The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-03-21
TIMELY BREvITIES

Some $4,000 cancer experiments are
made every year in England.
During last year New York city con-
sumed 51,00O000 pounds Of poultry.
Farming is an occupation in which
more people are interested than in any
other.
Of the 100000 tons of salt pro-
duced in the world each year the Brit
ish empire provides 100000 tons.
The mills of the United States every
year export more -four than all the
rest of The mills in the world produce.
Englishmen are making considerable
progress in Siberia, especially In es-
tablishing abattoirs and refrigerating
plants.
Some predictions of our future popu-
lation have placed it much higher than
100, 100000 for 1850, one leaking it as
high as 2OO0O0,000.
German hotel keepers would rather
see an American arrival than one of
any other nationality. They have the
reputation Of being the best spenders.
American exporters handicap them
selves when they give a merchant or
agent in the City of Mexico the exclu-
sive right to sell their products in that
| country
The United States patent Office is as
sembling the models of the first ideas
along several lines of invention, such
as the first telephone, first sewing ma
chine and first photograph.
The village of Aumone, in France, is
said to be the healthiest place in Eu-
rope. 1t has only forty inhabitants,
twenty -three of whom are over eighty
years old, and one is over 100
The once famous fresh water pearl
fisheries in the White Elster, in Saxo-
ny, are threatened with extinction
Last year only six good pearls and
seventeen of second quality were
| found.
The Danish government has granted
$2,915,000 for the encouragement Of
! agriculture, and the lis local agri-
cultural societies, with $500 members,
received subyentions amounting to
$4,000.
| A Birmingham chemist has invented
| way to- convert gasoline or petrol
| into a stiff white jelly. It is done by
| adding IA per cent of steatite and al
cohol. An economy of 80 per cent is
claimed for the solid form.
In five counties Of Ireland the aver
age pay of hired men on the farms is
less than $2.43 a week, in all Ireland
it is $2.74. in Wales and Monmouth
shire it is $43S, in England it is SAG,
and in Scotland it is S4.76.
Consul Horace Lee Washington
transmits the plans for the enormous
dock to be constructed at Liverpool,
to cost $2,430000, as Iportion of still
larger plans which contemplate the
ultimate expenditure OF $15,573,3S in
dock improvements.
During the past twenty years the
lakes of Russian central Asia have
shown steady rise of water level.
Within this period the sea of Aral has
risen about six and half feet. The
/ phenomenon has accompanied a period
of augmentation of rainfall
In New York city I'M 1910 2,483 per-
sons met deaths by violence, and there
were no fewer than 1856 homicides, an
increase of seventy-five over 1909. In
sixty-five of the 1856 cases there were
no arrests, and only seventy-seyen of
/ the 120 persons arrested for killing
| were held for trial.
/ A one wheeled jinrikisha on the
monocycle principle is being introduc-
ed among the Chinese of the Malay
states It is said to be safe and to
have many advantages over the old
fashioned vehicle. The wear and tear
i is reduced to a minimum, the work
on the pullers reduced and speed in
creased
Practically all of the 10000 dogs
which were exiled from Constantinople
last summer to an island III the Mar
| moran sea have died on the barren
rocks of disease and thirst. Bread was
sent each week from Constantinople,
/ but it was so bad in quality that the
dogs preferred to eat their dead com
i panions.
1t is announced from ST. Petersburg
i That ProfeSSor RoSing OF the Techn0-
logical institute has discovered an ap-
paratus, which is called the electric
eye, which, permits one to see objects
at long distances if within the rays
of the instrument. For example the
manager of factory, it is said, is en-
abled to see all that is going on in the
various workshops.
The citizens of the little town of Or
son, in Sweden, have no taxes to pay.
The railroad is free to every citizen
Of the town, the telephone service is
free, and the schools and libraries cost
the citizens absolutely nothing. The
towns expenses are paid out of the
money obtained from the sale of lum-
Der cut in the municipal forest.
The Viennese authorities are consid-
ering the ACCESSIBILITY of the addition
of a subway to the city's systems of
public transportation. The road will
not be built by the municipality, how
ever, but by stock company, which
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