The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-22
TIMELY BREv|TIES

Mountain air is initiated for the use
Of invalids. "a
meters have been devised to register
the length Of time telephone is being
| used
Within the last thirty years 10000
wrecks have occurred on the British
| coasts.
a school devoted exclusively to the
study of motorboats has been started
at New York.
Nineteen southern cities assisted in
building rural telephone lines during
the past year.
Prices paid to cattle raisers in Ar
gentina have been rising steadily for
the last twenty-five years.
The war department has devised a
revolver holster with spring in the
flap to throw it open when unbuttoned
as time saver.
Small farmers are ENCOURAGED In
Egypt by government loans, for which
8 per cent is charged and collected by
the taxgatherers.
A large proportion Of the so called
Holland Towering bulbs imported into
this country every year in reality come
from the south Of France
A consumer of coffee in Valencia
Spain, pays from 81 to "a cents a
pound, of which the Brazilian planter
who raised it gets only 31a cents. d.
One hundred special railway cars are
continually on the road conveying beer
brewed in Riga to various parts of
Russia, including remote points in ST.
IBERIA.
The grower of Mocha coffee sells his
crop at little over cents. pound.
In Hodeida, a seaport in Yemen, Ara
bia, this coffee sells at So. to SIS per
pound
An lee cave, which is said to be. the
largest in the world, has been discov-
cred near the Lake of Hallstatt, Aus
trfa. 1t is nearly a mile and a half in
length.
The Hawaiian island, of Lanai, which
has been practically barren for several
years, will be reclaimed by a water
conservation system and devoted to
sugar beet culture
It has been estimated that the iron
mines at Sydvarager, Norway, contain
100,000000 tons of iron and that the
yearly production will soon reach a
total of 600,0O0 tons.
Successful experiments have been
made in the bay of Biscay to replace
cod roe as bait in sardine fishing with
an artificial roe made Of fish refuse
and graduated like fish eggs.
1t is said with authority in Tokyo
that the warrior spirit among young
Japanese is vanishing and that the gen
Grafton just coming of. conscript age
promises to be force for peace. d..
All through Catalonia mountain tor
rents are being ''harnessed" to furnish
power to the numerous factories Of this
industrial center of Spain. Even small
towns are now lighted by electricity.
Observations of tides by the United
States survey ship Macarthur in Turna-
gain bay and Knik arm, Cook inlet,
Alaska, show tides of thirty feet varia-
ton and tidal current of eight knots.
The only tides known to exceed this
record are the tides in the, bay of
Fundy. --.
'In Rio Janeiro things are dear be-
yond belief" writes commercial
agent, land it is easy to understand
why the Brazilian, buying in Broad
way, New York city, regards the mar
ket as a very cheap one and explains
why he gets the reputation of being
such a good spender."
Cork metal' has proved. to be de-
sirable substitute for aluminium in the
construction Of airships. It is said to
be 40 per cent lighter than aluminium
and to have numerous other properties
which should make It rival of the
latter. 1t is composed very largely of
magnesium, with small quantities of,
aluminium, iron, zinc and sodium.
A movement is on foot among the
telephone girls in Rome. to have abol-
ished the regulation which forbids
them to marry before they are TWEEN
ty-eight years old. Italian women
reach their prime before they are
twenty. and the telephone girls con-
slider their chances of marriage great
~ lessened by this government regu-
lation.
The Russian authorities, it is stated,
have ordered that only Russians may
fill the higher offices on the railways
of the west border, on which troops
would be modified in case of war,
and as very large part of this dis
trfct is Russian Poland, where Poles
naturally hold many positions on the
railways, this may result in many
changes
The city council of Berlin has de-
cided to honor the emperor of Aus
tria by giving his name to the square
near the new opera house. The Kaiser
Franz Josef Platz, as it will be called.
is situated on Inter den Linden and
is surrounded by the palaces Of VIII
liam /. and the Empress Frederick,
the Frederick William university and
the royal guards.