The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-07-06
TIMELY TOPICS.

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A Baptist church to seat 1000 people
Is being built In st. Petersburg.
AT least twenty-six deaths were di-
rectly due to football in this country
last year.
Germany's efforts to levy tolls on the
navigation of the Rhine is giving the
Hollanders some concern.
Throughout the whole of last year
32,923 emigrants left Ireland, which Is
below the average number
Forman's History of the United
States" for schools Is about to be EN-
bossed in type for the blind.
In New York during the first three
months of the present year 4S4 per,
sons were arrested for splitting in pub
lie places.
Handbags waterworks are under
the control of the city government, and
as q rule private houses are supplied
with meters,
Two women prominent in st. Louis
have started a movement to induce
100000 of their sex in the south TO
pray every day for the rich,
For indoor shooting a Michigan rifle
| man has invented target which
catches the bullets without injury, per
uniting them to be used again.
Practice targets have been adopted
for the British navy built up of many
| plates of steel, any of which can be
cheaply replaced when damaged,
In a match between two Edinburgh
golfers a ball driven from the four
teenth tee was slightly pulled. When
the player reached it he found 1t held
firmly in rabbit trap
During the decade closed with 1910
the number OF Greeks who emigratea
to the United States was 100000. The
Greeks now here remit to the old coun,
try about $5,O00.000 year.
The manufacture of paper from
pulped blue gum timber is projected,
Tests made with it are said to have
given a product equal to that made
from African esparto grass.
Socrates Is the name of one Of the
cats on the government payroll in the
postoffice department. An office cal
wise enough to hold office is worthy of
such name. says the Washington
Times.
When the president of the French
republic sat down to luncheon on a re-
cent occasion it was discovered that
there were thirteen at table, and re-
porter was brought in to Increase the
number.
Saloniki is the most progressive city
OF Turkey, as Is shown by the enter
prise OF its Inhabitants and the indus
trial schemes under way and proposed
In the papers American advertisements
are beginning to appear,
| The consumption of boxes in the Va,
lencia district for the export of or
angeS. onions. raisinS, melons. toua,
toes and other fruits and vegetables is
enormous. averaging at present about
100000 packages annually.
German surgeons have made the dis
covery that the delicate membrane
that lines the inside Of an eggShell will
i answer as well as bits of human skin
TO start healing over by granulation IN
open wounds which viii not otherwise
heal.
8 conference took place at st. Peters
burg recently for the purpose of de
yising means for the prevention of the
spread of the cholera" No newspaper
men were admitted except one. who
was connected with the Rossiia, the
crown organ,
A German professor has ascertained
that In Industrial cities windows which
have not been washed for ten days ex
elude from So to IS per cent of the
light If not washed for four weeks
they may exclude as much as SO per
cent OF the light.
There are now S456 urban and rural
cooperative credit societies in India,
with membership OF 226eoS aud a
working capital OF $2.442.5S0, Of which
only $a40590 Is contributed by the
government These figures represent
the work Of about seven years,
Since annexation By Japan about
100000 Koreans have cut OF and sold
their 'stopknots." materially reducing
| the price Of human hair IN the far east
ern markets. To evade the duty the
Koreans can cross the frontier Of
China before cutting their topknots.
Medical men in Jamaica have come
to the conclusion that the Increasing
death rate Of the peasants Is due large
" to the almost exclusive consumption
OF vans. cocoa. sweet potatoes and cas-
sava. which are less digestihle than
imported cereals. which. however. few
OF the natives can afford to buy.
One hour hy wireless from Glaze
Bay. Cape Breton. to Dakar, on the
coast Of French Western Africa, Is the
astonishing feature accomplished BY
the Glace Bay wireless station. The
message was flashed to the EiffeI tow
er as Paris and from there relayed 10
Dakar station. the whole operation TAX
ng ealy sixty minutes.
A new type Of life buoy. intended for
use at night in harhors and elsewhere.
has recently been inyented Il carries
four electric lights OF nine candle pow