Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-09
Topics Of the Times

| Don't the Massachusetts women who
are advocating the chloroforming Of
bachelors realize that while there is
| life there is hope?
The mail subsidy was killed by talk
ing, but who can hope to dodge the an
nual Easter female subsidy by mer,
talk?
Little Willie, tired Of play,
Pushed sister in the we'll one day:
Said mother. as she drew the water
"'Tis difficult to raise daughter"
-Harper's Weekly.
The supreme court of the United
States guessed right when it denied
the American flag to the advertising
man.
Mr.. Harriman's proposition to the
president to appoint him special adj
wiser to tell him what to do inclines
one to the belief that Emperor Will
Jams idea Of lese majesty isn't all
wrong.
Senator William. Pinkney Whyte, of
Maryland, is announcing that under
no circumstances will he be a candi-
date for the term beginning March,
1909, said: II think the state ought to
be represented in the senate by man
younger than "a years" Senator Pet
tus would put the age limit nearer 100.
hut ii would seem that Senator Whyte's
limit Of "a is sufficiently conservative.
Telephone operators in France must
respond to a call with the words Il
listen" Sure they do, but who put a
Frenchman would insist they confess
it a thousand times a day.
General Grosvenor, retiring con-
gresham from Ohio, was presented
silver service of 900 pieces. 1t has
been limited that a large number of his
former constituents would consider
thirty pieces more historically consist
ent.
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Under the law of compensation, that
fisherman who walked thirty miles
across Lake Michigan on the ice to get
married is likely to soon find himself
kneedeep in hot water.
1t was no violation of the pure food
laws to give Mr.. Tobin something just
as good"
First Chauffeur There's one thing
I hate to run over, and that's a baby.
Second Chauffeur-"So do I; them
nursing bottles raise Cain with tires
Puck.
Gifts Of silver seemed, to be the or
der of the day, so far as retiring con-
gressmen were concerned. Members
of the, house district committee pre-
scented Chairman Babcock with a beau
.tiful silver loving cup, suitably en-
grayed. Congressman Lacey also re-
ceived a silver souvenir. With the LEM
ons handed out last election, and a lit
Cl6 ice, 3COUSItSSlOlldA lCIAA Cl1lOhI Ia LILY
summer time may not be wholly with
out its joys.
It is somewhat difficult for an Amer
lean physician to open practice IN
Peru. Before the doctor can be admit
ted he must take an examination, IN
Spanish. before a board in the useual
medical and surgical subjects. The fee
for this examination is $500 in gold, be-
ing the same fee as that paid by a
medical student during his seven years
course of instruction in the national
colleges. The license, when obtained,
is good for practice in Ecuador, BOLIVIA
and Spain.
whats all this crying about, my
little man 2"
81 have just-lost-my-fve ents!"
tcome. come-stop crying! Here's
five cents for you. But how did you
happen to lose your money!"
II - lost - it - play-play-play
ing s.'-Fliegende Blaetter.
Those ten figures spent by congress
will figure again in democratic ex-
postulation next year.
The socialist party is greatly In
debted to Messrs Hartman, Rockfel-
Ter ct al.
When the United States engineering
corps gets hold of the canal the coun-
try will feel better satisfied.
Denatured alcohol is so popular in
Germany that the potato production in
that country last year were up to l.
T5,579,000 bushels.
Life is the mirror of king and slave;
IT'S just what we are and do;
Then give to the world the best you
have,
And the best will come back to you"
A Philadelphia physician warns the
public against Sitting with one leg
crossed over the other.
This apparently harmless habit" he
says, sis likely to cause sciatica. lame
ness, chronic numbness, ascending