The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-05-12
FACTS IN FEW LINES

more tnan Two miles OF SILK.
Canada's imports of garden seeds
and bulbs have quadrupled in nine
years.
The government of Brazil proposes
! coloniZing the indians on public lands
and furnishing them with farm nipple
menls.
The government of Chile has ordered
| 56,130.000 centennial anniversary post
age stamps from an American house
for use during 1910.
immigration regulations do not ad-
nit paupers, and the immigrants bring
on an average S1.3OOO00 to the port
of New York each month.
Though New York theater managers
| give their customers plenty of foreign
plays. they give two from home au-
thors where they give one that is i'm
ported.
While Canada has large forest areas.
its supply of woods is not diversified;
consequently il must continue to draw
considerable supplies from the United
| States.
Burglars who broke into the house
of police inspector in Paris were so
terrified by the sight of a pair of hand
cuffs on table that they flung down
their booty and fed.
Since the discovery was made in
] Canada year or so ago that the
muskrat could be treated and dyed to
initiate seal SO nearly as TO avoid de-
lection The price of its pelts has dou-
bed
The United States leads the world
as an exporter of tobacco. having sup
piled over Sal .G0000O worth of tobac
co and manufactures of tobacco which
entered international markets last
| year
A model electric engine built by
Thomas Davenport. poor blacksmith
of Brandon. VI. and operated on IL
small circular track in 1884 probably
was the first electric railway in the
! world.
Over 1900 potato diggers are used
in the state of Maine alone to harvest
| the crop. If these were all hooked to
| gether with team of horses TO each
1t would make procession fifteen
miles long
The S;lez canal has proved 10 be one
of the most profitable commercial un
dertakings in he history of the world
and The Manchester ship canal is now
accomplishing all and more than was
promised al first
A committee of the New Zealand leg
islature has just recommended that
! telegrapher'S cramp be added TO the
list of diseases for which the employ
| er must compensate he workman who
suffers il in his employ
Honduras and Salvador are on a sill
yer basis, while Nicaragua and Guate.
mala have mixed silver-paper sys-
tenn As their paper is not convertible
it results that they have in circulation
only fractional silver coins.
Anticipating ordinances. laws and
regulations in more than fve-eighthS
of the cities and towns of the country
are not enforced as they should be. al
leges the National Association For the
Study and Prevention of tuberculosis
in recent report.
During the last three years there
has been a fairly steady increase IN
the quantity OF natural gas used in
this country for domestic purposes.
decrease in The quantity used for man
ufacturing purposes and IN Increase
in the average price
England is endeavoring TO stimulate
egg production. aud missionary egg
train is 10 be dispatched through
western England and Wales. where ii
is said that the egg industry is at a
low ebb. The United Kingdom now
imports nearly one-half the eggs con
sumed.
Here is fish story of the 1910 crop
published By the st. james Budget
while Mr.. McIeorie. an angler visiting
Loeb Hay. was fishing in the KILN
waters with two rods Two salmon took
the bats simultaneously and both
were secured The salmon weighed
seventeen pounds each
Industrial insurance against loss by
strikes has taken root In Germany
The bureau of statistics reports forty
eight companies organized. thirteen
strike indemnity insurance companies,
twenty six employers associAtions for
strike Insurance and nine III which IN
demnity is from occasion 10 occasion
granted.
In Italy the supply OF machine guns
is still in its infancy. BY the end of
the year. however. every infantry fegl
meni and every Alpine BATTALION Is to
have one gun for trimming the men. In
the fall of 1910 beginning Is 10 be
made TO give every infantry and caVaI
RI regiment one battery of four and
every Alpine battalion one battery Of
two such guns.
In Germany there are seven special
schools devoted to the sole purpose of
training loeksniths and blacksmiths
They are in the cities of Rurgstadt.
Grossenhain Frankenherg. Nielsen,