The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-06-23
TIMELY BREvITIES
Five is the sacred Chinese number.

The japanese police are exceedingly
polite.
The Mexican city of Mazatlan will
soon have a Pasteur institute.
Home rule for Ireland was first
mooted by an organized association in
1870.
A school devoted exclusively to the
study of motorboats has been started
at New York.
tuberculosis stands at the head of
the list of diseases which afflict the
American Indian.
Japan's postal service is the cheap
est In the world. Letters travel for
2 sen-about seven-tenths of penny.
A vessel was recently launched at
Scotch shipyard with all her machin-
cry aboard and steam up ready tt
start.
A new boat, claimed by the inventor
to be unsuitable, is made by covering
a perforated steel shell with granu
lated cork.
Ireland accounts for about sixty-four
out of every hundred persons employed
in linen manufactured in the United
Kingdom.
The Brazilian government is begin
ming to pay attention to the cultivation
and improvement of various fruits fol
expectation.
Boats driven by electric storage are
utilized for business purposes in Ger
many to a greater extent than in any
of the other countries.
The wireless telegraph apparatus on
the transatlantic liner Caronia is the
most powerful adoat, having a radius
Of action of 1900 miles.
A memorial to the late speaker of
congress, Thomas B. Reed, is to be
unveiled in Portland, Me-, in August
It is to cost $4,000 and will stand on
the western promenade.
Tests made by army officers indicate
that projectiles fired from the heaviest
guns when they penetrate concrete do
so Clearly, without splintering or scat
tering it.
In eighteen years, with the increase
in steam vessels and decrease in sail
ing ships, the deaths annually due TO
wrecks and casualties to ships have
decreased to about one-third.
The word "caloriculture" has been
coined to designate the new system of
horticulture which is designed to re-
place the old French style of intensive
fruit and vegetable forcing by soil cul-
dvation.
Letters curiously formed and written
with red chalk on card in the win
dow Of a frame building in New York
not 300 yards from Columbia univer-
sity announce. Day Bored and Vokel
Musick Taught"
In all King Victor Emmanuels IA
nous collection of coins the treasure
most priced by that monarch is an an
cient Montenegrin gold coin, the only
other known example of which is in
the numismaticai gallery at Vienna,
China has discovered that it needs to
run its postal and telegraph systems
labor of foreigners. The Celestial en-
pire is therefore opening schools to
train young men to enter these two
services.
The battleship Indiana has under
gone some tests of the ship brake"
with which she has been equipped II
was found that the vessel could be
brought to stop within the distance
of her own length without injurious
shock or strain.
Three hundred years ago the first
home Of wood was erected on AIanhai.
tan Island. 1t was near where he
west end of Pearl STREET Is ard v,;,>.
made Of rough logs-quitt different
from the last one of steel aud siuGe
now being built not far frun the sane
site.
At the present rate of increase near
~ forty-fve years must elapse before
sufficient hospital accommodations to
provide for all the INDECENT eeaSumn.
tives in the United States will lie pro
vided. declares the Salional A<s,.tia
ton For the Study and Prevention 0.
Tuberculosis.
Measurements of the senior class Ii
Yale compared with measurements o.
the senior class of forty-six years agp
show that the college man OF led;iy
almost exactly the height Of his grand
father. but he weighs sixteen pound
more and has chest measure of near
ly two inches more
A ferry service between Dover and
Calais is now being organized. and III
two years time, according to Sir Will
liam White and Sir John Wolfe Bar
~, the advising engineers. passengers
will travel between England and
France without change of cars. Rail
way ferries such as are commonly in
use In many parts of the United States
will be employed.
Papers have been discovered show
ing that an eminent EngIishman once
urged that King George Ill. offer
Washington dukedom and a sum of
money In return Washington was TO