The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-24
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Tea is more beneficial if made with
hard water.
Mazatlan, Mexico. possesses an ideal
beach front, and bathing is possible
the year round
The most active new industry in the
Hawaiian Islands is the growing of
pineapples and their canning for ex-
port.
The average shop assistant Of the
large English city is i'll paid and has
to submit to many Objectionable Gus
toms.
The total losses through robbery Of
the banks in the American Bankers
association since 1895 are said to be
only $4,000.
House rents in Rio de Janeiro are
extremely high, three or four room
houses far III the suburbs renting at
$50 to $45 month.
In the course of a year over 1871
100000 passengers are carried by the
local railways, tramways and principal
omnibus companies of London.
The record for fast coaling in the
British navy is claimed by the battle
ship Britannia, which took on board
1,530 tons in hours 10 minutes.
The average weekly income of what
is known as "a poor family" in New
York city is $11.30, and the families
average five and two-ifths persons
The latest type of burglar proof safe
is built to withstand the gas cutting
burners" used so effeetually by many
crooks and revolves when it is closed
by means of an electric motor.
An English employer may give his
servants reasonable leave of absence
without deduction of pay to enable
them to vote only on condition that all
voters in his employ are treated alike.
Siam has adopted the gold stand
| ard, which really was promulgated in
1908, and henceforth the unit of the
Siamese monetary system will have
value equal to 55.S centigrams OF pure
gold.
An Austrian fire department is try
| ing out fire engine that, though
drawn by horses, is operated by cleo
tricity taken from any convenient
source through a cable carried by the
engine.
New York city manufactures more
| fur goods than all of the other cities
of the country together. 1t keeps
about 5000 persons employed in the
| ind f0p Inc
year is valued at S41,400,000.
In Belgium 10000 men and women
workers out of group of $4,000
earn less than 3S cents a day; from
38 to 81 cents is the daily wage of
172,Oo0, from 81 to II cents of 1885,
600 and over u cents of only 100000.
The opening of the railroad, increas-
ed steamship service. the completion
of new harbor and the opening of
| the Panama canal are bound to eventu-
| ally make Mazatlan by far the most
| important port on the west coast of
| Mexico
During the last three years there
have been a fairly steady increase in
the quantity of natural gas used in
| this country for domestic purposes. a
decrease in the quantity used for man
ufacturing purposes and an increase
| in the average price.
Most of the severe epidemics of ma
laria in recent years in the Punjab
have been associated with cataclys-
NAL downpour of rain in the months
of July and August. In 1880 the city
Of Amritsar lost 1900 people in three
months from malaria
Both the paying and the receiving
| teller in the Maiden Lane Savings
bank of New York are young women.
| In a circular recently issued the Off
Gals of the bank commended these
| two women for their efficiency, aceura=
CT and the general excellence of their
work.
A subway for Vienna is projected
according to the Zeitschrift des 4Oester-
reichischen Ingenieur Vereines. This
new system. which, if built. will be
the first subway in the city, is design
ed to run in two lines, crossing each
other at right angles in the center of
the city.
According to report of the forest
service, Washington. Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi, Arkansas and Wisconsin, in
the order named, lead in producing the
country's lumber supply, whose valua-
| ton for last year exceeded $500, 100000
Texas, Michigan, oregon, Minnesota
and Pennsylvania came after the first
| Eve states.
Chinese girls, specially trained in
San Francisco, have begun work in
Pekin as central operators in the tele-
phone system recently opened in the
Chinese capital Instead Of subscrib
ers calling Are you there?' or Hello,
central!'' the customary mode of adj
dress is Lilly of the air. and Butter
fly that talks
A shoe company in this country has
received an order from the queen of
Holland to make number of pairs of
shoes for the heir apparent TO the
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