The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-15
TIMELY BREvITIES

1915.
Indian ink is now made from burned
camphOr.
Russia has eighty-slx public holidays
in the course of the year.
At Barbados one can get ship fol
almost any European port by waiting
for it.
The sultan of Turkey once gave Gen
eral Horace Porter a gold medal for
patriotism.
Cold. arid and wind swept Patagonia
now pastures some of the finest fiocks
Of sheep in the world.
Postoffices have been establishes on
Japanese steamships running to San
Francisco and Seattle.
Zulus in tribal dance@ ans Run6ng
scenes were a striking feature -
Cape Towns recent celebration.
The Chilean government enain airs
| fifty-one lighthouses along the coast
and in the strait of Magellan % an
annual cost of $8S,7a Gnitee States
gold.
More than @lirty4pur carloa@ a
sun1ower seed were Gaise0 in q sin
gle Illinois county last scar ana sole
for medical eurposes . eir9 g stoce
fooG.
Rour eunefeG thousana aasas % 60
6erculin were distributed cree Aass yeas
by CHE federal @ureaW q animal a.
| dustry 9Dr cattle@neA o. ase 10 eeste &c
| tuberculosis.
The fir8 ana ongy eslRadAs Ok
change in BritisA Non@1ras cas- o.
stalle8 10 8elize in aD05, the equipments
seing orderee 40 saleliee Gso1s Che
Dnitee SHates.
% the Libraries 0estrsSea se Gre
anust how De addee sha9 of Che onedics1
section % Che University of toulouse
vhich containe@ SO,OO0 eolUnes, eaa
ued % 100000.
The president ce0 Gel eolling nlare
in northern Japan Gas offereQ o. pro-
vide house for 70 @lissionasy ana %
equip him for the work ofssangelizine
its 5000 employees.
The size Of cattle ranches in Argen-
tina is diminishing steadily, thanks to
the law of inheritance, which provides(
for the distribution of property among
children share and share alike.
The most costly medicine few years
ago was metallic gdl1ium, which sold
for S15O,000 pound, but radium is
now the priceless gem of the mineral
world, selling for more than that price
an ounce
In England there has been brought
out an explosive proof electric motor
for powder factories, even the bearings
being so we'll packed that hot gases
cannot escape If an explosion occurs
within it,
In the foothills of Mount Tacana. O
Guatemalan volcano, there Is an almost
inexhaustible supply of sulphur in huge
blocks, which is taken out from time
to time by Indians, but has not yet
been exploited.
The commerce of Venice is steadily
increasing each year, though not in ex-
ports. It is a large distributing point
for inland freight. The proposed ca.
nal, Venice to Milan, is to have q gov
eminent subsidy of $2,00OOOO
Sir James Murray. who has Seen
editor of the Oxford English diction-
airy for thirty-one years, said during
lecture at the London institution that
he had collected 100000 quotations to
illustrate the meanings of words.
In attempting to establish an ostrich
farm in Abyssinia the original idea
was to capture live ostriches and breed
them. This did not prove successful.
as the birds nearly always died after
the pursuit necessary to get them
The Persian government has applied
to Italy for military instruction, both
Russia and England having declared
that they would allow the employment
of German officers only If an equal
number of Russian and English In
structors were engaged.
Lisbon has suffered worse calamities
than revolution. Plague has frequent
" devastated 1t, and in 1855 it was
overwhelmed by the worst earthquake
that ever happened in Europe In
about eight minutes most of the houses
and upward Of $4,000 of its inhabitants
were swallowed up.
In Chicago out of every 1000 women
in the age period from twenty-five to
Twenty-Five at the last count there
were 314 who were unmarried In
Denver there were 331. In Manhattan
and the Bronx there were 800. In Min
neapolis there were $3.50 In Philadel-
phia there were 387.
Children of American settlers in
western Canada, though being brought
up and educated on foreign soil, are
still loyal little Yankees They object !
to being compelled to sing
"Rule Britannia" and the school au-
thorfties in the Northwest Territories /
have decided that their objections are
to be needed AS one of them put it, |
eve want peace in Canada"
The German Export Revue says that |
95 per cent of the Photographic chem
icals consumed by the entire world is
made and supplied by Germany These
chemicals and Photographic paper,
films Dlatns cameras pfc form an |