The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-12-16
FACTS IN FEW LINES


turns his back to the teacher.
Tanning OF snakeskins for women's
belts has become Il lucrative industry
in Madras
Sweden is organizing movement
to prevent young men from emigrating
from that country.
In southern Italy there are some
10000 persons diving in ten vfllages1
who speak the Greek language.
Mrs. F. A. Seward of Walpole. N. H.,
has cat that caught and brought
home rabbit weighing three and
half pounds.
Indian statistics give the tons Of
coal mined per year per person en-
pIoyed as follows: India. 101; England.
290; the United States, 500.
The increase Of population in Swe-
den during 1908 was greater than dur
Ing any of the last ten years, amount
ing to 51,SS7. or 9.65 per thousand.
The total quantity of radium which
has been thus far recovered for scien-
tific use throughout the world is est
mated not to exceed a quarter of
pound
Researches III Germany show that
given quantity of redhot coke will alb
sorb four times the amount of water
that will be absorbed by the same coke
If cold.
A tuberculosis congress will be held
In Athens next year, to which will be
invited not only physicians. bat all the
mayors and other prominent people OF
Greece.
The detailed formula of every patent
medicine has to be filed with the Aus
trian government and other require
ments fulfilled before its Impertatl''7
is allowed.
DR.. Nefr, the director OF the depart
ment of health of Philadelphia. has
started movement to eradicate ade-
noids in the school children Of the
Quaker City.
The government commissioners APP
pointed in Italy to report on the ques-
ton Of woman suffrage recommended
that women engaged in trade have the
right 10 vote for members of the cham
bers of commerce.
Poison for catching noxious animals
is In Norway obtaInable only by ex-
hibition of a certificate from the po-
lice authorities containing certain in
formation about the purchaser. the ma
ture and use of the poison. etc.
A waterlesS lock for canoes between
two lakes of different levels in Bos-
ton park consists of concrete tnclines.
with a runway set with rollers in the
centers and foot ways on either side on
which persons walk in dragging the
craft over the summit.
One of the godfathers of the Ger
man crown princes youngest son is
Count Zeppelin. The gift of the air
navigator to the hftle prince was a
huge lamp made of glass aud bronze.
The lamp is an exact reproduction of
the dirigible balloon Zeppelin Ill.
4 Skowhegan tMe.1 man who has
been experimenting with kites TO quite
an extent declares that the time Is
coming when fishing will be done from
says that fish are afraid OF boats. but
that they will bite at bait suspended
from kites.
The novel life belt of +. Guterman.
an English inventor. is metal strap
adjustable to man or child with feur
| air filed metallic floats about the size
| of an ordinary cocoanut. II is claimed
| that the wearer OF the belt must al
ways assume and keep u perpendicu-
lar position in the water
Two children. aged about six aud
eight wandered into the receiving
ward at London hospital. The elder
| handed the doctor IN charge the fol-
lowing note from its mother: They
have awful cauf | think it is hwo0p-
| ing cauf. You wait mint and hear
them cauf" She was right.
The first post route in the United
States was established in 1872. 1t was
between New York and Boston, and
| the schedule was once a month. To-
| day the yearly cost of mail transporta-
ton on our railroads alone Is about
$45. 100000. The railway postofice lines
cover 20S.484 miles and employ over
1900 officers and clerks.
/ A Russian princess who was robbed
Of money ard jewelry to the value OF
about 10000 at hotel in st. Moritz
told the police that all she regretted
was the loss of her own pearl neck
lace and the necklace of her pet dog.
The dogs necklace consists Of four
teen large pearls attached to a thin
band of gold and is worth about 81
250.
Eight new sanctuaries for birds and
animals have been set apart In the
state Of Victoria. Australia. by the
government within year. This is in
addition to the ordinary protection af-
forded by law to kangaroos. platypus,
magpies, laughing jackasses and GER
tain other animals and is intended to
prevent the determination Of native
creatures.
Beach combers reaped plentiful
harvest along the Thames embank.
j ment recently, the tide being so low