The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-11-27


East yeas 4he geological surveg aXe0
prices on 2,5ga621 acres % public coal
lands ana classified 1885,, SO ACRES OF
Noncoas hind
The philippine ISLANDS are aoS che
largest producegs Of cocoanuts in the
world. About one aAisd oe sts whole
cop b. groWn these.
Ger.esae BoaAa, prime miniseee ca Sne
TeansVeal, Gaye Ghas nsves oesore in
che 0isaoPS 90 eoutA A9rics geSe SAers
such eOlia oigns "a OrospeRits.
Noevay Aas SounA 10 Immensely prof
itable 60 propagate che zoe. catches OF
che ash haeing steadily Increases each
Seae chat 3re aaeS been Olanted.
The emokeless powdea factory q che
Me9icaB gossrnmenS mas Ocen com
pleteA Its annual capacity IS $4,000
Dounds % powder OF che bese quality
Explueasions made during che Ease
9ew gears have lee biologists 90 che
conclusion thae che gulf coass a Mex
aco GAS greae possibilities as an ell
field.
Ghe Turkish authorities Dave forbia-
den the export of mules over a certain
height from the vilayet lprovince) OF
Bagdad Ghey are being collectea for
army use by the government
an italian soldier has invented light
metal attachments by which sledSe
ambulance can be maze in a 4ew
E1inutes from a pair Of skis, an alpen-
stock ana other military equipment.
AZ Eelixstowe, Englana a ashermaR
losa ais Aook in attempting % lane o
fish. gmmediaeelg afterwar0 che same
ash, eith che hook in los gills, was
caught By anotheg fisherman aeas o..
Englana cent lase scar % ErencA
West Africs 30.64S pounds of beads 90
40 % give che natives something Go
put on aheie strings % play eith. Bus
for chose beads England soc aboaG So
500, 900 9orth % eubber.
The stre@ condemnation jurp % Mil
waukee sisitea Lindwurm park in ehas
city aecently an6 condemne0 an incs
of lane claimea be . cemens co1@
pans. ghe inch % lana in question
was neede@ 20 eive enc ottV accsss o.
che river.
Pm spite q intelligerIe efforts % e
duce infant mortality in che Tnites
States, the census bureau eeports thae
nearly one-fifth % all the deaths re-
worted in 1909 were Of infants @n@er
one year of age. and owes one-quartee
were ~ children under five
While the population a 8ustralia
| (4,374, 1881 is very small in proportions
| 10 the enormous area Of the country,
the per capita purchasing power of the
people is undoubtedly considerably
above the average OF 9nose countries %
the world.
A bomb has 9een invented by a Bos-
ton man for destroying insects in trees.
| The bomb explodes over the tree, dis
charging a poisonous powder. which
settles over every limb and branch.
The pervasive scattering of the poison
is the chief advantage of the method.
| Announcement has been made by an
American of the completion of plans
for founding an entirely new city in
Lower California, directly on the line
of the new San Diego and Arizona
railway, near the old town of Tia
Juana and the international boundary.
Rosario, Argentina, on the river Pa
rama, is the second important city of
that country. 1t has a population of
about 100000. With it's modern facili-
|
strategic position in South American
commerce and ranks next to Buenos
Aires.
For the purpose of making the tele-
phone booth really sound proof a Ger
man inventor lines it with tin. II
seems that the lining is in every way
most efficient The result is that a
German publication now advises all
architects to either use tin or Alumni
UNI in the walls of houses generally
to deaden sound.
A French banker who died recently
left collection of $4,000 cigar bands.
each differing in some particular from
the others. They had cost him fifty
years of smoking and had been ar
ranged systematically in a number of
specially constructed cabinets. His
children, not caring to keep the bands,
sold them at auction for 81.
W. D. Murphy, the celebrated New
York artist, who has painted portraits
of six presidents of the United States,
two vice presidents, several governors,
ambassadors and other widely known
men of the social, official and business
world, has just completed his remark,
able portrait of the late E. H, Harri-
man. This is the only portrait of Mr..
Hartman in existence and has been
| secured by Mrs. Hartman.
According to a report from Hagen.
Germany, the German government has
commissioned NJ. Thornprikler. Meth
erlands artist, to draw plans for a
| new worlds city. with greater Berlin
| as model. The scheme is to unite
the cities of Essen, Dortmund Elber-
field, Barmen and Hagen under, one
municipal government. The central
architectural feature of the proposed