The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-13

tallest building in indianapolis is a
valuable adjunct to both the police
and fire departments.
The seventh centenary of Roger
Bacon's birth will probably be cele.
brated in England next year by the
erection Of q statue In his honor.
New English eyeglasses are SO form
ed that when not in use and folded
they resemble a locket and may ba
worn OF a chain for an ornament.
A youth named Abdul Latiff was ar
rested at Calcutta for having climbed
up a waterpipe 12O feet long in order
to hold with his sweetheart.
Russians buy a good many hats that
are made in Germany or Austria
despite the fact that they bear a print,
ed label New York" Chicago" or
Boston"
It was an American missionary whe
was responsible for the introduction
into Shantung Of many varieties Of
California fruits to displace the poor
native products Of China.
According to two French bacteriolo-
gists, modern ventilators are danger
GUS to human health, as they distrib.
ute disease germs in places where
otherwise there would be comparative
ly few.
1t costs twenty-five typical American
cities an average Of less than a dollar
a year to each pupil to provide free
textbooks, according to w. S. Deffen-
baugh Of the United States bureau of
eslu"ation.
DR.. W. E. Scripture of New York
city says that a~mbidextrous persons
never dream, while right handed per-
sons dream with the right half Of the
brain and use the left brain lobe for
conscious thinking only.
In Maskat, Arabia, a sewing machine
agent rented the best stall In the ba-
Saar, placarded the. town with tin
signs, trained women as demonstrators
In the harems and made presents Of
machines to high ~persOnages.
Colonel Cocktails private car, which
he uses in his work of directing con-
struction on the Panama canal, is an
odd affair, having a powerful gas en-
CINE, with a hood like an automobile
and a cowcatcher like a locomotive.
By an ingenious arrangement OF re-
fectors a thirty candle power incan-
descent lamp recently mounted on a.
lightship off the Virginia coast is
made to give flashes of more than
100000 candle power in certain direc-
lions.
The excavation Of the numerous pre-
historic sites in the island OF Malta Is
being actively prosecuted under the di-
rection Of Professor T. Zemmtt. Skel-
etons with pottery lamps, spindle
whorls and a circular bronze mirror
have been unearthed.
In line with scientists recommends
tons that a series Of stations be estab-
lished in Europe from which balloons
can be regularly liberated for air cur
rent study, Germany has opened more
than fifteen such stations. and Russia
plans to establish fifty. ~
While, as a rule, land may be had
cheaply in Central America except on
the canal zone and settlers effects
may be brought in free Of duty, the
problem Of clearing and putting the
land in cultivation is a serious one and
calls for considerable money.
London's proposed postal tube is to
be nine feet in diameter and six and q
half miles long. 1t is to be fitted for
two tracks, each two feet wide, carry
ing steel trucks operated by motors.
The line proposed will be constructed
throughout In the London clay.
Said to be the first stone arch bridge
erected in this country, the "Choate
Bridge, Built by Town and County,
1884," as the inscription states, still
stands, a monument to the builder,
Colonel John Choate, at Ipswich, Mass.
1t is seemingly as strong as ever.
During the coronation of King Ed
ward VII, in 1902, Westminster abbey
was temporarily equipped with electric
lights. Again electric lights were used
at the coronation of King George v.
NJ" Inc tSEnpOIdLJ iiSIdildIlOH uAS
been enlarged and made permanent.
More than 500, 900, 600 has been
spent on the scheme to make Russia
Independent of American cotton inn
ports. All efforts to enlarge the area
Of cultivation Of cotton in Turkestan
and the transcaspian territories in
Asiatic Russia have turned out perfect
ly useless.
The popularity Of whale flesh In
Japan is steadily increasing. For sew
eral years past this meat has been
used both fresh and canned very ex-
tensively in that country, and there
are now in active commission a num-
Der Of whaling steamers hunting In
the waters Of Korea and southern
Japan.
Ia.Lr Er.