The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-25
Curious CONVERSATIONS
tTaken from Exchangea)

What is a sardino? ?" has come up
before a London court for decision In
a suit growing out Of the sale Of va
rious kind of small fish under this
label.
Because few typewriter inks are in
dclihlc or unalterable, the Venezuelan
government has forbidden the official
registration or Authorization OF type.
written documents.
A trolley line, an electric lighting
service and bicycle police arc among
the additional modern improvements
promised for Jerusalem. The ancient
city is already equipped with tele-
phones.
Tho appointment of Mile. Edmee
Chandon as assistant astronomer at
the Paris observatory marks the OFF,
cial recognition by France Of femi-
nine achievement in a branch Of SCI
enc" for which women have shown a
peculiar attitude.
The present year will be the great.
est in Canadian history so far as con-
Germs railway development. In the
four western provinces no less than
Seo,o00.000 will he expended this
summer. The lines TO be built cover
5000 miles. The only danger ahead
is the difficulty of securing men. 1t
is estimated that $4,000 laborers will
be required.
If authority can be obtained one or
moro pipe lines will he laid to convey
gasoline from the Thames estuary to
various parts of London. 1t is said
would mean serious reduction. IL not
complete exhaustion of the supply Of
gasoline in London. That would rem
der useless nearly every automobile,
taNicab, motor truck and motor omni-
bus in the city. The Commercial
Motor Users association regards the
danger as sufficiently serious to war;
rant n petition to parliament for per-
mission to lay the proposed pipe lines.
One of the greatest discoveries Of
science is due to observation Of the
cclipscS of Jnpitcr's 1t was
found that when the earth was in the
parr Of its orbit nearest Jupiter these
c"lips"s occurred sixteen minutes
earlier than when it was in the farth-
"rn'"st part: whereas. by all rules of
astronomy, they should have occurred
AT Tho same minute each time. 1t
was dcduced from his that the light
WIS not instantaneous. and conse-
%qucntly took sixteen minutes to ira
v"rs" the diameter of the earth's or
hit, n distance of about 200, 600, 900
in1lfS. mus giving To light a velocity
of $4,000 miles Il second, which was
accurately shown later by other eX-
perimcnts.
one of tho most potent arguments
against the construction of the canal
at Panama in the days when the
building of this work by the United
states was under discussion was the
frishtful number of fatalities which
were supposed to have attended the
construction of the Panama railroad
in the middle of the nineteenth CEN
fury. "A dead man for each cross
tie was A favorite theme with the
magazine writers and the politician.
General George w. Davis. u. S. A.,
first governor of the Canal zone. has
exploded this t~ime-honored story by
showing that whereas the number Of
ties amounted to 10000. the road
never employed during its five. wears
of construction, more than 1000 la
horers. In its first four years of op-
Grafton the railroad carried 1876. 900
passengers. not one of whom con.
iractcd illness as the result of cross.
ing of the isthnus.