The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-03-15
TIMELY BREvITIES

"A meteor whose weight is estimated
Rts fifty tons recently fell in Mexico.
An American apartment building is
70 erected in the Russian city of Odes-
So
The military profession the world
over has the greatest percentage of
! suicides.
Australian papers are urging farm
ers to undertake the pig industry on
large scale.
Germany's fresh water pearl fisher
les in the White Elster are threatened
| with extinction.
Three hundred years ago the first
home of wood was erected on Man
haitian Island (New York;.
More than 900 girls are being taught
to operate electrically driven nachin-
cry in new trade school in New York
England's expenditure per head for
its army and navy is greater than that
of any other country. Japan's is the
| lowest.
Spendthrifts are not increasing in
New York city. Its savings banks
have 1890 more depositors than they
had year ago.
1t is estimated that $4,000 sables
are caught annually in Russia. The
skins are disposed of mainly In the
London market.
1t has been estimated that women
form one-half of / per cent of the
| total number Of the commercial drum
mers in the United States.
Workers for the Chicago Tract socie-
ty preach in twenty-five different ian
guages and distribute literature printed
In thirty-three different languages.
NJ Lewis Lapicque in an interested
communication to the French Acade-
mie Ges Sciences claims to demon
strate that large eyes indicate a big
! BRAIN
Oxygen tanks, hberating gas into a
bag in which a mans head and shout
ders can be placed, feature new res
cue litter intended primarily for
mines
There are more than seventeen miles
of electric wires in a network tina
forms a burglar alarm surrounding the
new money vault of the treasury at
Washington.
The practice Of binding the feet of
female children to make them appear
small has been In vogue in China for
1000 years, but has now been made
criminal offense.
The plague known as the red scale
has for some years been threatening
the orange industry in southern Spain
Over $4,000 has been expended in
campaign, which has had considerable
success, against the pest.
The house in which Thomas Carlyle
was born at Ecelefechan has been sold
to the London syndicate which pos
sesses Carlyle's house at Chelsea and
will be furnished to represent the
house as it was in Carlyle's boyhood.
Figures compiled from the 1910 i'm.
perial German census show there were
forty cities in the empire hav-
ing q population larger than 100000
The thirteenth census of the United
States shows fifty cities with this pop
ulation.
Even in Spain speed Is beginning to
be regarded as a desirable thing in
railway travel. On the new line be
tween Valencia and Madrid now being
planned the mean speed of passenger
express trains must exceed thirty-one
miles an hour, which is fast for that
country.
Mushroom poisoning may be treated
by q serum the toxic principle of
which has been extracted from the
two most dangerous varieties of mush-
rooms. An injection was tried on rab-
bits, which In four months could eat
poisonous mushrooms without being
affected
In England the number of persons
engaged in commercial occupations is
almost as large as the number Of ag-
riculturists. whereas in Germany the
proportions of the former to the latter
are 4142 to 6.54; in Germany, 35.11 to
$50; In Italy. 5906 to 3.42 per cent of
occupied persons.
An application for patent on a
poker playing machine mas recently
been recorded at Washington. The
machine deals the cards. diseards for
the player and draws to his hand, it is
said. 1t throws the cards back and
shufi1es for a new deal by the mere
pressure of an electric button.
There are not enough locusts IN
my province to satisfy the appetites of
the inhabitants" was the reply made
by Governor Pack of the Mountain
province. Philippine Islands, to cir
eular recently sent out by the bureau
Of science giving the methods to be
used in exterminatipg the locust pest
DR.. James Kennedy Patterson. pres
ident Of the University of Kentucky |
and the oldest college president in |
America, retired from bis position
with the close of the year 1910 DR.
Patterson is one OF the best known
educators In the United States and had
been president Of the state university
since 1869.
Queen Mary has black carpet in
one Of the rooms of Buckingham pal