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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
Personal Visits.

Personal visits are necessary in
recognition of invitations to dinners,
luncheons, breakfasts. balls or any
other invitation to an entertainment
which is limited to a selected num-
be- OF guests. One should always call
within fortnight after the function.
A reception or tea is accounted
visit and cancels all obligations on
the Fart of hostess and guest. Form
al calls in the city are paid be-
tween three and $3.50 O'Clock in the
afternoon and the visit should be q
very short one. 1t is always more COM
plimentary and considerate to observe
a friends day at home than to pay
her chance call on another day.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
DANISH CONSUMPTION.
Professor Bebring Claims It Can Be
Done.

Berlin, Feb. 15.-Professor Emil Won
Behring, discoverer of the diphtheria
serum, addressing the German agrf-
cultural society recently, announced
his determination to adhere to the
resolution (which he promulgated in
Paris of keeping his tuberculosis
remedy secret till the autumn.
The professor discussed the method
Of preventing consumption by immun-
!. izing milk cows, The aim is to Sc
cure milk having immunizing pro-
perties. He claims to have approxi-
mately solved this problem. Cows are
treated when very young with fluid
which Professor Behring calls tuber-
culase. 1t is injected under the skin
OF young cows repeatedly for two to
four weeks. The remedy at first was
very costly because it was almost i'm
possible to preserve it in good condi-
ton, but method has been discovered
recently by which it can be preserved
satisfactorily and at a moderate cost
3 Professor Behring also treated COWS
which showed IA virulent type of
tuberculosis in their milk, but the
bacilli disappeared after several
Weeks treatment.
His theory is that children fed on
milk from cows rendered immune
through his treatment become them
selves immune.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
Clock Made Of Slate.

A slate quarryman. living at Delta.
Pa, Humphrey o. Pritchard, has made
clock out Of slate. The varieties he
used include peach bottom blue slate
and the red, green and purple slate OF
Vermont. About l64 separate pieces of
this material were used in the construc-
ton and are held together by % dozen
small metal screws. Many of the slate
sheets are as thin as paper and scores
were broken before the timepiece was
finished after eight months work. The
clock is four feet high, two feet wide and
one foot deep. 1t has cathedral gong
and is lighted by nine incandescent
Eulbs.-Jewelers Circular.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
sEGMENTARY- SCIENCE.

The alpha rays of radium have been
found by Prof. Rutherford to have one
eleventh as great velocity as light.
A giant pig, with a skull measuring
nearly yard long, has been found
among the later tertiary deposits Of
Nebraska in fossilized remains. 1t
has been christeped Dinochoerus brol-
landi.
The newest smoke absorber is a
filter of coke saturated with petroleum.
The SCOT is caught by the coke and
subsequently used as fuel, while the
gases are rendered infiaplmable by
the petroleum vapors.
Some minerals, such as diamonds,
give out light when rubbed together.
Sir William Cookies says that he, has
prepared an artificial sulphide of zinc
which is more luminescent under fric-
ton than"nny natural mineral.
Since the final products of the per-
feet combustion Of any fuel are water
and carbon dioXide, neither of which
constitutes or makes smoke, the exist
ence of smoke is proof of the imper-
feet burning of whatever substance is
consumed for heat or power.
The hypothesis that magnetic storm.
aurorae, ETC., are due to the passage of
the earth through denser portions of
matter elected by the sun is favored
by Prof. Schaeberle, the German
astronomer. He finds that the irreg-
ularity of periods is what should be
expected, and the phenomena of com
cts sustain this view
Reconnaissance by wireless 10 a
late suggestion for the army Maj.
Westmore, of England's application
of space telegraphy to his motor
car, whereby he communicated with
his residence while on the run,
give rise to the idea that it
should be employed in the army
for accommodating purposes instead
of cavalry officers raids and cyclist
companies. the extreme mobility of
the machine rendering it almost In
vulnerable.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
IMPORTS ARE LESS.
Canada GETTING Fewer Iecs.sts~ex land
Rails From the United STATES.

Haiis FROM the united Staten.
Mhe Railway Age says that q Hig-
niticant feature of Canadian develop
. ment is exhibited in figures showing
the imports of Canada from the United
States of steel rails and locomotives.
In 1904 the export business of the
United States with Canada in locomo-
tives amounted to $1,353,331 "A slight
increase over the proceeding year
while in 1906 the amount was 1868 ,524,
according to figures published by the
bureau of statistics, department of
commence and labor.
t"The fact is all the more .signif-
cant" says the Age, ..taken in connec-
/ ton with the figures showing the vol
ume of export business of the United
States with other countries by which
the million dollar. loss son Canadian
business is not only counter balanced,
ibut an additional million is added to
the total for 1906 over that shown for
1904. 1t is not strange that such should
lbe the case when the activity of loco.
mDtive building plants in Canada is,
taken into account. 1t does indicate,
however, that considerable volume
of business upon which American To-
connective builders have been accus-
toned to reckon has been diverted in
10 Canadian home markets, with a
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
RELATED OF SMOKERS.

Love of tobacco and wisdom often 60
together. Prince Bismarck was wont to
boast that he had in something like so
years consumed over 100000 cigars, q
number that works out an average of
Ave day=-no great feat perhaps for one
who was at one period a chain smoker,
lighting each cigar from the glowing
stump Of the one Just enjoyed.
Edison, the great inventor, must hold
superior record. Ten cigars,a day are
his normal allowance. but when deeply
absorbed in work he finds double that
number necessary to stimulate his brain.
Even more in a day used that celebrated
singer, Morio, to dispose Of; but his day
began with dawn and concluded not un-
til, sleep overpowering him, the still
burning Havana slipped from his lips.
Berlin has recently lost one of her
most ardent and methodical devotees
/ Of the fragrant weed by the death of
Herr Grunn, whose daily allowance Of
{ tobacco consisted Of six pipes, six cigars
and six cigarettes. This amount she
never varied save on his birthday, when
1t was doubled, and on New Years day,
which, on the principle, of starting the
/ year temporarily, vss kept as a day Of
total abstinence. n. rs
Without q cigar Edwin Booth, the
tragedian, was scarcely ever seen. Even
while engaged on his professional duties
his beloved weed was present in the
wings, ready to BE- snatched from his
aresser's hand for enjoyment during the
ssometimes exceedingly brief intervals
between the exits and entrances. Tween
tyrHye cigars I day were at one time his
usual allowance; m allowance, how.
eyer not infreQusntly exceeded.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
RuI|IRDllls
, - u 7fTffl -TIfN
NOV EMl:.EN MT is.
EARLY
Immigrants Passing Through Grand
Forks On Their Way. to the North
west and Nsrthern Tide Setting
IA Unusually Early This Spring,

L. II O. j .N p
Quite q few immigrants are now
passing through Grand Forks on their
way to other Northwestern points. The
movement Of this class OF passengers
usually begins about this time of the
year, but does not reach Its height .un-
til along in April or May. Each morn
ing the north and west bound trains
are loaded to the doJr with people of
the immigrant class.
These Immigrants generally arrive
In groups Of from five or six to thirty
or forty. For the most part they are
going into North Dakota with the In
stention Of settling ON farming lands,
but many Of them are bound for min
ing points, where they probably have
relatives working in the mines, or
where they themselves intend to begin
such work. Last year the movement
was heavier than ever before.
It is believed thar 1t will also be
heavy this season, but there is no .ac-
.curate method of calculating just
what it is likely to be, and the railroad
officials never know just how, extended
It will be until the immigrants actll-
ally arrive.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
AMONG THE L1rERAr1.

One thousand four hundred and
twenty-five characters are described
in the "a books written by Charles
Dickens.
The rule followed by editors of both
the Oxford and Cambridge Chronicles in
the position of the letters A. M. and NJ.
A., for the title master of arts, is that
where the context is in Latin the form
is A. NJ, and where it is English, NJ. A.
The real name of Gabrielle d'Annun-
zio. the Italian novelist, is Rapagnetta.
His father-in-law was Due De Gallese, q
Frenchman who received permission to
take that title on marrying the widow
OF a former duke. The author is now
trying to obtain adivorce.
Once year or so William. Dean
Howells, the distinguished novelist,
drops into the Office of the Ashtabula
;(O) Sentinel, rolls up his sleeves and
sets. type for half an hour. Mr.. Howells
began his career as printers appren-
tice in the Sentinel Office, which was
then owned by his father His knowl-
edge of typesetting hiss been of immense
. value to him in his literary career.
John Kendrick Bangs, the author, who
for some years has been dividing his
time between Yonkers and New York, is
soon to become countryman again. Il
have blue-penciled city life," he said,
recently. my eye is on farm in New
England. where hope before long to be
able to provide an appreciative public
with limited editions of Observation-Disclosures,
large paper turkeys and deckle-edged
eggs. And" he added, slyly, mo item
in either class will go out without my
signature"
Miss Alice French chose her pen name
of Octave Thanet in curious fashion.
Octave was the name of one of her
schoolmates and WIS selected because it
gives no hint as to whether the person
who bears it is a man or a woman.
Thanet was adopted from passing rail-
road car that Miss French CHANGED to
see and is pronounced with the accent
on the second syllable. Born and edu-
Gated in New England, the writer has
lived most of her mature life in the west
and in the south, which has made her
familiar with widely varying phases of
American civilization. Her first maya
zine story was written aud accepted in,
1878.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
EARLY DAKOTA,PAPER.
Fort Randall Independent Was Pub.
lished by Soldiers in 1855.


Bismarck Tribune: The Tribune
has copy Of the Weekly Independent,
little Sx10 inch four page paper pub
lished by the soldiers at Fort Randall,
Dakota Territory, January 1s, 1865.
From'it is cleaned the fact that print
paper cost $40 a bundle, and that be-
cause the linking apparatus on the
press broke, publication was suspend
ed a whole month when a new gear
was secured.
Fort Rice was at that time garri-
soned largely by confederate prison
ers who did duty as soldiers. An
item in the Independent says: From
q gentleman who arrived from TT.
Rice q few days ago, we, learn there
is great mortality among the Loyal
Rebels stationed at that post. They
are burying at the rate of one a day.
The Indians are also quite trouble
some icking OF any who venture any
distance from the post. &;
Another item: Horace Greeley is
In WASHINGTON In his, demands for
sl;eace at any cost and predicting an
early termination OF the war"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
What Kansas Owes the Hen.

Nightingales, larks, swans and such
poetic fowl have been hailed and
hymned until the world is very weary of
them. Where is the robust American
bard who will write high with Joyous
pen the harmless, necessary hen? Why
do our children read about those fab.
nlous geese Of the Roman capital? The
hens of Kansas are worthier subjects.
Here is one years work of them: ST.
226,111 worth ofreggs, which, as Kan
sas economist does well to remind the
world, Is interest at five per cent. on
$144,522,22O. To say nothing of "broil-
ers" and other by-products. Kansas
hens make more money for Kansas than
do her sheep, wool, barley, fax, fruit,
sorghum. oats, potatoes. The hen should
be the bird of Kansas as the eagle is the
bird of freedom.-Everybody's Maya
zine.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
Baseball Small Talk.

y =. : '
Pittsburg will have the two tallest
pitchers In the big leagues in Vic
Wilds and doc" Moskimon, the new
man from Oakland, Cal. DOC" won 10
games and lost IL in the Pacific Coast
League last season.
Icons has bought a $4,000 automobile.
Flick says he got the machine for the
purpose of affording transportation for
himself between his farm in Ohio and
the Cleveland ball park
There are indications that the anti
pass crusade may reach the baseball
clubs. II it does it will mean a body
blow to some of the most Cat presently
enthusiastic fans, who are now anx-
iously awaiting the opening of the sea-
son.
Says Pitcher Bill Dineen: 1T is al
most certain that will not go back
to Boston. The chances are that will
quit baseball after next year. You can
take It from me that don't care who.
knows that will not go back to Bos-
ton"
Robinson, the infielder drafted from
Milwaukee by Manager McGraw, is
the smallest man in the leagues. He
played a brilliant game for Detroit for
awhile in 1908. Robbie was about the
best fielder in the American associa-
ton last season.
Up to date no pitcher has announced
the discovery of new ball for next
season to succeed the spit-ball, stop
ball! smoke ball, tangle foot and fade
away.
Kid Gleason and Sherwood Magee,
having predicted that the Phillies will
win the National league pennant this
year. the alarm clock has been set for
July 4.
Cleveland has asked for wavers on
Billy Lush, which means that the play
er is to be sold his release, SO that he
can become playing manager of the
New Haven team.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
Ancient Libraries.

So far as existing records show, the
oldest approximation to libraries was
brought to light by the Assyrian dis
coveries in the form Of Babylonish
books inscribed on clay tablets. They
are supposed to have been prepared
for public instruction about $50 B. G.
Pisistratus is said to have founded a
library at Athens about 537 B. c., but
there is no clear evidence to that effect.
According to Strabo Aristotle was the
first known collector Of library. and
bequeathed it to Theophrastus, B. c.
322, the library finally going to Rome.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
Discovered.

After the little girl had seriously
studied the matter for long time, she
looked up to inquire of her maiden
aunt:
is it true that women shouldn't
marry men who are younger than
themselves?"
Yes. dear. A woman should always
be careful to marry only man who is
older than she."
"Oh, now | know why you've never
got married. You can't find a man who
is older, can yon?"-Chicago Record
Herald.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
To Curl Ostrich Plu1nes.

When your ostrich plume gets straight
and stringy-in pursuance of their de-
grading tendencies-don't attempt to re-
store the curl by knife or scissors or
any sharp-edged instrument. These cut
the tibers and leave your lap bestrewn
with particles of the plume Let the
implement be smooth aud blunt along
the edges-an ivory paper knife is very
good. The task is a little more tedious
by this method. but the result is more
satisfactory and the feather is not cut
to pieces.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
RAILROAD, FINANCIAL AND
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

1T has been decided by the manage
ment of the United States Steel Cor
poration that the new plant 1t proposes
to erect on the shore of Lake Michi-
gan not far from South Chicago will
be devoted to the manufacture of steel
rails, heavy plates, particularly plates
for shipa. and structural steel. The
works will cost at least $26,0O0,0O0.
Contracts have been awarded to the
Baldwin Locomotive Works. of Phil
adelphfa for six Mallett compound To-
comotives for the use of the Gualaquil
e Quito railroad pulling mineral cars
over the Andes mountains in Ecuador.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad COM
'pany has just placed an order with the
Dominion Car company for 200 steel
cars at total cost of more than $1,-
100000. Numerous other roads are
planning to make similar purchases of
steel cars within the near future.
q The most extensive private irriga:
ton work in the United States is car
ried on in Oregon, where the Deseh-'
ntes Irrigation & Power company is
constructing canals for the Irrigation
of $4,000 acres of sagebtash land in
Crook county. Water is supplied by
the Deschutes river, which is fed by
the. snow of the eastern slope of the
Cascade mountains.
The directors of the Erie railroad
have decided to create an electrical
commission to study the question of
electrifying the suburban lines of the
Erie. In all about $50 miles will be
equipped with electricity
1t is predicted that unless there is a
coal strike the output of pig iron this
year will eclipse all previous records.
It Is estimated in Pittsburg that the
production will amount to more than
25,000,O00 tons.
The Grand Trunk Pacific Branch
company Is to be incorporated for the
purpose of building branch lines all
over Canada to connect with the Trans
continental railway. It is proposed to
build branch lines to Halifax, st. John,
Montreal and Ottawa, in eastern Cana
da, and to Calgary, Battleford, Bran
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
Prune So,,me

Beat the whites of six eggs to 4 stir
froth and add one-third teaspoonfnl Of
cream tartar; beat the yolks Of three
eggs and add them to pint Of cooked
and sweetened prunes that have been
picked up into fine bits; mix lightly into
the beaten whites and bake in a buttered
pudding dish set in q pan of water .
half hour.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
Hitting. Back.

do you see that gentleman in the
big black tie and checkered Jacket"
said the meek little woman, as she
turned the corner. "Well, he is an ar.
fist. would like so much for you to
have him paint your portrait"
Indeed" replied the husband, who
always growls at the table; lis he
good artist?"
"Fine. He is known as the best wild
animal painter in the country."-Chi.
cago Journal.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15

strong probability that 1t will remain
there. Statistics covering the steel
rail business are hardly less signifi-
cant In 1904 the exports of steel rails
amounted ito ZIG, S05 tons, while Id 1905
the amount was 24,450 tons. It is true
that the volume OF this business in
1903 was only 21,249 tons, and it may
therefore be considered that conditions
were more nearly normal in 1906 than
in 1904; nevertheless some credit for
the falling of should be given to the
establishment of rail mills in Canada"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
His Main Fault.

But why should you worry about
your SOM" said the incubator drum
mer. You said he was cut out for
something create"
That's just the trouble" sighed the
old farmer. HE is so slow that every
time he gets an opportunity somebody
jumps ahead an cuts him out"-Chi.
cago Daily News.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
New Evening Gown,

A new gown for evening wear of white
wash chiffon, made with three five
inch founces around the bottom, each
flounce with design worked in silver
spangles on the edge. The upper part
of the skirt irregularly dotted with
spangles. The bodice has deep bertha.
also trimmed with spangles. and quite
short sleeves. /
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
Wis Arm Helped Some.

did you consent to marry that young
man who was here last night?" said
the angry father.
Yes. father. did," replied the girl,
patting her parents cheek; but don't
be angry; l did it under pressure.
Yonkers Statesman.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
Betting on Cricket Fiehts.

Sixty Chinese were lately arraigned
before the Hongkong court charged with
gambling by betting on the results Of
cricket fights. Many thousands of PEG.
pie journey from Canton to see this
local sport. The crickets themselves
are valued by their owners at enormous
prices, victorious insect fetching some
times hundreds of dollars
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
A Question of Phraseology.

st is hoped that in the course OF
time this malady called grip will dis
appear" said the physician.
1T won't disappear" answered the
skeptic. Fashions will merely change,
and people will go back to the custom
of saying they have bad colds."-
Washington Star.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
Worked roo well.

Agent have called, sir, to show
you our new patent cash register.
which I am neutrality-suspicious. all
peculation. sir; makes it utterly i'm
possible for any clerk to steal cent.
Mr.. Slowgo-Don't want 'em.
Agent-You don't?
Mr.. Slowgo-No, sir. My neighbor
next door put in ooa O. them things
last Monday. an before night the hull
force had strucE fur higher wages
N Y. Weekly.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
Cynical.

Curious idea, this transmigration Of
SOULS" said the man who reads pro.
found things specifically.
Yes" answered Miss Cayenne, IF
thought some human beings know
could possibly be TRANSPORTED into ami.
mails shouldn't be nearly as fond o:
pets as | am.'-Washington Star.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
Getting Careless.

Master-James, you haven't been as
thorough as you should about brushing
my clothes lately.
Man-RealIy, sir, Il I
That will do. Here's q dollar that
I've left in this coat every night for !
week-and found II there yet every
morning. Cleveland Leader.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
Stampede,

Stubh-Great Scott! Why are all
those girls rushing like Indians to the
belt counter?
Floorwalker-Why, there is special
sale of the latest novelty belts.
Stubb-Novelty?
Floorwalker-Yes; each belt is made
to represent masculine arm.-Chi,
cago Daily News.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
The Game.

II a body meet body
Putting up bluff
Need a body call a body
For his bunch Of stuff?
Everybody who can do it 8
Putting up front,
And he wins the game who makes q
Base hit of bunt.
Puck
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
Her Spelling.

Towne-You've got new typewriter
girl, see.
Browne-Yes
Towne--Is She bright?
Browne-Well, l don't know wheth.
er it's intentional, but she seems to be
female Josh Billings.-Philadelph
Press.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15

number of our dancers attended
the Athletic Association all Ball at the
Varsity last Saturday and report q.
most ENJOYABLE AFFAIR, Notwithstanding
the scold night and the ride back In,
hRckss Wv En-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
Employer Ito foreman) IL see there's
. man here that hasn't come yet. Now.
II he doesn't come soon send him
home.-London Telegraph.
HOPELESS Case.

but. my dear SIR" protested the po-
litical evangelist, you are standing in
your own light"
That's all right" rejoined he OF the
hardened heart. Il pay my own gas
bill. = Chicago Daily News.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-15
OH!

Bill-Congratulate me; I'm engaged.
Jill-Why, understood she rejected
you?
Not on your life!"
Didn't she say Mop"
"She certainly did"
"Well?"
why, asked her if she could live
without me."-Yonkers Statesman.