The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-21
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.nlbs ca1,la into use in te34.

Of Abyssinia.
Japan is building her first homemade
locomotives.
Over 1900 different Kinds of insects
feed upon the oak.
Glass is not manufactured in any
part of South Africa.
The Rio Grande is shrinking, and eff
forts are being made to preserve its
waters.
Dairymaids in Denmark get from
about 81 to 50, with board and lodging,
a month.
ftfhe Onfy precious stones OF consider
able value produced in India are the
ruby and jadeite.
The Niagara falls hydro electric
plants during the year 1908 saved the
equivalent of more than million tons
of coal.
The total number Of acres planted to
rape and mustard in all India is 3,S71,
600, and the yield is estimated at $685.
600 tons.
How to burn smoke, avoid sparks
and eliminate combustible matter is
requisite Of railway locomotive build
ers in Holland.
Vice Consul General Carl r. Loop
writes that the success of the worlds
fair to be held in Winnipeg in 1912 is
already assured.
New York city has been increasing
its birth rate for the last ten years
For the twelve months just passed it
has been twenty-eight to the thousand
Inhabitants
Fully one-fourth of the $13,000,
100000 worth of gold produced in the
world since the discovery of America
has come from the mines of the
United States,
BY the addition of Venetian soap
and gum lac alcohol has been made
into briquets, which are inclosed in
air tight metal boxes so formed that
they may be used as spirit lamps.
The recent development of bitumi-
nous mines in Monterey county is ex-
pected to rehabiIitate the coal indus
try of California, which has been
steadily declining for several years.
The aluminium coins issued in Nj
geria. East Africa, and Uganda during
1906 and 1907 have been found insult
able for such tropical climates and are
being replaced by nickel-bronze coins.
Selling hot water in the streets is
the occupation of many men in Man
churiaH towns They take it around
in kettles, and people save their coal
by buying for fraction of a cent hot
water enough TO make tea or cruel.
A great many art treasures are be-
ing dug up at OStia, the seaport of
ancient Rome. There are some who
even go so far as to say that it may
rival Pompeii in the beauty of the OBJ
jects which are yet to be discovered.
Wireless messages from New York
are now received or intercepted almost
daily by the military station on the
EiffeI tower in Paris. Occasionally
radio kilograms have also been receiv-
ed from Canada. which, it is believed.
forms a record in wireless telegraphy.
A natural bridge spanning 271 feet
and more than 800 feet high has been
discovered by members of the Utah
Archaeological society. The bridge
said TO be the largest natural bridge
known. is in Utah. four miles north of
the Arizona line and six miles east of
the Colorado river.
Letters and mail bags are carriers of
tuberculosis. According to testimony
recently given before the postal COM
missioners of the British empire. dur
ing the last twenty years so per cent
of the deaths among letter carriers had
been due to consumption. contracted
by the men after they had entered the
service.
George Randolph. born in a little
mining camp somewhere in the inte-
rior of British Columbia. had never
seen woman until he stepped aboard
steamer to leave for Seattle. Ran
dolph is eighteen years old. His moth.
er died when he was a mere babe, and
he has since lived alone with his fa-
Their in the wilderness of the north.
Lady Delamere is a daughter of the
Earl of Enniskillen, and her marriage
to Lord Delamere was romance.
Delamere was thrown from his horse,
and the young woman nursed him in
farmhouse. Soon they were married.
and Delamere took his bride to East
Africa. He now OWNS larger estate
than any other individual III that coun-
try.
At the first American census only
six cities reported population of APP
proximately 5000 inhabitants. Com
pared with this number in 1900 there
were 286 cities and towns in the same
area having population of 5000 or
more. In Rhode Island alone the
smallest of all the states, there were
more cities of 5000 inhabitants than
there were in the entire United States
in 1890
Considerable interest has been arous-
ed by the publication from the Uniyer-
sity of Lyons of the results of a long
series of Investigations with regard to
the animals nlummified ard painted by
the ancient Egyptians. Among the
animals identified is the we'll known
white oryx, now to be found only in
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