The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-24
Curio Conversations

California is to have its own hall OF
fame. erected at San Francisco by the
Native Sons organization. 1t is the
native daughters. however. who come
In for the first installment Of glory
the first three names chosen being tho
novelist. Gertrude Atherton. the
singer. Syhil Anderson. and the &C.
tress. Mary Anderson-three names
constructed curiously on the same
model. There are seventeen places
still to fill. and no doubt sons will be
found to fll some of them.
Five quarts Of ice cream per capita
are consumed by the American people
each year at present. This is more
than double the quantity that sufficed
in 1906. ~Coincidentally with this in
crease ave ON inventions for avoid
ing the economic waste of freezing ice
cream by the ordinary mixture Of ice
and salt. 5000 pounds Of ice and SOC
pounds of salt being required TO freeze
100 gallons OF ice cream by this
method. Artificial refrigera lion and
electricity are employed in the new
devices.
1t is only W miles up the Avon
from Stratford, through a hoary dru-
ideal wood. At last you climb the
rocky eminence on which this cluster
ing. clamhering town Is snugly nestled
and find yourself upon soil that was
broken for building in the very year
that Saviour was born. We
Americans are likely to fancy that if
you give a village time enough to
grow 1t is sure to become a city by
and by. But look at Vantage, crown
ing the hills near old oxford; a VIII
lage when Alfred was horn there and
a village to this very hour.
To strike oil used to be common
slang for sudden success in a rather
doubtful venture. 1t reflected the
condition in this countr when for
tunes were being founded on the
newly discovered oil wells, to be
swelled or wrecked later by the
likely to repeat our experience. but
there is a good deal of interest in the
striking Of Oil in London at a depth
Of 5000 feet in connection with the
opening of the Oil exhibition at
Olympia. At about the same time oil
was struck in Nottinghamshire, the
two instances combining to pleasantly
quicken expectancy.
Last winter a well known Vienna
lawyer Wen out to post a letter. He
was wearing a large signet ring on
the little finger of his right hand. and
as he pushed the letter through the
slit of the letter box this caught and
held his land fast. All efforts to re-
lease himself proved fruitless. Within
ten minutes the street was blocked by
an enormous crowd and he was the
center Of a storm of chaff. The police
had come to the rescue to keep the
people back. but they could no moth
ing to release the prisoner. Not even
box. 1t was not until authority had
been obtained from the head post
office that workmen were allowed to
unscrew h box and take il to pieces
and SO release the unfortunate law
yer.
The northern pacific coast Is ex-
ulting in new custom house records
showing that half or a little more of
the entire exports OF the coast find
their way to foreign markets through
Puget Sound: But aside from such
rivalries the increases in business is in
itself highly gratifying. The total
value Of the exports from the sound
during the fiscal year., ending June 80,
was about $64.000,0 900, as compared
with $4,000. 900 in 1911 and %$23,o00,-
900 in 1904. Till now the banner year
has been 1906. with s39, zoo. 900, but
1912 surpasses this by 5000, 900.
The greatest increase was in raw cot
ton. which was exported to the value
Of 1000. 900. as against $4,000, 900
last year. There was a gain in flour
also. while wheat showed a falling off.
The increase Of exports to Alaska was
specially notable.
The Scientific American Of recent
issue has the following: A new form
OF dark radiation seems to have been
discovered by Prof. A. Remele, who
has been experimenting for some
years with nitrate of boron. He has
found that this substance gives off at
ordinary temperature radiations which
Will influence a Photographic plate
through several thicknesses Of black
paper. leather. India rubber and glass.
n the images obtained strongly re-
semble those given by the X-rays. The
radiations are completely absorbed
by metals. Electroscopic examination
shows that nitrate Of boron-like nj
trate Of uranium-emits electrons. or
negative particles. and it is suggested
that this points to some connection
OF nitrogen with radioactive phe-
hitherto unsuspected. 1t Is
certainly curious that up to the pres
ent rad~io-activity has generally mani
itself in the presence Of salts.