The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-05
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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The house fly becomes full grown in
about four weeks.
Ladies in Hanover are prohibited
from wearing large hatpins in the
street.
The newest telephone mouthpiece is
of glass, which can be readily cleaned
by boiling.
Recent experiments seem to indi-
cate that bees have the homing in
stinct like the pigeon.
In China. even in the modern Shang-
hal. the motor still continues to be
the coolie. hire to 10 cents day.
In twelve hours 36620 vehicles pass
through Mansion House street. Lon
don. giving an average of thirty-seven
a minute.
At the beginning of this year Aus
tralia's population was 4,275,000, of
whom 2.252,O0O were males and 1923
600 females.
1t has recently been shown that an
automobile can make the trip to Cal
cutta from the extreme northern part
of India without a hitch.
Complaints are made in German pa.
pers of the depredations of tourists
who hunt in Spitzbergen. One wealthy
Berliner killed thirteen bears in four
days.
Little Bison, a Sioux Indian chief,
viii take a hundred families of his
tribe and establish a colony in Mica
. ragua. President Zetaya has granted
a concession to the chief
An automatic burglar alarm has just
been invented in Russia by Lieutene
ant Colonel Tufaey and MIR. Donna
novsky. The signal consists of 200
shots fred automatically.
Experiments in abrasion conducted
at a French mint have proved that
aluminium coins would be less rapid
" worn by use than coins made Of
gold silver or even bronze.
The top of the Philadelphia city hall
tower. which is over 500 feet above
the street probably will be utilized as
a wireless telegraph station. to be
controlled by the municipality.
While Europe is experimenting to
test the feasibility of concrete boats,
Baltimore actually has demonstrated
it. A concrete sailing vessel has been
in commission for eleven years.
Values up to $4,000 a ton are report
ed on assays in the gold regions re-
Gently discovered in the Philippines.
These islands have yielded gold ever
since their original occupancy by
Spain.
1t is announced that with the re-
moval of row of frame buildings not
far from Blackfriars bridge the last
wooden buildings within the metropoli-
tan district of London will shortly dis
appear.
During the fall and winter season OF
190S-9 which ended March q. 221 per-
sons persisted by shipwreck and SO YES
sells met with disaster off the New
England aud British North American
coasts.
The notice. Summer residence to let
for particulars apply opposite" in the
window Of an isolated villa facing the
sea at Arcachon, France, is explained
by the fact that the owner lives in
New York.
One of the North Sea trawlers land
ed curious fish at Grimsby, England
recently, which none of the authorities
on the docks was able to classify. II
was like a big winged rat with a long
fishlike tail.
Already plan is developing to erect
statue of Lord Kitchener in one OF
the leading cities of India. and the In.
dian army is reported as standing
ready to contribute a half days pay
according to rank.
Lecturing at the Harvard Medical
>, hool. Dr.. Elliott P. Joslin declared
tnat pneumonia was the most fatal
n1alady in Boston In 1908. claiming
1900 victims. heart disease ranking
second in this regard and the white
paegue" coming third.
| What is believed to be the smallest
bAs.iness place in New York city is a
biz OF space about four feet by eight
in church street When the weather
Is pleasant the proprietor stands out.
side to transact business. In winter
the plaf e is heated by an oil stove.
Frame Is beginning to realize the
advantage Of possessing In the Rhone
the only waterway which empties west
of the Alps into the Mediterranean
and much is being done by means OF
canals connecting the Rhone with
other rivers to further the interests OF
the port of MarseiIles.
Newspapers in various parts of the
country are taking up the question OF
telephone courtesy. the Louisville
Courier-Journal making the assertion
that only the innately courteous OBJ.
serve telephone manners; the rest OF
the world lapses into something like
| primitive savageness when it uses the
latest resources of civilization
More than $1,000 has been raised
by subscription for the purchase of. a
herd of forty-two bison to be placed
/ In fha fyxnutr-airhf soma ro miles ~