The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-03
TIMELY BREv|T|ES

Over 10000 Canadians make their
living fishing from boats.
Pneumatic boxing gloves have been
invented by a Philadelphia.
Ducks are trapped wholesale in
France by means Of a searchlight.
An international manual has been
prepared recently by the Chinese to IA
cilitate translation.
The most valuable feathers are those
Of the mirasol, bird of Argentina.
They are worth about $1,000 pound.
Russia's standard Of living is becom-
ing higher although not at the ex-
pense of the savings, which are grow
| ing constantly.
Fourteen Chicago clergymen have
volunteered to marry without fees the
couples who find no magistrate on
hand in the county building.
1t costs the liner Olympic STE, 900 to
make a trip between Southampton and
New York. And on recent one she
collected $685., 900 in passenger fares.
| A Boston woman has introduced the
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spondents with engraved letters. She
first writes her letters and then has
them engraved.
In Barcelona the moving picture
shows are so popular that on Sundays
thousands OF people can be seen out
side of them waiting for their turn to
secure admission.
An English inventor has brought out
kind of steel which resists the cor
rosion of smokeless gunpowder, the
chief objection to the use of that form
of powder for firearms.
The Chinese produce brokers have
established a produce exchange in
Singapore Such project has been
contemplated by the European mer-
chants, but has not yet been carried
out.
Some of the new uses for alumni
ium are as wall paper" ceiling pam
els, trays, finger plates and cooking
utensils Rapidly increasing quanti-
ties are used in the motorcar industry
and for airships
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| ing liquid to be poured out, but not in,
after the can has been officially In
| spected and sealed has been intro
duced by the sanitary inspector of
Saloniki, Turkey.
| Hammocks are not much used in
Germany Most families, even in the
| small cities, live in fats, and the vii
las or cottages Of the suburbs seldom
have porches or verandas where ham,
mocks could be hung.
Out Of 760 samples of milk exam
ined in London In three months 106
| tracing this milk necessitated the ex-
animation of S,715 cows at 102 farms
scattered over the country.
The king of Italy is one Of the most
enthusiastic of royal motorists and the
only one who has qualified by passing
a severe practical examination in driy-
| ing a motorcar. He is clever me-
chanic and can repair his own car as
| well as drive it.
| The best dressed men are to be found
in New York, says a German paper in
an article on the decadence in male
fashions, in which the writer laments
the fact that men of the present day
are content to be clothed and no longer
trouble about elegance in dress.
Sawdust Is briquetted by several
firms in Europe for household fuel.
Sawdust briquettes, while almost as
easily ignited as wood, burn much more
slowly, owing to their having been
compressed so highly In the making.
This is an advantage, as the fire does
not need replenishing so often.
OF all peoples In the Balkans the Al
banians are the most uncultured and
uncouth. They have no history of
their own and up to fifty years ago
they did not possess even written
language. At present they are using
three different alphabets, the most pop
ular of which is the Latin one.
With sixty-seyen daily papers, thirty
two triweekly, twenty-six semiweekly,
sixty eight weekly, four fortnightly,
one three weekly, one four weekly and
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population of $50, 1853 males and AGO.
500 females, New Zealand may justly
claim to be anything but illiterate.
Next year the English church will
celebrate the one thousand three hun
dredth anniversary Of the baptism of
the first English king by st. Augustine.
The dean and chapter Of Canterbury
still hold land in Essex given by King
Ethelbert of Kent, which has been in
their uninterrupted possession since
597.
Birds, it seems, rarely If ever get
accustomed to the sound Of electric
bells so as not to be startled at the
ringing of one. Knowing this, the
head master Of an Austrian school has
patented an electric searecrow, In
which clock makes the connection at
irregular intervals to electric bells
scattered over his orchard.
70 determine whether the phenom-
ena of life could be made to disappear
and be restored, remarkable expert
ments have been carried out by Pro-
lessor Paul Pictet of Geneva, with