The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-06-09
TIMELY BREv|T|ES

Korea has 116 active gold mines, IL.
graphite, "a coal, 90 copper. Z silver j
zinc, mercury and SO various
There is some question whether Lon.
don or Paris sets the fashion in furs
each year. London certainly sets tbs
price.
Members Of both houses of repre-
Bentatives In Japan are paid aboat
$1,000 for each session, with travelling
expenses.
Absinth has been prohibited III swift,
Zerland and Belgium, and it Is prot$i-
bic that France will soon follow tar
example of these neighbors.
Many of the pupils of the pui,Ii,
schools of Cuba are learning Eng!isls
by studying the illustrated catalogue,
of American business houses.
A Baltimore resident, aged sixty ~,
put in a bid for the frugality media ~
saving his dead wife's clothes until IL
found woman they would fit befer..
remarrying.
Switzerland has one postoff1ce e..
every $50 inhabitants; Germany. ~.
England, 1873; Belgium, 5,119; NJ
tria, 1865; France. 3,008; Spain. 4 :.
and Turkey, 1876.
The concrete used in building Il:
Gatun locks for the Panama casa:
would make wall yard wide and
yard high long enough to reach FRI,
New York to ST Louis.
A novel method of smoking me-;
with paint BRUSH is in use i'll La,
land. Smoke essence" and brusl,
the trick in no time, and a beautiful!
smoked ham is the result.
| A bookbinder in Vienna was Gale.
upon to bind a volume of hundFts
leaves Each leaf was bond for I.ea
gulden. the book being the ownr
gift to his only daughter.
After having been for 104 years ].
the same offices in New York titv
large soap concern is being for Ell !.
vacate. The old building will be ic;fa
down and a modern one erected
An amphibious automobile. sl.a.,.i
like boat and driven by a propellA;
when In the water. has been rur
Echased by the French war depart men:
and assigned to an engineer regiment
Buttons are not used on the native
dresses In Japan. although pearl bun.
| tons are made in the Kobe district
from shell imported from Singapore
aud exported mostly to the Philippines
A Philadelphia pie bakery has been
enabled to turn out 10000 pies nishI
by the introduction of new machinery
which fills the lower crust, lays on and
trims the upper and feeds them info
ovens.
Americans are evidently becoming
more addicted to macaroni eating. The
exports of it to this country from Ma
pies in 1909 were S3.694. 1874 as against
81 1914. 400, a gain of over $2.000000 in
one year.
SPANS accident labor law. which has
been in operation for ten years. pro
vides that for temporary incapacity
the employer must pay the workman
one-haf the usual wage or two years
salary if the incapacity is permanent.
In London musical circles there has
been a great revival in the use of th'
harpsichord 1t is chiefly used for rem
dering the works of the old masters
who wrote for the instrument. ard if
is stated that far better effect can b..
obtained on it than on piano.
A will was contested not long ago il,
Nn1slz hn triy haze!
bequeathed grand piano. several oil
paintings and five pieces of .Iapanas''
pottery TO police station. The pre-
testing legatee won out, and there WIS
reyersion of those art treasures {.
the regular heirs.
w. Thompson of Standon Bridge
Staffordshire. England. who has EepG
a member Of the Standon church thoiI
for seventy-five years, remembers The
time when barrel organ was turned
in church by the rector's valet ant
provided only one tune for hymns OF
different meters.
Christmas trees are almost unheard
of in Spain. and the small folk receive
their toys and presents on Twelfth
Night instead of on Christmas night
but neither night, so far as giving and
receiving remembrance are concern
ed. has the same Significance as in the
United States. for instance.
The cotton cloth needed to clothe the
inhabitants of China is about S000.-
100000 yards This amount would car
pet a pathway sixty feet wide FROM
the earth to the moon or cover one
more than twenty miles wide from
New York to Chicago. That which
goes to China from the United States
would hardly. as Frank G. Carpenter
writes. patch the knees Of the Celes-
tials."
Cecil Rhodes dream. the Cape TO
Cairo railway is coming true. BY the
end of the year the whole extent Of
the line will have been surveyed.
From Khartum in the north and from
Broken Hill in the south the line is
creeping forward to the fulfllment of
one of the greatest enterprises of mod.
ern times. The line. with its 5000
miles of steel will be by far the long
est In the world