The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-11-25
FACTS IN FEW LINES

| per annutD.
In the list of the imports of this
country bananas stand twenty-fourth
in point Of value.
According TO a government report,
100000 cattle die every year in this
country from disease. exposure aud
neglect
To aid In the study Of high vOltages
a short experimental transmission line
| has been built in Sweden adapted to
operate at 100000 volts
The Japanese are beginning to APP
| preeiate American dentistry All of
their most expert dentists got their
training In this country.
Ecuador exports about 10000 tons
Of vegetable ivory annually. Of which
Germany takes about one half and the
United States one-fourth
Ireland exports annually approx
mately $20O0O.OOO worth of eggs. and
If the exports OF live and dressed
poultry are added the sum reaches
25,OOO,OOO.
Smyrna has about 100000 inbab-
| itants, almost half Of whom are for
eign. the bulk being made up of
| Greeks, French. Germans. English
and Italians.
Standard time in Belgium. Holland
and Spain. Ia the same as In Great
Britain 1t is one hour faster in Ger
many. Italy. Austria. Denmark. Ser
via and Sweden.
There is process 10 use In England
whereby metallic ribbon mile long
can be turned out In about the same
time that II takes locomotive to
| travel a mile-that IL. one minute.
Deuatured alcohol has been success
fully manufactured from fax straw
ut the North Dakota Agricultural col
Iege. The yield Of thirty five gallons
q ton does not make 1t paying
| proposition.
One of the requests for a patent re-
ceived I'm the patent Office Of Ger
many was for device for making
ones own matches. With the aid Of
II any one can. by five hours work.
save 6 or I cents. r
All places of any size iu South AZ
/ RIGA have town halls we'll equipped
| for giving lectures or entertainments.
which can be hired ut reasonable
rates. The seating capacity 10 most
Of the theaters and halls liz GOO to
1000
Contrary to the general impression.
the American indians have increased
by about 10000 10 the last twenty
I years, according TO government ig-
lures. The totni number of red men
In the United States is now about
100000. =
Bavarians drink most of the beer
they make. OF product of nearly
| half billion gallons Inst year only
100000 gallons were exported. The
| year for every man. woman and child
in the Kingdom.
The main lesson of leprosy is some
what philosnphic. Ali Europe for CEN
turies was covered with 1t. but the
quick. strong. reactive blood of the
white race strangIed the germs OF
death. SO It n doubtful If whites could
ever be pestered much again.
| When steamers FIRST came into use
very little attention was bestowed
upon the consumption of fuel IL was
not until the Cunard steamers were
started crossing the Atlantic that re-
liable records of fuel consumption be-
/ gan to be kept Systematically.
Although in most Of the mines In
Japan the various operations are car
ried out by the ordinary labor of men
and cattle. It seems from report on
the mining industry In Hokkaido that
at three coal mines and at one gold
and silver mine electrical machinery
is employed.
In quicksilver mine near the town
of Konia. In Asia Minor. which Is
now being worked By m English COM
pany, there were found not long ago
the skeletons Of fifty men. victims of
an accident which. as n writer In En-
cheering and Mining points out. must
have occurred some 5000 years ago
| a 1iIfcIn1hti ulAh hNApu IOi III
vorce because his wife was Irritable.
high tempered and used exasperating
language. But the Judge held that n
woman who had bad The care Of four
| small children and no domestic help
had right 10 have a temper and to
also use language that expressed her
feelings.
| A recent Chinese newspaper states
that the law of nationality. consisting
of twenty-four articles. has been de-
cided upon By this law any person
who has lived in China over ten years
and Is above twenty years of age, Of
good moral standing, being helpful to
China. may be allowed to assume Chi
nese nationality If asked for.
For the first time since the national
bank act went into effect, forty
years ago. says an exchange. there is
not an examiner In the service today
1 who owns share of stock IN any one
of the 1000 national banks. who Is an