The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-29
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Americans are beginning to take an
interest ID the earning possibilities Of
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1T IS officially stated that the 10000
British soldiers ID India consume about
half of the kf imported.
The BRITISH mint recently turned out
MS first sqtiare coins, five cent nickel
9eronze pieces, for use in Geylon.
2sAe British government has survey
u railroad line into the great Bau
essshi tin fields Of northern Nigeria.
London policeman arrests on an
average no more than nine persons in a
year; Partisan arrests twenty-eight
In the Klondike steam, hot air and
hot water plants are displacing the
old fashioned wood stoves, especially
in hotels and the bigger trading places
Out of midas population of nearly
SSO0, 100000 there are nearly 25,000.000
married under the age of twenty OF
these more than 100000 are under the
age of five.
Australians are considering the prof
ect of holding a great international ex
hibition to illustrate to the world the
natural and industrial resources of
their country.
In Argentina they have learned to
fatten beef cattle on alfalfa, so that
now it is possible to market an animal
year sooner than If it had been fed
on native grass.
Europe's annual expenditure on ed
ucation amounts to f83,000,000, of
which sum no less than one-third is
spent in Germany and one-tenth in
Austria Hungary.
An electric potato peeler for hotels
and restaurants revolves container
with roughened lining, which grinds
off the skins as the potatoes are driven
against it by centrifugal force.
Animal life existing under a pressure
Of FIVE and a half tons to the square
inch has been found in the Tong
basin, near New Zealand, at depth
of four and three-quarter miles.
Winnipeg is the distributing center
for the Canadian west In Winnipeg
are located the big jobbers and the
branch houses of many American firms
as well as of practically all Canadian
| firms
In London the other day copy OF
the rare first folio edition of Shake
speare's plays, issued in 1923, was
bought by Mr.. Quaritch for f2.000
Three years ago the same copy sold
for E2.4O0.
A whale fishery was established
some years ago on the west coast of
Ireland. Four steamers are now EN-
ployed in this industry, aud during
the last two years 124 whales have
been caught
John Unruh of Philadelphia says he
owns horse that is f1fty-one years
old. The horse has been in Mr., Un
rut's possession for forty-seVen years
and was used last spring in blowing
an acre of ground.
LEND no money to others, indorse
for nobody, give what you can afford
to and let it go at that" This advice
is from the will of David Kohn of New
York city and goes with a 100000 es
| tate to his heirs.
The Chilean government has appoint
ed a commission Of nine to study the
patent laws of Chile and recommend
| changes to bring them down to date
| in conformity with the patent laws of
the leading countries.
Among the unconscious humors of
current Journalism is the mistake
made by Westphalian paper. which
credited DR.. Ernst Won Leyen, the
great Berlin physician who died the
other day, with the invention of the
Eevden jar
There has been considerable public
outcry in London because a man has
been sentenced to twenty one days in
prison for stealing two pies. Less
than century ago, however, an indi-
vidual was hanged in England for
precisely similar offense.
An Italian medical journal states
that, while water will not quench the
fame of burning petroleum in limit
ed space, milk accomplishes the object
by forming an emulsion with the oil,
disturbing its cohesion and thus at
tenuating the combustible element.
In view Of the risque style in the
general run of French plays, to which
the young people cannot be taken, a
group of Belgian women. headed by
Mile Marguerite Van de Wiele, an
author of renown, are organizing a
theater for girls in Brussels, to be
called lie Theatre de adolescence.
To keep hailstones for winter study
Professor Weinberg of Tomsk, Siberia,
incloses them in little cell with dou-
BILE walls holding ice and copper sui
plate. August hailstones so preserved
were examined under the microscope
in December Professor Weinberg
suggests immersing in oil to prevent
agglomeration.
4 topographic relief map of the Unit
ed States has been issued by the
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