Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-09-11
NEWSY TRIFLES.

The fruit season for Georgia growers
!! has been one Of the most successful
ever known.
Sixteen out Of the eighteen assembly
districts Of San Francisco have woman
suffrage clubs.
The cost of London four-wheeled
cab is from $3.50 to $4OO, that of ham
som about $3.50.
In Russia the principals in duel
partake of breakfast together before
going out to fight.
A Towering plant during its life is
said to abstract from the soil 200 times
its own weight in water.
1t Is proposed to celebrate the 4OOth
anniversary of the discovery OF Natal
by an exhibition next year.
English radicals are asking for the
appointment of public defenders to OPP
pose the public prosecutors.
A forty -four-year-o chancery case
has just been decided in England, and
there was little money left for the
contestants.
The piles of old London bridge, driv-
en- 800 years before, were found to be
in good condition when the new bridge
was erected.
The city attorney of Helena, Mont,
warns the council that the indebted
ness Is over the limit and future con-
tracts will be illegal.
New Orleans man who rides home
on street car is met every evening
by pet cat, which waits for him at his
usual place of alighting.
In Albania the men wear petticoats
and the women trousers. The women
do all the work and the husbands at
tend to nothing in particular.
India rubber has been generally con-
sidered absolutely watertight, but ex-
periments with hermetically sealed
rubber bottle of water show that it is
not.
1t is strange fact that the right
hand, which is more sensitive to the
touch than the left, is less sensitive
than the latter to the effect Of heat or
cold.
A couple in New York who have
lived happily together for thirty-f1ve
years refuse, although starving, to go
to the poorhouse, because they would
be separated
An electric road will be built by San
Francisco men from that city to San
Jose, so as to take in towns not on the
railroad. Stanford University will be
~, III q oontra of tho line
In French village near Clermont an
old woman has been almost stoned to
death by peasants, who declared that
she was witch with an evil eye, and
had caused the death of several cows.
A Pekin newspaper started last May
under the name of the KlauSchu-
Tschu-C Chu-Pao, and edited by Chi
Zung, is said to be publishing Ii
Hung Chang's notes Of travel in Eu-
rope.
Books bound in the skin of departeH
friends are said by the London Figaro
to be the fashion now in Paris. SO are
cigarette cases, tobacco pouches, pock-
etbooks and prayer books made of the
skin of notorious criminals.
Lady GeOrglana Grey, aunt OF Earl
Grey, is nearly 100 years of age, but
though she is not very brisk upon her
legs, manages to keep informed on
politics and the talk of the day by hay
ing guests to dinner almost every
night.
A pair Of ancient soldiers boots.
found in cupboard of very old
building in Surrey, England, weighed
about ten pounds each being made OF
the thickest hide, lined and padded,
with very thick soles and large row.
elIed spurs, attached by steel chains.
Dr. Carl Peters, the explorer, Is said
to have left Germany for good and to
have left directions to have all his af-
fairs there wound up, since the SEM
tence of Herr Schroeder, the east Afri-
can administrator, to fifteen years i'm
prisonment at hard labor for brutality
to the natives.