Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-03
CURRENT EVENTS.
He laughs best who waits INIT, bn
gets out of the woods,

He laughs best who waits until ho
gets out of ths woods.
No fewer than 1,173 persons have
been buried in Westminster Abbey.
General Fitzhugh Lee was forthwith
in class of fcrty-nine at West Point.
The highest waterfall in the world ia
Cholocl1 cascade at Yosemite, Cal
which is 1855 feet Nigh, or just half a
mile.
A Chicago debating society recently
discussed this question: (Which Is
the happicst day of a mans life; the
day he is married, or the day he is
divorced?'
Medical science has made little
progress in Turkey. Missionaries have
frequently found people, i'll from small
| poN, neglected, in order that the divine
will should have it's own way.
The swiftest elevator in the world is
at the Oneida mine, in Amador county.
Cal. The ascent of 1900 feet was
| lately made in twenty seconds. This
was at the speed of a mile in seventy
seconds.
A clergyman who recently led divine
services in the Jail at Gladstone, Aus
tralia, unrehectingly gave out this
hymn to the worshiping prisoners:
We'll never leave this safe abode, a
| refuge in the time of storm"
The city tax on property in Guaya-
quill is only three-tenths of one per
cent, but the fire insurance rates are
about seven per cent. 10 insure a So
600 house costs $3.50 year. The city
tax on the same house is only SIS.
An impressive dream put Thomas
Brophy of Dering, Me-, upon the track
Of a diamond which he had lost of a
ring. He dreamed that he saw it in
the folds of a rug in his house. He ex-
| amined the rug the next morning, and
found the gem.
Among queer kinds of women is the
woman who always wants to talk about
what she was doing this time last year.
A man can never please his neigh
bors: they always think either that he
stays at home too much or doesn't stay
at home enough.
Forty-one years ago, the Rev. Edward
Allen, of Tivcrton, England, was given
up by the doctors, who said he had an
incurable disease of the heart. lie was
then sixty years of age. He lived to
sec each of the doctors pass away: and
attended their funerals. He has just
died at the age of one hundred and
| one.
The caving in of a sand-bank in Long
Island City led to a startling tableau.
A thirtecn-year-old boy was buried
under the sand, and Fred BercSs. with
several other men, tried to rescue the
lad When the lifcless body was
found, Mr.. Bcress was shocked " the
discovery that it was that of his own
son.
For 3S5 years the rulers of Denmark
have been alternately a Frederick and
a Christian. This is the law, that a
King Frederick must be succeeded by
a King Christian, and then comes q
4 King Frederick again. In view Of
this law, every Danish prince has among
his other names both Frederick and
Christian.
The big guns of our modern battle
ships are dangerous to those who use
them. In the war between the Chinese
and the Japanese, in 1894. Commander
Philo McGilfin, of the Chinese vessel
Chen Yucn, had both Of his car-drums
rent by the conclusion of his own guns.
at the battle Of Yalu. Several Of his
crew were similarly permanently in !
jurcd. ~
Amismated couple recently rcturnt !
to Oxford, Mich, from California
where they had spent tho winter Az
neighbor asked the wife if she had
heard an earthquake while there
She answered: eyes, Ihear<i one, and
rather enjoyed it; for it was the first
thing happened since John and I were
married that he did not think was to
blame for!''
A deaf and dumb couple were 1ual1ing
love in lighted parlor in Cincinnati,
and the Young man had begun to eX-
press a marriage proposal in the sign
language. when the maiden suddenly
arose and turned off the gas. Now as
he could not continue his proposal in
the dark, he is pcrplcxed to know if
she shut off the gas to encourage him,
or to force him to drop the subject.
There is more than mere lip patriot
ism displayed by John Wanamalier.
who announces that the salaries OF
such of his employees as are called into
the military or naval service will be
paid in full during the term of such
service. An insurance OF $1,000 will
also be paid to the legal representative
of each of his employees who dies
while engaged in defending his country.
A clergyman from HaclSensacl1. NJ,
stopped at a New York hotel for din.
ncr, and with it he drank three small
glasses OF claret The wine must have
been very exhilerating, for he became
so uproariously jolly under it's influence
that he awoke the next morning in
police cell. Ills congregation has dis
missed him, and tins last blow has
made him VOW that hereafter his
strongest beverage will be weak tea.