The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-11-03
TIMELY BREvITIES

society now has $3.50 members.
The British are spending 100000
COO On a naval base in the Firth o
Forth. Scotland.
New York county records show tina
an average of 22S real estate mort
cages are filed each week.
| Thrift on the part of United States
soldiers is indicated in a steady in
crease in their savings deposits.
New York bakers bake $13 worth o,
| bread, biscuits. rolls and cakes annu
| ally for each one of the city's inhabit
| ants.
At Guaymas the federal government
of Mexico will expend $3,500,O00 gold
| in building a sea wall to inclose the
inner harbor.
In 1909 fiscal year the government
Of Italy made profit Of $8,963, 42C
which were $16,4O1, 800.
! Firewood valued at $25O,O00,Oo0 is
used every year by the people of the
United States, according to the latest
estimate of the forest service.
While excayating the ruins of st.
Piran's oratory, Cornwall, many skele-
| tons have been dug up, several of
them of human beings seven feet in
height.
A British surgeon has advanced the
theory that appendicitis is due to the
intestinal worms, ascribing it's preva-
lence to the passing of the practice of
using vermifuges regularly.
Denmark is trying out a new pom
toon bridge in which the pontoons are
anchored beneath the surface of the
water. the bridge remaining motion
less irrespective of the rise and fall of
the tide
1t is said that pig belonging to Mr.
Gilman of Woedmancote Sussex, Eng
land, recently shed the whole of its
skin. which weighed f1fty-four pounds
A new skin has grown, and the pig is
apparently in good health.
Havana imports its granite paving
blocks from Norway. getting them
cheaper than it can from any Ameri-
can port. 1t is said that the low Nor
Wegian freight rates, combined with
the low cost of material prevent COM
petition
The total population of the Russian
empire, according TO the census taken
this year. is 160.O95.200 Russia differs
from other European countries in the
comparatively small proportion-only
1876 per cent-of its population living
in towns
In the days of Chaucer fashionable
men wore clothes as many coIored as
Joseph's coat. SO that while one leg
would be blaze of crimson the other
would be tricked out in green or blue
or yellow, without any regard to har-
mony or contrast.
The largest anchor ever made is now
being exhibited in London. It weighs
fifteen and one-half tons and has a
chain of which each link weighs 700
pounds. The anchor is intended for
the Olympic. the new White Star liner
now being built at Belfast
The president of the Prussian gov
eminent district of Frankfurt has fix
ed the wages of ordinary day laborers
in the city of Frankfurt and suburbs
as follows: Male adults. 1913 cents: fe-
male adults. so cents: youthful males.
48 cents; youthful females. 1873 cents
The annual contributions per capita
TO the state lottery in Italy from some
of the important cities are: Naples.
81. -; Leghorn. S1,65; Palermo, $1.63;
Genoa. $120; Rome. S104 Venice and
Turin averaged about 80 cents per in
habitant. Bologna about 40 cents. last
year
A letter by Benjamin Franklin to a
medical friend with the sardonic
taunt, Half the lives you save are
not worth saving, being useless, and
almost the other half ought not to be
saved as being misehievous. was sold
at auction in London recently for
f32 los.
Everybody knows that George AIDE
accredited the sultan of SuIu with
eight wives when he made that po-
tentate the central figure of his merry
comic opera, but the fact is. according
to the latest news dispatches that |
there are fourteen sultanas and that |
they are supported on $12: month
W. q. Frey of Slug tIullh. Cal.
owns an orchard that is worth cult |
waiting whether the fruit e.of is good |
Or bad. Frey has cigar boz full of
gold nuggets and specimen orr picked
Up while he was blowing and harrow
ing his orchard this season. These
specimens range in value from 81 to
S119 each.
Frankfort, Germany. has a joint
'tock company organized for the bene-
it of the poorer and working classes.
This company now maintains eleven
restaurants. seven canteens. four cot
ZEE kitchens, a portable kitchen, two
unch rooms and a lecture hall. The
company gives well cooked and
nipple dinner for S.3 cents.
Before 1880 most English railway
arriages had only four wheels and
weighed ten tons. From 1880 to 1890
hey had six wheels and weighed fif-
cen or sixteen tons. from 1890 TO 1900