The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-05-07
TIMELY BREvITIES

There ere 10000 government clerks
In Washington.
a horse drawn vehicle arOuses the
wonder Ct the natives of Tibet
Raw silk can now be delivered in
Moscow in twelve days from Japan.
More than $4,000 patents along cleo
frical lines have been issued by the
patent Office ut Washington.
Four whaling vessels. which are be
ing fitted out at Cape Town, will give
South Africa a new industry.
4 game of chess lasting thirty seven
hours has been played at Vienna by
Count Orsini and Herr Tennenbaum.
The American craze of roller skates
is now in full sway in Malta. But the
skating is called. after the British
fashion. rinking.
The American oil product for 1910,
aggregating 2O4.OO0,OOO barrels, is
more than that of the entire world
seven years ago.
The mortality rate among farmers,
according to English figures, is lower
than among any other class of men
except clergymen.
In its 10000 square miles Mexico
contains more mines and richer ones
than can be cited in any other similar
area in the world.
Flower tea-a tea made of a very
small orchid that has a perfume like
vanila-has made its way from Maui
ritius to New York.
The $75O,000 inheritance tax paid to
the state of Utah by the Hartman es-
tate will be used in building a new
state capitol at Salt Lake City.
The chief competitor of American
apples in Germany is the apple from
the Tyrol, which has long enjoyed a
reputation for quality and favor.
a new German letter stamping ma
chine drops the stamped letters into a
locked box so as to detect an employee
using his firms stamps for personal
mail
Traffic is suspended on the Peking
Mukden railway in Manchuria owing
to dangers from the plague. Serum is
being freely sent from Germany and
Austria
A portion of an elevated railroad
through an exclusive Boston suburb
has been covered with concrete in or
der that it may harmonic with its
surroundings
This fiscal year over 100000 is be-
ing expended by the Philippine bureau
of public works. The work includes
some irrigation and ninety-seven bar
rio school buildings
Charles A. Cottri1l- who succeeds W.
F. Drake as collector of internal reve-
nue. for the territory Of Hawaii. is a
negro. He entered the government
revenue service in 1881 in Toledo, 0.
The government of Jamaica derives
a revenue not only from its postal
service. which yielded a profit of $751;
O15 last year, but it conducts a saw
ings bank which is also a source of
revenue to the colony.
Twenty million dollars worth Of soil
Great Britain in 1910. Almost half of
this sum was paid for bones, which
have reached the highest quotation for
fully a quarter of a century.
An EngIishman has invented an cleo
| trio clock which projects a magnitied
reproduction of it's face on the ceiling
! of a room when button at the end
! of a cord is pressed so that person
| in bed can tell the time without even
! turning over.
To enable a person to massage him.
self without assistance there has been
patented an apparatus to be fastened
/ to a wall, adjustable to any height, in
which a wheel with leather covered
balls on the ends Of the spokes is ro-
tated by cranks and suitable gears.
The women of Austria have present
ed a petition to parliament asking that
the old law forbidding women and chill
dren to join any political society be
repealed. The reason for this move is
said to be the desire of many progress
1 siye women to form an equal suffrage
association.
The cultivation Of cotton in Siam is
being encouraged by the ministry OF
agriculture and is attracting the atten
ton of capitalists. 1t has been found
that both the soil and the climate OF
the Menam valley and In the northern
provinces are most congenial to the
,--o1r,+F, nP tho cotton miami
Fourteen hundred and sixty-twC
men, 321 women and 2 children were
found in the streets, on staircases anc
under arches when the London count.
coucil, according to a report, took
census of homeless persons the othe
night. The total. 1875, is a thousand
below that for the census last year,
Of the 9,O43 miles Of railroad il
operation in Spain, 1882 miles cente
in Madrid, and the construction of tn
direct lines to Valencia. on the Mediter
ranean, and to Bilbao, on the bay o
Bfscay, which are to be complete'
within FIVE years. will make it tn
most important railroad center in tn
kingdom.