The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-27
Curious Condensentions

New ~Zealandors consume more than
seven pounds of tobacco per capita
per wear.
Considerable more than W hun
dred thousand separate species of in
Sects are known and classified.
a project is Under consideration for
constructing a trans-Cuban canal for
shortening the distance between At
lantic ports of the United States and
Panama. II could be built for 500
600. 900.
Between 1901 and 1911 the produc-
ton of phosphate rock increased from
l.4S3.7e3 long tons. valued at S.
31f.463. 10 ~3.053.279 long tons. valued
at $1,000. 500. There was an increase
in production in 1911 over 1910 of
nearly four hundred thousand tons.
Immense quantities of sulphur are
mined in Louisiana by pumping and
the result is hat Sicily exports very
little sulphur to this country. al
though sever or eight years ago it
sent more than n hundred thousand
tons per annum
Some time ago the wife of an as
sistant state office gave a party to a
lot of old maids of her town. She
asked each one to bring a photo of a
man who had tried to woo and wed
her and had been Tilted by her. Each
Of he old maids brought a photo and
they were all pictures of the same
man, the hosts observation-disclosures
City journal.
Lhasa. which is the capital of Tibet,
for generations was known as the
Forbidden city because of its polite
al and religious exclusiveness. In
1904 a British armed expedition OPP
ened the mysterious old city. Pr vious
to that time practically every Euro
pean traveller had been stopped in his
efforts to reach the place. The popu-
lation of Lhasa is about $1,000.
The demand for horseshoe nails is
fairly good throughout South Africa.
Away from the railways. the truck
wagon, with five to eight pair Of bull
locks. is still very much in evidence.
in more populated centers for draw
ing heavy loads. In h country hors-
es are used chiefly for riding and
driving. AS the roads are usually
quite rough these animals require fire.
quent shoeing.
The results of the decennial valua-
ton of buildings in France show that
in the fiscal year 1909-10 there were
outside of public buildings, monu-
ments. etc. 9,475,1S6 houses and 49,
676 workshops and factories in the
republic. The rental value of these
structures is given in the returns as
sos, 723.431. The rental value in the
department of the Seine. which in
cludes Paris, is s232,922,2S4 practic-
ally one-third of the total rental value
for the whole Of France.
Experiments by NJ. Boulanger have
determined that sulphur Gin the form
of the familiar flowers of sulphur")
is a valuable fertilizer of the soil, tend
ing materially to increase the harvest.
Its action Is not direct. as in the case
of other mineral fertilizers. however.
1t operates as a modifer Of the bac-
terial flora contained in ordinary soil.
1t acts as a destroyer Of noxious mi
on the one hand. while on the
other it is favorable to the useful bac-
terial flora. This is proved by the cir
cumstance that it's influence is exert
ed only on normal earth. When the
soil has been sterilized by heat the
sulphur becomes imperative.
The Manganese deposits of me eau
casus are among the richest in the
world. The principal mines are stu