The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-07-29
FACTS IN FEW LINES

ship.
Chinese astronomical records go
back to 1856 B. C:
The taxes on food are higher in Ger
many than In any other European
country.
For three years no salary has been
received by diplomatic representatives
of Persia abroad,
Arctic explorers seldom return to
their natural climate without suffering
Immediately from colds.
| An effort made in Russia to form a
| gigantic steel corporation on the lines
of the one existing in this country has
failed.
Three pounds of maple sugar to
tree is considered good yield. This
years yield in Canada was below the
average.
| A Turkish women's paper with
woman as editor and with women as
contributors has been in existence for
several years.
/ The per capita consumption of to-
baceo is lower in Italy than in any
other European country, being only
trihe over pound.
j Importations of Holsters into the
United States in 1908 amounted to
S,212.945 pounds, valued at s., 401, 449,
and nearly all from Canada.
The building of New York city's Cats
kill water system will require 58,000,
| 600 cubic yards of excavation, $4,000
600 more than the Panama canal
Fifty thousand tons of SCOT are taken
/ from the chimneys of London every
| year The SCOT is worth 100000. 1t Is
used as a fertilizer, half ton to an
1 acre.
A recent hurricane in Nicaragua
drove the water from the river against
the houses in the town of Prinzapolca
with such force that most were de-
stroyed.
Judge Hoyt in special sessions court
at New York announces that hereafter
dealers convicted of selling impure
milk will be sent to prison instead Of
being fined.
A mad bulldog jumped out of a
fourth story window in New York the
other day, alighting ON mans back.
Without being bitten, the man went
mad too Policemen shot the dog.
To raise money for start in house
keeping Frederick Horn and Mary
Omarley of Des Moines charged a
ten cent admission fee to their we'd
ding. and the receipts amounted to
\ 5000.
A wife in New York who got de-
cree of separation in 1901 with $50 a
week alimony told the court the other
day that it has cost her nearly $50
every week since that time to collect
the $50.
Hereafter no placard or poster which
pictorially represents the commission
of crime may be publicly exhibited in
the District of Columbia. The District
authorities have recently promulgated
an order to that effect.
It is said that seventy years ago it
was the custom for a man in hiring
out at Calais, Me-. to have it stipu-
lated in the agreement that he should
not be compelled to eat salmon more
than twice a week.
The range of impressions which we
get from lifting an object is exceeding
" small An ordinary chemists bal
ance is some million times as sensi-
tive and weights down the two-hun-
dredth part of miIligram.
Japan holds second rank as silk
producing country. China standing
first, Italy third and France a yery
bad fourth No country. however. has
shown such phenomenal progress
within recent years as Japan.
In a recent speech Sir Robert Hart
called attention to a remark made t
him years ago by the Chinese prime
minister, Wen Hsiang. You had bet.
ter let us sleep on. If you will awak
en- us Wen go farther and faster thar
you'll like. "
Accidents at sea are costly Daui
ages to the amount of over S12S00
were claimed by the owners q tbs
st. Paul, in collision VII. which TN
British Gladiator was sunk last year
The British admiralty REGISTRAR award
ed about $95.T00
Cases of cure of ulcers and of epithe.
Iona by exposure to the sun and q
laryngeaI tuberculosis by the rays 81
the sun reflected on the larynx By d
laryngeal mirror have been recorded
by German writer's. This treatmen;
seems to have been carried out in al
cases at sanitariums situated at higl
: attitudes. where sunlight is very pow
erful
At one of the hotels of Burlington
Vt, the chef has been employed TWEEN
ty-nine years, one waitress twenty
seven years, the head pastry cool
nineteen years, the steward seventeen
years, two other employees twenty
years each, while several mattresses
chambermaids and others have beer
with the hotel more than ten years
each
How huge is the cost of underground
railways is shown in comparison OF
the total cost of all the tube railway
systems of London with the total cos