The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-09-18
TIMELY BREWTIES

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Me1aco proposes to construct a fed.
erai knAshway from the capital to AGA.
pule along the famous historic trail.
hrushing the surface of aluminium
with steel brushes at high speed pro
duces what is known as satin finish
The order for the Panama lock gates
covers no less than $4,000 tons of steel
distributed over forty-six gates. or
ninety-two leaves.
Nearly all the watches imported in
this country come from Switzerland
while most of the clocks come from
Germany and France.
Rail connection between Mexico and
Guatemala is about to be established
by the building of a bridge 800 feet
long over the Suchiate river.
A Swedish inventor plans a method
by which lighthouses may call out their
names in stentorian tones instead of
using the inartieulate howl of fog
horns.
Chrystie street. New York, was for
merry First street. 1t was in March.
1927, that it's name was changed in
honor Of Lieutenant Colonel John
Chrystie, frontier soldier.
The kaiser mas some 400 godsons.
This is the outcome Of the cid Prussian
law under which the father of seven
sons can call upon his sovereign to act
as godfather to the latest born.
Americans of Danish descent, led by
DR.. Max Henius of Chicago, have pur-
chased tract of land on the outskirts
of Aalborg. Denmark, and will pre-
sent it to the government for a ma
tional park.
Travellers will no more complain Of
the dogs Of Constantinople. The Turk
ish parliament has new plans for SAM
tation and will transport and exile the
four footed scavengers on an island in
the sea Of Marmora
A cloud of smoke" which appeared
20 be rising from the cathedral tower
at Belgrade. Austria. was found when
the FIRE brigade arrived to be large
cluster Of mosquitoes. compact at the
base and tapering toward the top.
Years ago sugar experts said of Ha-
wall. THE limit of production has
been reached" Yet last year the is
lands raised 10000 tons more than the
year before. and in 1908 the produc-
ton exceeded that of 1907 by $4,000
tons.
Wages throughout the cities. of Asia
Minor are low. Carpenters get from
80 to 56 cents a day, bricklayers 40 to
48 cents and common laborers from 4
to IL cents. Doctors charge 40 cents a
visit and dentists 20 cents for pulling
tooth.
bicycle lamp, six feet of barbed
wire. a skipping rope, numerous mag
three or four carloads of rubbish TAX
en- from the basins of the two foun-
tains 10 Trafalgar square. London, re-
Gently when they were cleaned
According to Consul General James
n. Du Bots of Singapore. one wheel
ed jinrikisha. on the monocycle prin-
ciple, is being introduced among the
Chinese of the Malay States. It is said
to be safe and TO have many advan-
tages over the old fashioned vehicle.
Eggs with two yoIks occur not IN.
commonly, but eggs with three yolks
are exceptionally rare Such an egg
was recently laid by Barred Plymouth
Rock pullet at the Maine experiment
station. The egg was somewhat above
the average size, but no other abnor-
Inai feature was noticed
Turkeys gradual change from ma
tionaI system of time to the European
has caused demand for watches
showing both. to meet which three
watches have been devised, one with
tiials on each side. another with two
1ials side by side and a third with a
fixed dial for European time. sur
rounded by movable ring showing
the national.
During last years draft $500 wells
were dug in the Chinese province Of
Shantung by order of the magistrate
of Changshan. The water was raised
By the rope windiass basket method,
& WHICH, kept Two u1eu DuSy dt eGtCu We'll
night and day, and on the hot days it
was not unusual for man to faint
from exhaustion. The installation of
windmills is now advocated.
During the first thirty years of the
nineteenth century France recorded
more than thirty births for each 1000
inhabitants. After the Franco Prus-
sian war (iS70-1l the birth rate began
declining, between the years 1876 and
1900 ranging from tWenty-six to TWEEN
ty-two In 1000. During 1900 it sank to
fwenty-one, and more recent statistics
show that the rate has fallen to twenty.
Sir William Crookes, upon whom
King George v. has bestowed the Or
der of Merit. is a man whose name has
been known the world over for many
years. AS an editor his publications
reach every quarter of the globe. but
be is so famous in the field of origi-