The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-20
Curious Conversations
The treadmill for raising water was
first used by the Chinese.

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first used by the Chinese.
The worlds output of petroleum
last year was 345.0oo.0o 0 barrels.
Natures Conforming process re-
quired a period OF 5000. 900 years.
About 1000. 900 women have the
right OF franchise in the United States.
The sponging industry of Cuba Is
dwindling because fishermen gather In
the little sponges before their time.
The great electrical companies Of
Germany have taken up the construc-
ton of motor cars.
In nineteen moths the number OF
special institutions that teach agricul-
ture in the United States has ncreas-
ed from 545 to S75, or over sixty per
cent.
Apples in French orchards have
been seriously injured by an insect
which bores into the fruit and causes
1t to wither and fall. so that many or
chards are practically denuded.
In Leavenworth. Kan. a judge has
decided that a man has the right to
kiss his sister-in-law, and in Germany
an order prohibiting a man from kiss
ing his wife in a railway car has gone
into effect.
In connection with Egypt's huge
drainage project, it is expected that
four years hence the cotton crop will
not be less than 1000. 900 pounds. 1t
was $4,000. 900 pounds in 1911.
Quails and partfidges deserted parts
Of France when the a%eroplane first
made its appearance here. But now
they have begun to return to their old
haunts. Before returning in force the
cartridges sent some of their number
to scout for them.
In a certain Swiss valley" writes
a traveller, family after family there
bears the same name-Tresch-all re-
%lationship being lost in antiquity. So.
to distinguish the guides. they must
be known-you may see it in Baedeker
As Joseph Tresch the Red and JOS
eph Tresch the Black"
The arrival at New Orleans of the
first transatlantic motor driven liner.
the Christian X. of the Hamburg
American southern service. from the
onstration Of the efficiency of such a
vessel. The new liner ploughed her
way from the River Elbe to Havana
in the creditable time Of seventeen
days.
Nine. Vera de Blumenthal, now CO.
operating with the zemstvo of Rya-
zan. Russia, to establish a new lace
school for the benefit Of the peasont
women, is a born Russian. but for a
number of years has lived in Pasade-
ma. Cal. Ten years ago she became
interested in this work while a resi-
dent Of Chicago. and has since dis
posed Of much peasant made lace and
drawn work.
In Kongkong the punkah is rapid
~ giving place to the electric ceiling
fan. Few new buildings in Hongkong
are fitted with punkahs. but all are
wired for electricity with reference to
the use of electric fans. While pun
kahs have many merits-especially in
| being a gentle breeze they entail a
serious loss of light. do not promosr
| active ventilation as a fan and are
hard to keep clean.
At an exhibition Of works Of art at
present being held in St. Petersburg
there may be seen a set of porcelain
dishes which is considered the most
costly in the world. 1t consists of
thirty-six hand colored plates. This
set has an estimated value of $4,000
rubles (s1S.54o). a single plate, there
fore being worth 1000 rubles ($515).
1t 10 the property of Count Orloff-
Davidof.
The Royal theater at Berlin. in an
swer to the request of many citizens
prices, so that school children might
receive the benefit and the pleasure
responded by setting aside a Sunday
afternoon for that purpose. The
house was filled to capacity by an ap-
preciatiye youthful audience. and now
a movement Is on foot to make the
SCHOOL children's matinee a perma-
nent feature.
versiications not only Of the Psalms
but Of other books of the bible, were
numerous in the sixteenth century.
One Of the most prolific versifers was
William Hunnis. who. under such fan.
ciful titles as Seven Sobs Of a Sorrow.
full Soul for Sin.'' IA Handful of Hon.
eysuckle." IA Hiveful of Honey" etc.
published a number Of rhyming YER
sions of Genesis and Job. which are
now worth their weight in gold to the
bibliomaniac.
The forest service is trying the ex-
pertinent of raising big trees-the
giant sequoia-from seedlings. Sever
al acres of the Tahoe national forest
have been devoted to this project, and
the young seedlings are said to be in
a ho%urishing condition. As the IA
nous big trees" are from a thousand
to two thousand years old, the Maripo.
ga grove will not be duplicated from
these seedlings for the benefit of the
present generation.