The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-02-03
FACTS IN FEW LINES

German drill has superseded British
methods of training in the Afghan
army.
The number of, foreign students ia
the United States is constantly in
creasing
Switzerland has over eighty cooper
alive cattle associations besides joint
| stock diaries in every village.
For every twenty males who marry
under age in England and Wales there
are about seventy women who do so.
The salmon output of Alaska equals
the combined catch of British Column
bia, the United States proper and ia
pan.
Brazilian scientists have succeeded
in developing a new variety of coffee
with unusually large, fine berries
which ripen early.
The Shoshone irrigation dam in
northern Wyoming, which will be 80
feet high, will be the highest masonry
dam in the world.
Norway has permanent pharma-
| copoeia commission, consisting of three
proprietors of pharmacies and three
professors of medicine
England is building a floating dry
dock with a lifting capacity of 1900
tons, which will be towed to Bermuda
| for use of naval vessels on this side of
| the Atlantic.
Brazil will employ fifteen inspectors
on substantial salaries to report ON
crop conditions, soils, water supplies
and every other subject that pertains
to agriculture.
To commemorate the organization of
society a tablet has been placed in
| front of the house in Kettering, Eng
| land, where the first meeting was held,
III years ago.
One of the most important needs Of
China today is wireless telegraphy. 1t
is considered practically impossible to
establish the ordinary land lines
across the great deserts between Pekin
and the extreme northwest
The blue lake of Maerjelen, situated
on the tanks of the Grand Glacier
Aletsch, at height of 1900 feet, I'M
der the Eggishorn peak, has burst
through the glacier and emptied its
waters into the Massa stream.
A we'll which has been driven to
depth of fifty-four feet at Westhamp~
ton, N. Y, is yielding water of a tenn
perature of 50 degrees, and continual
|
ture. The well was driven near an ice
plant.
Cement makers itch, one of the lat
est diseases due to occupation, is an
intense itching, resembling true itch,
but instead of being caused by para
site it results from some chemical or
mechanical action on the skin not yet
| understood.
A new electrical alarm clock uses
dry batteries to ring u bell, supply
small ineandescent light with current
and start a fire in an alcohol lamp with
platinum wire. all by completing
circuit when the hour hand touches
a third hand set at designated time.
A curious method of sterilizing the
air in rooms has been tried in Paris.
Glycerin in small drops is scattered,
along a cylinder containing suction
fan, and the air pumped in it is thus
charged with fine glycerin particles,
which fall to the floor, carrying all
dust and germs with them,
A woven basket, so small that it is
necessary to use a magnifying glass
to appreciate the skill of the workman
ship, is claimed to be the smallest
in the world. 1t is a trifie over one
eighth on an inch in diameter, hardly
large enough to hold a drop Of water,
| and every stick is perfect.
Accessions of almost priceless value
form a part of the 1851 volumes
which were added during last year to
! the library of congress, making the
total number of volumes in that great
library 1,7O2, 635. The valuable ad-
ditions include set of the great Chi
nese encyclopedia given by the Chi
nese government.
A notable addition to the monu-
ments of Vienna viii be that of Jo-
hann Strauss, which is rapidly APP.
preaching completion at the studio of
Professor Edmund Hellmers. It will
be in the form of a pergola, in the
center of which there win be a statue
of heroic size of the waltz king
holding his violin.
In new form Of electric arc lamp
the carbons are formed and supplied
as consumed. The lamp is provided
with two receptacles, in which the
plastic material is placed, and this is
fed through tubes to form the two
electrodes of the are The ends of the
electrodes are baked by means Of cleo
trio heating coils, and the process is a
continuous one
Chicago housewives have won VIC
tory in the highest court in the state
The supreme court of Illinois has de-
cided that no more inflated, short
weight loaves of bread may be sold in
Chicago. The court upheld Chicago
ordinance requiring that the weight
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