The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-11-10
TIMELY BREvITIES

Of Malacca are worth 100000
China is spending $200,o0o,OOo on the
rehabilitation of her army and navy.
The total worlds crop of hops for
this year is estimated at nearly 18,000,-
600 pounds.
1t is stated that 1000 Spaniards are
at the present time completing their
education in Germany.
The sardine catch in Spain has been
SO short this year that commission
houses are unable to fill orders.
Japanese investigators have proved
that the southern half of the island of
Sakhalin is good winter wheat coun-
try.
Manila, Iloilo and Cebu are the chief
importing and exporting Philippine
ports, Manila leading, followed by
Cebu.
Australia leads the world in sheep
farming. The number of her sheep is
81, O43, 900, Argentina coming next with
1851, 600.
Girl caddies are being tried on the
links of Aigle, in Switzerland, but
golfers do not seem enthusiastic over
the experiment.
The total value of the taxable prop
erty in New York state is $9,S21 $780,
555, of which s7,O42, $3.50, 1o4 is situated
in New York city.
Austra1ia's old age pension scheme
will cost it about 81, 020, 900 for it's first
fiscal year. This amount is expected
to increase as the population grows.
The amount sent in money orders
from the United States to Sweden in
1909 was six times as large as the
amount sent from Sweden to the Unit
ed States.
Hyoscine, the mysterious poison men
toned in connection with the Crippen
case, is distilled from the henbane,
common hedgerow weed in England,
the botanical name Of which is hyos-
cyamus.
Because the building of the Panama
canal attracted many of the men of
Barbados there for employment it is a
common remark that these men are
sending home to Barbados fully $780,
600 year.
At st. Joachimstahl, Bohemia, where
the Austrian government has its ra-
dunn factory, large bathing estab-
lishment is being erected for baths in
the radioactive water taken from the
pitchblende mine there.
In Mexico the loss of a limb to an
employee is of frequent occurrence
Neglected injuries to feet, legs and
arms are the cause of many amputa-
tons which perhaps in cooler climates
might have been avoided.
A large bird flying about the Allan
tic Transport liner Mackinaw in mid
ocean attracted the attention of the Of
6cers, who waited until it had gone
to roost in the rigging at night and
then captured it. 1t was a bird hawk.
In Cornwall 500 rabbits are often
trapped in a week out of the deep
hedges surrounding the fields. Trap
pers will sometimes pay $3.50 or more
for permission to kill rabbits over q
moderate sized farm during single
week.
The city council of Madrid has be-
gun work upon the new boulevard to
be called the Gran Via, which has been
In project for about twenty-five years.
A syndicate composed Of French and
English capitalists secured the con-
tract for its construction.
The centenary Of David Living
bift viii be observed IN 1915.
Charing Cross hospital. in London.
where he studied medicine, is solicit
ing gifts of 100000 shillings, which
would enable 1t to reopen the wards
now closed because Of shrunken funds.
The three countries that have most
heavily invested in Turkish enter
orises are: France, $500, 600, 900: Ger
many, SIZE, 900. 900, and Great Britain.
s150,o00,000. France holds more than
% per cent OF the public debt of Tur-
xey, Germany 80 per cent and England
per cent.
The old town pump in Salem.
made famous by Hawthorne, has been
positively located. Workmen recently
struck the capstones of the old wen
n Washington street right in front Of
he First church and at some distance
rom where students of Hawthorne
lad believed the pump to be located.
A Moliere cult is the feature of the
lew dramatic season in Germany, no
ever than three Berlin theaters hay-
ne put on plays of the great French
nan. French influences are para
mount again on the German stage. as
hey were in the eighties of the last
CENTURY. According to one local observ-
er, they have entirely ousted, at least
or the time being, Ibsen and the Rus
ians.
Young people who get into the Lon
Ion prisons have been carefully ex-
mined during the last ten years By
be medical authorities, and they are
ound to be two inches shorter and
ourteen pounds lighter than the av-
rage OF the youthful industrial popu-