Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-01

York law seems to work like charm.
Sixty days should cool off the most
persistent speed maniac.
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BY gaining control of the Sicily wells
The Union Sulphur Company has es-
tablished a worlds monopoly. some
thing it has long been itching for.
Rudyard Kipling is not the first TO
write editorials in rhyme. The swest
singer of the Hancock Herald had the
habit long ago. Iowa leads.
President Shea has been indicted
again. He seems to be of the one boss
variety that can't be broken down and
that requires hundred years to wear
out.
Having attended the reunion at
church and Sunday school Mr.. Rookie
Teller will now get ready for the
subpoena server.
Agricultural scientists announce the
discovery of a variety of cotton i'm
mune from the boil weevil. 1t is now
up to some other scientist to find i
new weevil.
SO much local interest has been
the Canada thistle that older residents
recall a time when a considerable
patch of the pest appeared on ground
in front of the lot where the T.-R. is
now located. A. n French as super
visor expended about $50 in having
them dug out and destroyed. 1t may
be of interest and value to state while
on the subject. that a government bui-
letin recommends mixture for their
destruction prepared by mixing one
part of carbolic acid with 100 parts of
water.
Some of the older and more old fash
toned readers of the Sioux City Jour-
nal may possibly object to the use OF
the Ten Commandments as the foun-
dation for political cartoon. Uncle
George might have waited until after
the convention when litte blasphemy
on his part might be considered ex-
cusable
There's sewer called Madame Sus-
saud,
Slow sewers she shows how to sew.
Says she: IF, So-and-So,
You sew so you'll sew slow;
So you'll only sew $3.50. Sew sol"
Westminster Gazette.
BY a somewhat primitive system the
town OF Thompson Falls, Mont, man
rooms at a temperature of SIS degrees.
Wells are covered at the top and large
pipes tap the current of cold air few
feet below the surface of the ground,
conveying it to different rooms in near
by buildings.
DR.. Lyman Abbott in Porto Rican
letter in Outlook, says:
.The moral standards of the poorer
classes appear to be advancing. Mar
riage is coming into vogue, and the
habit of living together as man AMI
wife without a previous ceremonial APP
pears to be going out of fashion. The
American Roman Catholic Archbishop,
as the result of recent mission, per-.
formed upward of five hundred we'd
ding ceremonies, mostly for couples
who had previously lived together
without marriage. The poverty OF the
people may be imagined from single
significant incident. 1t is custom in
Porto Rico for the bridge groom, at
certain point in the ceremony, to pour
into the open hand of the bride few
cents, in value about a quarter of a
dollar, l believe, as a symbolical ex-
preston of with all my worldly goods
/ thee endow" These peasants had no
money for this symbol. They managed
among them to scrape up little less
than the customary amount; each
bride, the ceremony ended, passed thu
coins to the next bridegroom; the
whole five hundred were married with
the one quarter of dollar; and at the
end the Gems were HdillSo Lo WY
archbishop as his sole wedding fee.
Twenty-Five cents as the wedding fee
for five hundred marriages l rather
think breaks the record
The Japanese have added new
feature to horse racing. On May Il a
geisha girl rode mare mile in l
minute and so seconds. The Geisha
girls are light in weight, and, it is
said. will make good horsewomen. Jap
anese men are such VIGOROUSLY bad
riders that the girls may displace the
boys as jockeys.
At the bureau of standards in WASH
ington there is exhibited a pendulum
instrument intended to record the
slightest tits and pulsations of the
earth. 1t is claimed for this instru-
ment that it renders observable tilt
of less than one three-hundreth of a
second of arc. In other words, II a
plane surface were tipped up only SO
little that the rise would amount to 4
single inch in a thousand miles, this
instrument would reveal the fitting.