The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-09-29
BREvITIES

5000 fish an hour.
Next to Holland, Finland is the lar
gest consumer Of American flour on the
continent of Europe.
The winter cod fisheries of Norway
yielded in 1908 49,220,0OO fish. In 1909
the number was 56,5OO,00O, this year
55,700,000.
Birmingham, Ala, shows the great
est annual rainfall in this country
Gsixty-two inches), with Hatteras next
(sixty inches).
Norway prohibits doctors dispensing
medicines where pharmacies are con
venient and pharmacists prescribing
If doctor is in reach.
''Dry Goods Store-Dry Goods Sold
by the Yard or Pound" is the sign that
appears in an Italian store window in
Van Brunt street, Brooklyn.
There are no regular theaters In
most Of the Turkish towns, and NOV
ing picture shows have the amuse.
ment field practically to themselves.
The University of Cairo, the most
celebrated institution of learning in
the Mohammedan world, will celebrate
its thousandth anniversary this year
By the formal annexation of Korea
Japan has added to its territory nearly
two-thirds of it's own area, including
Formosa, and increased the population
of the empire by one-ifth.
Few people realize that the gasoline
engine would be impossible without
electricity. 1t is the tiny electric spark
which at the proper moment releases
the hidden powers of the gasoline va
por.
Four and one-half miles of the chan
mel at the Pacific entrance to the Pan
anna canal have been completed
Throughout this distance the dredging
has been carried down to a depth OF
forty-five feet
A lamb belonging TO the Marquis of
Downshire in England, trained to visit
houses and to bleat until some one
opened the door, collected E6 rs. Cd. in
bags hung TO it's body in aid of q hos
pital Of the district.
Dead axle carts and wagons are still
in general use in the Valencia region
of Spain The typical freight cart Of
the district is a strong two wheel We
hicle of two TO FIVE tons capacity.
drawn by two to six horses.
The Paris theatrical season of 1909
10 closed with what is nearly rec
ord year About $10,300.00O was spent
by playgoers, sum only once exceed
ed. In the exhibition year of 1900, when
the receipts reached $11,600,000
New York city's board of health is
looking carefully after its school chill
dren and correcting their physical de-
fects 1t has found that $4,000 of
the pupils have defective teeth, $4,000
have nasal troubles and $4,000 poor
sight.
Ireland goes on booming industrially
She raised 100000 sheep last year,
shipped nearly $13.000,000 of linen
from Belfast to the United States
alone. and other exports were: Cattle.
$45, 734,575; butter, $17,ss3, 600; eggs,
S13,637.0 5o
The centenary of David Livingstone's
birth will be observed in 1913 Char
ing Cross hospital in London, where
be studied medicine. is soliciting gifts
Of 100000 shillings, which would en-
able it to reopen the wards now closed
because of shrunken funds.
The building of an observatory on
the rim of the great crater of Kilauea
has been advocated for several years
The prospects are now brighter than
they ever were, and it seems likely
that the observatory will be built as
part of the College of Hawaii
The municipality of Freiburg. in
Prussia, carries on pawnshop, an in
surance business, theater. several res
taurants and newspaper as well as
the schools. A seat can be procured
at the opera in this German city for
o cents and supper afterward for &
cents.
An erroneous opinion has widely
prevailed for some time to the effect
that the yield of wheat to the acre in
the United States is decreasing. On
the contrary, there has been con
siderable increase, amounting to one
and four-ffth bushels in the last forty
years.
German manufacturers have taken
up the production of paper clips, foun-
tain pens, crayons, inkwells and a
hundred small devices originally Amer
lean and protected by trademarks and
are now, because of their low prices
satisfying the home market and ex-
porting to foreign countries.
A motorcar designed and owned by
a gentleman of Calcutta has over the
usual bonnet the enormous figure of a
swan, the eyes of which are composed
of prism lenses, which are lighted up
at night by electricity. The beak is
made so that the exhaust can be sent
through it, causing a noise like the
hiss Of a swan.
1t Is stoutly maintained by the au
thorities that malaria is caused by
mosquitoes of the genus anopheles.
But it has recently been learned that