The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-02-19
TIMELY BREVTIE:S

annoy. China, has but one American
fRm. the Standard Oil company.
Ice in Quintaua Roo. province @
Yueatan. sells at % cents a pound.
1t is estimated that the worlds pro
! duction of tea is 1.20O0oo,O0o pounds
In 1910 the United States produce.
521,362, $50 pounds of wool, washed an,
unwashed
The number of sheep of shearing az.
in the country was 294. 705 less in 1877
than in 1909.
OF the 800 steamships which called
at the Chinese port of Annoy last yeal
only one was American.
Corn to the amount of 1926, ia, O0t
bushels was grown in 1910 in the Unit
ed States. valued at 1888. 96S.000.
A man who died recently in Russia
had not slept since his skull was frac,
tured in railroad accident six years
before.
An Englishwonaan is the inventor of
a jeweled sunburst in which one set
of rays is revolved over another By
clockwork.
Aerial torpedoes invented by Swed-
ish army officer can be made to travel
three miles and explode either upon
contact or by clockWork
Small quantities of japanese canned
beef are being shipped to this country
for consumption by japanese residing
mostly on the Pacific coast
college athletics are one of the most
ridiculous and ludricous ingredients
Of modern education says DR. John
NJ. Tyler of Amherst college.
The national assembly of China unans
imously indorses the popular demand
for the early conyocatfon of a full par.
lament on the western model.
From Europe comes a nail that has
a point ON each end. to be used to spike
the top of fence or to fasten together
two pieces of wood end to end
For the use Of BANKS there has been
invented an automatic camera which
photographs checks in miniature on
roll of film at rate of about 1000 an
hour.
Paper machine betting, protected or
the edges by leather, is being tried out
in England with a measure Of success.
One advantage claimed for it is that it
does not stretch
The Holland government is consider
ing the passage of new patent law,
inventors having been without protec-
ton in that country since the repeal of
an old law in 1869.
The longest continuous meteorological
records known are reports of the tenn
perature and rainfall of New Bedford.
Mass, since 1913. made by the father
Of the owner of the data and himself.
A new method of producing pure
salt from salt rock consists of melting
the rock in a furnace and then treat
ing the molten material to compressed
air to blow away or precipitate the
A parchment six yards long and a
foot wide, tracing in quaint fifteenth
century writing the descent of King
Henry VI. from Adam. has just been
placed In the Welsh National library
at Aberystwyth.
That the high cost of being Ill is
notable fact of the period is easily fig.
ured out by the hospitals. In the New
York hospitals the daily cost of pa
tents maintenance In 1900 was Silt. 4
and now it is at least $3.50
English stamps are to be issued in
rolls as well as in sheets as at present
Ribbons Of postage stamps wound on
a reel are expected TO save time for
business men. and the stamps need
be perforated only on two sides.
At the recent election In England
Harold Francis. four years old, Of Big.
gleswade. Bedfordshire. cast his firs4
ballot By clerical error his name an.
oeared on the register. so he was car
led to the polling booth and duly re-
.orded his vote.
The pearl fisheries of Ceylon and IN
liza are declining, and the Persian |
yuif, the chief source Of the worlds
'upply, is also giving a much reduced
vield. It is believed that in few
ears the value of pearls will exceed /
hat of diamonds.
a horned beetle which devours tn,
caves of the eocoanut tree has recer5
: made its appearance in the Samo;If
rchipelago and IS destroying or great
: injuring the plants which ii al
acks. The insect is of a Species here
ofore unknoWn in Samoa
There are no railroads In the
Venezuelan uii;Ha. Of which
'olivar is tils aineifs essla.s,s
enter. Goods for the inteilai
arried over Wretched roads by rs
arts, mule carts and donkeys. In fhe
Amy season the roads are impossible
Among the 700 men at the west sid
read line In Chicago were James anf
homas Baird brothers. who had bees
st to each other for 4 year. Tbs,
lrne from Leeds, England. They
&c, reach the coffee and roll
agon almost together and recognized
lch other.
Reports Of the death OF King Meme
: OF Abyssinia have been frequent
Tough to confuse the world. He Ger
lnly was very much alive at the end
last year for fI1a PARIS ITfcsa ~ -,