The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-05-16
FACTS IN FEW LINES

0oo000 worth Of new buildings thl.
year.
| In Mohammedan countries wamei
are not admitted beyond the door ways
of mosques
The largest city on the AzoroJ IL
lands is ponta Delgada 1t has 23oY
inhabitants
Ancient paintings 1000 years ole
show plows. harrows and land roller
in use In Egypt.
More bread Is eaten in France pei
capita than in any other european
country. except Belgium.
A machine operated on the principle
of the vacuum cleaner Is being used to
| pick walnuts in California grove
1t has recently been shown that an
| automobile can make the trip to Cal
cutta from the extreme northern part
of India without hitch.
month old baby with full set of
| perfectly developed teeth caused SEN
sation when exhibited at recent meet
ing of the Vienna Medical society.
| A company has been formed in Con
necticut to exploit a typewriter which
is held to be noiseless, printing by
The government of the British East
| Africa protectorate has prohibited any
| person experimenting with wireless
| telegraphy without a license from the
| governor
| Experiments have shown that the
| Chicago air 800 feet above the street
contains in a year 7,o3S pounds of dirt
| an acre. or three times as much as
| London air
The Moteno Cape Colony farmers
have hit upon a novel plan for dealing
with loeusts A farmer has imported
some eagle kites for the purpose Of
soaring locusts from the crops.
The aborigines of Australia, of whom
about $4,000 remain. are apt students
of reading and writing in English but
apparently cannot be taught even the
simplest forms Of mathematics.
The sum of $500 was paid In Paris
some years ago for the door through
which during the French revolution
Marie Antoinette Charlotte Corday
and Danton went out to execution
Two hunters of Benson, Vt, swhile
hunting along the shore of Lake Cham
plain found $36.23 in old English coins
The coins were discovered In the hol-
low of tree and bear dates from 1860
to ITO.
Austria Hungary has the advantage
of more abundant forests than most
countries, It's foremost area being 311a
per cent DIS against % per cent In Ger.
many, 81 per cent in Norway, 10 per
cent Ia France and Ia per cent in
Italy.
One of the most fashionable clubs In
Berlin has In its supper room a cur
tain made of champagne corks. Four
thousand corks. with their silver or
gilt covering, have been threaded on
thin rods decorated with colored rib
bons and embellished with small cop
per balls.
In Reading. Pa. there is sideboard
made OF 10000 pieces OF wood. all In
laid and fitted together without show
Ing single joint. Harrison Weber,
the owner, was twelve years making
the sideboard. which. according to the
time spent and the material used. Is
valued at $4,000.
An arrangement Of ships lights In
definite triangle on a known plan ia
urged by D. H. Shuttleworth- Brown
as safeguard against collision The
lights would then show an observer
on another ship the vessels course.
her Distance from the observer md
her approximate speed.
The discovery of strange substance
In cave near the town OF cornilia.
Mexico, leads to the belief TINT radiar
is In the composition of the interior Of
the cave. The inside Of the cave girps
off an iridescent glow constantly. and
samples of the rock taken from tl,a
cave glow strongly In the dark.
The National City bank Of New
York Is now the greatest i.4esitr.ie. =
Its kind In volume Of l,tifilim;s .;;.ts,.s.
acted. Eight millions Of dollars piss
through the bank each day l''ia. is,sii
safe, which IL protected By dear rtsl1
twenty four bolts. contains %fj9mat $50
In gold and s50o9nogaa Il; FIRST e,..s..4
securities.
It Is announced that reil1arksisa.
interesting discovery hls bern max,
In the eatacembs OF piiasiiii. 1T Rose.
In the form of the following inst4ii-
ton: I'm isto loco Petrnx fui. sigiisr
Marucchi. the eminent ARCHAEOLOGICAL
Is convinced after careful study of
circumstances, that the Petrus is none
other than the Apostle St Peter
Victoria, one of the states belonging
to Great Britain, still has Queen Vic
toria's head on some of Its stamps
Letters thus stamped are regarded on
their arrival In England as not stamp
ed and charged double on delivery
One of the persons thus penalized
asked the reason and was told that
the time Of grace--six years-after a
change Of sovereignty had expired.
The queen of Swaziland, In africa.
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