The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-01-08
TIMELY BREvITIES
New York has seventy-sfx theaters.

ma have S3,OOOOOO deposits and $2,O0N-
! 600 loans.
The American Humane society is
about to establish travelling Libraries
| In rural districts
Frenchman has invented ma
chine for moving weeds and other
underwater growths in streams and
| lakes.
More medicinal preparations are
| manufactured in Brazil than in all the
other Latin American countries COM
bined.
According to the London Gazette,
Middle island. South Shetlands, does
not exist and has been expunged from
the official charts.
Argentina has reached the Louis XIV.
type in furniture, and the ''arts and
crafts" movement for simplicity finds
no appreciation there.
The two principal industries in the
French island of Corsica are the
manufacture of chestnut wood extract
and the making of cheese.
The thirty-two distilleries and fifty
FIVE breweries in Chile pay the gov
eminent about 81, 100000 Omitted States
gold each year as revenue tax.
One of the most exquisitely finished
discoveries in Egypt is case of neatly
fitting aIabaster embalming tnstru-
ments taken from a tomb 5000 years
old
A French chemist proposes to impart
to various vegetables iron tonics which
may be easily assimilated by the hu7
man body His plan is to use pow
dered iron as a fertilizer
Certain well known American prod
ucts, like carriers and hooks and eyes,
have become household articles in
France largely because of persistent
and systematic advertising.
To the new government bureau of
mines there have been transferred from
the geological survey all mine accident
and fuel investigations, with person
mel. property and equipment for the
work
Piers for a railroad bridge in Alaska
are being built to withstand the enor-
broken off from a glacier that empties
into the river but short distance
away.
Fish for Copenhagen as soon as
caught are put into barges with sieve
like bottoms and so are sold alive in
the market, delivered fresh and flap
ping out o. tank wagons at a nominal
price.
On Prince Edward Island about 25,a
600 muskrats. 500 minks. 1000 red
foxes and few weasels are killed 4
each year. The black fox is bred there
by people who keep their methods
secret.
The First battalion of the Royal Irish
fusiliers is the only regiment in the
British army in which all the officers
are bachelors with the exception, of
course, of the honorary colonel, King !
George.
Two concessions for supplying Next
can cities with gas plants have re-
Gently been secured by an American.
Both run for fifty years. during which
time the plants shall be exempt from
taxation.
Denmark is trying out new pom
toon bridge in which the pontoons are
anchored beneath the surface of the
water. the bridge remaining motion
less irrespective of the rise and fail
of the tide.
A law case which was begun in 134S
and was interrupted because Richard
de Maundeville had to leave for the
war in France has been resumed in
the chancery court. gravely announces
the Liverpool Mercury. The point at
issue was the right to hold u marker
at Stowmarket.
There is seating capacity for 100,631
pupils in the classrooms in the ele-
mentary schools of Boston, according
to statistics just issued by the school
board. In rented quarters there are
LOIS seats and in portable school
houses 4,O98 seats. The total meets
the requirements in the kindergarten,
primary and grammar grades.
An old frigate is moored in q canal
close to the most fashionable center
of Copenhagen. On it is a school of
ship cooks. There is an awning on
deck Tables are laid cut. and numer-
Gus inhabitants of Copenhagen take
their meals there. for they are both
varied and inexpensive, such as are
served to passengers on sea voyages.
Every bullet in every pistol carried
by Chicago policemen will have its
own distinguishing mark. in accord
ance with orders just issued by Chief
Of Police Steward. The bullets viii
also be registered at the bureau of
identification. A policeman's revolver
IS sometimes wrested from him and
himself shot with it. For this reason &
the system is expected to prove useful.
The German postoff1ce department
has begun to issue postage stamp
books like the ones in use in this
country for several years. The Ber
liner Tageblatt approves highly of this