The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-17
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The Portuguese navy has 5000 men.
American granite is now exported to
Europe
Electric air pumps are new auto con-
veniences.
Il Is believed that only 1000 butfa.
loes are now In existence.
In Spain the old style charcoal bra
Eier is still In use for heating pur-
poses.
Canadian housekeepers complain be-
cause general houseworkers want 50 a
month instead of S.
1t is proposed to establish farms
throughout Canada for the cultivation
Of fur bearing animals
1t is possible to accommodate CON-
fortably 100000 persons in the New
York hotels at one time
The British East African protecto
rate includes 100000 acres of forests.
so far virtually untouched.
Ten countries of Europe have en-
| tered into an arrangement to prohibit
the use of saccharin In foods and bev.
erages
The indications are that at no dis
tant date there will be more German
students in America than American
students in Germany.
In Liberia coffee trees attain a
height of more than twenty feet The
price of the product is s and cents a
| pound at the plantation.
New York theater managers est.
| mate that the nightly attendance at
the city's places of amusement is 1900
more than it was one year ago.
In Ceylon the largest pearls are sold
for never more than $500, but when
they reach the great markets of the
world they are worth more than three
times bis price.
In a series of telephone experiments
a German scientist has made magnets,
alternating current transformers and
even dynamos talk without the use of
vibrating plates or membranes.
/ In the recent parliamentary election
in Victoria. Australia. women east
more than 80 per cent of all the bal
4 4
ton IN which women were allowed to
vote for members of the state parlia-
ment.
| The project for building new iron
railway bridge across the Neva in st.
| Petersburg has now been worked out,
and the bridge is to be begun with
out delay The bridge will lie of an ex-
tremely simple pattern. and its length
is to be 1.750 feet
There are only half as many opium
dens in China as there were eighteen
months ago 1t is now difficult TO buy
opium except by license. which per-
mits q smoker to buy at one time i've
drains Each license costs 10 cents
and is good for three months
| Greece has been producing too many
currants to make the eurrant raising
industry profitable. Enough vines are
to he destroyed to reduce the output
| by % per cent and $2.3iG.0OO Is to be
expended at once In reimbursing the
owners for the uprooting of their
vines
Hubert Latham recently took up
moving picture operator on seven
minute trip In his aeroplane to an cte-
walton of eighty feet from the ground
The operator took pictures with the
lens pointing downward The appa-
ratus weighed 200 pounds and its op
orator l06
The Turkish boycott of Austrian
goods is said to have damaged the In
dustry aud trade of Austria severely
The branch which has suffered most
Is that which manufactures the bon
nets lures. the red wooden cap which
Austria has provided Turkey with al
most exclusively
In Switzerland education is free and
compulsory Ample facilities are pro-
vided for the education of all classes,
and illiteracy is practically uIEuown
in the confederation. except among
immigrants who come into the coun-
try after they have passed the pre-
scribed school age
In speech before the University OF
Berlin Professor Albrechl Penck. who
was Emperor William professor at Co
iumbia university. said New York.
with its population of nearly 5,000000
has brilliant future. Looking far
ahead. however. he thought Chicago
would be greater city.
One of the grocers Of Paris has been
found guilty of contravening pure food
requirements. he offered for sale
eggs of three kinds. described as
fresh, new laid" and 'todays,' but
as even the last named came from
Russia the authorities instituted pro-
ceedings and he was fined 500
The making of paper from bamboo
Is no recent discovery For genera
tons the Chinese have carried on this
Industry 10 their homes. but their
methods are exceedingly primitive, no
chemicals entering into their process.
The Chinese use only bamboo shoots,
for the evident reason that the shoots
can be more readily worked up.
The finest gold yet recorded is from