The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-08-14
TIMELY BRIEvITIES

much more than Tat of Greater New
York city.
Official figures show that the average
ages at which men and women marr3
are rising.
Smokeess fuel is now made from
coal by removing the greater portion
| of volatile matter.
The river Jordan is soon to be har-
messed by power company and made
to turn out electric lights.
Nervous dyspepsia and chronic gas
tritis. with nausea and vomiting. are
troubles now traced to eye strain and
durable by proper eyeglasses.
Records of the port of New York
since the beginning of the year show
that the nation vii receive 100000
immigrants before 1911 comes
Canada is second only to Great Brit
ain as a source Of supply of paper for
! Australia All this paper is made in
| Quebec and Ontario provinces.
The laying of the new cable between
Nagasaki. Japan, and Tamsui. Formo-
sa. to cost $5G8,0O0, will be begun at
once by the japanese government.
Tobacco promises to be a source Of
! considerable wealth to Korea. Already
$4,000 acres are devoted to growing it,
and japanese settlers are pushing the
matter.
One Of the novelties in the field Of
aviation is a'triplane invented by an
| EngIishman. who guides it from a seat
suspended between two sets Of three
planes each.
An effort is being made in England
to found and endow a chair of Eng
lish literature at Cambridge. A com
mittee of representative men has the
work in charge.
Clothing "sweatshops'' have practi
cally passed from New York city.
Each large manufacturer has his own
tailoring shops and work is not given
out to contractors.
An international congress of all the
Indian tribes of the United States and
several tribes from Canada and Mex,
leo is planned to be held in Musko
gee, Okla, early this fall.
The gold output of Australia contin-
ues to decline In the first four months
of 1910 it was ,033, 900 ounces as COM
pared with 1917, 900 in the same period
of 1909 and 1880 in 1908.
During cricket game at Acton, Eng.
land, batsman drove the ball to the
boundary. where it struck against an
/ old rusty tin can which was found to
contain a robin setting on two eggs.
The Norwegian town of Stavanger
proposes to have permanent museum
for exhibiting all machinery used in
the fish canning and preserving indus
try from it's beginning until the pres
ent
Manual crafts have been introduced
into the Mexican Jail at Mazatlan in
the hope of reducing the amount of
crime By making it possible for many
men without trades to earn an honest
living.
The Mexican government is now
granting special permits to foreigners
| to buy land in what is called the pro-
hibited zone. which embraces all lands
within twenty leagues of the Rio
Grande.
The false hair dressing so in vogue
in this country is equally so in Europe.
At Barcelona there has been an ener-
nous demand for human hair for false
curls. 1t is now selling at about SIS to
SIS pound.
The governments of Australia and
New Zealand have decided to estab-
lish system of wireless telegraply
] which will be under their control and
which will embrace various groups If
British islands.
/ Medical inspection of 1000 fve-yea
old children in Surrey, England, RI
vealed the fact that those who had sci
pral decaved teeth weighed on an ave-
age of go pounds less than those VITO
had sound teeth.
Rear Admiral Bacon of the British
navy believes that the race between
the gun and the armor of battleshp
which has been going on for over hlf
century, has been decided for be
moment in favor of the gun.
There are 30,064 acres under straw-
berry cultivation in Great Britain. o.
937 being in England. 745 in WOES
and 1882 in Scotland Kent prodtes
more than a quarter of the total str W
berry yield of Great Britain and de-
votes to it 1892 acres.
1t is said that Miguel RomonaI
Mexican. lives farther south than my
other man on the mainland of be
United States. His home is simply
shack built on the point of land pied
| up by the Rio Grande river where it
emptfes into the gulf of Mexico
A tall pine tree at Bridgton, te., J
ues struck lightning last spfng
and now has the appearance of a bar /
ber's pole. The bolt struck near the
top Of the tree. and its course To the
ground may be- traced by a continuous
| wide stripe which winds round and
! round the tree. This strinn is viil,1e