The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-27
Curious CONVERSATIONS
(Taken from Exchanges.)

English people consume on the av-
crasc eiShty-tive pounds of sugar per
annum.
a mothers club in every school
building of the state is the goal set
by the ohlo congress of mothers.
Wireless telegraphs for fisheries are
planned in Sweden. so that the fisher
man may telegraph the mou of he
catch.
British Honduras wants cheaper
mails and at a big mass meeting in
Belize the other day the government
Was asked not to make contracts with
steamship companies. hut to provide
mat ships carrying mails or buying
1000 punches of bananas should be
exempt from the payment of light
dues.
a clock constructed throughout of
glass is the result of six years' work
ON the part of a RaNarian glass polish
er. Tho plates and pillars which form
the framework are glass and are bolt
ed together with glass screws. The
dlal plate, hands. shafts and cog
Wheeis are of glass and glass wedges
ana pins are used for fastening he
various parts of the running gear to-
s"ther, says TIT Bits. Like the clock
itself, the key by which it is wound
Is OF glass. The construction of the
remarkable timepiece was a matter of
minute pains. Some of the parts had
10 be made as many as forty times
before a clock thai would go could be
produced.
a writer in LIE Temps gives the fol-
lowing advice to devotees of Lady
.\lr"fln": Avoid moist tohaccos. which
ALLOW nicotine to pass off undecom-
posed with the water vapor. DO not
smoke on an empty stomach nor
short'v before a meal. Smoke cigars
or cigarettes with a mouthpiece of
amber, m%eerschaum, horn or cherry
W"ou. AS nicotine vaporizes at $50
degrees c~entrigrade. the portion which
remains undecomposcd in the glim-
merinS tip tends 10 distill over toward
lh" mouth end. For this reason il IS
Wen TO reject the last quarter of II
CIGAR or to use pipes With a long stem
or reservoir. The cigarette. unless in
dulsed in to excess. is, of all modes
OF smoking. the least harmful.
n mechanism has been attached 10
the tim" clock at the Hamburg OBJ
serNatorE, by which the exact Official
'i'h" Is transmitted to the telephone
system OF the city. From the fifty
nun 10 me slXtieth second of eacn
minute the apparatus transmits ,
@ii' Is IollOWp0 IL n
phonographlc announcement of the
exact minute. The signals are trans
h1l'ted by special Wire to the head
quarters of the tclephons system. and
hence to each local exchange. ANY
telephone subscriber who wishes 10
get the eNact time has only 10 as,
1"r the time connection of his OK
change, and to listen for the pho1,n-
graphlc announcement. This is an
~nlrroNefneht unon tn" American
method by which time signals arc
transmitted by telegraph only once a
day.
Al a recent sitting of the academy
OF science in Stockholm DIR ot,n
fro"din gave the result of his ev,ln-
fatl"ns carried on within the last two
;fars near Alvastra. in eastern Goth
i"hd. ne doctors story is fa%scinat-
ing. although the data upon which his
CONCLUSIONS are based is wantinu 10
states that he came across in This
place a lake dwelling, which he saws.
WAS n doubt one of the FIRST sct-
'iel'eiits OF the Scandinavians in these
parts. The inhabitants We're neace-
able asriculturists. who had created ,
Sei'!cment difficult Of access to the ma
tlNes. n warlilte race. living nv ri.
chase and fishing. with one of ,hair
p'lhcipal towns about fifteen kilomet-
rrs from the lake, or just ten miles.
IL Is nov only a marsh, and in some
parts dry. thus permitting the doctor
TO carry out his explorations.
Five vast railway projects for the
opening up of Africa are at present
'i,iitr IN progress or seriously con-
sldered. says the Scientific American
FIRST, there is the great Cape of Cairo
rail"aE' whose northern and southern
sect1ohs are pushing slowly to an ul-
innate junction in mid-Africa. Then
there is the French trans-Saharan. and
me lnrther scheme of that nation to
ION the valley of the Niger and Lake
Ichad with the Atlantic railway |
Germany also has planned the trans.
eq1atorial road her first important
railroad development in Africa. The
flfth enterprise contemplates buildinr
q line from the Straits of Gibraltar
southerly along the Atlantic coast by
way OF Casa blanca and Agadir to Da.
kar, which is an important point of
Shipment for West Africa, whore ,
France has lately built an important