The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-06-02
FACTS IN FEW LINES

The latest types of submarine YES
sells make a speed of from eight to ten
miles.
drydock large enough for the lar
gest vessels aaoat is planned for st.
John. N. B.
The manufacture of rattan furniture
is beginning to attract attention in the
Philippines.
Ten steamships are to be put on the
service for carrying chilled beef from
Argentina to Liverpool
China's ministry of the interior 30
poses TO lay down measures to prevent
political party associations.
The sale of American fruiN abrOaA
has amounted to about $16.00OOt0xn
nuaily for The last few Yeats
Only 10 per cent of Rerman SC@oda
boys. it is said. go in for athi@i,@ 10
against 70 per cent of British.
The aggregate value OF the @ineral
production for British Columbia fM
the last eleven years was $3.50, O0@S00.
More than 10000 twenNcisdle zoe.
er incandesuent lamp tilaments can be
made from single pourS of@ntaium
All Chicago policemeQ will 60 o
two weeks vacation with @ay @ilis
summer for the first tinl9 in rho HE
tory of the city.
A married woman in Switzerland is
entitled to une-t bird Of her husband s
income as her iudependene property.
according t. Il new law
The construction of canal o. ruE
poses Of goods traffic between YoGo
hama and Tokyo is the latest project
in Japanese financial circles.
Although the population of Western
Australia is not 100000, the govern
ment spends about E50.000 year i'll
connection with it's hospitals;
The Americans residing III Smyrna
are hard up for amusement. so they
are erecting a theater building capa-
BILE of seating 1,500 spectators.
The Belgian minister of the colonies
has decided to organize an expedition
to go to the Kongo to study sleeping
sickness and to find means if possible
to remedy it.
Newfoundland. with which the Uui-
ed States has large and leading
trade, exceeding $1.O0O,000 ii year. is
prosperous. Both revenue and surplus;
this fiscal year are the largest in her
history.
As a word of warning the B0St on
Herald says. "The ladies' hats may he
/ wider next year. but if they are the
railroads will either have TO widen the
cars or have only Ii single row OF seats
with passage for the conductor Oh
the side
The thinnest sheet of iron ever roll.
ed has recently been turned ont at thu
Hallam Tin works, near Swansea. =
has a surface of fifty-tive square inches
and weighs but twenty grains. Il
would take 1.S0O such sheets to make
a layer an inch thick
The rural free delivery service of fht
United States means the distribution
of nearly 3000.0O0000 letters and par
GELS annually along he highways and
byways OF every state and territory
from Maine 10 Alaska. A force OF
1900 carriers daily go over the routes
assigned to them.
According TO D. w. 7. Sonnecke
chief of the division of music OF the
Congressional library. Dixie is nead
and shoulders above any other nation
al tune in the popular esteem, Mr.
Sonnecke recently wrote Il little h;,o
chure about national airs in genera
and accorded TO Dixie" the first rant
in the popularity contest
The oldest active sailing vessel il!
the world is thought to be the Con
stanz. which sails the Baltic and Nort!
seas. She is used as freighter aas
can carry two ton cargo. She VA,
built in 1923 and has never had any
extensive repairs made on her. He'
owner says that she is good for Eel
third century unless she is ship
wrecked.
A Frea, imam has invented a record
ing attaei,-nent for the piano for liz
use of co. .poSers by which each t-e,
when struck leaves a mark on Il Sfr!I
of slowly moving paper. BY maaH:
of this contrivance improvised musi*
may be transcribed aud feeting idea
caught thai perhaps it would be in
possible for HE composer 10 recall ant
commit to PAPER
A recent test of wireless telephony
was made 10 show its value for trans
hitting Music Several selections Wer;
sung in ,rfnsmitter at l'art avenn'
and Fortieth street. New York. anf
We're listened to by q group of news
paper men at The Metropolitan tower
At times the singing was very clear
but frequently il was impossible Il
hear anything but confused blur Of
sound
II is announced in the French pres
that the historic house occupied by Ma
poleon on The isle of Elba. known a,
the Villa San MARITIME Porto Ferrajo
is to be sold at auction. With Tbs
house are to go the furniture and 9th
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