The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-04-18
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TIMELY BREvITIES


The canal zone soon will have its
first electric railroad.
4 Russian electrician has invented
an insulating material made from
milk
Tobacco forms the sixth item in i'm
portance on the list of Brazilian ex-
ports.
The chief industrial pursuits of Low
er California are mining and pearl
fishing.
Maiden lane Oondon) jewelry stores
are quoting platinum at SAB an ounce,
a record price.
The motor of a new motorcycle is
carried within the rear wheel instead
of on the frame,
The Chinese in Hongkong have es-
tablished u society for cutting off their
cues, but not changing their dress.
A plant for the manufacture of
bricks from lava is being erected at
Honolulu by a San Francisco man.
A rubber stamp to be worn on a
finger so that when an egg is picked
up the date will be imprinted on the
shell is a recent invention.
The Budapest police are enforcing
the anti-long hatpin ordinance in that
city, not by arrests or fines, but by
confiscation of offending pins.
Besides shipping several knocked
down" steamboats, to South America,
a Pittsburg firm has sent one to- the
Kongo and another to the river Nile.
Fresh apple exports from the United
States last year were very large
100000 barrels, valued at $5,45G450,
or almost double those of the year
previous.
Because of objection to the word
'heathen" the WOman's Union Mis-
sionary Society of America for heather
lands has dropped the last three words
of it's name.
Sugar production in FOrmosa under
improved modern methods has reach
ed a point where the profitable dis
posal of the crop is becoming a Sc
riOus problem.
Chilean forests contain immense
quantities of timber suitable for wood
pulp, for the possession Of which
French, German and American firms
are now competing.
Many letters are being received in
India from the United States bearing
only cents in postage, while this rate
applies only to the British isles, Cana
da and Newfoundland.
The value of products taken by the
fisheries of the Atlantic coast is nearly
double that of all the rest of the coun-
try combined, being &c per cent of the
total of the United States.
Turkey breeders who have been trOu-
bled by their charges straying are rec
commended by the London Agricultural
| Gazette to put bell on a few of the
leaders, old hens by preference.
Hundeiebenversiche gesellschaft
is the name of new business con-
| Germ in Frankfort-on-the-Ma Main. It
| means in commercial English the
| Company For the Insurance of Dogs
| Lives.
After long investigation three Euro
pean scientists have decided that trees,
through their foliage, extract free nj
trogen from the atmosphere, something
| that men only recently discovered how
to do mechanically.
| Reindeer in Alaska increased from
4.975 in 1902 to over $4,000 in 1910
The civilizing effect of the reindeer in
dustry upon the Eskimos, who are nat
urally a people of ready intelligence
and adaptabilify, is remarkable.
Virginia has placed a memorial to
| Patrick Henry, orator, patriot and the
commonwealth first governor, i'll his
! toric st. Johns church, Richmond. II
is bronze tablet, paid for with an
appropriation granted by the legisla
ture.
The new japanese gardens of Bue-
nos Aires were opened on Feb. 2. They
are on the bank of the river Plate
and are the only outdoor amusement
resort of the city. They are the near
est approach to such public resorts as
Coney Island, ETC., in Argentina.
In the Sfxty-second congress the total
number of senators is ninety-two, rep
resentatives, 391. The salaries of bott
senators and representative are $7,50C
per annum, no extra salary for extra
session, but they receive mileage al
the rate of 20 cents mile each way.
There is a general movement through
out the Russian empire to improve the
i peasants cottages and to put up fire.
proof model dwellings on the model
farms established in many rural dis
tricts This movement is due in part
to the great destruction of houses and
whole villages by fire.
Captain Butt and James Sloan, Jr.
of the secret service. the presidents
always present protectors, have proba'
bly, been photographed more than any
two men in the country. They have
been with both Mr. Taft and Colonel
Roosevelt. Sometimes fifty cameras
have been snapped at their party in
five minutes.
According to a recent report by Dr.
Conrad Biesalski of Berlin, there are
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