The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-05-01
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33.51I PM ent5.
Dentists SHY that damp weather n-
creaseY Their business 80 per cent.
Winnipeg expects to have in 1911
winter carnival, at which winter
sports of all kinds will be INDUCED in.
Twenty years ago the New York
postoffice issued money orders to the
value of S101.334, 173. and during the
last year their value was S423.543,S 500,
Last year the Canadian northwest
mounted police handled nearly 1000
cases of crime and misdemeanor and
secured convictions in six out of every
seven instances.
Originally made merely for orna-
mentation. electric light shades now
are designed along purely scientific
lines to diffuse or reflect the light with
the greatest economy.
Fifteen women have been elected
to the new parliament of Finland
The previous parliament the first to-
which women were eligible. had nine
teen women among it's members.
The lubrieating mechanism of gy-
roscope car is fitted with an alarm to-
warn the engineer, for If the axles of
the rapidly moving horoscopes should
get hot they would cut through the
bearings in an instant
The present population of Argentina
Is estimated at over 6.S05.0O0. which
is nearly twice the population Of
Chile. Brazil. with 22.00o.000 inhabit-
ants. is the only South American
country ahead of Argentina.
Heretofore regarded as valueless.
certain kind of soil of which there are
large deposits In Denmark has been
found to nuke excellent bricks of light
weight and 10 tough that nails may be
driven into them without cracking.
For the first six months of last year
100000 Bibles were printed and circu-
lated in China. while during the whole
of the previous year the number was
only 100000. Nearly every Bible was
paid for. In Turkey there Is also a
great increase.
In the fifteenth century cotton man
dustry in West Africa among the
Mandingo. Wolof. Songhai and Hausa
peoples. From Liberia cotton cloths
were first exported to northern and
western Europe.
The old mahogany bureau desk used
by Robert Burns at Ellisland and
Dun1fries and ut which the poet wrote
''Tam o. Shanter, Aud Lang Syne''
and many of bis other famous lyrics
was sold in London recently for $4,000.
Of anfmpeachable pedigree. this relic
aroused keen interest
The sugar crop of Porto Rico this
year will be the largest crop harvested
III the Islands history The acreage in
cane this season is approximately 300.-
600, and the yield of sugar is estimated
to be from 100000 to 100000 tons. an
average yield of less than two tons to
the acre.
A fund of 100000 is being raised to
be known as he Richard Watson Gill
der fund for the promotion of good cit-
izenship. to be intrusted to Columbia
university for the support of several
fellowships for tie pursuit of the polit-
ical and social sciences and for practi-
cal civic work
Towels are no longer In use III the
Michigan College of Mines. The fac
ulty has decided that towels are relics
of barbarisn and insanitary and ex-
pensive. Now when a student washes
his hands aud face he dries them with
big sheet of paper and throws the
paper into II wastebasket.
London has rubber growers ASSOC
citation. with membership of some
200 rubber planters and others indl-
rectly interested in rubber growing.
In the reading room of this associa-
ton there are between fifty and sixty
rubber journals from all the rubber
growing countries of the world.
Egg laying competitions are quite
popular In Australia. and each Austria
liam state is running at least one COM
petition. the state poultry experts hav-
ing general supervision over them. In
nearly all of the Australian states
wheat forms leading part of the diet
Of the poultry in these competitions.
When the census Is taken In Eng
land. which Is once in seven years. the
police round up passers In the streets.
Sometimes a man for reasons of his
own does not want to figure In the
census and tries to evade the govern
ment by riding around In u cab all
night. but cabs and street cars are
stopped just as unhesitatingly as De,
Gestrians.
During the year 1909 there arrived
In Sweden from the United States 176,-
361 money orders, containing about
S3.400,000. These figures are slightly
smaller than those for 1908. From
Sweden to the United States there
were sent during 1909 1922 money
orders. containing about $550000
These figures are also slightly below
1908.
Gold is coined in Philadelphia and