The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-07-25
FACTS IN FEW LINES.

square miles,
There are about 100000 Filipinos
inhabiting 800 different islands
Austria proposes taxing bachelors
and widows and married people with
out children.
Italy is now building four Dread,
noughts which. it is said, will surpass
any existing Dreadnought.
Human hair to the weight of 207, 414
pounds was shipped last year from
Henkkons to the United States.
TO help finance the 1912 worlds fair
ut Winnipeg the government of Can
. ada is asked to contribute 10000
acres of land
The Russian army loses almost as
heavily through desertion as through
death. the annual number of desertions
being over 1000
A French court has ordered the Prin-
cess de Sagan to pay note given by
Count Boni for loan to cover his
courttng expenses.
Modern motor steam plows are be-
ing introduced into India. One of
them. made in London, can pillow ten
to fifteen acres Of ordinary ground a
day.
On the shore of Cape Cod there were
during period of twenty years fol-
lowing 1881 as many as a thousand
wrecks of vessels carrying precious
eargoes of human beings and of
freight
A black tribe, hitherto unknown, has
just been discovered on Mornington
island, in the gulf of Carpentarfa.
Australia Although thin and emaciat-
ed. they are strong and agile and show
no signs of any disease
Sir Reginald sfcKenna says of the
British navy that out of 4.T16 officers
only twelve are qualified to be inter
prefers of Gernlan OF more than 1000
British naval officers not one could
speak italian at recent visit to ITALY
Of the Mediterranean fleet
Tourists in British Columbia must
be careful OF the trophies or nemen-
tos they buy or try to buy. a new
game law prohibits the dealing in or
Offering to buy or sell the heads of
mountain sheep, elk. moose or caribou
or the teeth of elk or wapit1
In the Atlas mountains and in. fhe
southwestern part OF Morocco are val-
liable deposits of copper. anfimony
and silver and some gold. The tnTiues
are being worked very crudely, Ehe
natives not being familiar with mod
ern methods. The metal Is mined to
supply local needs
Professor Frederick Starr. the ia
NOUS anThropolo is going to .Ja-
pan In September. He Is going ssnong
the Ainu. ard Ire win make soIae in
vestigafion of the recent development
OF the japanese. especially along the
lines of what the Japanese regard as
up to date civilization.
At st. Day. CORNWALL England. can
be seen daily the strange spectacle of
water being retafled IN the public
streets at a haifpenny per pitcher. The
water is brought in asarreis drawn BY
horses, though If the inhabitants
cared to pay for the cost of piping lit
would saye them considerable out
lay.
ArmorAd concrete continues to en-
large the field of its application. The
experimental concrete telegraph poles
erected BY one of the great railroads
running between Chicago and the
eastern coast have proved so success
fuI that the company has decided to
extend their use gradually oHer it's
western lines
Something unique in the line of q
strike or boycott was recently reported
from a small town in Burgundy The
physicians Of the place raised their
rates 80 per cent and a mass meet
ing of all the ailing folk was called
at which It was decided to dispense
with the medical mems services and
trust to luck to get we'll
No portion of Manhattan Island has
such weekly change ia population
as that section south of Wall street
During the business hours of six days
in the week an observer can count 70.
COO persons in walk OF an hour
throsgh its lanes. and on a recent
Sunday only forty-seven persons could
be seen there in that time
Munshi Abdul Karin died recently
in Agra at the age of forty-six. He
was an interesting figure. having been
the chief OF the late Queen victoria's
Indian servants, 1t was Abdul who
taught her how to both speak and
write Hindostani. and he was among
the little guard of honor who watched
over the body of his queen.
A quite unusual test has been made
ii glass chimneys from the glass works
1t Bacearat. France. They were de.
signed for safety in coal mines con
tanning much nredamp. and when ten
Df them were suddenly plunged into
water at 30 degrees f. after being
slowly heated TO the boiling point of
water not one of them cracked.
BY treaty foreigners have the right |
10 buy land anywhere III Morocco, pro.
ziaed the purchase has the sanction of
lie local governor. This has been m
.ertai1a and possibly hard to obtain.