The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-04
FACTS IN FEW LINES

| The music of Home Sweet Home
is probably Sicilian.
| There are in Glasgow II 900 unlet
| premises, 1G,rtM of them being dwell
Tag houses.
Less than | per cent of the public
has OCCASION to make use If the
worlds can!-s.
Venice has Il new seven story hote;
commanding splendid views of the
Adriatic and the Alps
! 1t is reported from Genoa. Italy. that
snow fell there the past winter for
the first time in fort y-nne years
The next international congress foi
| the discussion of appliances for re-
| fr.geratinG Will be held in Vienna If.
| 1910.
| The Pennsylvania railway ferries
| alone transport about :51.0uO,G coo pas
sen~crs across the Hudson river every
| year
The :idNHnc" in the price of Wouu
and charcoal is rapidly forcing the
Japanese to use gas for c"okin" p,r
poses.
Galloway cattle are being raised in
Alaska. their hides being considered
equal to bearSkinS for beauty and
service
Fifty-Six thousand Chinese are resi-
dent in the Philippines. about $1,000
! in Manila The net gain in five wear;
has been 3.::u
prominent French manufacturer
Of yIace fruits admits that the cher
ries of California are ut least as good
in quality as the French varieties.
The du:ieS on tobacco. cigars and
cigarettes imported into Paraguay
are very heavy. the tariff showing an
average duly If ~ per cent ad va
loren
Though Swansea. Wales. is in the
very heart Of the Welsh anthracite
coal fields. stoves suitable for burning
region.
The French colony IF Tahiti ant; its
dependencies. embracing five groups
Of islands in he south Pacific, have Il
population OF ::l.0Oo Of whom 81 .Npn
are of the native race
\ British Slo"p IF war sunk by the
American forces 1872 years ago has
been raised from he waters IF Lake
Champaign. near the ruins Of Fort Ii
condcroya The sloop il ninety feet
long and is well preserved
The Panama canal commiSsary sells
between $73Gt'c and SSo.WJU worth Of
clothing every month 10 canal employ.
ee< II runs thirteen stores aion. the
line Of the canal. 1t sells between
$25.GOO and $4,000 worth Of tobacco
every month.
: 1t is almost certain now that the city
OF McsSina will he reconstructed the
sentiment Of the people being entirely
in favor Of such Il course Large sums
nave been spent on the harlpOr which
is excellent and too valuable in it's sit
uati0n to abandon.
4 German inventor has managed to
replace the needle in the monograph
with jet Of compressed air which fol-
lows the record without friction and
thus does away with the unpleasant
scratching and bnzzinS which have af-
flicted the instrument.
Although more than 125.OOO.OOO
pounds Of rubber are used in the world
each year, 50 little attention has been
given to its cultivation that the pure
article sells at wholesale at $1:O
pound one of the highest prices paid
for Il staple commodity
The site of the present Madison
cupied for nearly twenty years by the
older Madison Square Garden. which
was the abandoned passenger station
of the New York Central and Hudson
River railroad remOdeled. 1t was at
one time called Gilmore's Garden.
4 Tyson lVt) correspondent AYERS !
that on the shell of the only egg laid |
in two years by a certain hen belong
ing to Ezra Burt Of Tyson was a
raised water line map. by which Mr..
Burt discovered Il considerable amount |
OF gold buried by his great-grandfa-
Their during the Revolutionary times.
new method Of treating cholera in |
India by intravenOus or peritOneal in. |
jections Of strong salt solution is at
wide attention. Whereas two
thirds of the cholera cases Terminated
fatally before the new treatment was
since its adoption two
thirds OF the patients have recovered.
Seminole. famous foxhound be-
longing to Judge \. Floyd HUFF Of Hot
Springs. Ark. was lost during one Of
the field trials Of the National Fox
Hunters association. but reached her
home after travelling about $50 miles.
Turing which trip she was compelled
% swim both the Mississippi and Ar
Kansas rivers
The perpetual lamp Of Professor
MOlisch is Il glass flask Of gelatin s,1p-
porting colony Of phosphoresccnt
The light is less than that Of
candle. but is sufficient for photogra
'hy. and terminating peas and lentils
urn to it as source Of energy Being
without heat rags. it represents the