Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-15
Topics Of the Times
His wife made him

as l looked at him.
"Why?"
Because he looked it. She used to
work in a department store on mis-
tits"-Baltimore American
During 1907 more than 5000 per-
sons were killed and 1926 were in
iured by the railroads. What between
the railroads, foot ball, automobiles
and Fourth of July, 1t looks as tho
fears of the countrys over-populatioii
were not well founded
The Kansas City man who was
fined $500 for hugging a girl on the
street must have thought 1t was
waist of money.
1t may be news to some folks to
know that Illinois ranks at least third,
and perhaps second in the production
of petroleum for 1907. The state pro-
duced 25,oOo.o0O barrels during the
twelve months.
Twenty thousand people of Wash
ington, d. c., are suffering with
grippe. Without doubt the present
would be an inopportune time for leg
islators to take any action for the pur-
pose of restricting the sale of whisky
in the District of Columbia.
Following experiments made with
animals, New York surgeon has de-
clared that the substitution of the
healthy organs of the lower animals
for the diseased parts of the human
body will be made possible" 1t would
seem that already too many men are
bull headed, pig headed, or are afflict-
ed with that mental density charac-
terized as mullet headed. The possi-
bilities this new surgery opens up are
truly marvellous.
An enterprising congressman has
been doing some figuring on the sub
ject of American girls marrying for
titles, and has found that in a dozen
years SSOV,OVV,VVV VI SOou SOiAA VI SAAS
realm has been transported. He there
fore introduces bill levying a tax of
% per cent on all dowries, gifts, settle
ments or advances of property made
on consideration or in contemplation
of marriage by citizens or subjects of
this country. The gentleman from
Illinois is timely in his measure, in
view of leap year, and the foreign di-
vorce courts have proved that there is
no gain by these marriages, either for
the country or the girl The country
loses the money; the girl the happi-
ness Better be plain Mrs. U. S. A.
than Countess de Bum-Bum."
The Louisville, KY, youth who was
the victim of hazers at an Indiana
school two years ago, has just died
in Texas of pulmonary tuberculosis.
At the time his college friends played
such good joke" on him he stood six
feet, two inches; played on the foot
ball team, and was an all-around ath-
lele. Tied with his back to a cold
tombstone all, night, he contracted
pneumonia, and from that went into
consumption. 1t is unfortunate that
his dying request, and one that his
parents will respect, was that no ac-
ton be taken against those responsible
for his death.
Birdie Thompson taught the Goose
neck school in McDonough county, IL
linois. Birdie got tired of teaching the
young idea how to shoot, and decided
on a kindergarten Of her own. She
drew a picture on the blackboard of
bird with wings outstretched in
flight. The directors rightfully jumped
at the conclusion that she had eloped.
Birdie is altogether too fly" name
for a sedate schoolma'am.
What Is to boone of the vaudeville
artist and the Sunday supplement car
icaturist If the requests of the Du-
buque Germans and the New York
Hibernians are to be respected? For
tunately Buster Brown is still avail
able, and Tige remains a willing vic
tim.
Do you suppose that the Thaw in
New York has anything to do with the
mild winter in Iowa?
A Council Bluffs woman has mar
lied her fourteenth husband and elev-
an of the number are still living. She
certainly would have been unlucky to
stop with thirteen.
Too much liquor has brought deep
remorse to a veteran Chicago news
paper man in Omaha, and grief, to his
associates who have admired him for
his worth and brains. A revolver,
which he never carried; drink.
which he had not been known to take
for two years, combined to make him
murder by shooting down
peace officer. 1t is the, same old story