The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-01-27
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Fairgrounds.
Russia's sugar beet crop for 1909 is
estimated at 4SS.634.070 pools, a pood
being thirty-six pounds.
There is proposal to establish
farms for valuable fur bearing ami
mails in the forests of Canada.
New York city's assessed real estate
value is more than that of the entire
states of Ohio. Indiana and Illinois.
New Zealand is shortly to receive
an important addition to its stock of
big game in the shape of herd of
Canadian moose.
From 5000 to 10000 of coal slack
and pitch briquettes are manufactured
and consumed in the city Of Belfast.
ireland. each year.
Governmental experiments in south
ern Formosa convinced the officials
that that region will never become a
coffee producing country.
English farm lands that have been
TILED continuously for centuries still
produce an average OF thirty bushels
Of wheat to the acre every year.
Nearly all the old machinery left by
the French at Panama, amounting to
100000 tons of metal. has been con-
demned as junk and will be sold as
such in New York.
A trout that for ten years had lived
In the tanks Of railroad engines has
Just died In London. 1t was the pet
of an engineer named Mcdonald, who
used occasionally to take it home in
bucket
Abram Brokaw OF Great Notch, n
j., while splitting up an old apple tree
for flrewood found gold scarfpin
with opal setting which his grand
father had lost sixty years ago,
In Italy a ticket from Chiasso, on
the northern border, to Palermo, In
the extreme south, costs no more than
ticket from Chiasso to Naples, al
though the distance is over 400 miles
greater.
Mining has always been the tradi-
tional industry of Mexico because of
the rapidity with which fortunes were
made The recent depressions In this
industry have brought agriculture to
the fore.
The ferry bridge continues to find
favor in Europe. One of this type,
with span of $40 feet, is planned for
erection across the Rhine at Koblenz.
Germany. The floor, with its double
track, will be carried by steel arch
In the district including Colorado,
southern and eastern Wyoming. South
Dakota, Kansas and Nebraska 233
fires were extinguished within the ma.
tionai forests during the last fire sea
son, with loss to timber of only ST.
600.
During the last ten years Canada
ranked second among the nations of
the world in comparative increases Of
trade, with Argentina in the lead
During the preceding decade Canada
ranked third, with Japan In second
place.
BY the old method of salvage the
rents and breaks in the hull of the
vessel were closed and the water
pumped out. By the latest system
the ship Is rid Of water by pumping
air into the holds, which floats the
vessel
On q ride Of 1850 miles at an aver
age Of forty-four miles daily Rus
sian cavalry officer lost only six
pounds In weight, while his horse
nearly twenty years old--lost forty
five pounds. One day eighty miles
were covered.
Members Of the London Stock Elk
change were deceived by a clever
faker who went among them selling
imitation almonds for cents each.
a great many of the brokers bought
them, but the nuts turned out to be
the real thing.
The educational test for pharmacists
in Turkey is not on drugs and chem
tcals; it Is on arithmetic. the Turkish
and French languages and general
smattering. Still. most Turks go to
the native dry goods or grocery store
for their favorite remedies, such as
oils. taliow, linseed poultices. etc.
dA1S pOitIC nave
forbidding anybody to wear celluloid
collars or cuffs behind the scenes of O
Paris theater The reason for this
peculiar order is the danger of fire
4 few days ago a cabman who was
lighting bis pipe was badly burned and
bis cab was almost destroyed because
spark set fire TO his collar.
One of Lord Rosebery's singular yet
pertinent suggestions in his latest
speech was that the Conservatives of
the house of lords should delegate TO
100 peers the right to vote on the
budget without instructions one way
or the other This was Lord Rose
bery's delicate way of saying that the
remaining 800 or 400 Conservative
peers are mentally unfit to pass upon
the question
Theodore N. Vail, president of the
American Telegraph and Telephone
company, was recently called TO give
information before a legislative com
mittee in New York. He said that