The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-23
TIMELY BREvITIES


Havana is meditating an auto omni
bus service. as in many European
cities.
White canary birds have been bred
in France and are on sale in the pet
shops of Paris.
California mines have yielded more
than 800 100000 Of quicksilver In the
last sixty years.
Classed according to color. there are
5,422.S92 white farmers in this country
and 917, 46S others.
The worlds largest drydock, $50 by
100 feet, has been completed at Belfast
after eight years work
The present population Of Belgium. a
country containing only 1873 square
miles, exceeds $4,000.
The great volume of China's book
| printing is still done from stones and
blocks, on one side OF the paper only.
Last year there were 10000 persons
In the United Kingdom with incomes
Of over $4,000 year. The average of
these was SG3. 105.
The worlds hop crop for 1911 is est,
mated at 1872 100000 pounds. which is
| 55.000,O00 pounds below the average of
the hast ten years.
There have been more patents issued
! in the last twenty years in the United
| States than in the entire century pre-
oeGing that period.
! The Suez canal rates will be lowered
| on Jan. /. 1912 For freighted ships
they will be 81 80 and for ships in bal
/ last 50 cents per ton.
The population of Switzerland is
| 100000. Per capita there were one
and one-half kilograms and fifteen
telephone talks last year.
The largest Photographic negative
ever taken Of sitter was Ga by 33
inches. or practically life size 1t WAS
| the work Of Dublin firm.
The Union Of South Africa, which in
| cludes the Transvaai, Cape Colony.
Natal and Orange Free State, has a
population Of 100000 people
The stage lights of the Metropolitan
| Opera House in New York number
over $500; there are 700 white lights
| and 4fiS each of blue, red and amber.
The Scotch have paid little attention
to poultry raising except for eggs.
| Dressed fowls are largely imported
from Ireland. Russia. Germany and
other countries.
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pie engaged in making articles at
home, and of these 10000 are enea ged
In textile work and 1900 In the
Matchmaking industry.
Trinity corporation, New York. the
richest church in the United States,
has fled plans TO have another branch
church and rectory at Washington
heights, New York, to cost over $4O0-
600
Swamp lands in this country cover
sufficient area, il reclaimed, to pro
vide homes for nearly 100000 fami
lies, according TO NJ. @. Leighton, chief
photographer Of the government geo
logical survey.
4 New York man returned from a
trip around the world, going westward
BY way OF Vancouver and Yokoha ma
and the transsiberian railway He
| made the circuit in forty seven days
and says anybody can do IL comfort
ably ON $7o0
As transportation factor the mighty
Amazon. including Its tributaries. offers
not less than 10000 miles suitable for
steamship navigation Manaos, pros
porous community, situated 1000 miles
from the Mouth of the river. in one
year cleared more than 1900 ships
The marble bathtub That was re-
moved from the Aubarik Mahal In the
fort after HE mutinv and which was TO
have been taken 10 England for pre-
sentation to the LATE Queen Victoria,
has been put back in its original place
by the order of the durbar committee.
Before the opening OF the world ex.
position to be held At Tokyo in com
memoration Of the fiftie;h anniversary
OF the crowning Of the nlikad0 the
Japanese authorities have decided to
install a complete system OF modern
sanitary sewerage. modelled after that
Of modern western cities
With the opening OF the American
factories at Niagara Switzerland lost
control of the aluminium market.
which the little republic had held for
several years. Neither Switzerland
nor France possesses such rich mines
Of oxide of aluminium or such sources
Of electrical energy as the United
States.
The consumption of meat in Ger
many is officially reckoned according
to the number OF sIaughterings and the
average weight OF the animals killed.
Taking the. estimates OF the imperial
board Of health. which are rather high.
It appears that in 1910 there was an
average consumption of l04 pounds OF
meat per head. against lfH.15 pounds
lii 1909
With a more than usual crop Of rice
this rear. Japan VIII raise about FIVE
bushels per capita for her people. The
japanese do not like to eat foreign