The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-14
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Before 1S49 the SOut0 TurmSneQ the
chief gold fields of the country.
Over 100000 pairs of blankets are
woven In Great Britain annually.
On the basis of real estate assess.
ments the public parks of New York
city are worth $1,200,000,000.
OF all places of Importance Sydney,
New South Wales, Is farthest from
London as the crow flies, 10. 120 miles.
Experiments with steam raising by
means Of peat have been made by the
Swedish railways, but they have turn,
ed out failure.
Aloyse busch, q barber-dentist of
WunZenau, Germany, recently cele-
brated the fiftieth anniversary of his
entry into the double profession. He
has extracted no fewer than $1,000
teeth, all of which be has preserved.
By the old method of salvage the
rents and breaks In the hull of the
vessel were closed and the water
pumped out BY the latest system the
ship is rid of water by pumping air
into the holds. which floats the vessel
The total quantity of radium which
has thus far been recovered for scien
tiic use throughout the world is est
mated not TO exceed one. fourth of
pound The total stock In the London
hospital is but sixteen aud one-quarter
milligrams.
In the vicinity of Conception and
Talcahuano. Chile, there are more than
100000 cubic meters of soft coal of
fair quality within an area of $4,000
square meters, or about BOT square
miles. The vein is 3.5 meters, or about
lib feet. thick.
DR.. PonZa. director of the lunatic
asylum at Alessandria, Italy, has cured
many of his insane patients by eonfin-
ing them In rooms of some uniform
color. Patients suffering from acute
melancholia have become cheerful aft
er confinement in red room
To the formidable array of poisonous
substances found In tobacco, among
them carbon monoxide, prussIc acid.
nicotine, pyridIne. sulphureted hydro
gen. carbolic acid. new one has late
.ly been added. which is under suspi.
cion OF being angerous-sulphocya
hide of ammonia
A grim argument in favor of letting
well enough alone Is found In a recent
New York case Not content with a
verdict of murder In the second de
gree. the lawyer for the convicted man
secured new Irial. at which the pris
oner was found guilty In the first de.
gree and sentenced TO death.
The first real road In Korea, except
that connecting Seoul and Chemulpo.
connects the towns of Kunsan and
ChOnii. This policy of building high
ways Is being pursued all over the
country. and an expenditure of sew
erai million dollars will within a very
short time make itself felt III increas-
ed traffic ind business
Cairo. with about 100000 lnhabit-
ants. has i24 pharmacies mentioned in
the Indicatrur Egyptien The proper.
ton. however. Is no criterion. as three
quarters Of the native population are
poor and scarcely count as customers,
and the pharmacies. being all crowded
into the European aud semi European
quarters. are sufficiently numerous for
the amount of business
The names of at least eight of the
American states will soon become ia
miliar to the Inhabitants of the LIE
want. for. according to Consul General
Harris ut Smyrna. an American mer.
chant has purchased that number of
steamboats, from Turkish company
to trade In the Mediterranean. and he
has changed the Turkish names to
those of American states.
When Bryan Mullanphy of Joplin.
NO.. died In 1881 he left one.third of
his large fortune to be devoted to help
ing immigrants passing through st.
Louis ION their way to the west"
The fund has grown to about $1,000
600. and the trustees have nothing to
do but draw their salaries The SUI
preme court has denied the right to
divert the fund to other public pur-
poses
About 1000 imported empty camein-
bert cheese boxes bearing the names
of well known French cheeses were
imported ut New York on one steam
ship Duty had to be paid on the
printed matter on their 1000 labels
and another duty on the imported
boxes According to New York
trade journal. these boxes are filled in
New York state and sold as coming
from abroad.
Methuselah must have had append
citis. according to DR. Maurice n
Richardson who made the statement
In recen, address at the Harvard
Medical school. Said DR.. Richardson,
Even 10 Methuselah's day appended
citis was as common as 1t Is today.
and min could not have lived 960
years, the repufed age of that patri-
arch. without undergoing an operation
for appendiritis.w
South Africa has brand new ma
tional anthem. The country endeayor-
ed for some time to secure compost