The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-05-30
FACTS IN FEW LINES

IN ScOLtdfu Tue regal ages DIT WHICH
boys and girls can marry are fourteen
and twelve respectively
The streams Of the Himalaya noun
tains will soon be engaged in the pro
sale work of turning wheels.
A single body Of iron ore in Lebanon
county, Pa, has been mined almost
without interruption since 174O.
Italy sends the United States about
or about four-ffths of all she exports
One hundred and five thousand
pounds Of ostrich feathers were dis,
posed of at one sale recently in Lon
don.
Last year more wheat went to Eu-
rope from the port of Montreal than
from New York and all other Atlantic
seaports combined
1t is estimated that the Canadian
northwestern coal field between Nor
rissey and Banf contains about 45.-
000000,OO0 tons of coal
During thirty years of asbestus pro
duction Canada, which leads the world
in the output of this mineral, has pro-
duced $2O.O00,OOo worth.
The clerks book in which all the rec
ords Of the meetings of the VergenneS
(Vt) school board since 1926 have been
kept is still in use and we'll preserved.
Asiatic Russia will soon cease to be
considered as mo mans land" Dur
ing 1908 the number of settlers who
migrated across the Ural mountains
and remained was 637 sos.
That the magnetic influence of the
coast of Lapland drew his iron shir
ashore and wrecked it was the sworn
statement of the captain Of the Brit
ish steamer Sandal to the British
board of trade.
In former years the vicinity of the
Magdalen islands, forty miles to tie
north of Prince Edward Island, was
good sealing ground but of late years
the seals have not been found in that
district in any great number.
China is about to undertake census
of ali Chinese both at home and
abroad. There will be a census OF
families and also of individuals. The
former is to be completed in 1910 and
the latter not later than 1912.
Says the North China Daily News.
''The Chinese government has an
nouneed to Chinese residents abroad
that their sons will be granted free
tuition if they are sent back to China
to government schools for education
The ordinary house canary will eat
twenty-five pounds of seed a year
which costs an average for each bird
Of $3.50. 1t will be seen that this lux
ury represents an outlay ON the part
of the American people Of $7,5O0,O00
annually for feed alone
Orderly and well behaved convicts
are now being employed as agricul-
tural laborers in Austria. owing to the
lack of farm hands. The prisoners
are much pleased with the work. and
their employment is an incentive tt
others to behave well in prison
italian boat builders have been e1-
perimenting with boats and barges
built of concrete. and for harbor pur-
poses the results have been SO sue
cessful that the builders have at pres
ent more orders on hand than they
can care for with their limited plant
and facilities.
China is an example of nation
which is showing itself not afraid to
initiate other nations Not long age
six graduates of the Women's Medica!
school at Shanghai received their
diplomas. The institution was found
ed three years ago. and its principal is
a woman. Two of the essays read by
the graduates We're in English.
President Cabrera Of Guatemala dur
ing the last few months has twice es-
capped the bombs of his enemies and
is today as closely guarded at the cap
ital as a monarch of continental Eu-
rope. Cabrera even fears poisoning
It is said about Guatemala City that
no longer trusting the servants about
the palace, he now has his mother pre-
pare his food for him.
The death at Decatur recently OF
Captain NJ F. Kaaan leaves but one
survivor of the original members OF
| post No. 1. Grand Army of the Re
public. That one survivor is Captain
Christian Riebsome of Bloomington
ILL.,, who in speaking of the initia
post recalls that it was organized OF
April 6. 1866. the fourth anniversary
of the battle of Shiloh
John G. Emery OF Bedford, Ind
made an incubator by placing wood
en- box on the hot water radiator
Leaving the sides of the box open, he
constructed fues out of wrapping pa
| per, extending them from the top OF
| the box to a point below the box. He
| then placed eggs in the incubator, ant
| a nice brood of chickens has matched
| out. The entire cost Of this apparatus
| was cents.
| At concert which took place in the
| large hall of the Royal museum a
| Stuttgart recently, at which the kins
and queen of Wurttemberg were pres
ent, no instruments were used save
| spinets. clavieembolas and pianos OF
|