The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-17
Curious CONVERSATIONS
tTaken from Exchanges.)

Sydney alone needs 1000 mechan-
ics.
Women are barred from the golf
links of many of the London hubs.
Signal flags have been aha ndoned
ON the trains of the Sante Fe rail-
road.
The amount Of saliva daily secret
I'd by an average male adult is a
trlt1e more than three pints.
The Pacific ocean covers 5000. 900
square miles; the Atlantic. 10000
600: The Indian. Arctic and Antarctic
$1,000. 600.
Wooden blankets are among the
household articles made in other
lands that appeal most strongly to
the people of China.
During the Years lS82-1s95. when
the German grain duties We're high,
the agricultural population of Ger
many decreased by $4,000. notwith-
standing a large increase of the total
population. Emigration greatly in
creased. but fell Immediately on the
subsequent reduction of the tariff.
What is described as Chicago's
greatest railroad problem-that OF
freight congestion and delay in hand
iing--las been solved bv an agree
ment between fourteen railroads for
the purchase and joint operation of
the BELT railway of Chicago. The
Inner Belt Line" as the Belt railway
is called. is TO be bought with the
freight yards and ground for another
freight yard near South Chicago.
1t is reported from Brussels that
the negotiations Which have been in
procress for the formation of a Eel
gam lll,1ch trust have now led TO
tn" d"!lnit" combination Of eleven
match factories out of thirteen fac
of the trust amounts to 1000. 600
francs Crane. 1873 cents, and bonds
Of ".o"o.o"" francs are to he issued
later on. y syndicate constituted
for taking oNer forty thousand shares
of 500 francs each, i'll the trust.
With each revision of the census
figures Canada's population is being
placed in 4 better light. says Cana
la. The first returns, issued in Oc-
tober last gave the population of the
dominion as 1,0Sl.S63. Tho revised
fisures, issued in December. increas-
ed the total to 1.192,33s. On the
last day of February a special report
on the census was tabled in the house
of commons at Ottawa, which
brought it up to 7.204,52T. Even this
substantial increase does not, of
course. coIhe up to general expecta-
lions, The Very great discrepancy
between the figures of the dominion
census and those of return obtained
10y the local authorities points to the
untrustworthincsS of the number of
the people throughout the dominion
last April. 1t may. indeed. he taken
for granted that the actual popllla-
ton stands at something like 800
O00.
4 correspondent Of "Our Dumb
.%Aninlals' in the current issue of that
paper urges the adoption of the word
/, "philoZoic' to designate societies for
the prevention of cruelty to animals.
because they are neither philanthropy
ic nor charitable. when men de-
sired To express that within them
which Went out toward their human
kind with emotions OF kindness and
Affection" says the writer. they put
two Greek words together and VIC
had 'phila nthropy.' Then all organ
izations, societies. guilds. associations
that sought to relieve the suffering
of mcn and aid them in distress or
better their conditions were called
philanthropic. Why should we not
take the two Greek words. one ito
love- and tho other ANIMAL and
make the world 'philozoic.' Just as 'to
love and man in Greek had been
made into 'phila %nthropic.'