The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-07
FACTS IN FEW LINES

OF wooden hoops on barrels and kegs.
One physician out of every twenty
one in the United States lives in New
York city.
1t is estimated that in Egypt there
are 100000 people who can neither
read nor write
Turkey has more aged people in pro,
portion to her population than any
other European country.
The longest pipe line in the world is
that which extends from the Oklahoma
oil wells to New York harbor
OF the 4,00O,0OO,0OO gallons OF wine
manufactured in the civilized world
every year about 100000 are made
in the United States.
q philadelphia has satented o de-
| vice whereby all the backs of che seats
in a car can be turned by single
lever in one operation.
The largea irrigation 9Ians in che
world will be included in che govern.
ment's plan to reclaim 10000 acRes of
land in the Bio Grande valley.
Rainwater is Che best 90 use ia
motorboaG ana automobile radiators
Thas from other sources zoo often
Rleaves an Objectionable deposit
One person can use Q two man saw
by stiffening it with a bow made of a
split sapling or other wood that will
counteract its tendency 60 buckle.
The Igorrote provinces OF che Philip
pines have been combined and will be
managed by one governor and subgov-
ernors. Bontoc will be the capital.
A young woman in Tienna whose
hatpin injured a mans eye and caused
| him to lose the sight Of it offered as
compensation to marry him. The offer
was accepted.
San Diego Gal, has q wonderful
clock, with twenty dials, which tell
simultaneously the time in ala parts of
the world; also the days of che wees
and the date and month.
The total duration of bright sun
shine for a week in .4berdeen, Scot
land, recently amounted to nine hours,
in an English town sixteen hours and
in London but little oVer Q guarteF
| of an hour
The great telescope of the Paris 8x-
position of 1900, which was built at
cost of $150000. is now offered for sale
by tl& receiver of the exposition at
about one-tenth of its cost Its hous-
ing requires building 100 feet long
The first fossiliZed peacock found on
this continent has been unearthed near
Los Angeles. Cal. Scientific men say
that this proves that peafowl existed
in America before it's discovery by Co
lunlbus. something not known before.
Western Europe is beginning to ship
freight Of the far east over the Sibe-
rian railway which formerly went by
water via Hamburg exclusively. An
increase of passenger traffic to Japan
and China by way of Vladivostok is
also noticeable.
Hitherto skulls of prehistoric men
have been said to resemble those of
great apes. but now comes a distin-
guished French anthropologist and de-
clares that one which has recently been
of that of Bismarck.
Hamburg is the principal importing
center in Germany for grain for both
domestic consumption and for trans
shipment to Denmark. Sweden and
Norway. Cereals are also forwarded
in river barges to Bohemia and at
times are re-exported via Baltic ports
to Russia.
Mrs. John Hay and Mrs Samuel
Mather have given money to erect a
chapel on the AdeIbert campus of the
Western Reserve university The
chapel is to be known as the Amasa
Stone Memorial chapel and is in mem
DRY of Ainasa Stone. the father of Mrs.
Hay and Mis-. Mather
Three boys, the eldest of whom is
only eleven. have been rescued at sea
from crazy boat. in which they had
started three days previously for
America from a fishing village near
Brest, France. The children. who had
no idea how far off America is, had
taken very few provisions and had
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A Bohemian tailor at Prague has in
vented a bullet proof shield for use 0f
the skirmishers while lying on the
ground. The shield, which weighs but
FIVE pounds, is made of composition
Of wax and felt, in which the striking
bullets are said to stick without pierre
ing. In the center of the shield is an
opening just large enough to pass the
rife muzzle through.
That Edison is as fertile as ever ia
suggestions appears in his proposal
that the East river be filed in and its
waters provided with a new channel
dug across Long Island at a point
farther east. Good authorities pro
nounce the scheme by no means chi
mericaI The real estate value of tie
present site of the river would be al
most beyond calculation.
In connection with the present actiY-
ity with regard to the reduction of |
fatalities in coal mines it is of inter- |
est to compare the following averages |
Of fatal accidents per thousand en- |