The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-18
FACTS IN FEW LINES

for cigarmaking.
One estate belonging to the car GOV.
ers 1OO,OOO.OO acres. or about three
times the area Of England.
The actual valuation Of all tobacco
produced and manufa1R ,red in Cuba
last year was at least $zI,OOO,OCO.
There is a water hog in Brazil which
does great damage to the rice crops.
Birds are also enemies to be dreaded
An experiment station to investigate
the resources Of Guam will be estab-
lished there by the department of agri-
! culture.
A Chinaman is the finest orator in
an Ohio college. and an Icelander has
won Rhodes scholarship in Winni-
peg college.
The Paris botanic garden has re-
ceived from Pierpont Morgan fine
specimen Of the pctrffied trees found
in Holbrook. Ariz.
| European inventors are successfully
endeavorng to produce moving pic
lures which can be seen clearly with
Two New Jersey jqries have ruled
| that women hurt in leaving trolley
| cars cannot recover damages if they
wear high heeled shoes.
There are villages in the Alps and
Pyrennees where electric power is SO
cheap that it does not pay to turn off
the lights on leaving room.
Every employee of the Bank of Eng
land is required to sign his name in a
book on his arrival in the morning and
If late must give the reason therefor
Emperor Nicholas has given $500
to the Russian Young Mems Christian
association, founded in St Petersburg
by Arson Phelps Stokes Of New York
The population of the continents is
divided per square mile rs follows:
Europe, 1O7: Asia, 81: North America.
II; Africa. II; South America 6ia:
Australia. 1h.
G. Il. Whidden of rresque Isle. Me-.
owns Il horse that went up fourteen
steps from the barn floor to the hay
loft and down again without being in
the least injured
Now that the chemical manufacture
Of indigo has made the natural prod
uct Improbable only twelve districts
in Burma grow the indigo plant and
chiefly fer local dyeing purposes.
William II. Lynds of Lowell, Mass.
has jar of maple strip which was
boiled down by John Darling of Vince
lock. VT. in 1885. Ii still has an excel
lent flavor despite it's great age.
India's accumulated boards Of wealth
locked up in strong iron boxes and Sc
creted amounts to S1.5OO. 100000, and
this vast sum is being augmented an
nually to the amount Of $55,O0O.OOO.
An idea of the growth Of popular in
terest in the War on the great white
plague may be gathered from the fact
that the tuberculosis show in New
York city attracted 5G7.OG5 visitors.
A Syrian business directory has just
been issued in New York. and Sec
ond edition will be turned out next
fall. The book contains information
both in the English and Syrian Ian
guages.
Time was when the rich soil Of Aus
tralia bore crops from year to year
without artificial aid. During the last |
decade the, area Of soil which needs |
fertilizers has increased from IL to So |
per cent
Every male Servian is liable for mil |
itary duty between the ages of eight |
cen and fifty. but in practice the men
do not join the colors until they are
twenty and terminate their service
at fOrty-three or forty-four.
A typographical error in Cleveland
paper furnished the women with the
very word they wanted and have been
looking for. The paper quoted wo-
man as addressing the presiding officer
" follows: Mrs. Chairman"
On the basis of bushel of corn pro-
lucing 2.5 gallons of alcohol, 1t has
been figured cut that last years corn
:rop in the United States was sufl-
.ient to furnish 10000, 600 horsepower
or ten hours a day for an entire year.
The Sahara is not such q barren
,lace, after all. Some time ago there
we're 100000 sheep in the Algerian
Sahara alone. 100000 goats and &c.,
100 camels. 1t is estimated that the
,ases Of this desert contain 1.50O.OO
late palms:
The new woman in China. instead Of
following the example Of her English
ind American sisters In railing against
he tyranny of men. has revolted
against her relations-in-law. One Of
he women's clubs in Shanghai pro-
.laims as It's object rebellion against
nOthcrs-in-law"
The plague In India first made it's
appearance in Bombay, where the dis
.ase during the last ten years has
havoc. but at this time the
mortality is one per day. The health
of the city is doing its ut
most to keep down the disease. To
his end about 10000 rats are being
.il1ed each week.
In many Of the outpatient depart
nents Of the university clinics in Ber-
In the former system Of placing a col