The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-12
FACTS IN FEW LINES.

$1,000.
Budapest Is to have new bacteria,
logical institute.
Over three-fourths Of the people in
England and Wales live In towns.
A rich Laplander sometimes keeps
as many as 5000 reindeer In bis serv-
ice.
The japanese are still busy recon
structing ships captured In the war
with Russia.
Stockholm win be the scene Of the
next Olympic games. which will be
held there In 1912.
There are over thirty periodicals de-
voted to ghosts, visions and the super
natural generally.
There are now in England and
France several establishments where
butterflies are bred.
Russia's prisons are constructed to
hold $4,000 prisoners Over 10000 are
now lodged In them.
Argentina has SO 600, 600 acres under
cultivation, three times the area cult
vated thirteen years ago.
Two-thirds Of the native population
of Uganda has been wiped out by the
sleeping sickness in seven years.
A little boy who fell into lake at
Budapest managed to seize a swan,
which brought him to shallow water.
Bank Examiner Edward P. Mickey
says the great majority of bank en-
ployees in this country are absolutely
honest.
OF all the European countries In only
Austria and Great Britain is It the rule
Of the road for all travellers to keep
to the left.
There were 40 boiler explosions In
| the United States last year, one less
than the year before, but they cost 2S1
human lives.
1t Is estimated that the known sup
ply of fertilizer in the shape of natural
nitrates will be exhausted by the
worlds demands in less than twenty
years.
Crews of British submarines are
taught how to use q safety helmet and
waterproof jacket designed to save
them In case the submarine on which
they are engaged is sunk.
The big trees Of California are the
Oldest living things In the world Es-
Inmates made from cross sections of
some of those which have fallen show
that the mature trees are more than
4,000 years old.
Almost all the towns in Siberia are
having arc lights for street use and In
candescent lights for houses. and the
larger proportion OF the people In 81
IBERIA have never seen gas, which they
regard as an illuminant OF past age
| The beggars in Spain have formed a
trust and have agreed to try to keep
all Of the two centime pieces out Of
circulation by holding them whenever
they secure any. The object Of this
combine is to make people give a
larger coin.
The expedition organized by the
American Museum of Natural History
which has been exploring the Fayum
desert In northern Egypt seems to
have located the place of origin of
the elephant 10 the tertiary age. Re-
mains OF the ancestral forms of eie-
plants. called the moeritherium, were
obtained.
/ The Swedish state railways, by way
of experiment. will take over the work
| ing for year OF the large Majeujanka
peat deposits In north Sweden. Should
the result be a. satisfactory as is ex-
| pected it IL understood that the state
railways intend to go In for peat pro-
duction on large scale in the north
Of Sweden
| Professor Karl Lohmeyer of Konigs.
berg, who died In Danzig at the age
OF seventy was born without
arms. A special permit was granted
to allow bis entry into the university
service. His students opened and shut
doors for him. but he turned the pages
Of books with his mouth and could
sign bis name firmly with a pen held
between his teeth.
What Is said to be the largest sign
In the world Is the one which has been
outlined on Yerba Buena island, In San
francisco bay. Trenches have been
dug IN the side OF hill and the bottom
and sides covered with heavy coating
OF lime, so that the words stand out In
bold relief. Each letter is forty Ave
feet high and the entire length OF the
sign is nearly 1900 feet
Byron while making q journey round
the lake of Geneva was driven by bad
weather to seek refuge az Onchy at the
Hotel de pAncre. Then and there be
wrote ''The Prisoner OF Chillon" while
the vision OF the castle was still IN
mind The hotel survives. though II
ID now called the Hotel d'Angieterre,
and on its walls has just been placed q
tablet In memory OF the poet
Hans Hubert Dietzsch. popular
member Of the Berlin Lustspielhaus
company, does not devote all his time
TO the stage He Is q sculptor Of no
mean order. according to a recently
published account His bas-relief Of
Afatkowsky. which Is now on exhibit
ton. has created much favorable com.