The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-19
Curious COndensentiOns

Russia supplies Great Britain with
the greater proportion of her poul-
try n eggs.
1t is said h a each year three thou
sand foreign walters find employment
in England.
TO supply the needs of Canada's
mixed races the bible is printed in
seventy languages.
Hemlock, f~oXglove, monkshood. the
seeds of laburnum, ommon laurel
and yew are all poisonous to human
beings.
ON an average Great Rritain yields
thirty bushels of wheat to the acre;
New South Wales. fifteen; the United
States. twelve, and Russia, eight.
Miss Margaret Davis. class of 1911.
is said to be responsible for starting
and carrying through to success Il CO.
operative store for the students of
Simmons college.
January derives its name from the
Roman god Janus, who was repre-
sented with two faces: one was the
face of an old man, typitying the last
year; the other that of a youth, in
reference to the new Year.
1t is stated that since the begin
ming of 190a-that is, during a period
OF three Near-the passengers on no
fewer than twenty-five" shipwreckcd
vessels have owed their lives to the
fact that the ships were equipped
with a wireless telegraph system and
were consequently abb" to sem out
messages for assistance.
Germany has l1.Oon women filing
honorary offices in cities and m char
ity boards. In 165 municipalities T.
600 women arc in act.Nn service for
the care of the poor ,iCl orphans. In
115 towns there are women serving on
the schoo! boards. I'll. Union of
Motherhood Projections - said to he
the only woman's organization which
receives the approval ct the kaiser.
This society was foundod ny Frau
Stoecker and numbers its members
Ny the thousands, in .udinG every
class and condition OF men and Wom-
en- in Germany.
The color of blood is luo chiefly to
iron in the little ~hlod-cAlle. When
the iron is kept in II, little blood
cells, which 7 Twin. and travelling
around in the blood vessels, the color
is red. Hit the skin hard enough to
break some of the LITTLE hlood vessels.
beneath the surface. and the little
red coils escape from the injured
blood vessels wander about for a
while in the tissues and die. When
they di" the iron that made them red
before then changes /" hlack-and-
blue coloring. After a while this iron
is taken up by the glands called the
lNmphatics. and made over again into
nice red cells. The iron is taken up
very much more quickly Ivy the lynn
phatics if the black-and-hlue spot is
rubbed and massaged.
Taking a nionear ste, and ono +bot
the managers believe will he greeted
with general favor, the Cumberland
Valley Railroad company has brush
ed aside all precedent, revolutionized
misunderstanding" and is saving
thousands of dollars a year to its pa
irons by originating a new phase of
conservation-the SAVING of trunks.
In place of handling baggage With
the roughness for which railroads
generally are blamed. the rule has
gone forth on the Cumberland Valley
line that no piece of baggage shall
be dropped from a car unless under
it is placed an ''air-hose mat" The
air-hose mat is a device constructed
of air-hose in ~three-foot lengths. par
allel To each other. and separated by
a few inches. They are designed to
act as a buffer. and through them
trunks receive practically no injury.
AS an advance tip on the campaign.
We may say that both parties will
claim they are right on the tariff, and
the Bull Moose will bawl that both
are wrong.
Sisnor Mascagni. who eloped with a
chorus girl, has disappeared. and may
also blame that on his artistic tenn
permanent.