The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-28

average farm earnings in Wiscon-
sin have been found TO equal $500 a
year.
or the nine millions %inhabting New
ork state, millions live in cities.
h sum of ten million francs is be-
ing spent on the Improvement of Paris
hospitals.
The first railway in Europe ran its
FIRST train OF May >, 1879. 1t went
from Brussels to Mcchlcn.
japanese in America have contrib
uted 5000 for a creche for the chill
dren of the slums of Okayama.
The receipts of tho government rail-
ways of France in 1910 amounted to
S45,92o,o00, and net revenue was So
$4,000 the operating ratio being ISIS
per cent.
Experiments having demonstrated
that the new powders used in the
French navy We're no better than the
hattlcShip squadron and the first
squadron recently received orders to
put them ashore.
II is: Il sad blow to faith i'm human
nature. says the New York Tribune, to
learn that the rewards offered for dead
flies e in Flushing ave induced the
youth of the land tn take to breeding
the buzzing pests to gain wealth the
quicker.
"A Wisconsin archbishop has spoken
his mind about the habit of wearing
"crazy' hats to church. Some women
who have been interviewed agree with
should not wear crazy hats TO
church. But none of the women have
admitted that their own hats are
crazy"
The oldest member of the house of
commons, and undoubtedly the oldest
member of any deliberative body in
tho world. is Samuel Young, liberal
member for East CaNan. He is ninety
two years old. though one acquainted
With him would not think him over
sixty. He made a half-hour speech in
favor OF home rule during one OF the
recent debates.
The heaviest of all the cars on a linn
tied train is the dining car, which is
ordinarily OF d weight in excess of the
other cars 10y ten thousand or fifteen
thousands pounds. Between the car
construction II the necessary kitch-
en- equipment and ice box contents a
full sized standard dining car tops the
scales al 10000 pounds when Ready
~ make its customary run.
Within another year the sum of
money invested in electric vehicles
may reach the amazing proportions of
$4,000, 600, according to I. &. Martin,
chairman OF the committee on prog
ress of tn" National Electric Light as
ISOLATION. Mr.. Martin has been look
ing into the matter, and iindS thai to-
day SO. 600. 600 are invested in electric
trucks and $50. 10000 in electric
trucks and $3o.0oO.000 in electric
pleasure vehicles. These figures, he
.,,.. -; H. l-,,l1-l So; -, "a
year.
Investigations made owe Europe
seem to justify the belief that the
damage by lightning, in the cities BAR
ticularly. has decreased to Very mark
ed degree in recent years. n it is eX-
planned by the presence of electric
wires. which act as a protection in
diverting the electric bolts. AS the
wires are put underground it is ex-
pected that there will be noticed a
great increase in the mount of dam
age by lightning. and q return will be
generally made to the use of lightning
rods.
BY introducing steel balls into a
lrumbling barrel, says the Engineer.
it is possible to polish castings, and,
in fact, actually to burnish them to a
| very high degree. Since the process
is completely mechanical. it can un-
doubtedly be introduced in many brass
foundries with the result of saving la
Dor costs. 1t appears to be customary
to use enough steel balls to make up
Approximately twice the volume of the
pieces which are rumbled, the size of
the balls ranging from one-quarter
inch down to one-siXteenth inch in d.
ameter.
In Night and Day DR.. Barnardo's
homes have a long and varied tale to
tell of busy and successful rescue work
among the children. They report
$500 boys and girls under their care.
1t appears that out Of $4,000 emigrants
from the homes, chiefly to Canada,
barely one in a hundred has failed. A
party Of three hundred children sailed
in the first week of June for the do
minion. following an equal number in
March. A development of the homes.
the boys garden city at Woodford
bridge. was opened by the duchess of
Albany, on May 23. Great results are
expected from 1t, and already to its
three hundred young Inhabitants it
has proved its value.