The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-12-02
FACTS IN FEW LINES

In England in 1885.
The average weight of the heart is
from uine TO eleven ounces.
Budapest has school where the stu
dents are taught the art of eating.
The use of leather shoes of the for
eign type rs rapidly extending in Japan.
The -four mills of Minneapolis grind
120.0OO.000 bushels of wheat every
year.
Deaths from hydrophobia in Europe
average only small fraction over one
a year.
1t is estimated that tourists spend
some $2.550.000 during the summer
season III Nova Scotia.
The sofa IN which Dickens died at
GadshilI has been presented to the
Dickens museum at Portsmouth.
Spain has larger area devoted to
olives than any other country in Eu-
rope. 1t amounts at present to 3.19S.-
ATT acres.
The Russian East Asiatic Steamship
company carries freight as we'll as pas
sengers direct from New York to Rus
sian ports.
Algiers also seems TO nave a Bur
bank. plant expert IN that country
has succeeded in raising a date with
out stone
A Rugby tEnglandI labarer named
John Ritnmer is stated to have gone
about with his neck broken for more
than three months
A cabiegram from Constantinople to
New York costs 2l6 cents a word; to
the interior of the Quilted States II
costs 40 cents a word
New York state has 1900 uniformed
and equipped citizen soldiers. yet Gov.
ernor Hughes manages to get along
with Il staff OF eighteen officers.
Eleven large American grain eleva-
tors are to be erected at certain points
on the railways leading into the grow
ing port of KarachI. India. vast
wheat area is tributary to that port
Germany pays comparatively little
attention to poultry raising. For the
greater part-ef its supply of eggs and
poultry the empire is dependent upon
Italy. France, Belgium and the Balkan
| states
| Wild boarS still abound in a region
which can be reached by railway in
two hours from Smyrna. Near Sam
SCUM some sportsnlen have shot as
many as fifty wild bears Ia single
year.
Trading OH the coasts of Madagas-
car are 425 small schooners James g.
Carter. our consul at Tamatave. says
! he thinks some Keen Yankee could go
over there and do good business fit
ting those busy craft with motors.
| BY using horses instead of dogs there
will be three mails a year Instead of
two TO Point Barrow. Alaska. the
northernrnOst postotlice ia The world
Horses are supervising dogs in the
transportation of all the mails in.
/ Alaska
Suez as well as Port Tewtiz is now
| lighted throughout by electricity. About
| 1000 lamps are in use in dwelling
houses and public buildings and go
in the lighting of the public roads. The
wires are partly aerial and partly un-
| derground.
Roentgen rays are used to examine
| insulated cables. every air bubble. par
| ticle of foreign substance or Imperfect
ton casting its shadow on the screen.
This is especially useful for ocean
cables. where faults would cause seri
| Gus trouble after laying.
Everybody knows that doctors give
less medicine than they used to. New
ertheless il is little surprising to
learn that the cost of medicine per pa
tient in the Massachusetts General
hospital is less than one-third what it
was fifteen years ago. although the
price of most drugs has risen in that
time
Fifteen hundred ''sixpenny cabs.
hansoms and four Wheelers have just
been placed on the streets of London.
and they are said already to have seor-
ed great success. Each cab bears
little flag with The announcement.
"SixpeDce t12 centsl not exceeding one
mile" Hundreds of people are taking
short rides in these cabs.
The Turkish bath as known in The
west differs materially from the Turk
ish bath as used in the east. Accord
ing to F. G. Atiea, wanderer and
mighty hunter. the difference lies In
the fact that at home the bath is Wis
tied only by men who wear broadcIoth.
whereas in Damascus almost the poor
est are able TO frequent it.
The decrease of song birds on the
plains is said to be due to the raids
OF the increasing bunds of coyotes
which prey on the Young birds. Coy
otes are said to destroy thousands of
the birds which nest on the plains
each spring. and farmers declare that
this is a menace to their crops. be-
cause OF the insects which must result
from lack of birds TO destroy them.
Pole dwellings 1000 years old. sim
liar to those discovered In the north
of Switzerland. have been unearthed
in a swamp on the plateau east of
Lake vetter. 100 miles northwest OF
Stock holm The excavations disclosed