The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-21
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Aristotle described comet which
appeared B. G. 81.
In Spain shoeblacking is mixed with
wine instead of water.
A part of the lower Engadine in
Switzerland is being converted into a
national park.
Nearly 10000 beds in London hos
pitfalls are daily occupied by the sick
and MANNED poor.
Every day the railroads of New
York city move s5 per cent of the
population Of the city.
The United States imports about
125,000 tons of manufactured chalk
a year. mainly from England and Ger
many.
From 1889 to 1909, inclusive, the
government of the United States spent
$474, 163,917 in caring for the Indians
of the country.
Fire played less havoc in the wood
lands of the national forest states last
year than it did in 1908, although the
number of fires was 40 greater
The number of accidents in street
and steam railroads within the city
of New York was 56,491 in 1908, while
in 1909 the number was reduced to
52,618
A lock of Napoleons hair, cut by his
servant on May 81, 1911, at the Hotel
de LORI, Brussels, was sold recently
for 81 at Stevens auction rooms, Gov
ent Garden, London.
An airship is being made for the
British navy which will have a lifting
capacity of twenty tons. In many re-
spects this is the largest ever con-
structed and is the first built for the
English government
The rapid growth of mahogany is
shown in southern Nigeria, where the
site of town destroyed sixty years
ago has been covered with mahogany
trees, some of which are more than
ten feet in diameter.
A German scientist has invented a
so called duplex compass which by
indicating the horizontal intensity Of
the earth's magnetism gives the APP
proximate longitude and latitude of
any place where it may be used
! The Canadian minister of the in.
terror submitted figures showing that
there are still available for home
steads in the province of Manitoba
17,825,000 acres, in Saskatchewan 1O4,-
$4,000 acres and in Alberta III, 1863, 600
acres.
According to the Pekin Daily News,
the Chinese ministry of the interior in
tends to make investigations concern
ing the prohibition of early marriages,
which it considers to be attended with
evil results. The age may be fixed at
twenty.
The Venezuelan government has es-
| tablished national public school for
| teaching the manufacture of jipijapa
| panamasl hats in the school of arts
and sciences at Merida, state of Meri-
da. The jipfjapa palm abounds Iii that
district
Cancer continues to increase in Brit
ain. There are annually some 10000
| fresh cases. The death rate rises from
year to year. Some observers have
noted that this rise comedies with the
equally steady rise in the standard of
comfort.
The fact that it is almost impossible
for married couples with children to
find steady employment on farms and
stations in New South Wales and 9TH
er parts of Australia is creating a pun
lie stir which is almost assuming the
dimensions of a national scandal
A will was contested not long ago In
New York because the testatrix h:M
bequeathed grand piano. several oil
paintings and five pieces of ,Japanes,
pottery to police station. The pro
testing legatee won out, and there was
reyersfon of those art treasures to
the regular heirs
Sacred cattle are slaughtered ant.
shipped to Paris to help out the scar
city of beef In PARKWAY Madagascar
are great herds. several millions ..
cousins to midas breed of saers
hump cattle, and the farseeipg Freacl.
as protectors of Madagascar pronounce
the meat of these animals equal Il.
beef.
Through her grand mistress the
czarina has issued orders that tie n
dies of the Russian court must no
smoke. She viii not tolerate as
lady in waiting a woman carrying til
odor of smoke on her breath or if he.
clothing. This is revolution in Rus
STA, where smoking is common among
women
A meeting was held recently at Mar
seilles, France, when the beggars and
street singers got together and formed
an organization for the protection of
their interests and to resist the en-
croachments Of pretenders A regular
organization was effected, with eonsti
tuition and bylaws. and limitations
were placed upon membership.
According to Consul General Jones
at Winnipeg. Canada is in great need
of pat fropc Ifar ~ ~, x.,,.,;.,