The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-08-04
TIMELY BREvITIES

The French and German armies lead
In the matter of aerostation.
The automobile industry is respon
sible for a scarcity of leather.
China has decided that hereafter
English shall be the official language
for scientific and technical education.
The deepest mine is the Lambert
coal mine in Belgium. which extends
3,490 feet into the earth.
The natives of Liberia eat cola nuts
raw, especially when on long trips. to
relieve hunger and thirst They cost
cent apiece.
A litter of eight pigs in Mason, Mich,
boasts fifty-four legs, two of the ami.
mails having eight, two seven and four
six legs apiece.
Appendicitis, according to the latest
theory, is caused by a micro-organism
and under some circumstances, there.
fGre, contagious.
Within fifteen years, according to a
German authority, the worlds crop OF
raw cocoa beans has increased from
$4,000 to 205,OO0 tons.
Each street cleaning wagon in Lon
don has one driver and one loader,
each of whom receives SLIP a day, fif-
ty-six hours constituting week
At the Dumfermline mines, in Sect.
land, there are now furnished rows OF
two room houses. the rent of one of
which is from 70 TO 81 cents per week
free of taxes.
Rubies, opals, crystallized quartz,
onyx, tale, gypsum and earth suitable
for making porcelain have been found
in the sparsely peopled territory of
Los Andes, Argentina.
The American Institute of Home
opathy has adopted as its slogan,
Eradication of tuberculosis in one
generation" and is pledging its mem.
bers to work to that end.
An interesting feature of the newly
elected Hungarian parliament is the
number of literary men who have been
returned. The three leading novelists
of the country are included.
The naval mercantile. marine and
general engineering and machinery ex-
hibition to be held at Olympia, Lon
don, in September will, it is stated be
the largest of its kind ever held in
that city.
A new employment for women has
appeared in Paris 1t is "radium car
rier," the duties of whom is to carry
precious package of radium from one
point to another, where there is de-
mand for its use.
A. 81. Roeske of Waterbury. Conn
has three trained toads that will COB
BILE up flies, angleworms and various
insects when told to. do so. The toads
leave the greenhouses in the late fall
and return in the spring
The sultan is anxious to grow cot.
ton and has recently endeavored to
arrange with the British residents of
Alden for the construction of an frri-
eating plant TO supply water TO at least
10000 acres of cotton land
Rear Admiral Bacon of the British
navy believes that the race between
the gun and the armor of the battle
ship which has been going on for over
half century, has been decided, for
the moment. in favor of the gun.
The Prussian police are to be pro.
vided with an unexpected weapon
against street demonstrators In the
form of cameras. Professions will be
snapshotted. and the photographs used
as evidence against disturhers of the
peace.
The best moving picture shows In
Hamburg charge ten to tweats- fcyf
cents for performance lasting two
hours. The German public prefers
travel pictures and quieter action to
the exciting incidents usually seen in
American shows.
In the last year nineteen cities in the
south. through their chambers of COM
merce or through some organizGtica Of
the merchants and but mess men. have
taken practical steps to induce farm
ers to build telephone lines aud con
meet with their towns.
Out of total population of aboul
{, 100000 in Scotland. more than 5G0
900 are directly or Indirectly dependent
on mining for their livelihood. There
are 4S1 coal mines in operation. EN-
ploying 125,s99 persons. 2,6s4 Of this
number being females
Near Harkau. Professor Ludwia
Bella has excavated from under tie
ruins of Roman building the almost
perfect remains of a heating system
which, he says, Is similar to the hot
air system of today, except for the
fact that the pipes are of clay.
Beneath a glass case at the home Of
Joseph Hummel, a Muncie andl bus.
ness man. are two small loaves OF
bread, each weighing M ounce and 4
half. They were baked ninets-thfee
years ago aud are relics of the famine
that swept Germany in 1916 and 1877.
Paris and the department. Of tie
Seine have been almost completely
,leansed from rabies, writes Mr. Mar
tel in a F'renhh medical paper Ii