The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-19

large as a mans fist.
In Chile are regions where there are
so many Germans that the native
servants learn their language.
Lamp chimneys which will stand
great and sudden changes of tempera.
ture are now made by new process
in France.
The Japanese cabinet recently re-
pealed an ordinance enacted in 1875
prohibiting the use of foreign inks or
official documents.
The Chinese assumption that
woman must not be heard of outside
the door of her own house is now be
ing criticised by up to date Chinese
editors
British postoffice clerks have just
been admonished to be polite. They
say it is hard to be polite to Ameri,
cans. 1.-The majority Of whom are ex,
tremely rude
Marriage in India is contracted il
very early life, but there is nothing tc
bear out the assumption that the off.
spring of such marriages are mentally
defective. Idiots are rare.
Of 1870 females who tried to commit
suicide in Moscow last year only thir-
ty-f1ve succeeded. Most of them were
under twenty years old. Of 594 men
who attempted to take their own lives
1914 succeeded. A large majority of
them were from twenty-seven to thir-
ty-two years old.
Under existing laws there is no pos
sibility of -four from the United States
or from any other country entering
France for consumption in the country
except in the event of crop shortage
Only two years of insufficient home
supplies occurred in the last twenty
years-once in 1891 and again in 1898
The little town of Faenza. in the
north of Italy, whence comes that deli
cate pottery known as faience. was
the birthplace of Torricelli, the in
ventor of the barometer, and it's cit
liens recently celebrated the tercen-
tenary of the famous mathematician's
birth Torriceli was pupil of Cali
lei
Experiments are now being made in
southern California TO acciimate the
Uruguayan fruit known as guayba (not
to be COMPOUNDED with the guaVa,.
This fruit resembles fig in shape.
The interior is filled with most lus-
cious red, white or blue sweet pulp.
the favor resembling that of the musk
melon.
The largest cheese ever manufacture
ed in the Mohawk valley was shipped
from Utica. n Y, to Chicago firm
recently. The cheese was built in the
usual shape. but it measured 81 inches
high and 40 inches in diameter and
weighed 1850 pounds. 1t took about
ten tons of milk to produce. it, and it
was pressed into shape by u specially
constructed press.
Marconi. denies the assertion recent
ly made to the effect that wireless
telegraph waves are dangerous to the
health of the operators. He says that
he has been ia the business twelve
years without injury and adds that his
health was never better than during
periods when he was exposed for many
hours a day to the conditions which
have been challenged
Berlin has shorthand writer with a
unique speciality. He attends all flu
nerals of prominent persons and takes
down verbatim the addresses OF the
officiating clergymen. Then be pre-
pares highly ornamental copies OF the
addresses and sells them to the friends
of the eulogized dead His business is
so good that he has taken one assist
ant and has advertised for another
London has a new chief of the fire
brigade, Lieutenant Sampson SladPn
r. N. having recently been elected to
the place by the London county coun-
Gil The salary of the office is $500
year, less than half what New York
ton was raised awhile ago to $4,000
a year. Lieutenant Sladen is not new
to the fire fighting business. having
been a divisional officer of the brigade
since 1899.
The effect of singing on a child's
nSdIIu Is uGdlI Will III d
issued by the Scotch education depart
ment on the teaching of music in Scot
fish primary Schools There is no
more health giving form of physical
exercise than singing" says the men,
orandum. 1T develops. strengthens
and maintains in good condition the
lungs and the other vocal organs and
through them exerts a corresponding
influence upon the whole body" it de-
clares
General Sir Ian Hamilton has been
appointed adjutant general of the Brit
ish army and second military men,
Der of the army council. Sir Ian join
ed the army in 1873, and most Of his
service was with the Gordon high
landers About seventeen years ago
be created a sensation by declaring
publicly that not one British soldier
in hundred knew how TO shoot. but
since then the war Office has come
round to his way Of thinking. and the
present musketry training is based on
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