The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-01-20
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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A direct cable Is to be constructed
between Argentina and the continent
Of Europe.
Cotton growing is being resumed in
Palestine. An extensive suitable area
is available.
There are in Constantinople some
400 pharmacies to an estimated popu.
lation of 1,125,0Oo.
In England In 1884 q penalty was
imposed on hockmasters who kept
above 1000 sheep.
Ice breakers are Of importance in
Russian ports. Riga is to have a new
one costing nearly 100000.
Canada's f1rst great electric smelling
plant for the treatment Of ores is to
be erected at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
1t is estimated that 70 per cent Of
the products advertised in the street
cars Of Canada are OF American man
ufacture.
An average OF thirteen persons day
who use the railroads Of the country
for footpaths pay for the practice with
their lives.
Operators on the sewing machine in
south China are paid SIS q month for
working nine hours a day seven days
In the week
The swamp areas of the United
States II combined would cover the
New England states, New York and
New Jersey.
During the last ten years $3.50, 600
worth of property has been cast ashore
on the coast of ireland, including TWEEN
ty-six steam vessels.
w. e. Cummings OF Albany, Me-,
felled on his farm a spruce tree that
was 175 years old and measured near
ly four feet across the stump.
For every man, woman and child In
this country there is manufactured
each week more than twelve pounds
of finished iron and steel products.
Though hydrophobia has been stamp
ed out of Britain. It Is still rampant In
Germany, where every year over $500
dogs and cats afflicted with the disease
are destroyed.
IS When George Osborn, a jeweler, of
New Haven, Conn, took apart an old
clock brought to him to be repaired, he
found green wad of $3.50 tucked in
the back of 1t.
One Scotch casualty insurance com
pany is offering policies to aviators,
while another will extend all future
policies to cover the risks Of aviation
and ballooning.
West Australian flowers inclosed in
a block of ice sent By the governor.
Sir Gerald Strickland, to Joseph Cham
berlain recently arrived In London In
the orient liner Ophir
All the grade crossings on the Mon
treux-Berne Oberland electric railway
are guarded by automatic gates or
bars which close when car approach.
es and lift when 1t passes.
Despite the disadvantages OF a tenn.
perature Of 80 below zero, the gasoline
engine of Lieutenant Shackleton's mo
tor sleigh used In his antarctic expedI.
ton worked with scarcely hitch.
The Lincolnshire (England) county
court ordered a man who was owing
500 to a money lender to pay the debt
In installments of 2 cents a month, at
which, rate 1t will take 365 years to
pay Off the sum-
There are not less than 800 moving
picture shows in New York city, and,
figuring on the capacity Of each and
on the basis that each. house is filled
twice a day. they give amusement to
10000 people a day.
The, Swiss climbing season of 1900 |
will long be remembered as a black
year for accidents. At least $50 climb. |
ers were killed outright or died from
the effects of the injuries they sus.
tanned In the mountains.
Cork cut into very thin sheets and |
chemically treated to remove all resin |
ols matter Is being used In France |
For hats, shoes and waterproof gar
ments, in the last instance textile ma
terials being coated with 1t.
The failure of the experiment Of hir- |
ng Japanese laborers. on the coffee |
plantations In Brazil Is explained as |
being due to the unwillingness of |
Brazilian planters to allow the Japa-
,ese laborers to adapt their own sys-
ems Of work to the industry In which
hey are engaged.
Paris Is having much trouble with |
he moving picture craze, and the cam
IRA operators now even invade the |
cemeteries when the funeral of some
veil known person is being held The
government had to forbid the photog-
'aphers from attending executions, as
hey wanted to even make films of |
hese.
For many years the Mexican dollar
vas current at and in the vicinity of
he Chines1 coast and river ports, but
low Chinese dollars are coined al. the
provincial mints at Tientsin,l NanAshg, |
Hankow, Canton and else
where, but the mintage of one province
only accepted at discount I'm an.
'ther province.
The Women's Industrial and Educa.
ional union of Boston has started the
york of introducing the system OF