The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-11-18
FACTS IN FEW LINES


chair In st. Petersburg nor in all Rus
STA.
Nellie Drew of Norway, Me-, has a
rooster that she has seen catch two
mice.
Since 1898 Germany has increased
the expenditure on her army and navy
together % per cent more than has
Great Britain.
European manufacturers make very
small pianos of light weight for trans
by muleback.
The average catch at the Norwegian
cod fisheries for period of forty-two
years, covered by statistical reports.
is so. 100000 cod per annum.
There is one man in New York who
does nothing but write verses to go
under comic valentines drawn by 9th
er men. 1t keeps the versifier busy all
the year. and he has the field virtually
to himself.
while passing through his fields found
box turtle on whose back were the
initials ~. e. T.. 1861" Mr.. Towner
recognized them as his initials, which
he had carved when boy.
Lord Kinnard. speaking at the an
| nual meeting of the British Royal
Normal College For the Blind, drew
attention to the interesting fact that
80 or 90 per cent of the college stu
dents become self supporting,
Goodwin Smith has intimated that
| after his death the fine property
known as the Grange, which is his
home. will be given to Toronto, and
| the suggestion has been made that the
citizens of Toronto should erect n statue
| In his honor.
AS constructed in france. glass lined
cement tanks may be used for all kinds
Of liquids except those containing q
| large percentage of acids, the latter
| leading to the decomposition of the
cement joints and the loosening of the
glass plates.
In Paris, owing to the Increasing
| length of wOmenS hatpins and the
| list of accidents, such as eyes put out,
| ears, noses and cheeks torn. the police
officials purpose. to place some restric,-
ton on wearing hatpins in omnibnses.
railway cars, theaters and other public
| places.
Recently the authorities of Carlsbad
were much concerned over a decrease
| in the flow of the famous Sprudel and
other mineral springs. The stute took
up the matter, and it was found that
/ the working of the mines in the vi
cinity was probably affecting he sup
ply of the thermal springs.
One of the Chicago hotels is to have
diamond roenl.' the manager think
ing there are plenty Of rich Chicago
people who will he glad 10 pay $50 ex-
ira for the right to give dinner In it.
The dinner service is to be of gold.
and the walters will wear gold en-
broidered liveries.
1t will perhaps surprise most people
| to know that $21, l6O worth of marbles
| for the amusement of the American
boy were bought in Nuremberg last
year. This was slightly more than
the year before. but the purchases OF
rubber balls dropped from $22.637 in
1907 to $7.627 last year
| Martin Van Buren's bust again
| adorns stairway in the White House.
| The head was Knocked of years ago.
and the marble Martin went to the at
tic to live. The restoration is the be
credited to MIR. Roosevelt, who had
compassion upon his distinguished
Predecessor from New York.
Professor Ellen H Richards, who
teaches sanitary chemistry at the Bos
ton School Of Technology, says that
her experience in the west last sum
| mer while she was teaching at the
California State university showed hel
| that western women are more capable
housekeepers than eastern women.
A curious Wagner souvenir in the
form of silk handkerchief was sold
recently at Liepmann's, in Berlin, fol
1866 marks. On the handkerchief were
printed poem and this introduction
ITO Fraulein Minna PIaner on her
l I6uEELuRe W MuSIIdL INV ANAS Y
Wagner. Konigsberg. Nov. IA. 1896.
The twenty-five cent piece is, the
smallest coin accepted in Alaska. says
a traveller. Nothing may be bought
| for less than % cents. This would be
entirely too much to charge for arti
| cles which sell for cents in the Unit
| ed States proper, SO the Alaskans give
| two or more OF such articles for e
| cents.
DR.. DARCY Power. noted surgeon
in London, says that cultivated women
are the ones that are wanted as nurses
A man eonvalescfEg wants a woman
who can discuss the topics of the day
| with him. Nurses should go to the
theaters, visit the picture galleries and
study good literature, he insists, II
| they would be COED nurses.
There are practically no fire engines
| in Japan. but the Yokohama city coun
ell has made an appropriation to buy
two. In the old days Of bamboo
houses, which the owners could take
| apart and carry or under their. arms
| fires caused little concern in Japan
| but the Yankees of the east have beer
constructing real buildings in recent
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