The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-12
TIMELY BREvITIES

| In the DOlBL Vi WEALTH. et"h
seventh among the nations OF the
world.
Victoria. q. c.. is building an addI-
ton to it's parliament buildings to cost
S1,OOO0O0.
Germany's fresh water pearl fisher
les in the White Eister are threatened
with extinction.
Both in England and in Canada the
cheese supply is short this year De
cause of the summer drought.
Two Paris department stores use
storage battery driven electric tricycles
to deliver purchases to customers.
OF S11 Indians trained at Hampton
institute 81 per cent are known to be
profitablv employed in various lines.
Sumatra is famous the world over
, for its cigar wrappers and tobacco
plantations have spread to neighbor-
ing isles.
, German engineers have perfected
machine for weighing locomotives
which provides separate scales FOR
t each wheel.
/, The Brazilian state of AmaZonas won
the chief prize for the best exhibit III
the recent international rubber e1hlDl-
ton at London.
r All of Switzerlands glaciers are re-
ceding perceptibly, one notable one
having shrupk more than 600 feet In
II the last ten years.
Pineapple fiber, while not quite past
e the experimental stage, is considered
In the far east promising commercial
L factor Of the future.
The cry is now for the individual
3 drinking cups. In Queen Elzabeths
time every guest at banquet orought
his own spoon with him.
OF the nineteen mines producing
II quicksilver in the United States last
u wear fifteen were in California and two
II each In Texas and Nevada.
Recause aims boxes in Westminster
cathedral in London were often robDed
at night bulldogs are now placed on
- guard in the church after dark.
# In order to handle automobiles easily
~ several railroads have adopted new
y. style of freight car having doors the
40 full width and height Of the car.
at The public debt of the United States,
which was $S3 600. 600 in 1900, reached
m 81. 1915, OOO, 600 less cash in treasury in
" 1856, and the figures in 1911 were ST.
O15,oo0,oO0.
ou About 100000 immigrants are turner
back every year by the Immigration
Cd officials Of this country. To guard the
ports and boundaries against those
whom the law forbids entry the gov
eminent employs nearly 1000 trained
Id. men.
he Spain is considered by art collectors
a lucrative field. and many Interesting
we ANTIQUES are picked up here from f1ne
Dol TO time. Seville has numerous shops
rp- where antiquities are sold and where
to the old Spanish neediework may DC
= purchased. !
The largest telephone exchange ia
existence is that at Hamburg. which Is
taking care Of 10000 lines at present.
an but accommodations have been made
for future extensions so that this ex-
nst change will be enabled to take care OF
twice as many lines.
en- The New York city fire department
'"s has the biggest fire engine in the
world. Both its motive power and the
power for driving its pumps are fur
nished by gasoline and it is capable
rug of pumping 1000 gallons Of water q
ian minute on 200 pounds pressure II
weighs more than five tons.
lo' Tae new French hot air balloon car
INC ries ring of kerosene burners to give
constant and easily regulated sup
ply of heated air 1t does not quickly
cool like the ordinary hot air balloon
he and. unlike the gas balloon it has nc
gas to explode and can be inflated any
seo where and at small expense
'oo Boundaries are now being located
for one of the greatest game preserves
in the world in western Canada. II
will be owned by the government and
ihs will take in practically all the east
slope of the Canadian Rockies. ex
ou1 tending north and south for 500 miles
and will average more than thirty
miles in width.
+or Another historic old landmark has
nd passed. A storm recently felled the
tree near Nederhemert. under which
Floris L., count of Holland, was peace
fully sleeping after the battle of Neder-
hemert in 1861 when he was treacher.
OuSly murdered by Herman van Kuyk
The tree was believed to be over a
thousand years old.
Ellen Terry says in her lecture on
Shakespeare's women that when man
writer's draw good woman they draw
silly one Helena in ''All's Well
That Ends Weir and Julia in 1.-TWO
Gentlemen of Verona" she character.
ICES as doormat women. Miss Terry
considers lrnegen the lOycliest of the
characters Of Shakespeare
It is said that Miss Christabel Pank-
hurst took yp the cause Of woman
suffrage in England because she was
not allowed to practice law. although
she had passed successfully al the ex
n in % to-. s-L.L. :...cLl