The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-09-07
TIMELY BREv|TIES

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The population of Denmark on Feb.
i last amounted to 2,T56,S73.
German excavators in Babylon be-
neve they have discovered the ruins Of
the tower of Babel.
According to German expert,
American women do not know how to
pose before camera.
Receipts of virgin gold average a
million dollars a month under normal
conditions at the assay office Of Seat
tie.
The atmosphere of London's sub
ways is now made to resemble that of
the seaside by pumping ozone into
them.
The wealth of the Rothschilds is put
at $2,O0OOOO,OOO. This is four times
the probable wealth of all the Rookie
fellers.
Since her first well was opened, in
1882, Pennsylvania has produced about
one-half the natural gas sold in the
United States.
In London the council passed an or
dinance recently forbidding pigeons to
fly at large, and the marshal is at
loss to know how to enforce it.
1t is stated that four Americans are
to be engaged at once as agricultural
experiment experts by the government
of the "three eastern provinces" OF
China.
A German has invented tiny cleo
tric oven. small enough to be placed on
the platform Of a microscope. It's pur-
pose is to dry objects to be examined
under the glass.
To economize on ushers a New York
moving picture theater has installed
small incandescent lamps on the backs
of the seats, arranged to burn only
when seat is unoccupfed.
The Mount Painter field Of South
Australia is a wonderful place for the
occurrence of rare minerals, and
company has been recently formed to
recover radium from the earth.
Horsenden Bucks, the smallest par
ish in England, is maintaining its rep
utation. During the past ten years the
population has shrunk from thirty-fi five
to seventeen.
The Indians of America have become
strangely pacific. At the present time
there is not an army post maintained
east of the Missouri river for fear of
an Indian outbreak.
There is in the province of Brabant
the Society For Belgian Expansion In
Spain and Latin America. with more
than 500 members and staff of 800
agents and foreign correspondence.
About 5000 feet of concrete drain
age bitches are being constructed along
the base of small ravineS and gulleys
at Empire, canal zone, to carry Off
storm water during the rainy season.
fen years ago the total number of
passengers carried one mile in the
United States was about 13,300,OOO,
600 In ten years time this has In
creased over 100 per cent, reaching a
total of 29.500,O00, 900.
The girls at school at Budapest
were asked to make sketches of them
selves in the occupations sthey would
follow after they left school. Out of a
class of forty thirty-six sketched
brides in elaborate wedding dresses
A mortgage eighty-four years old.
believed to be the oldest of its kind in
the country, has just been Cancelled in
the Queens county clerks Office at ia
maica. N. Y. The mortgage was for
$500. and $9,567 interest had been
paid on it.
Spain now occupies first place as an
olive growing country and the worlds
greatest producer of olive oil. During
the last fifteen years complete revo-
luton in the industry has taken place,
with the result that Spanish growers
are now heavy exporters.
For the first time In athletic history
Chinese athletes will compete with
those of other nations at the Olympic
games of 1912 at Stockholm, Sweden.
For this purpose an Englishman has
been training students of the Univer-
sity of Shanghai for three years.
East of the Missouri river in South
Dakota it is estimated more than a
thousand artesian wells now exist.
drawing their water from the supply
carried by the underground sandstone
formation and supposed to come from
the Black Hills and the Rocky noun
tains.
Spain has long been regarded as a
backward country, but apparently it is
getting ahead, for the babies when
they go out to take the air now wear
large placards on which is inscribed
the legend, 'Habe me ell favor de no
besar mel" edo me the favor not to
kiss mero
A rich gold find at Bukit Mas Perak,
Federated Malay States, has been re-
ported and confirmed The Chinese
who owns the land states that when
the grass is pulled up gold particles
are found adhering to the roots. Rich
tin deposits were also found at the
same place.
The leading typefoundry Of the far