out the BOOZE
The Cedar Rapids Gazette. which
passed it's twenty second milestone
Monday says 1t seems but yesterday
since 1t was twenty one. 1t Is not ma
king collections on that basis, however.
What happened to Rollignan?"
'He drowned
"An couldn't he swim.?"
HE did for nine hours; but he was
a union man"-Yonkers Statesman.
Archbishop Ireland doesn't mind
telling a joke on himself. The arch
bishop always dresses so unostentat-
iously that no one could guess his epis-
copal rank from his street garb. Trav-
cling one day in a rural district he met
a good natured woman in the car who.
after some general conversation, asked
him:
you're priest, father, aren't your"
The Buffalo Commercial relates that
in bantering mood the archbishop
thought he'd try a bubble to put her
at her ease, so he answered:
mo, my good woman, I'm no longer
priest"
The woman gave him a plying
glance Then she said, soothing,
"Oh, the Lord help us. father! 1t
wasn't the drink, I hope?"
The horror of the statement that the
Prince OF Wales has nineteen pianos is
modified by the knowledge that he
hasn't the girls to go with them.
A novel way has been discovered in
Denmark for raising money for a
hospital. The Danish government is
sued special stamp, worth half a cent
which the public was requested to buy
and paste on letters and parcels With
in a short time more than 100000
,,1,, ,.;t CT,
sold.
The Norman custom Of sealing wiz
es to dead men is no new thing. There
have been thousands of women mar
ried to dead ones ever since mar
rage became an institution.
1t is believed, according The Indian
apolis News, that it will not be very
long before adequate steps are taken
to harness some of the practically UNI
limited tidewater power of the Bay
of Fundy and of the flats and low
lands that mark the estuaries of the
streams that flow into the bay. On
the Minas Basin n head of from thirty
| five to forty feet would be available.
This. sustained by the limitless volume
of ocean water, replenishing the basins
every twelve hours, would afford an
aggregate power far beyond the ut
most capacity of Niagara. This is only
one instance of the power of the Bay
of Fundy that now goes to waste. AT
Moncton the tide rises to a height OF
1 thirty feet, beginning with the famous
rushing bore" SIX feet in height. This
power could be utilized. and the har-
Dor improved, without destroying the
destinations of the bore"