Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1908-07-24


A bulky mahogany log, which had
oeen sawed into boards, at Belfast,
ireland, was found to snow on every
board, right through, clearly defin.
60 photograph" Of small deer and
= larger animal, running. The
photograph" was probably trans.
hitted by lightning during storm.
Eight fuddled Indians were found
tied to trees few miles north OF
Sapulpa, Oklahoma. A party Of noble
RED men had engaged in drunken
row IN that community the night be.
Iore, and those who were sober
enough to perform the feat thus kept
tneir companions from further trouble
until they sobered up. IA -a
At woman's meeting In Andover.
Mass, q middle.aged speaker was de.
ploring the lack Of physical exercise
provided for her sex. She urged the
immediate establishment Of q gym.
nasium for women, and as she took
her seat mouse jumped OF the stage
and ran down the aisle. For about
five minutes it looked as II the gym:
aasium was already organized, and
"NsS Al ouSSCoolul OpClollOu, dAu NAut
women were indulging in too much
physical exercise. One table on the
stage had to support six women, and
II wasn't very large table either,
while the shrieks of the terrified dam.
sells could be heard half mile away
Japan has one very interesting ma.
tural curiosity. 1t is singing beetle
named "susumushi." which means
Insect bell". The sound that it
emits resembles that of little silver
bell OF the sweetest and most deli.
cate tone.
A COW met sudden death in Day.
ton, Oregon, by coming in violent
contact with an automobile. In her
stomach were a twenty-dollar gold
piece, a scissors, and about gill Of
fine diamonds. No trace Of the re-
mainder Of the editor could be found.
A new form Of pneumatic parcel
carrier has been successfully tested
tn Chicago. A thirteen-year-old boy.
after being carefully enclosed as q
parcel" was shot through half a
mile Of tube at a speed Of sixteen
miles an hour. The inventor declares
that with tube between New York
and Chicago the mails can be shot
from one city to the other in seven
hours.
A theater committee In Paris pro.
pose taking drastic action regarding
the big-hat nuisance. They favor an
ordinance which will permit any
spectator to have the right to request
the police officer on duty in the
theater to call for the removal of any
hat which prevents an unobstructed
view OF the stage. If the wearer re-
fuses to comply, the officer may order
her to leave the theater.
It is easy to arouse a controversy
among theological students. At a
Western college the students of the
ology gravely discussed the question
whether, in the case Of prayer hav-
ing been read from printed slip,
and there having been typographical
error entirely reversing the meaning
Of a passage, the petition was recelv-
ed by Providence as uttered or as
originally written. The debaters
spent a whole evening over the point,
and then had tie vote.
Brunettes are thought to be more
tractable and less irritable than
blondes; they are therefore preferred
as clerks in the Treasury Department,
Washington. A blonde, aware of this
discrimination against light-complex-
toned young ladies, made a change in
her appearance before undergoing ex.
animation as to her capabilities for a
governmentposition. With the aid Of
dark wig and a little coloring mat.
ter which darkened her complexion,
she made herself acceptable to her
judges, and was promptly appointed.
The deepest hole in the earth ever
dug Is in the coal-felds Of Paruscho.
WITT, Upper Silesia. It extends to a
depths Of e,570 feet, or almost a mile
and a quarter.