The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-08-18
TIMELY BREvTIES

/ SUIidlIOuS III Il IduCC anu Al3Siiet.
Switzerland buys more than $4,000,
coo worth of eatables from German!
annually.
Fresh beef is wholly supplied to thu
Philippines by Australasia; lard ant
bacon by China.
Siam has exported an average of {
million tons of milled rice annually fol
the last five years.
A trade Journal in the English Ian
guage is printed in HelsingfOrs, the
capital of Finland.
| Bishop Bowman of the Methodist
Episcopal church recently celebrated
his ninety seventh birthday.
The Romans, having conquered
Spain, introduced Tarentine fine wool
sheep there. This was 200 B. G.
An Englishman claims to have in,
vented a punctureless automobile tire,
made SO by a protective inner lining.
The workmen's insurance in Den
mark costs a laborer from $1.07 a year
to $21.44 in particularly hazardous
work.
A powerful microscope is recon-
mended by the department of agricul-
ture as kitchen utensil to detect
/ adulterants.
The new king of England has be-
come ex off1cio an honorary canon of
st David's cathedral, with an annual
stipend of SIS.
Several members of the royal family
| of Siam are expert amateur photogra
piers and have done much to advance
the art in that land.
Sixty per cent of the patents granted
yearly in this country are worthless.
Nearly 90 per cent of the electrical
patents are practical.
4 candidate for a schoolteachership
in New York recently told an examiner
that the alimentary canal was some
where out in Kansas.
The part of Formosa in possession of
savage tribes is said to contain forests
of fabulous wealth and probably also
rich mineral deposits
The Thousand islands is the motor
boat metropolis of the world Over
5000 were operated in the Thousand
islands region last year.
It viii take 100 men two years to
break up the old British battleship
Thunderer, which has been condemned
for the metal she contains
A countrywide crusade against 1.-THE
great white plague tuberculosis. is
being waged in England along much
the same lines as in America.
Hawaiian capital to the extent of
$1,000 is to be used in the develop
ment of a 10000 acre sugar plantation
within thirty miles of Manila.
In Germany. where the consumption
Of edible fats is large. there are now
seven companies crushing cocoanuts
and refining the oil for ediblens
The Brazilian government has decid-
ed to maintain in the famous botanical
gardens of Rio de .Taneiro depart
ment for the study of plants and trees
for commercial purposes.
Within short space Of time Queens
land viii be as celebrated for its
sapphires as South Africa is for1dia-
monds. Many profitable diggings are
being opened up in the bush.
Consul Albert Halstead states that
the electrical department. of the Eng
lish city Of Birmingham is endeavoring
to Increase the use of electricity in
every way. one of which is the renting
of motors.
Suez canal las proved to be one of
the most profitable commercial under
takings in the history of the world, |
and the Manchester ship canal is now
accomplishing all and more than was
promised at first.
After a fierce seven hour struggle |
Seattle fishermen caught monster
shark thirtysix feet long and weigh
ing over fifteen tons, The tail was |
full of splinters as a result of a strug /
gle on the part of the shark to DESTROY
the boat from which it was finally
caught
Cleaning buttons for service uni
forms We're abolished by Uncle Sam /
years ago because they made the sol,
diers fatally conspicuous on the field of
battle. Instead of hooks and eyes, as
the worthy peace advocate suggested.
their garments are united by dull black
buttons.
In some parts of Germany mice and
rabbits do SO much harm in the fields
md gardens that the public authorities
and special organizations of farmers
undertake the work of destruction.
The usual method is poisoning by
means of bread containing the Loealer
mouse bacillus.
The Earl of Crewe, British secretary
# state for the colonies. goes so far as
Q admit that Canada's Independence
low extends. to international negotia
ions and treaties. and this is quoted
lpproyingiy in the Dominion as GER
ain indication that new stage has
'een reached in colonial history. f
The hope of Singapore is for great Il
runk line railway running from this K
outhern point of the Malay peninsula Fl
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