The Caucasian., 1911-07-25
TIMELY BREvITIES

being tried out In Jerusalem.
There are $4,000 Russians at work In |
Scottish iron and coal mines.
The only famous painting owned py
Cecil Rhodes was one by Sir joshua
Reynolds
New York beggar carrying q sign,
oI need bread" was found to have sos
In his clothes
Daniel Frohman, the theater maha
ger. complains that the galleries are no
| longer occupied.
Rents of working class dwellings are
about % per cent lower in Belgium
than i'm England.
| The wealth of Japan is over 3o,oOo'-
100000 yen ($15 00O,000OOO, ranking
seventh i'm the wealth of the world.
Fifty additional postal savings banks
have been designated by the postmas-
ter general making a total of TOO es-
| tablished.
Switzerland, with population OIL
only 3,5OO,00O, can put 100000 men INTO
the field. Her army costs her only
$50o0,000 a year.
A miners safety lamp has been IN
vented which automatically indicates
the presence of even small quantity
of fire damp gases.
The departments in Washington are
full of negroes who have rendered long
and honorable service for many dls-
tinguished public men and their ram
lilies.
Used cans are Systematically collect
ed in Germany, and the tin recovered
amounts to l per cent of the total
weight. The iron is disposed of as old
scrap.
The total life insurance carried. In
the United States today is about $3.50
head of the population, a sum con
siderably greater than that OF any oth
: er country in the world.
After occupying the same premises
for forty five years Vienna goldsmith
ON removing recovered gold, silver
and platinum dust worth $4,000 from
the floor and walls of his wOrkroom.
A glove given by Mary, queen of
Scots, to her master of the householu
as she went to the block and the SILK
{ vest worn by Charles |. when be was
= executed were recently exhibited at
g Cambridge, England.
S A train two minutes late caused Nj.
4 Louchet. a French artist, to miss
g chance of painting the sunrise at Fon-
O tainebleau, and in consequence he Is
q suing the Paris Metropolitan Railway
company for damages.
The inventor of the first lawn mower
has recently died at the age of sew
I enty-seven. The lawn mower is the
e razor OF the American dooryard and
Il has tidied up the home plot as moth
: ing else could have done.
n Ten years ago Scotland had a popu
lation, In round numbers. of 100000
q Now it has 4,S00,00o, so that the in
crease in ten years has been less thar
per cent as compared with more
= than Ii per cent for the previous dec
- ade.
u Ireland has 10000 less inhabitant'
e than it had ten years ago. The brit
t, rate in the Emerald Isle has not de
" clined, and births far exceed deaths
j. but the progressive young Irishmel
G desert their native island for the Unit
,f ed States, Canada and Australia.
r. An egg of the aes Sornis or flynn
elephant of Madagascar has been oh
tanned by the American Museum o
Natural History. The shell of the eg
ol would hold two gallons There are n
III survivals of the creatures which pre-
duced such eggs but the shells ar
often found in beds of fossils.
Ernst Heinrich Haeckel professor o
u, zoology at Jena, fractured his hip bon
" a short time ago and may be q crippl
% for the remainder of his life. Tn
Sc collapse of a stool on which he wa
oil standing to reach book on a hig
ne shelf caused the accident Professo
en- Haeckel Is seventy-seven years old.
th Last years imports of ivory into II
ar dia amounted to 2,S0o000 pounds, a
- increase of 100000 pounds over th
previous year. Most Of these import
come from the Zambezi region. Niue
" of this ivory is made into bangles an
u. rings for Hindu women and finds
r.. market mainly in Clutch and Kath
al wor, In northwest India.
ed Since the Spanish conquest til
ne mines of Salvador have given up TO
tunes. The Tabanco and Rosali
mines have yielded 2,537 ounces of 81
yer to the ton, others $1,000 to the tol
and not infrequently 30 to DO per eel
K of the metal is gold. That the indu
in try is not developed further than it
Ike is due to lack of enterprise.
" John Muir of California is trr
ell naturalist He is going all the way
Ua southern Chile to examine one ire
-. The fact that he has never seen til
-, particular species has troubled hi
eW for long time. 1t is rare speci
TO of the betel nut tree and is found
the jungles, particularly where mo
keys abound, and grows partly und
water
MS No New YORK building has retaint
,ed for long the rank of highest in Il
,en city. The Singer building was soC