The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-02-10
FACTS IN FEW LINES

BafceiOnl has colony of some
5000 Latin-Americun residents.
England sends many Of her orphan
aud deserted children to Canada.
In Australia there are practically no
women in business or public Offices.
In most of the criminal courts of In
dia the presiding magistrates are In
dams.
At the beginning of 1909 there were
/ 4,756 miles of telegraph lines in Vene-
zuela, with 1863 offices.
Gaslighting has recently been boom
ed in Japan, and some ten new com
panies are to be tloated.
The government of Venezuela has
given to company lease Of the salt
monopoly for four years.
In the United Kingdom 100000
tons of coal and 60,0O0,O00 gallons of
Oil are used annually in gas making.
The American red gum Is entering
| largely into the manufacture of furni.
| ture. Early objections to it's use have
been overcome.
Metal melts more rapidly In a cupola
on d cold day because the draft from
the blower generally comes from out
OF doors, where the moisture has been
| frozen out of the air.
A monument recently was erected
In Nuremberg Germany. to the men,
| DRY of Peter Henlien, who first substi-
| tuted springs for weights In the clock
and made the watch possible.
The Bank of Spain is about to aban-
don its policy of combining its banking
relations to the Spanish peninsula.
| Branches are to be established iii the
principal Latin-American centers.
A committee of German aviators has
figured that it would cost 100000 to
build dirigible balloon big enough to
carry eighteen passengers in addition
to its crew and 1870 day to operate
| Ii.
New York tradesmen find that ex-
tremes meet when they have their
| greatest trouble in collecting money
from customers who have 10 money
/ and from customers who have the
most money.
North Queensland diocese has en-
area of 10000 square miles and a
| population Of 100000, but only fifteen
ciergymen, said the. bishop of London
in missionary appeal at the church
house, Westminster.
At twenty-one Alexander stood at
the head of his army on the plains of
Thessaly, Wilberforce entered parlia-
! ment and Tasso begun his immortal
poem, Jerusalem Delivered" which
took ten years to complete.
China's ministry of the interior has
decided on the period from the sew
enth to the sixteenth year IS the age
of minority and study and has decreed
that from the sixteenth to the fortieth
year shall be the age of manhood for
Chinese people.
In the antarctic regions Lieutenant
| Shaekleton discovered rotifers, or
| wheel animacules. in a temperature
Of 90 to 60 degrees below zero. They
were brought home and subjected to
a temperature of POO degrees T. and
are still alive and producing families.
After about eighty shots the riding
of the present twelve inch gun Of $500
foot seconds velocity becomes so bad
ly worn as to destroy the accuracy. In
the case of the new fourteen inch gun
the erosion Is much less, and the gun
viii be serviceable for about 500 dis.
charges.
1t has been calculated that rainy
day makes a difference of over $780,
600 to shopkeepers in the west end of
London alone. While nearly all classes
Of tradesmen are grumbling and groan-
ing, the tobaceonist, however. cheer
fully rubs his hands. The rain in
creases his takings by about 10 per
cent
Fourteen young women have been
established as ticket sellers Mt the
subway stations of the Hudson river
tunnel system. The general manager
of the system is reported to have said
that these young ticket sellers are paid
at the same rate as men and are
quicker in giving change and more
| courteous.
| Inc ulSIdHce between DanldScuS ana
Bagdad, the largest cities in Turkey In
Asia, is less than 500 miles against
$500 miles between Port Said and
Bagdad by sea and river Damascus
is sixty-fve miles inland from the
Mediterranean coast and may con-
veniently be reached from Suedia, at
the mouth of the Orontes, or from
Haifa.
America was represented by only
twenty delegates at the international
road builders convention I'm Paris a
year ago. The next convention will
meet In Brussels, beginning on July
10, under the patronage Of Albert l.,
the new Belgian king. lie has caused
invitations TO be forwarded to every
state in the Union asking for two del
| egates from each.
In answer TO deputation from Bos
MIA which came to present their re.
spects the Austrian emperor merely
said. .'zbogom tgood day.. A firm of
i publishers In sarayevo had previously