The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-11
Curious Conversations

Electric food and water heaters are
SAID TO increase hens Eggs laying pow
ers and to prevent poultry diseases
due to cold food.
A hook Is provided on a new por-
table electric desk lamp so 1t may be
hung on a bed or other furniture for
il reading light.
A miniature fountain attachment
for bottled water holders has been pa
tented to enable persons to drink With
out touching their lips t any reccp-
tacle
A German firm has been awarded Il
bridge contract by the Nolga- Bugulma
railway for $4,000. 900 structure
across the Eolga near Simbirsk, Rus
STA.
To lessen the labor Of one feature
OF housework there has been invented
one l OF a dish and mops the 9TH
er at the same time.
Caps and masks made Of aluminium
tubing. through which either hot or
cold water can be circulated. have
been invented by a Vienna scientist for
use as surgical congresses.
TWO French engineers have patent
ed a propeller with the blades extend
ing far forward and back of the hub.
and SO shaped that the water is not
churned and no vacuum is formed
around the hub.
For photographers use in dark
rooms there has been devised a lamp
carrying several different colored
glasses in a wheel in front of its OPEN
ing. SO any colored light can be OBJ
tanned when desired.
A good market should be found in
fhss (&aSNro ~ fr. 1Sr1,t N.@:rh< ,,., ,-t,
ed American automobiles. The Amer
lean car is peculiarly suited to road
conditions here, which are practically
the same as in the United States.
Purchasers have found the cars of
european manufacture too heavy and
swing too low and are turning their at
tention to the American product.
Within the last few weeks two or three
American runabouts have been
brought in and nave attracted wide
and favorable interest. There is every
reason why the American car will
have a preference il advantageously
priced.
The eccentric DR.. Fordyce. a Well
known professor of chemistry of the
eighteenth century. believed that man
required only n meal A day. and for
twenty years he practiced what he
preached. At foul he would present
himself at Dolly's chop house, in
~Paternoster row. and Immediately up
pound and a half of rump steak upon
the gridiron. While 1t was cooking
the doctor would amuse himself with
some such trif1e as half a hroiled
capon or a plate of fish. and a glass or
two of brandy. Then anne the steak
with a full accompaniment of bread
and potatoes, and a quart tankard of
strong ale. This was followed by a
bottle Of old port. after which he
street. where he met his class and gave
lectures on chemistry.
A watch consists Of 175 pieces.
Jamaica has W cable stations and
Il wireless tower.
The United States consumes more
spun and manufactured silk than any
other country.
Argentina's wine business is assum-
ing large proportions. Last years
yield was 3~90.o93.3S1 liters.
In the production Of rice and coffee
the United States ranks tenth. COM
pared with other countries of the
world.
The value Of the total mineral out
put'of Alaska in 1911 is estimated at
S20.370.000. compared with $1S,SS9,-
CTS in 1910.
For transporting race horses in
France without fatigue an automobile
truck has been built with two COM
modious stalls.
There were 1850 cremations of hu-'
man bodies in Switzerland last year.
an increase of twenty-five per cent
over the number for the year before.
To promote the mutual interests t.f
wireless telegraph operators and their
employers an international operators
union has heen organized.
A complete telephone transmitter
which folds into a watch case has been
invented to relieve a person Of the
unpleasant necessity of using an un-
sanitary public instrument.
A year book of aerial navigation for
1912 has been issued by the Munich
publisher. j. F. Lehman. 1t con
tains no fewer thar rs pictures to H.
%lustrate the text. which considers the
subject from every point of view un-
der sixteen subdivisions.