The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-06-21
TIMELY BRE:vITIES


Over 260.250 marriages were per-
formed in England and Wales last
year.
From 1000 to 5000 words of the
English language are used by the ordi-
narily educated person
Forty per cent of existing American
mortality is preVentable, according to
Professor Irving Fisher.
The curfew has been rung in the
North church steeple at Portsmouth,
N. H., for 1872 years, or since March
6, 171S
Among all their palaces and castles it
is Balmoral that the members of the
British royal family have always look
ed upon as their home.
During the last thirty years the de-
mand for servants has doubled, while
the supply has increased only by half
in the last decade only per cent.
Modern agricultural methods make
it possible to renew the fertility of de-
pleted soils and grow 100 bushels of
corn where only ten grew in the olden
days.
There are now 100000 Kaffirs en-
ployed in the Transvaal mines. With
monthly output of $12 100000 gold the
average production per Kaffir is $6250
month
Canadians write more letters than
any other nation on the globe-221.7
apiece per year. No other country
exceeds 200 The figures for England
and Germany are Ills and 95.1.
Two steamship companies have grant
ed reductions of 30 to 80 per cent to
students going from Latin-America to
France The French universities and
schools have also made reductions for
them.
The benefit reported to be derived
by farmers from their cooperative so
cieties in continental countries. espe
cially Denmark. has stimulated the
formation of like societies in Great
Britain
The surgeons f. r. and C. C. GutL.
RE propose the use of human hair for
sewing up wounds. particularly in
blood vessels Experiments made with
such sutures upon a dog proved highly
successful.
Enraged at waiting for several hours
without seeing the aviators make any
attempt at flight at an aviation meet
ing at Durango. Spain. recently, the
public burned the aeroplane shed and
vurnalyad Z he
Grea-~Britain's survey OF Africa
from the Cape to Cairo along the thir
tieth meridian began many years ago
and, revived by bequest from Cecil
Rhodes. mas been carried TO a point
seventy-two miles north of the equa
tor.
The sun worshipers cult. called
Mazdaznlan. has become sufficiently
strong in Canada to propose building
temple of their own ID Montreal
Plans have been prepared. and tenn.
pie costing 100000 will shortly be
erected.
According to a method recently in
vented by a Frenehman. gutta percha
IS extracted from the leaves and
branches of the trees by evaporation
and distillation, such leaves and
branches being shipped TO Europe in
dried state
The Cahezona pineapple of Porto
Rico reaches a weight of twelve
pounds. Ii is so easily bruised that
the expense of gathering ii is filcreas-
ed, yet the returns froln exported
fruits show net profits of up to $1,000
per acre in good year.
The highest galloway in the world
is in the Argentine Republic. The line
traverses a mountain stretch of TWEEN
| ty-four miles in the region of Cordil-
lere. 1t starts from Chilecito, $3.50
feet above the sea level. and rises to
an altitude of 5000 feet
In future Austrian officers will be
required within three years of being
attached to tho staff to pass an exam.
nation. in the Language of one of the
neighboring c. untrias. giving proof of
ability not only 10 5, ,eai and write thu
language with fuency. but TO translate
from manuscript.
Experiments nade in England by
the Institution For Infectious Diseases
showed that the germs of such dis
eases as typhoid. diphtheria. tubercu
losis and cholera are not destroyed by
the process of ironing linen To kill
them temperature ofs250 degrees is
required. whereas in ardinary ironing
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In Italy the supply Of machine guns
is still in its Infancy. BY the ends Of
the year. however, every infantry reg
iment and every Alpine BATTALION is to
have one gun for training the men
In tie fall Il beginning is TO be made
to give every infantry and cavalry reg
iment one battery Of four and every
Alpine battalion one battery of two
such guns.
Beginning in .9l4. every Harvard
graduate who receives d degree of
a. B. must have reading knowledge
of either French or German. The fac
ulty has decided that it would be IN
fair fp make the requirement effective