The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-04
TIMELY BREvI1TIES

AhSAt VI P4Oso4O, tOI'
French prunes are usually dried by
artificial heat, while the California
/ prunes are sun dried.
Nearly a million dollars worth of to-
matoes were shipped last year from
the Canary islands to England.
A company has been formed to es-
| tablish in Amsterdam the first Amer
lean style department store in Hol-
| land.
1t is estimated that $4,000 sables are
caught annually in Russia. The skins
are disposed of mainly in the London
market.
| Emmerich Vitalis, known as the last
of the Hungarian brigands, shot him
self at st. Marion, in Hungary, to
avoid capture.
1t is now claimed there is no such
thing as a lazy child. There is always
some other explanation Of the back
ward child, generally sickness or hun
ger.
A distinguished Vienna physician
has attributed the increase in diseases
Of the respiratory organs to the grow
ing practice among men of going clean
shaven.
A statue of Colonel J. T. Stevens,
the founder of Minneapolis, by John
Gelert, will be erected in Minneapolis
| by Colonel Stevens daughter and
granddaughter
Germany does a very large and prof
! liable trade with other countries in
books printed in the German language,
A largely increasing quantity is sent
every year to Japan.
Next to the Washington monument,
the new pilgrims monument on Cape
! Cod, Mass, which is 272 feet high, rs
the Hottest structure of solid mason
ry on this continent.
What is believed to be the largest
playable band instrument in the world
is a tuba owned in Los Angeles,
weighing ninety pounds and standing
more than five feet high.
An automobile street sweeper in use
in Paris is provided with a water tank
for sprinkling just ahead Of the broom,
which is revolved by the motor instead
of by the rear wheels, as usual.
Within two years there has been so
great an increase in frozen meat eX-
ports from Australia and New Zealand
that sometimes there is glut in the
London market during which the i'm
ported lamb is almost unstable.
South African buyers are said to be
prejudiced against American products
on the ground that the United States
buys practically nothing of the output
of that country. They forget that
America is Africa's best diamond mar
ket.
An old home week has been ar
ranged at Yarmouth, N S., for June,
1911, on the towns one hundred and
fiftieth birthday. Consul A ]. Elem
ing says that there are several thou
sand people from Yarmouth in the
United States,
The chief meat exporting countries
1 are Australia New Zealand, Argen-
tina, Canada and the United States
and the chief meat importing coun
tries the United Kingdom, Germany
and, in less degree. the other Euro
pean countries
The Royal Opera at Stockholm is de-
/ servedly advertised as continental. The
director is a Swede, the stage manager
is from Germany, one maestro from
Italy, the other from Finland, one
soprano from Norway, one tenor from
| Austria, the other from Hungary.
| Oberammergau had fifty-nine per-
formances of the Passion play this
year, attended by 225,00G persons.
about 300 at each performance. The
American attendance constituted the
largest number The next Passion
play will not take place until 1920.
A recent London police court case
brought to general notice new phase
of the outdoor advertising evil. A con-
stable found a man painting ads on
pavement aud charged him with
"willfully depositing paint upon the
footway" The culprit was discharged.
Tin, rubber and cocoanuts are the
basis of Malayan prosperity. The Ma
lay states supply two-thirds of the tin
used in the world. Exports Of tin last
year amounted to $405O7 ,935, By 1915
the Malay peninsula will have 300,-
100000 acres of yielding Para rubber
| trees.
The United Kingdom. Spain. Hol-
land. Belgium and Greece, all Of which
with the exception, perhaps, of
Spain-are quite firmly established
menarchies. We're once republics, In
case of England, however, during the
greater part OF the time Cromwell was
king in fact.
The Joseph Medill mansion Oh Cass
street, in Chicago, which cost more
than $2j0,000 and was the scene of
| some Of the most elaborate social func
lions Of quarter of century ago, is
TO be torn down to make way for one
Of the great factories that have in
vaded what was once Chicago's ex-
elusive residence district.