The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-10-27
TIMELY BREVITIES

rapIuly flslng.
The largest paper factory in the far
east is in the Hokkaido, Japan. 1t
cost S3,500,ooo.
The Cunard line collects subsidies to
the amount of 1896, 900 from the Brit
ish government
Newly devised methods of municipal
bookkeeping will save New York city
half a million annually.
China holds the worlds record in
the way of executions. There are at
least 10000 legal executions yearly.
Cold storage plants of the United
States have q total refrigeration ca
pacity in excess of 20o,00o,0oo cubic
feet
Only thirty years ago Japanese sol
diers wore huge grotesque iron mask
helmets In order to frighten the en-
envy.
A very expensive effort was made
by Spanish capitalists about forty
years ago to popularize bullhghting in
London.
Machines are used in Sicily for ex-
tracing the oil from lemon rinds
Each machine is capable of dealing
with 5000 lemons a day.
The baby that is born In Buenos
Aires has a better chance of living
than If 1t had been born in any other
of the worlds large cities.
Besides Great Britain, the countries
which have old age pensions are Den
mark, France, Belgium, Germany,
New Zealand and Australia.
1t would take nine and half days
for the armies of Europe to pass a
given point marching FIVE abreast,
fifteen inches apart, at an eight mile
gait.
Coal vessels from Wales can reach
Ronen, in France, discharge cargo, re-
turn to Wales, loal and reach dock
again at Rouen in a period of eight
days
Emigration from Ireland is increas-
| ing again after the low record of last
year. For seven months the move
ment has included nearly 1900 per-
sons month.
The heightening of the Assouan dam
is expected to occupy six years IN all
and to Increase the annual value of
the Egyptian cotton crop by between
$15.00o.000 and S20,000.000.
The manufacture of steel tubing has
grown until today such tubes consti-
tute one of the large divisions of fun
danental forms comparable with rails,
plates. structural shapes and rods.
| At present only 30 per cent of the
population of Turkey under the most
fiattering estimate can read and write.
About per cent of the total number
of boys and per cent of the girls in
the country attend school,
India is the greatest cane sugar pro-
ducing country in the world. The an
nuaI crop exceeds 100000 tons Most
of it is consumed in an unrefned
state because of its adaptability for
native sweetmeats and native cookery.
Nagasaki is the oldest port in Japan.
where the first foreigners, Portuguese
merchants, landed 326 years ago 1t is
one of the five most important ports of
the country. The largest vessels in the
world can anchor In its spacious har-
Dor.
The consumption of coal In the Unit
ed States is more than twice as great
as that in any other country and near
| ly equals the combined consumption
OF the United Kingdom. Germany.
France and Belgium and is actually
greater per capita than in the United
Kingdom.
Mrs. Lillian Stone in a suit against
her husband for the support of their
child testified in Chicago court that
| $50 week is the proper cost for a
seven weeks-old baby. Her husband
Is worth half a million. All the law
yers present were bachelors. and after
court they promptly formed bach
/ elors' club.
1t was proposed at the recent meet
| ing of the international cremation con-
gress in Brussels to work for laws to
establish crematorium on all ocean
passenger steamers. The cremation
movement was started in Italy in
| 1876, and now there arr IL cremato-
RUINS In the world. IN 1909 1900
bodies were cremated.
Not every creature cal swallow an
other bigger than itself, bu there Is a
little water snake at the New York
aquarium that does this handily. This
water snake is foot and a half long
and about as big around as a big lead
pencil, say scant five-sixteenth of an
inch In diameter, but 1t will corner
and capture killiefish an inch aud a
half long and close to half an inch in
diameter and gulp 1t down whole cas-
lily.
When the Cincinnati authorities in
vestigated the premises of Edward
Flynn. a seyenty-six-year-o hermit
living near the city, they found four
horses that he had kept as pets, two
of them thirty three years old. None
Of them had ever been in harness.
One horse has never been out of the
stall that it was born in seventeen