The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-02-24
FACTS IN FEW LINES

| On an average over sixty reputeO
centenarians die each year in Eng.
land and Wales.
During the last fiscal year 3,117,301,'
$50 fishes aud fish eggs were distrib-
uted by the bureau of fisheries.
The eastern states, from Maine to
Alabama, produced gold worth $685.
i43 and silver worth $35,070 last year.
The lighthouse of Heigoland has a
light of 100000 candle power. At
Nuremberg lamp ten times as pow
| erfuI has been made.
During the year 1909 the Salvation
Army erected or dedicated properties
from Boston to Honolulu aggregating
In value nearly 100000.
Besides Great Britain, the countries
which have old age pensions are Den
mark. France. Belgium, Germany,
New Zealand and Australia
In 1887 the wheat crop of California
was more than three times greater
/ than that of Kansas, Last year the
| Kansas crop was seven times greater
than that of California.
In ireland. owing to a lack of sun.
light and heat, peaches, grapes and
tomatoes must be grown and ripened
under glass. The prices are conse-
| Quently almost prohibitory.
There are few large farms in Ire
land. there being out of the 100000
holdings In the entire island as many
/
many as five acres and 10000 which
contain no more than fifteen acres.
The megaphone has been used at
some western army posts for the pur-
pose Of simplifying the volume of the
bugle, where 1t Is desired that the calls
shall be heard at distance greater
than the sound will carry under or
binary circumstances.
The shoe business in Great Britain
is largely controlled by trusts. one of
the chief combinations being known
as the Public Benefit company This
trust has stores all over England, one
or more In each city and town. Their
goods are British made
Hubert Latham recently took I'D q
moving picture operator on a seven
minute trip in his aeroplane to an ele-
walton of eighty feet from the ground.
The operator took pictures with the
lens pointing downward The appar
atus weighed 200 pounds, and its OPP
orator 196.
In Switzerland clocks are now being
made which do not require hands and
faces The timepiece merely stands
In the hail. and you press button,
when by means of the photographic
internal arrangements. it calls out
half past s." or ave minutes to g."
as the case may be.
One Of the last of the old postboys
or positions has died at hartford.
Kent England He was John Wilson,
aged ninety-six. who had ridden be-
fore Queen Victoria in the early years
of her reign. when she used to visit
the country houses of her friends In
the old fashioned style, travelling by
road
This advertisement appeared recent
ly in Bayarian journal: Man want
ed to sweep snow at Friedhof. The
post is excellent. but | am compelled
to resign because find that it is get
ting too much for me. as already
hold the Office Of town clerk. school
master and organist. No candidates
without shovels of their own need APP
ply"
Foreign comment on the Steinheil
case SO much impressed NJ. Barthou,
the French minister of justice, that he
viii propose radical changes In the
trial courts. He plans TO take from
the president of the court the duty
and privilege Of interrogatoire and
confide to the public prosecutor and
the counsel for the defense the task
OF examining the accused and the wit
nesses.
In half a century the United States
department of agriculture has grown
from mere beginning to an institu-
ton with over 1900 employees Con-
gress supplies 1t with an annual in
come for its expenditure in the neigh
borhood Of $4,000, 900. while half as
much more Is spent by the states III
their agricultural experiments, colleges
and experiment stations
A section Of the amphitheater in |
King Arthur's round table field in |
Monmouthshire. England. has been
exhumed The Archaeolog-
ical society has made Eve excavations
around the walls. and the searchers
found the main entrance, the sand |
which formed the bed of the arena and |
a cornerstone. From Inscriptions on
the stone they trace the date Of the
theater back to 10 A. D.. or 1900
years.
The Baccara IIFrance) glass factory
has just produced new class of glass
which, when heated to boiling point
and then plunged into water at freez-
Ing point, viii not break. The princi-
pal object was the making OF safety
lamp tubes superior to those made of
the Jena product The composition of
the glass Is. says the Revista Minera.
roughly 10 Der cent bicarbonate of