Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-30

Is TOPICS Of THE TIMES ;
There is u growing feeling of fratern-
/ ity toward the ice man.
The thorn must accompany the rose.
southern California. the land OF
/ beautiful sunshine, has just experienced
! TIE severest earthQuale shock IN hel
history.
Further report that the Egyptian
sphinx is crumbling comes from Mr. -.
G. I.ongworth. of the Cairo sphinx. who
brings the warning that that wondrous
marvel of the ancient world IS faplaiN
/ e!ecaying 1t Will not be able long to
Withstand the altering climate of Egypt
cue to the irrigation of recent years. y
few wears ago an hours downfall OF
train once Il year was u novelty IN
rcvpt. The natives regarded it as some
Gre message of reproach from the gods
/ The irrigation and the many trees
| about the Delta have changed this.
| Fifteen to eighteen days heavy ram
! falls now every year on the head OF the
/ Sphnix. The severe 'khamseem sand
| storm follows and cuts into the sod
doned limestone of the ancient monu-
1 ment, whiting it away all over the
/ the surface.
Luther C. Tibbets. who introduced
seedess navel oranges into southern
California, and made large fortune
from the sale of buds from the two
ORIGINAL trees, died last week in the
poor house at Riverside. Not far from
the county farm where he died MAS the
superb country seat which he built at
the time of his great prosperity. He
| lest his fortune in litigation over water
rights.
| This has been day of great eNpecta-
lions in Des Moines.
| DIR. Hermann, said to be the inventor
called in the west has just died at
Vienna, aged GO. He first suggested the
use of the post card in 1862. ANA MS
suggestion was adopted by Austria and
Hungary, and thence spread to other
countries Two millions and Il half of
post cards are forwarded in Europe
alone.
John d. Crmmins, who is as good an
Irshman as New York can boast. has
just returned from his native country
and says the people of the Emerald isle
are happy aud prosperous.
The addresses in Persian upon letters
which go thru the postoffice ut Calcut-
la are often quaint and puzzlng. An
Indian paper recently translated one us
follows: If the Almighty pleases-I-
this envelope, having arrived al the city
of Calcutta in the neighborhood of Ca
lootolah. at the counting house of Sra
ioodeen and Ilahadad, merchants be
offered TO and read by the happy light
of my eyes, of virtuous manners and
beloved of the heart-Meean Shaikh
1nayut Ally. may his life be long.
Written on the tenth of the blessed
Rulnzan, Saturday in the year 1266 of
the Hegirtl of our Prophet, and dis
patched at Bearing. Having without
loss of time paid the postage and re-
ceived the letter, you will read it, and
having abstained from food or drink,
considering it forbidden to you, you
will convey yourself to Jaunpoor, and
YOU will know this to be a strict in
junction"
She Have you noticed that have
faculty for falling in love?
He-Faculty? No, ticklety.-9ale
Record.
one thousand Missourans. according
to the plans of several wealthy Trenton
men. Will leave Trenton on Aug. i? for
Custer county, Oklahoma, to build Il
town. Some surprise is expressed in
different parts of the state that the pro-
motors could get I, thousand men to
leave Missouri.
Growing suspicious-"I wonder who
it was that said politeness doesn't cost
ANYTHING" said Farmer Corntossel.
'Don't you believe it?'
"Well, 1 have my doubts. Whenever
/ go to town and some stranger is es-
pecially polite to me 1 always feel as If
it was liable to cost me anywhere from
81 to $75, accordin to how much hap
pen to have"
Washington Star.
III. =. Carpenter civil engineer, who
has just completed the survey of the
southern line of Utah, says the boun-
Diary between that state and Arizona
does not cross foot of cultivated land.
1t traverses desert, which is cut up
by great canyons that are almost inn
passable The length of the line is -
miles. Landmarks along the line Will
make it possible for the boundary TO be
located without any difficulty in the flu
turc. Just east of the Colorado river a
sandstone butte rises 1000 feet above
the plain, and the Very peak OF this
butte is exactly on the boundary. Mr..
Carpenter named the peak. State Line
Butte. Nor far from this butte is am