Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-31
: Topics Of the Times

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Mr.. Perkins says Elkins is not with
| Dolliver or rate regulation. stun Ell
kins is for Mr.. Perkins for governor
| Japanese commercial morals seem
| to equal some other phases of Japan
csc morality.
| If we destroy Niagara Falls where is
the man in barrel to get action?
go
This proposition to make the public
| printer a cabinet officer is a scheme
to knock wages. Think of a public
printer existing on the beggerly salary
of a cabinet officer.
ming this spring. will get a years gas
for 30 cents. The price will then go
to So cents. After six years the COM
pany holding the lease will be required
to drop the price to so cents. and in
1917 to rs cents. Ten years later 1t rs
proposed that the city operate the
plant itself
Farmers are warned by the agricul-
tura department at Washington to
beware of nitrogen fixing cultures,
which are being put on the market by
a number of big seed companies. Any
one buying these nitrogen fixing cul-
lures to apply to the clover lot or other
! part of the farm will do well to write
to the secretary of agriculture for
circular No. 49," which tells about
some of the frauds which are on the
market.
Here are the figures for single
weeks supply of New York hotel
kitchen: 1000 roasting chickens, 5000
broilers, 5000 SQUAD chickens 500 doz-
en- squads, 500 guinea hens, 75G dozen
sweetbreads, $50 loins of beef, $50 ribs
of beef 1000 racks of lambs, 500 racks
of mutton, 100 spring lambs $500 doz-
en- eggs, 1000 pounds of butter This
for a single week in Fifth avenue
hotel shows that the Greater New York
appetite is matter of serious business
proportions. At another hotel, rep
resentative Broadway establishment
the same wonderful story was told.
'why are you going about with a
lantern and cynical smile p asked
the bystander.
Don't interrupt me-" returned Dio-
genes 81 am the original investigat-
ing communicating Star.
The condition OF Helen Keller, whose
health broke down some time ago. is
much improved, but she is still unable
to do any work. She is living at the
home of her teacher, Mrs. Sullivan
Macy, in Wrentham, Mass.
Mr.. stoplate-Dear me. what time IS
it?
Miss Tersleep-Tt isn't.
Mr.. Stoplate-Eh? I don't
Miss Tersleep-It isn't time at ALL
think 1t must be eternity.-Cleveland
Leader.
Merchants ships worth $50,000,000
will participate in this years British
naval manoeuvres, and the value Of all
the fleets engaged will be $5O0,O00,0 900.
Zones and his, Wife are quarreling
again"
ooh, yes!"
'I thought they buried the Ratchet"
well, SO they did. but the very next
time Mrs. Jones had to chop the
kindling, she dug it up, Puck.
The scarcity Of labor in New Tea.
land is such that the colony has ask
ed it's high commission in London to
find and send out 1000 laborers for
the construction Of new railway in
the North Island. Three years work
is guaranteed, and inducements will be
offered them to remain permanently
There is also great demand for agri-
cultural laborers in Western Australia
Miss Mamie Howling Crane. the
daughter of a former head of the Chey-
ennes, recently sold her party robe
to some curio collectors for $1,000. The
gown was old and moth eaten, but its
value consisted in its decorations, 72s
elk teeth. AS years go by the number
of elk teeth is becoming smaller. AL
most any genuine tooth will sell for
50, while the choice varieties sell for
as high as $50 each. The top price
is usually paid for a tooth that is
turning green with age. An elk of the
male sex produces only two good teeth,
and the robe, therefore, represented 364
elk.