The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-05-21
TIMELY BREvITIES

Ninetyseven American manufactur-
ers have agencies in Madrid
The mackerel and shad fisheries of
| this county are on the decline.
Ability 10 read and write is now
suffrage requirement in Portugal.
! Egyptian mummies sometimes have
| teeth quite cleverly flied with gold.
| Switzerland. with II population of
| 3,5OO0OO, imports annually $l0,OO0O0O
worth of ready made clothing
Hungary's census shows pOpuIa-
ton Of 20,&50,700 an increase in ten
years Of 1,596,00O, or S.3 per cent
When you go shopping in Burma
1t is difficult to get the proprietor of
the establishment TO show his goods.
by French presidential decree the
postotiiceS in Madagascar are author
| ply coupons.
Germany imports more of Italy's
| products than any other country. The
| United States comes second and
| France third.
According to the final provisional
census returns, the population of India
Is now 315,OOO,0OO, an increase of 26,-
! 100000 since 1901.
| Owing to a lack of demand for it.
| grapefruit can be bought in London
for fraction of the price asked for
! it in the. United States.
Russia contains nearly one-half of
the Jews in the world and is the only
! country with larger Jewish popua-
| ton than the United States
| Shippers Mt H0ngkong claim that the
! Chinese peanut Is a better article than
that furnished by any other part Of
! the world not excepting Virginia.
! Engineers are figuring on erecting a
! dam 700 feet high in the Grand Can
! yon of the Colorado to impound sufi-
| cicut water 10 produce 100000 horse
| power.
The type used i'll the government
printing office at Washington last
year, if placed end to end, would en-
circle the world, with about 5000 miles
| to spare
The bank checks passing through
! the clearing houses in London and
! New York in one month excel the
value of all the gold and silver coin in
! the world.
The epidemic of plague in the far
! east is responsible for 4 great increase
| in the price of many drugs. Carbolic
acid has advanced 80 per cent in the
/ eastern markets.
To prevent explosions of coal dust
! in some German mines water is forced
! into assures under pressure, and after
it is pumped out the coal can be bro
ken down with picks without blasting.
OF all the countries in the world
Servia contains the most centenarians.
In that country, which has fewer
than 100000 inhabitants, there are
5T5 persons whose age exceeds 100
| years. 49,
A great figure in literature is brought
nearer to our time when we read that
very old woman has just died in
Scotland whoin her girlhood knew Sir
Walter Scott and experienced the good
mans kindness.
| Londoners complain that they cannot
get enough of the seedless California
oranges They like them because the
pulp can be removed with a spoon and
because they are SO large that one is
enough for two people.
Work has begun on the building of
the palace of the future Chinese par
| lament at Picking The structures are
| modelled after those of the Belgian
parliament The total cost will be
S1,30O.O00. Mr.. Klein. German, is
the architect.
What is said to be the smallest per-
feet glass bottle ever blown has been
MAIDS by Robert Gillespie, a blower in
glass works at Millville, n. j. The
bottle is not much larger than ker
mel of corn. but is in every way per
feet. including a ground stopper.
A merchant in the Yukon region has
discovered way of making stoves
that yield at least 80 per cent more
heat than those commonly sold. He
uses huge sheet iron drums arranged
in such a way that the smoke must go
down one side Of 1t and up the other
Since Jan /. 1907, sixty-fiye open
air schools for children afflicted with
or predisposed to tuberculosis have
been established In twenty-elght cities,
according to IN announcement made
bya4he National Association For the
Study and Prevention of tuberculosis.
The boring of the nine and one-quar-
ter mile tunnel through the Alps.
which will shorten the railroad jour
ney from Italy to London from two to
three hours, was finished March 81.
The French contractors who under
took the work were engaged in it four
years and half
"Parson" Davies, the veteran prize
fight promoter. was given his sohri-
quet by the late William Fl. Wander
bilt Que nigHt at Madison Square Gar
den Vanderbilt said. '"Tbat fellow
looks more like a parson than a sport