The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-11
TIMELY BREvIT|ES

Celluloid collars, cuffs and shirt
fronts are selling we'll among the
workingmen of England.
Belgium has enacted law throwing
many safeguards around the use of
paints containing white lead.
The full equipment Of the Japanese
soldier in winter weighs sixty-nine
pounds and in summer sixty-six.
List centenary festivals will be in
order next year. Berlin will lead with
one in which Busoni will take part.
The manufacture of what is called
American style" furniture is becom.
ing an important industry in Spain.
Norwegian newspapers are pleading
for a change of the monetary unit
from the krone (26.S cents to the franc
(19.3 cents.
The Witwatersrand district of South
Africa is said to be the greatest gold
producing center of the world at the
present time.
The courts of justice and the school
system of Persia are to be reformed
by the new cabinet with the aid of for
cign advisers.
The minor coins of base metal, cents
and nickels, are all minted in Phila-
delphia, where nearly 1OO,000,OO0 pen
MES are turned out annually.
The British Weights and Measures
association is receiving much encour-
agement in it's campaign for the aboli-
ton of the 112 pound hundredweight
in the United Kingdom.
The smallest book in the world is
only half the size of a postage stamp.
It is in the possession of the Earl of
Dufferin and is an addition of the
sacred book of the Sikhs.
Storage battery electric locomotives
are coming into use in German mines,
their advantage being that they do not
entail the risk Of sparks or live feed
wires to ignite explosive gases.
Electric cars running from Texas
into Mexico must be equipped with
few openings, because the Mexicans
get scared easily and jump off, in
creasing the amount of damage claims.
\ case of hookworm found in Samoa
last November led to a systematic in
Vestigation, which established the star
Ting conviction that So per cent of the
inhabitants are suffering from this par
asite.
A German in Rothenburg has invent
ed means of making artificial whale
bone. The material is leather soaked
for two or three days in sulphate of
potassium and then stretched on
frame, slowly dried and exposed to
high temperature.
The annual report of the Belgian
Kongo shows that the region contains
at present 3.400 whites, of whom 1000
are Belgians, 800 Englishmen and GO
Germans. The native police force con-
sists of 16,400 men,
An inmate of the poorhouse at
Trieste, Austria, died the other day
at the age of seventy. An investiga-
ton of the effects of this supposed pau
per, an Albanian called Sterio, reveal
ed the fact that he owned over $780,
600 in investments and bank deposits.
More than $20,O90,O0O,O00 of securi.
ties of the country, representing over
one-sixth of its wealth, are listed in
the New York Stock Exchange. whose
transactions. while in scope much less
international than those Of the London
exchange, exceed in volume those Of
London.
'"The picture postcard business in
London is dead" said a British trade
Journal editor to Consul General John
L. Grifiths when inquiry was made
as to American firms entering the post
card trade of England The fad was
at its zenith two years ago and since
that time has rapidly declined.
Prince Furstenberg has just pur-
Unter den Linden, Berlin. The prince
intends to pull down the buildings at
present standing on this land and to
erect in their place a beer palace In
which will be sold the product of his
own brewery at Donaueschingen.
The restaurants and cafes of Rome
have begun to prepare for the crowds
which are expected to visit the Eternal
City next year on the occasion of the
national jubilee and its accompanying
expositions by raising their prices from
10 to 20 centesimi. The Roman press
is discussing preliminary boycott as
a good corrective.
In some lands. as in our own. the
rule Of the road is to keep to the righs,
In others, as in Great Britain, it is to
keep to the left. Belgium, after chang
Ing to the British rule. has changed
back again. and France, after investi-
eating the street traffic conditions of
London, has decided to adhere to It's
rule of keeping to the right.
The Mornfngside Presbyterian church
of New York city runs a milk route.
but it is only for sick babies of the
very poor. The church has carried on
this work for two years. serving about
125 babies day. With the milk goes
a trained nurse, who sees that it is
modified and teaches the mother the
best methods for infant treatment.