The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-07-11
FACTS IN FEW LINES

printed in English as well as japanese
characters.
A telephone line is being constructed
in the Alps which will hold the rec.
ord for height.
Italy conducts her own salt. match
and tobacco trades and now proposes
taking over drugs.
BY the Young Turk party the word
"Ottomans'' has been adopted to cover
all the people of the empire-MOham
medan, Christian and Jew.
Cigar boxes of glass are coming
more aud more into use. They are
cheaper than the wooden boxes and
keep the cigars fresh longer time.
AS compared with other countries
Argentina ranks third In the number
of cattle. Russia, velth 91000,0OO head,
stands first, and the United States fol
lows, with G9,O00,0CO head.
Two Italian physicians have gather
ed facts showing that accidents among
workers are invariably most frequent
on Monday and gradually decrease in
IuuDcI W Tue CItI VI tuC WYNN
Agitation has been started among the
leading men of the Bohemian colony
in New York to erect in Central park
n bust to the founder Of the Bohemian
national music. Frederick Smetana.
The tomb and mumm1es of Kha,
architect and engineer of the mighty
buildings at Thebes, and of his wife
recently were discovered in the valley
of the Queens, Egypt, by an Italian.
In@signaling at sea the flags to be
hoisted ut one time never exceed four
With eighteen variOusly COlored flags
and never more than four at time NJ
fewer than 1862 signals can be given
Japans whaling industry has devel-
opea almost entirely since the late
war. Last year the twenty steamer
got SOG whales against 2GS in 1906.
of which 400 were caught in KorGgL
waters
There is an orchard near TripOli, III
Syria, whose history is definitely es-
tablished by a trust deed covering 40
trees, which was issued 400 years ages
The trees look old. but they bear fruit
abundantly.
The largest teak log recorded in Ran
COON was eighty-three and half feet
long, with circumference of twelve
feet at the butt and seven feet at the
top, and contained over ten tons OF
timber when cut up.
An English physician maintains that
the teeth of cows should be cleaned
daily on the ground that they are in
tested by many dangerous bacteria
which find their way into the milk and
cause fnfantile diseases.
Already distinguished as the oldest
comic paper in the United States. the
Harvard Lampoon is to have a hand
some building, giving it the honor OF
possessing the only one owned and oc
cupied by college publication.
Miss Elizabeth Chesser has devoted
the past year to investigating the con
dition of women prisoners in England
She declares that she found very few
skilled workers among them, the vas
majority being women without a trade
or education.
The Mexican government has com
pleted arrangements with the krupp'
to establish plant for the manufac
ture Of Mauser bullets, smokeless pow
der and gun cotton. The equipmen
will be modelled after the plant of thu
Krupps in Germany.
Professor GieIer of Munich. after ex
tensive study in Europe and America
has come to the conclusion that WON
ems feet are rapidly growing larger
The time may come. he says. when il
a matter of feet there will be Iittl
difference between the two sexes.
India has enacted a law for the pre-
lection of wild animals and birds III
| local government is empowered to &c
clare a close time during which
| will be unlawful to ca"trre. XIII or t
deal In any specified kind "f .,a.;a' :
the plumage of any specified bird
The city of Douai Is going 10 orcr
a monument to John Of isoiogna, 90
Of its most famous citizens. tn
| sculptor was born there In 1924 AZ
| died at Florence In 1908. th" appet2a
ton of Bologna being 4 corruption q
his own name Of De Boullon"ne, Il
/ old Flemish family sill III eSiStca,'c.
Nothing has made more rcmariiahl
| progress in japan in recent years thu
the demand for toilet goods With h
general rise in the scale of living /
the country The imports nave T.
creased from $t55,O00 gold ten scar
ago to $75O,oOO in 1905 while the eN
ports last year were S1,250,000 i
value.
The Duchess of Aosta, sister of til
queen of Portugal, is born sports
woman A short time since she al
piled to England for permission t
hunt elephants in Uganda and wa
greatly disappointed when permissio
was refused. The reason for refusf
was that the sport is considered daT
gerous for any woman to share in.
1t is probable that after July 1. 191:
1t will be unlawful in England to us
yellow or white phosphorus in til
manufacture of matches. The invest