The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-06-29
TIMELY TOPICS.

China is made in Japan.
The value of the Rand gold industry
to South Africa is estimated at half
a million dollars day.
Weighing sixteen tons, the anchor
for the new White Star liner Titanic
is the largest in the world.
An extremely hard artificial wood rs
being made in Germany from saw
dust and chloride of magnesium.
Orientals are displacing native sea
men on British ships to an extent
which is. alarming the government.
When arrested In Berlin recently q
beggar was found to possess $4,000
which he admitted had been gained by
begging.
In Australia there are 3G1 private
holders Of land of from 10000 to $4,000
acres each and total area Of 1O633,-
448 acres.
Germany does not produce any table
| grapes. the supply for that purpose
coming from the T'yrol. Italy. France
and Spain.
Italy produces 100000 gross of
buttons of vegetable ivory each year
| In its fourteen factories are employees
numbering 6.OOO.
A new regulation cog introduced In
Swiss watches works so accurately
that the timepieces do not vary ten
seconds in a month.
According TO the calculation of d
French statistician, the number Of
books published throughout the world
Is 12S,J3O each year.
More beer is produced in the United
States than in Germany or Great Brit
ain. Much American beer is sent TO
Canada. Cuba and Panama.
Water soaked goods rescued from
fires are dried by electricity in a large
warehouse provided for the purpose
by the New York underwriters.
Chicago is now the largest piano
producing center In the world. turning
out annually more than 100000 instru-
ments. which are shipped all over the
world.
Greece is solicitous for trade with
the United States. During the decade
closed with 1910 it is estimated that
10000 Greeks emigrated to the Unit
ed States.
A floating s8nitarium for consump-
tives Is planned In England. the idea
being to divert the patients minds by
change of scene as 1t IS moved from
one place to another
An expedition of French naturaIists
has discovered a new species of ele-
plant In Africa. smaller than the
known types and with shorter trunks.
longer necks and no tusks.
Sixty seven sackfuls of sticks were
taken from The top of the tower Of st.
Mlchael's church. Exeter. England. re-
Gently. They had been carried there
by jackdaws for nest building.
For the first time in history joint
stamp, bearing the legends both of
France and Britain. has been issued In
the New Hebrides Islands, which are
Jointly administered by the two coun-
tries.
A man who was charged at Berlin
with stealing parrot stated that the
bird had belonged to him for ten
years. The parrot convicted titn by
announcing the name of the man from
whom 1t had been stolen.
Viscount Dangan. eldest son and heir
of Earl Cowley, is working twelve
hours day at a weekly wage of $40
in scenic artists studio just outside
London. The young viscount has
dropped his title and works as Arthur
Wellesley,
Patrick Powers. for forty-si years
guard at Calvary cemetery. died re-
Gently at his home. Blissville, Queens.
in New, York. He was known to every
funeral director in Manhattan and
Brooklyn. and 1t is said that he piloted
more than 100000 funerals from the
gate Of the cemetery to the graves.
A school for piano makers has been
proposed in Stuttgart. Germany. The
course was to cover one year, ten
hours day, with one months vaca
ton. with two classes-one for begin |
ners and one to ct competent workmen
for foremen So few pupils applied |
that the project has been abandoned.
An English writer calls attention to |
one objection to the use of purely au-
tomato danger signals which he thinks |
no invention can get round. and that is |
the fear that the sole use of such sig |
mails would render engine drivers care |
less. The greater the apparent security |
afforded by the signals. the greater the |
reliance upon them.
Corrosion In metals Is said to be pre-
vented by the passage through the |
metals of weak current of electricity. |
This is a like cure Ike treatment,
for the pitting of metals is said to be
due to the local electrical action-that
Is. feeble current developed by the
acidular water on dissimilar metals,
often impurities in the metal itself. at
The point of corrosion.
For the monster steamship Olympic
the 100 ten stern frame was cast in
foundry in England. There was not