The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-10-06
TIMELY BREWTIES

/ Tics SlSWS IAOAS tdp4dly tudn tie FdllO
of the population.
Nearly $soo0oO0o worth of South
African gold was exported viat Cape
Town during the first six months OF
1910
In the Punjab. India. -four is the
staple food of the people and is con-
stunned in the shape of large cakes
cooked over the open fire.
The peach, apple and tomato crops
this year are the largest in the his
tory of the Niagara peninsula, accord
ing to Consul Webster, at Niagara
Falls, Canada.
The last enumeration Of missionaries
| in China gives their number as 3,270
The native church is doubling about
every seven years and the missionary
force every zen years.
Hardly any goatskins are produced
in the United States, although the de-
| mand for them is enormous, the i'm
portations of them in the year ended
June 80, having cost $26 .023. 914
Although the United States has been
exporting $6.o00,0o0 to Ss,00000o worth
OF sewing machines annually, stats
tics show direct shipments of only
$4,000 to the entire continent of At
RIGA.
In New Brunswick there are I'm
mense tracts of hardwood trees-birch
and maple-sone of the areas being
twenty miles square. This part of the
country has been opened up by the
new railroad.
A penal reform league has been es-
tablished in England to obtain and
circulate accurate information CON
corning criminals and their treatment
and to promote a sound public opinion
on the subject.
Fifteen millions of one cent packets
and letters are conveyed daily through
the British postoffiees, 100000 tele-
grams are dealt with, and Sl,21660o
is daily transmitted by money orders
and postal orders.
The number of divorces in France
today, as statistics show, is higher
than in any other country. not except
ing the United States. which has long
had a pre-eminence in the number of
cases of marital happiness
IN NICE raIIrr, W5Ittr foI ii III hifls :
and other purposes is subjected to an
electric process purifying by ozonel
with the result that not only are Ill
the germs in it killed. but It is impos-
sible to produce any kind of germ ess::s.s.
ture in it.
Haaid NsatJ5 che Arab sheik who
acts as lecturer for the Arabic Ian
guage In the Berlin Oriental seminary.
has been awarded the degree of doctor
Of medicine This is the first time that
an Egyptian savant has received
German university degree
In Bechuanaland African paper the
following advertisement appears: IN
B--That am preserving all game.
from quail to a koodoo. and that iii
trespassers whether persons or dogs.
will be shot or prosecuted according to
law. God save King George.
A student of a school in Shinshu. Ja.
pan. recently committed suicide by
jumping into the crater Of Asama.
yana. The tragedy was not discov
cred until three days afterward, when
some documents left by the suicide
near the crater were picked up.
Lieutenant General Tarauehi. Iapa-
nese resident general In Korea and ne.
gotiator Of the convention of annexa
ton. says that no Stone will be left un,
turned to make Koreans and the world
feel that Japan's rule in Korea is a
benefcent thing for the Koreans.
Heretofore Moneton. New Brunswick.
has had many children working in fac
tories who never went To school at all
or received even the rudiments of an
education. The new compulsory edu-
cation law viii send them to school be.
tween the ages of six and fifteen
years.
g. Z. Chesterton. the English essay
lst. says that 1t is merely a tradition
that Americans are vulgar and that I
90 the contrary, they are TOO refined
He finds that their ..salient character
lstic is. certain high seriousness. an
earnest idealism, the nlust-see-the
sentiment
Within the last FIVE years the per-
centage of increase in the cost of food.
fuel, etc. in France is said to have
been: Bread. Is: beef. %: veal. Ii
%: butter. IA cheese. %: fsh.
%, fresh vegetables. IS: petroleum. 10.
.oal, 81: coffee, % The average In
,rease on household articles In general
has been % per cent.
4 menagerie of insects viii soon be
Installed in the Paris Museum of Nat
Iral History Cages of glass. instead
Il steel. will be occupied BY spiders
lnts. bees. caterpillars and beetles, In
tead Of lions. tigers. wolves and by.
mas. Then It will be possible for the
lublic to study the lives of ants un
foreground and Of bees in their hives
n old Weston Huntingdonshire
England. a church Is dedieafed 10 ST
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