The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-16
FACTS IN FEW LINES

elected for five years.
Nearly all of Oregon's copper comes
from single mine In Josephine coun-
ty.
Three .auarters Of the total popula-
ton of Spain are engaged in agricul-
ture.
Arabia still contains one of the most
considerable areas of unknown land in
existence.
Australian boomerangs and noiseless
guns are both now seen In the same
New York shop window.
Italy every year uses 1860 tons Of
orange blossoms and 1000 tons Of
roses In the manufacture of perfum-
cry.
Nerve troubles are on the increase
in the great cities of the world owing
to the strenuous business and social
life.
The suggestion that the north pole
might be reached by balloon was made
as long ago as 1866 by DR.. Meissel Of
Kiel.
A vanilla bean kept In the sugar box
will impart a delicious flavor to the
sugar. This is bit of advice from q
French chef.
In nearly every street In Japanese
cities is Il public oven, where for Il
small fee housewives may have their
dinners and suppers cooked for them.
France has produced a Mary Mae
Lean. Her name IL Jeanne Neis. She
writes personal revelations not In hec-
tic prose. but In smooth and beautiful
verse.
The largest known species of orchid
grows In Ceylon. ehe leaves measure
up to ten feet In length, and single
plant will have as many as 1000 bios
SONS In one year.
In the villages of Cornwall, Devon
shire and Lancashire. England. Moth
ers' day has been recognized institu.
ton for generations. II Is celebrated
on mid-Lent Sunday.
"The total yearly drain upon our
forests. not counting losses from fires.
storms and insects. is some 20.000,000.-
600 cubic feet" says r. S. Kellogg.
assistant forester In charge of the of
fee Of forest statistics.
Baron Goto, the Japanese minister
of communications. is Investigating the
ACCESSIBILITY of transporting mail by
automobiles In the principal cities of
Japan and also possibly to distant
points where railway traffic Is not yet
opened.
An English hunter has come across
wild camels In Spain. They live In
the swamps between the Cote de Oma-
ma and the Guadalquiyir river and are
very shy. They are descendants OF
camels imported 10 1920 from the Ca.
nary islands.
Venus always turns the same face
toward the sun. SO the planet has no
day, and the lack of moon deprlves
1t of month. Finally. 1t has no year.
for its axis of rotation IL perpendicu.
lar TO the plane of its orbit. aud the
latter is almost circular.
The governor of the central prison
In Madrid was deposed some time age
for his excessive leniency. He allowed
the prisoners to have almost anything
they wanted. including weekly news.
paper. written and printed By them.
selves. One of them sold liquors.
For eighteen years Mrs. Amos Clea.
yer OF Reading. Pa. has been winding
string into ball until II now weighs
| twenty-six pounds and has cireum
ference of twenty.nine inches. Mrs
Cleaver's purpose il to show children
what may be accomplished by saving
what otherwise would lie thrown away
| as useless
The Compressed Air Workers union
of New York has drawn up lie fol
| lowing scale of wages for n days
work: For work done under % pounds
afr pressure or less. $3.50 u day: under
90 to 30 pounds pressure. 81. ~ for sis
hours; under 80 to 81 pounds. 81 fol
four hours; 35 TO 10 pounds. $i,25 fol
| three hours: 40 TO 45 pounds. $3.50 foi
one hour and twenty minutes.
Mrs. Taft has received an edition d.
| luxe of the memoirs of the elder Count
Bernstorff. who was BisnaHk's lirsl
ambassador in London after Prussia
had been absorbed In tho Gernian en-
pire. He made several complimentary
illusions to AlphonAo Taft. whom he
knew personally, aud this If the reason
for the gift. Count Berhstorff IL thu
| German ambassador In Washington.
Francis Eek, better known IL .Jact
Eek. Is the trusted engineman of tho
Queen of the Valley. the Reading,
flier between Allentown and Jerse,
City. He has retired and holds the
record for fast running. having pilotet
his train from Easton 10 Jersey Cit.
on Jan. 81, 1906 a distance OF seventy
two miles. in sixty-six minutes. max
ing up nineteen minutes Of lost time.
The republic of Panama has offered
to the United States an indemnity o.
5000 for an attack committed uior,
than two years ago on the United
States steamer Columbia. and 5000
Is offered as indemnity for the killint