The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-05-19
FACTS IN FEW LINES

France still has 11,000 men encaInp-
ed Moroccan soil.
The Chinese made paper from silk
100 years before the Christian era.
Preparations have begun for taking
In 1911 the first census for the COM
monwealth Of Australia.
An English physician has placed on
record case of malaria which re-
NAMED latent for thirteen years.
What is supposed to be the tallest
fagpole in the world is now in Battery
park, New York 1t is 165 feet high
Over 5000 gardens are cultivated in
connection with Austrian schools. the
pupils receiving expert tuition In horti-
culture.
The government savings bank of
New South Wales is popular-over $780,
100000 on deposit, belonging to $4,000
1epositors
Foreign banking institutions are
gaining so rapidly in Chile that a bill
is proposed in the Chilean congress to
subject them to taxation
A memorial to the late Speaker Reed
Is to be unveiled in Portland, Me-, In
August. 1t is to cost $4,000 and will
stand on the western promenade.
France supplies many of the flower
bulbs that formerly came from Hol-
land A more recent competitor is the
SPuget sound region, in this country.
New York restaurant managers In
their salaries rank close to the railway
executives. Several receive $4,000 a
year. and two or three receive $4,000.
Seven hundred thousand tons of
American cedar are used annually by
the lead pencil manufacturers of Nu-
remberg. Germany. says our consul
there.
A Roman tomb of the second CEN
fury before Christ. containing marble
sarcophagus of exquisite workman
ship five feet long and admirably pre-
served. has been discovered at Gros-
seto.
Aleppo. northern Syria, Asiatic Tur-
key, a city of 100000 people, has not
single shoe factory, but there are 400
to 800 shops where shoes are made by
hand, no machinery of any kind being
employed except an occasional sewing
machine
1t Is possible that the worlds future
supply eff paper pulp will be derived
from the bamboo forests of the tropics
instead Of being drawn from the for
ests of the temperate zones. Success
full experiments have been made in
Japan pointing in that direction.
Rubber production in the Malay pen
insula has increased remarkably in
the last two years, from 100000 acres
planted with Para rubber in 1907 to
100000 acres in 1909 The worlds
supply of rubber in 1909 was 10000
tons. an increase of 5000 tons over
1908.
One of the oldest domiciles on earth
Is that erected at Yokohama by DIR.
Van der Heyden. the noted bacteriol-
ogist of Japun This is dust proof,
air proof. mierobe proof building of
glass which stands In the open, un-
shaded grounds of the hospital of Yo-
kohama
Eoah's ark as described in Genesis
has just been completed in Denmark.
The vessel as built is thirty feet long.
five feet wide and three deep. these
measurements being one-tenth of those
given in the Bible When launched
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Soap as pincushion has been intro.
duced into many of the hospitals. The
nins are in this manner kept slippery
and easily penetrate heavy bandages.
The idea is said to have originated at
Annapolis. where the naval cadets
soap their pins in order that they may
slip easily through the stiff duck cloth
of which their pantaloons are made.
Electric power Is furnished to Hell
Singer. Denmark. from Sweden by
means of q cable which runs under
the narrow sea separating the two
countries. The power is generated at
900 foot fall of the Laga river In
Sweden and is conducted to the coast
by means Of cable. where it connects
with a submarine cable three miles
long.
In memory of Professor Tyndall, one
of the English pioneers of the Swiss
Alps. monument viii be erected this
summer by his widow on the Bel Alp
t8.735 feetJ a little above the profess
sors former residence. villa Lusgen,
which Is d short journey from Brigue
M. #. Correvon of Geneva has design.
ed the monument, which consists OF
tail block Of rough granite.
IN France the government Is about
TO venture upon an experiment fol
raising money by letting or selling the
rights OF advertising on matchboxes
the sale of matches being state mo
nopoly. A proposal to this effect has
been passed by the chamber OF depu
ties. TIE proposer estimated that tn
advertising rights ought to bring IN De
tween 100000 and $25O,O0O.
Golf balls coated with luminous
naint have been tried by members O
a. f1,a T,,.affnrfI club. Manchester