Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

| The descendants of Brigham Young,
the Mormon apostle, have decided to
hold annual family reunions. Altho he
died in 1877 there are over 1000 direct
descendants, and there is not in Salt
Lake City an available building large
enough to hold the family" There are
living six widows of the Mormon preSl-
dent. Some of these women have posi-
| lions of high honor in the Mormon
church. one of their labors being the
tracing out of progenitors of Mormon
families, who are plucked as brands
from the burning by having living per-
sons baptized in their names.
American shipbuilders are talking
hopefully of the prospect that the con-
slant development of the steel indus
tries of the United States will make it
possible to construct vessels here bet
ter and more cheaply than in any other
country and without reducing wages.
Sanguine prophets venture to predict
that ere many years have passed CAPT.
talists and investors on the other side
of the Atlantic will find it to their adj
vantage to give extensive orders to
Yankee shipyards. That is an outlook
full of encouragement.
A good many railway trains In Eu-
rope, as we'll as America, travel at the
rate of fifty four and fifty-five miles an
hour for comparatively short distances.
Two or three years ago the service be-
tween London and Edinburgh, on the
east coast and between London and
Glasgow, on the west coast-about 400
miles altogether-was performed at a
sped lower than fifty-one miles an hour
but of late this has been quickened
slightly On the whole the best Euro
pean record at present is made by the
Sud" express, from Paris to Bayonne,
which covers 1864 miles at the rate of
Sab miles an hour. 1t is exceedingly
doubtful, tho, whether any of the inter-
national railway trains on the other
side of the Atlantic travel $50 miles at
even fifty miles an hour. Consequently
the New York Central's new services
between New York and Chicago is
probably without a parallel In the
world So, too, is that wonderful run
between Camden and Atlantic City, 55h2
miles, at the rate of 66.6 miles an hour.
Mayor Swing, of Rocky Ford, Col,
who has perhaps the largest bee plant
in America, is going to take his bees to
the Worlds Fair at st. Louis, and they
will work there from the time the ex-
position opens until it closse. Mr..
Swink is willing to construct Of bee
hives a miniature of the Colorado state
house at Denver. This will require
about $40 hives, and in it 100000 bees
will work. Colorado is great honey
producing state. One Colorado apiarist
keeps his bees busy collecting honey all
the year around by turning them loose
in his alfalfa fields in the summer, and
in winter shipping them to plantation
in Florida.
At a little dinner the other night the
statement was made that the colored
race had longer memories tLdii "iille
folk Mark Twain, who was present,
agreed with the remark, and to prove it
told the following:
Some years ago, when south, l met
an old colored man who claimed to have
known George Washington. 1 asked
him IL he was in the boat when George
Washington crossed the Delaware, and
he instantly replied: Lor', massa,
steered dat boat
"'Well,' said I, do you remember
when George took the hack at the cher
ry tree?"
HE looked worried for a minute, and
then, with beaming smile, said:
why, suah, massa, l dun drove dat
hack mahseluf.'