Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-05
Topics Of the Times

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An automatic typewriter has been
invented that turns out two thousand
words a minute. This is about the gait
she strikes when her young man calls
during business hours.
Well, is the federal government to
! get back that 1850 paid Mr.. Rookie
teller for witness fees, or not?
II Senator Allison aspired to a place
on the federal supreme court, where
wisdom is Of more value than agrees
sive force, he would fnd that the age
limit had been passed ut Is years
/. The senate is about the only place
open to men Of so. except the revered
seat of honor at the head of their own
fanny table.
No, state has more composite pop-
ulation than have the two territories
that will make the state Of Oklahoma.
/ Figures show that considerably more
than one third the inhabitants are naa-
tives of other states, and If the In
dams and half breeds are excluded, the
native born will be less than one-half
{ the whole number. That is true OIL
very few states, if of any of them. 1t
is due, of course. to the manner in
which the two territories, especially
| Oklahoma, were settled. What is more
! remarkable, each Of twenty states has
sent more than 1000 Of its. native sons
/ to oklahoma, while one other, Mime
sofa. Is represented by more, than 1000.
Texas leads with nearly 100000. then
come, in the order named, Missouri.
Kansas, Arkansas. Illinois, Tennessee,
Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio Ala
Iibama. Mississippi, Georgia, Nebraska,
tlPennsylvania, Virginia, New York
Louisiana, wisconsin, Michigan and
,Minneota. Every outhern tate except
Fslorida has contributed as much as
1000. The northern, states are almost
as we'll represented and the east and
| west have contributed somewhat. Ok
lahoma will be conglomerate of the
other states of the Union.
1t rained on the Labor parade in
New York. To paraphrase, the rain
fell on the fair and the unfair alike. 4
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Lady customer-Whar, does this
parrot say?
| BoyACurse for the lady. Poll. Life.
Il It is nip and tuck with the Allison
boom and the Iowa corn crop as to
| which will make the most rapid growth
these days-Keokuk Gate City.
But at present. indications are for
an early frost, aren't they?
If 1t can not come to an agreement
on methods tof killing in war; The
Hague conference might formulate a
set of rules for chaffeurs
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1! In seven months ending with July,
l$1,S27, 900 worth of automobiles and
parts were imported, against $2,323,S77
the year before.
Frank Shuman, a Philadelphia
chemist, thinks he has solved the old
problem of converting the suns heat
| into power. He has constructed an
apparatus consisting of wooden box
60x8O feet sunk into the ground. This
is covered with a double top of ordi-
nary dollhouse glass, with a one-inch
air space between the layers. This
Espace is filled with coiled iron pipes
| painted black. These pipes contain
ether and are connected with a small
upright engine. The ether, being con-
verified to vapor, passes thru the engine,
developing three and one1half horse
| power, thence into condenser and
i back again to the hot box. No fuel is
used, the liquid being converted into
vapor by the heat of the sum-
The church papers are discussing
again the old subject of whether indf-
vidual judgment in the matter of
1 amusements should be ruled by the
church, stimulated by the stand taken
! by Bishop Andrews in a recent article
| for the New York Methodist Review.
He says the subject of amusements is
scarcely touched in the New Testa-
! ment, and that the Christian must
| find duty by the rules of general con-
| sequences" and by the fitness Of an
action to advance Righteousness in the
I individual and society. He doubts