The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-10-12
TIMELY BREvITIES

~-APASS 60 (OS( aOOul OO (CLtS q odJs
The first refinery for cottonseed oil
products in Canada is that in Toronto
A French economist writes to a Paris
journal that America has no real mon
ey.
The population of Seoul, Korea, is
increasing by 5000 Japanese arrivals
every month.
Manufactured clothes are driving out
the picturesque peasant dress of many
| sections Of Europe.
There are over 500 Filipinos residing
in New York, and seyenty-five of them
have formed club in Brooklyn.
A study of the statistics of suicide in
/ 100 American cities discloses a gradua
reduction in the last three years
1t is claimed that the doctors in Phil
adelphia kept patient alive for three
hours after heart action had ceased by
means OF electric currents
In the treasury department at Wash
| ington two women are designated as
wastebasket examiners. The contents
of all wastebaskets pass through their
| hands
The United States makes the best
poultry showing in the world Its
| flock numbers 100000, and the year
ly egg output is now more than 6,00O
| 100000.
The number of emigrants from Ham
burg and Bremen during the first
seven months of the year amounted TO
123.60O persons as compared with
1872, 100 last year
The Danish composer Hallvoisin has
composed musical comedy In which
DR.. Cook of polar fame is the princi-
pal character. The piece will be pro-
duced in Christiania.
In Sydney. South Australia. sum
Of 100000 is to be provided annually
by parliament fer the use of men who
desire loans to enable them to build
dwelling house or enlarge one.
In the hotel reading rooms in China
may be found a German publication.
printed in English. containing a splen-
did compilation Of German export
houses and what they have to offer
Fruit trees from California viii be
planted in Egypt by an English COM
pany which has secured large tract
Of land with view to engaging in the
fruit growing industry on an extensive
scale
1t costs 10 cents to produce pound
of tea in India. and the average price
of it on the spot is II cents a pound.
The number of registered tea compa
MES is ninety-four The area under
tea exceeds $4,000 acres.
Valuable deposits of asbestos have
been found In China near Antung.
The Chinese have heretofore regarded
1t chiefly as curiosity. calling it
''stone cotton" or mot ash wood" or
wood which will not burn
In one small portion of Manhattan.
New York, is population greater
than that of either Arizona. Delaware.
Idaho, Montana. Nevada. North Da
kota. Oregon. New Hampshire. New
Mexico. Rhode Island. Utah, Vermont
or Wyoming.
Yeggmen of today seldom take any
thing but paper money after blowing
a safe, though they sometimes carry
off coin in addition The old time
bank burglar made it point to seize
valuable papers as a basis for dicker-
ing for immunity
Twelve first class prizes fer excel
InnNn m 10
languages at Cambridge university,
England. have been awarded this year
to women Prizes of the same class
and for the same subjects were given
TO only eight men
Japan now has forty i've gas COM
panies. an increase of thirty eight in |
four years. All are private concerns
with the exception of the Yokohama |
gas plant Twenty seven |
new gas plants are being established
in cities and villages throughout the |
empire,
The government of Uruguay offers |
100000 pesos tS103 .OG0l for a statue of
General Artigas. victor of the battle /
IT Las piedras ana hero of the Cru
suayan war of Independence In 1871. |
Competitors from any countryl must
send in their designs OH or before
Dec. 81, 1911.
Recently upon the admission of /
Christian soldiers into the Turkish ar
ny new ideas were introduced into
he barrack life of the soldier. and In
itead of a bunch of men messing out E
# large kettle. as formerly. now
.ach soldier is supplied with an enam-
led ware soup plate. platter and cup.
England sticks TO her fruit raising.
n ten years orchards increased 5000
ores and small fruits 1000 Last
ear there were 27,0oo acres in straw
'erries. nearly 5000 in raspberries.
5000 in geoseberries and currants.
72.000 in apple trees. nearly. 10000 in i
ears, l2.0oD in cherries and 10000 in f
lums Il
Buffalo's health authorities have r
cen making a Thorough Inspection of .
he city's eafing places. and the re-
ults are hardly such as 10 encourage
he cry Put me oft 1T Rufalo.' The
'xpress reports thar of 2239 restau-
ants visited ny the officers l53 were
ound lnsaniiary ia Il more or less dis
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