The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-06-30
TIMELY BREVITIES

were flQOeD Dy AIIeIlCdus
Blue, pink and aquamarine diamonds
recently were exhibited in London.
Java coffee is being successfully
saised In an experimental way in Porto
Rico.
OF every 1000 manageable persons
that are in this country. under fifty are
married.
Since the earthquake in Sicily tour
lists have spent on the island at least
S1,250OO0.
A theatrical manager in Vienna re-
ceiyed not long ago the manuscript for
a play In thlrty-five acts.
A japanese scientist claims to have
discovered process for causing oys-
tiers to make perfectly spherical pearls
Helsingor, Denmark, city of 49,
200 population. gets its electricity from
sweden through a cable under the sen
between the two countries.
A resolution advocating the fort
nightly washing and dislnfecting of all
mail bags has been passed by con-
ference of Irish postoffice clerks.
The largest wireless station in Eu-
rope, that on the Adriatic sea at Pola.
Austria Hungary. includes 300 foot
tower built on a foundation of glass.
Originally made merely for orna-
mentation. electric light fnades now
are designed along purely scientific
lIv1n ~ Hrrlf 4,
the greatest economy.
For the first time in the history of
Sweden two women have been elected
to the municipal council of Stockholm.
One was elected by the conservatives
and one by the Socialists.
Turkish women no longer refuse to
see doctors except through q rent in
curtain. Many of them will now,
when i'll. voluntarily send for doctor
and submit to examination.
The frightening of the Assuan dam
is expected to occupy six years In all
and to increase the annual value of the
Egyptian cotton crop by between IF
teen and twenty million dollars.
Twenty-nine persons lost their lives
last year in gathering Alpine flowers
and seventeen through winter sports.
No fewer than seyenty-six deaths were
oceasioned by attempting rash and
foolhardy feats.
At Apl, In the Kongo Free State.
there is training school for elephants.
and at the present time twenty-eight
of the animals are being trained to
carry logs of wood and make them
selves useful in other ways.
Think of an acre of ground covered
with pile of silver dollars 800 feet
high. That would be the sight pre-
scented If the whole wealth of the
country were piled together. Ii
amounts TO more than $107, 600. 000, 600
To permit motorist to explore dark
corners of his car with a light and yet
leave his hands free there has been In
vented an incandescent lamp and re-
Hector to fasten TO the forehead and
take current from the cars batteries
through cord
Spanish paper mills export paper
chiefly to former Spanish colonies, and
very little foreign made paper finds fits
way into Spain. The manufacture of
cigarette paper is carried on widely.
and the various Spanish specialties
find fair market abroad.
When j. R. Conley. whose death at
the age of ninety years has just oc-
Cured at Suffieet. Lincolnshire. Eng
land, was ten years old. his mother
hlm with d silk hat and told
him to wear it always. He wore the
hat indoors and out of doors until the
day of bis death.
On arriving at San Bernardino after
a Eve months prospecting trip IN the
desert two California prospectors
found that one of their pack mules
had developed limp. An examination
Of the mules hoof revealed a gold mug
get. worth probably $50. The prospect
ors have no idea in what part of the
desert the nugget was picked up.
According to the National Assoeia.
ton For the Study and Prevention of
tuberculosis. New York state leads In
the number of beds for eonsumptives
provided up TO May l. with SAG beds;
Massachusetts is second. with 2,403
beds; Pennsylvania third with 2.347
beds; Colorado fourth. with 1.4S9 beds.
and New Mexico fifth. with 1.104 beds.
Sally Calm. salesman In New York.
got permission from Supreme Court
Justice Whitney to change bis uame
to Frederick Sally Calm. because per
sons who write him business letters
think he Is woman. Sally is a "fanei-
full name for man to have IN Ger.
many he said. but In this country IL
leads persons to write him as My dear
miss or madam" and he has a good
deal of trouble explaining that he is
4 man.
A guest at New York hotel left
4 pasteboard box tied carelessly with a
cord with one of the room clerks and
asked him TO lay 1t aside until he re-
turned. Knowing the guest to be
man of wealth the clerk took the pre-
caution to put the box in u safe de
posit vault, although II was thought
TO contain pair of shoes. Several
hours later tha ot1net fset3.rnad fo,. tbn