The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-10
FACTS IN FEW LINES

common in many large buildings.
The first automobile show for west
ern Canada will be held in February.
1911.
In Spain the old style charcoal bra
| Eier is still in use for heating pur-
poses.
England's newest vessel of the
Dreadnought type, the Neptune. has a
displacement of 20,250 tons.
The American system Of office towel
service has caught on in several Eng
fish cities, including London.
For lack of market and transpor-
| tation facilities large quantities Of pine
apples, lines, mangoes and bananas
go to waste on Mexican plantations.
Counterfeiting is still considerable
industry in Calabria. 1t is good form
in Naples to bite all silver coin before
accepting it In payment or in change,
The Paris street with the longest
name is La Rue des Petres-Safnt-Ge
main-P Auxerrois. In Brussels it is La
Rue de la MoRtagne-aux-Herbe Po-
tageres
The windows in the streets along
the line of the route of the funeral pro-
cession of the late king of the Bel
gians fetched as much as 5000 for a
single balcony.
1t is estimated that there are about
II 900 professional thieves in New
York city Those who steal only when
the opportunity is offered have not
been estimated.
Up to 1889 the chief water works
of New York city were in Chatham
street, now Park row. The water was
carted about the city in casks and
sold from carts
Port Arthur, Ont, has the largest
grain elevator In the world The
structure has a capacity of 100000
bushels, and four trains can discharge
their grain in the house simultaneous
~.
Under the new law for buildings in
New York city the number of dark
rooms in ter . Ents has been reduced
from 250,00O 10 101,117. Let there
be light" is the motto of the board of
inspection.
New Zealand is said to have the lar
gest national debt of any country in
the world This does not seem to
worry the New Zealanders, who Dor
row the money at per cent and make
per cent
In Germany thirty-seven cubic feet
of timber per capita is taken annually
from her forests; France is able to get
along with but twenty-five cubic feet.
while in this country the consumption
is 250 cubic feet per capita.
Uranium is found commercially in
only two minerals in the United States.
pitchbIende and carnotite Pitchblende
occurs in quantity in the United States
only in Gtlpin county, Colo, where
there are four mines that produce it.
Wages are not excessive in Japan.
OF skilled operatives the highest paid
are spectacle and precious stone work
ers, 81 day Shipbuilders receive 70
cents day. masons 20 cents, frework-
ers and carpenters 60 cents. Printers
receive 8 cents
One hundred dollars in gold for the
best story of the road is one of the
purses offered in competitions by the
Commercial Travellers club of Spo-
kane and the Inland Empire Retail
Dealers association at their joint car
nival in Spokane during the first week
in June
1t is a remarkable fact that in spite
of the opening out of the country by
railways and roads and the clearing
OF jungle tracts the number of per-
sons killed by wild animals in Brit
isll India does not show any decrease.
In fact, last year the figures rose to
2,166. an actual increase of 200
jacques Lebaudy. better known as
the emperor of the Sahara" has writ
ten a play called ''The Heart of the
Sahara Desert" and is to act in it him.
self It is reported that NJ. Lebaudy.
who is enormously rich. intends TAX
ing theater in Paris and staging his
play with every imaginable luxury of
scenery and costume.
There are now in German East At
RIGA seventeen medium and smaller
European plantations having some
5000 acres in cotton and twenty-four
plantations with approximately 5000
acres in cotton as catch crop. Twelve
cotton planting associations are deyel-
oping 100000 acres, planting at the
rate Of about 10000 acres per year.
Today there are in Europe 100 cities
having more than 100000. of which
fifty have more than 250,0Oo There
are twenty-five cities with more than
100000 people and seven with more
than 100000 These are London,
4,750.000: Paris. 2.70o,000; Berlin.
100000; Vienna. 1000. 900; ST. Peters
burg, $4,000; Moscow, 100000 and
Constantinople. 100000.
In Belfast breach of promise case
the man, a farmer, won He agreed
to marry spinster If she could raise
$500. she was able to get together
only $500. so the farmer called it off.
despite the fact that he had ordered
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