The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-07
FACTS N FEW LINES

Russia leads the world in the produc->
ton of rye.
Americans are the greatest peanut
eaters in the world.
Bombay's death rate was reduced
from 1913 in 1908 to 1896 in 1909.
Europe took so per cent of the $751;
100000 of tobacco exported from this
country in 1909.
In London fresh fish during the Tu-
dor period was d luxury beyond the
means of the poor.
In the rural districts of England and
| Wales the death rate is about % per
| cent lower than in the urban districts.
A Paris company is shortly to send
an airship to London to test the FEAST
bility of a regular service of dirigibles
between, the two capitals.
The Turkish minister OF war has or
dered that a certain number of forks
shall be found in all barracks for the
convenience of soldiers at mealtimes.
Prison rations of England give 51.4
ounces of food daily to the prisoner
doing hard labor, but only 46.8 ounces
in the case of prisoner doing light
labor.
King Ferdinand Of Bulgaria has Civ
en- 100000 francs for the erection of a
national sanitarium. The death rate
from tuberculosis in Bulgaria is very
high, being 81 for every 10000 living.
Special prizes Of much value will be
awarded exhibitors from the United
States at southern Russia's Industrial
and agricultural exposition at Ekateli
noslav from July to October.
New York is the only city in the
| world where the restaurants provide
the native dishes of every land. A
Spaniard, Norwegian, a Chinese or
Scotchman finds no difficulty In get
ting his home cooking.
The telephone trunk line between
the Austrian and French capitals is
$40 miles long and is the longest di-
rect telephone line in Europe The
line between the Adriatic and North
sea ports is only twelve miles shorter.
Notwithstanding the enormous wheat
crops in Canada, Consul General
James w Ragsdale of Halifax notes
that the price of bread in7many 10
calities is double that charged in Eng
land.
A glass factory at Baccara, France,
has produced new glass that will not
break The composition of the glass is
heated to boiling point and then IS
plunged into water brought to a freez
ing point The glass will be used for
safety lamp tubes.
It has been found by incubation into
monkeys and guinea pigs that the
typhus fever of Mexico is an entirely.
distinct disease from Rocky mountain
spotted fever and that, in addition to
the differences brought out by animal
experimentation, the diseases differ
clinically
In Norway and Sweden the average
age attained by men is so years. In
England it is 451s years; France, 4411a;
Prussia, SO; Wurttemberg, IS; Bavaria
and other parts of Germany, 80. In
Austria and Spain the inhabitants
have the shortest lives, the average
age being only 33.
The number of Americans killed and
wounded at Fourth of July celebra
tons in the years 1908 to 1909 was
1908, while there were only Lilo
killed and wounded at the seven bat
ties OF Lexington, Bunker Hill, Fort
Moultrie, White Plains, Fort Washing
ton, Monmouth and Cowpens.
There are rather more than thirty
savings bank accounts to every hum
dred persons of the population of Prus-
STA, while the total number of ac-
counts has increased twice as fast as
the rate of increase Of the population.
Experts predict that 1910 will bring
the total Prussian savings bank de
posts to $4,000, 100000.
Speaking of American work in the
philippine Islands, the New York Ned
ica1 Journal declares that "this much
is certain-from the medical point of
view we have not only been of ma
terial aid to the islanders, but we have
contributed notably to the advance of
medicine in general by Investigations
carried on in the Philippines
A Paris doctor has found the amount
of work accomplished by orators and
singers to vary greatly, according to
the pitch of the voice He states that
the bass voice is at a great disadFan.
tage, and in the same hall it requires
seventeen to eighteen times as much
work as the baritone or tenor voice
to give the same impression.
London greatly needs more wide
streets. While there are 102 miles of
boulevards and avenues 9S1a feet or
more wide in Paris, London has only
S1a miles, and while Paris. has forty
two roads radiating into the country
London, with a population twice as
great, has only twenty, and ordinarily
they are narrower than the French
roads.
In London company has been