The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-06-27
FACTS IN FEW LINES.

Fifty years ago Brazil did not con-
tain more than 100000 inhabitants.
Today there are nearly 100000.
A cable line Is to be laid between
New York and Newfoundland and will
there connect with cable to Europe.
The annual emigration from Europe
amounts to 100000 A small percent
age of these persons return after few
years.
Last year the monthly acreage num-
Der Of prisoners in custody in Scot
land was 2,762. the highest for fifty
five years.
There is a project to set aside a part
Of the Kongo land for a national park,
in which native animals will have
place of refuge.
Canada's first plant for the manufac-
ture Of creosote is to be established at
Weldon, Que. by company employing
capital from the United States.
OF the seven Sicilian cables broken
by the last earthquake six have been
repaired The other was too deeply
buried in the sand to be raised.
A gooseberry bush, a currant bush
and an elderberry bush are growing
high UP on a willow tree near Surrey,
England. How they came to be graft
ed to the willow tree no one knows.
All are fiourishing.
J. p. Cobb of Burlington, Vt, while
digging in his yard turned up can
non ball which he thinks is a relic of
the war of 1912. The ball weighs six
pounds and is much rusted. 1t was
found more than three feet below the
surface.
The Canadian minister of the in
terror has submitted figures showing
that there are still available for home
steads in the province of Manitoba
17,S25,000 acres. in Saskatchewan 1884,
$4,000 acres and In Alberta $780,
coo acres
More than 100000 gallons of ere
osote and nearly 100000 pounds of
zinc chloride were used in preserving
timber in the United States last year
Small quantities of crude oil, corrosive
also used
No island in the West Indies has
soil better adapted to the cultivation OF
tropical fruits than Haiti; but, while
other islands are shipping millions Of
dollars worth of fruit to foreign coun-
tries, this island produces barely
enough for its own use.
To encourage French writer's Of fic-
ton and stimulate their best endeavors
literary periodical Of Paris has
founded a prize of 5000 francs to be
awarded annually to the young au-
thor who shall have produced the best
novel in the preceding two years, the
verdict to be rendered by jury Of
academicians.
Turpentine in India is derived from
the CHR, or long leaf pine, which very
much resembles the American long
leaf pine, from which the main supply
of turpentine of the world is derived
and which Is rapidly disappearing.
This tree occurs in different parts Of
the Hima1ayas at elevations Of from
S,5OO to 1000 feet
Seattle set a good example in its
planning of the Alaska Yukon-P Pacific
exposition Instead Of tearing down
the buildings after the big show is over
and undoing the costly typographical
work $500, 900 worth of the buildings
viii be turned over to the University
OF Washington, together with the wa
ter, lighting and sewerage systems.
Lord Fischer has been giving some
interesting particulars Of Queen Vic
toria's journals. There are said to be
over 100 volumes Of them, all written
closely In small running hand The
last entry is dictated and was added
just ten days before the queen died.
The journals, it is said, will never be
seen hereafter in their complete form
Rabbits are not indigenous to Aus
tralia, but were first introduced fifty
or sixty years ago, when two or three
pairs Were shipped into Victoria from
England to be bred for hunting pur-
poses and multiplied so rapidly that as
far back as 1880 steps had to be taken
by the governments of some of the
states in order to keep them within
control.
The tower building, the first steel
skeleton frame Office building built in
this country, is to be torn down. The
site it occupies, together with the
premises a to 4S Broadway and 43 to
At New street, New York city, will
be improved with thirty eight story
office building, to be erected by the
Broadway and New Street Realty com
pany, at a cost of $3,475, 900.
John yerrian, driver with engine
company No IS of the New York city
fire department, was shaving himself
when the alarm gong sounded. With
the open razor clutched in his hand
and his face covered with lather, be
drove his three horses at full speed up
Eighth avenue, and not till he had
reached the scene of the fire did he
realize that he was cIasping the open
razor.
CLAIM, suburb Of Liege, France, is
said to be sinking bodily into the
earth. Coal was discovered In the
neighborhood twenty years ago, and,
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