The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-30
Curious CONVERSATIONS
iTaken from Exchanges.)

Weather reports are semi from Glib
raltar TO London daily 10y wireless
teelsraphy.
Germany has tho worlds largest
loom, in which felt disks for paper
mills up to 233 feet in circumference
can he woven.
y french chemist claims to have
devised q simple but accurate method
OF measuring the surface of Il hu-
man being.
IN" worlds demand for moving
pictures now calls for the use of
nearly 10000 miles OF films a year.
In Center. \. C.. one minister mar.
ried six couples in a week. and his
tees Tor the lot amounted to % cents.
Tho government of New Zealand is
replacing its wooden telegraph poles
and letter box posts with reinforced
concrete ones.
The total output of coal from, the
mines of the United Kingdom was
264.411.000 tons in 1910. with a value
ut the pits mouth of 1~0s.374.S54
pounds.
AS a means of Ventilation. eighty
million cube fee, of ozonzed ar vii
be pumped every day nto the railway
tunnels of London.
In China. marrcd women preserve
Their W narnc after marriage. the
name of ii person beng regarded as
very important n that country.
Refrigerator cars. cooled by am.
mona machines
monia machines operated by interna'
combustion engines utilizing petro.
lcum for fuel. are being built for a
German railroad.
Some of the newer French army
hrroplanrs are so designed tina their
wings can be folded and they can he
towod on their " wheels behind ar
automobile.
The control of infectious diseases
has reached u point where il is DOS
Sihlc to say that the average length
of life has been increased by abou,
twelve years.
Il. Elvcrton bancroft. aged So
claiming to be the oldest ice skater
in the United States, recently appear
cd in an open-;lir exhibition at his
home. Wnhurn. Mass. For an hou,
he sped about the pond. performing
intricate cvolutions. He is q former
business man of Wohurn. for the
last seventeen years has not missed
indulsing in this winter sport.
Artificial warming of the world is
one of the greatest of modern prob
lens. and Yet h earth is itself a
vast furnace whose flames are some.
times nggressively active and de-
structive. Italians are planning tc
use some of this heat. A boiler is to
be installed at some point where the
internal fires of Nesuvius are acces-
sihle and hot water is to be piped
To the n~eighhoring towns.
With the object OF reducing the
number of wood pigeons. whose
depredations are a matter of serious
concern to the farmers. an organized
shooting took place in Devon receent-
~. The arrangements We're carried
nut by local committees in conncc-
ton with h Devon Farmers union,
with the cooperation Of the landown.
ers. and it is estimated that nearly
5000 guns were engaged.
The second Oldest schooner IN the
United States is now tied up at Red
Beach. nine miles from Calais, her
home port. She is the Hiram. and
she was built twelve years later thar
the famous Did Polly. Her keel was
laid down at Riddeford in 1919. and
since she was launched the little two
masted schooner has led A strenuous
life up and down the Atlantic coast
Although the vessel has beer repair
ed time and again. she still has her
original keel and bottom. which are
in good condition. She is 6a.5 feet
long. has a gross tonnage OF sixty
seven tons and carried a crew OF
three. For many years after she was
members Of the Cook family. Of that
city. and she is now owned by Elmer
Mcdonald Of Red Beach.