The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-01-19
bREvITIES

seng in China is $2.70 pound.
Standard Oil is advertising in China
through circulars printed in the native
language.
A stranger in Chicago was robbed
three times within half an hour after
his arrival the other day.
In northern Italy the Industrial de-
velopment during the last ten years is
considered short of marvellous.
The gross value of crops produced
on lands irrigated by the government
projects in 1910 was $14,038,000.
Russia ranks third among European
countries in the number of cotton spin
dies. More than 100000 are now be-
ing operated.
During the moose hunting season in
Nova Scotia, which ended Nov. 10, the
animals killed numbered 464 against
400 last year.
"Why not forbid marriage to any
one whose income is less than $500
year?" asks American Medicine in a
discussion Of Restrictions on Mar
rage"
AS an illustration of the extent of
frog eating in Canada it is mentioned
that one hotel in Toronto uses from
1000 to 1000 pounds of frogs legs
every season,
The Hawaiian island of Lanai,
which has been practically barren for
several years, will be reclaimed by a
water conservation system and devot-
ed to sugar beet culture.
Some of the new British cruisers
will be given bows that form rams
for crushing torpedo boats below the
water line, but retaining the usual
graceful concave appearance.
The last enumeration of mission
aries in China gives their number as
3,270 The native church is doubling
about every seven years and the mis-
sionary force every ten years.
Out of 1873 samples of maple strip
analysed by Chief Analyst McGiH Of
the inland revenue department Of Can
ada 1T were found to meet the stand
] ard required and were declared genu-
inc.
According to Vice Consul General
Lyon Chandler at Buenos Aires, that
place, the fourth American city, offers
more real trade opportunities than
Shanghai Canton and Yokohama com
bined.
Chewing tobacco is habit not prac-
ticed in Germany. In the forest areas
of that country snuff taking is on the
Increase because smoking is forbidden
and is. moreover, dangerous to farm
and homestead and to harvested grain
in granaries
The state railways in Sweden have
introduced sleeping cars for third class
| passengers. The price is 30 cents a
bed Each third class compartment
has three hunks For passengers in
the compartment unable to pay the
additional charge places are reserved
opposite the hunks.
Mrs. Ida Vose Woodbury., field secre-
tary Of the American Missionary so
ciety, illustrating her belief that the
Indians are not so bad as people are
often led to believe, said that the Sioux
tribe raised $500 every year to send 9
missionary to their worst enemies, the
Crows, because the Bible tells them
| to love their enemies.
A phiIanthropic New York photog-
rapher has found a way of helping to
/ cheer the lives Of the poor. He takes
a group picture of families free and
gives them two copies-one to keep
/ themselves and one to send to rela-
tives in Europe. Many hundreds of
people have thus had their first photo
1 graphs taken without expense.
Having settled the theater hat prob
| lem through the kind consent of the
women to remove it, theatrical Berlin
is now confronted with the difficulty
4 of theater cap which feminine spec
tators have taken to wearing instead
and which is as effective in intercept
| ing the view of the stage of those be
hind them as were the hats them
selves.
j George William Joy, the Irish artist
whose paintings have been bought By
the governments of Germany, France
and New Zealand, studied in Paris
after his course at Harrow and Ken
sington. He has been awarded med
ais at Paris, Munich. Berlin and al
Chicago. where many of his military
and historical pictures we're shown a
the exposition.
In storm that beat their vessel IN
til it seemed each plunge must be hel
last lion broke from its cage OF
deck. killed a seaman and took charge
until it was driven into the seat by :
fusillade of revolver bullets This wal
an experience Of the crew of a Ger
man freight steamship, the Berken
feIs, recently arrived in New Yorl
from Bombay.
Emperor Nicholas will present tc
Zaandam. IN Holland, a statue of Pc
ter the Great It was in this village
it will be remembered, that Peter
learned shipbuilding for the benefit Of
his country. The house in which he
lived has long been a place of pilgrim
/ age for foreigners visiting Holland
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