The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-05-25
TIMELY BREvITIES

flesh eating plants known
Java's new coffee crop 10 estimated
at over 100000 pounds.
Bananas and potatoes are very much
alike In chemical composition.
Juvenile smoking 10 said to have In
creased rapidly abrond In the last feN
years
| There are new about 1,250Oo0 more
females than males ia England and
| Wales.
The United States, Germany and
England last year turned out four
tlfths OF the worlds new pig iron.
Jewish immigrants are steadily dow
Ing into Palestine, and in their ancient
capital, Jerusalem, there are now no
fewer than 10000 Jews.
Something like ono In every Ave of
Great Brltain's population Ia depos-
itor in the postottice savings bank, the
average deposit being about SIS.
Deposits OF sulphur In commercial
quantities have been found Ia Lower
California within fifty miles of the In.
ternationai boundary at Caloxico.
Chinese Jade In so successfully imi.
tated by German manufacturers that
experts of the far east frequently mis-.
take the artificial for the genuine.
In Germany there has been patented
machine for grinding steel balls
which Is claimed to retain q ball with.
in Il until It Is perfectly formed and
SIZED.
In France a process Is being devel-
oped by which the fur Is removed from
skin and placed on an artificial base,
and then the skin 10 utilized sepa.
rately.
There are more than seventeen miles
of electric wires in network that
forms burglar alarm surrounding the
new money vault In the treasury st
Washington.
Il Il suggested that the Chinese bus.
tard be domesticated In America. Tt
weighs from fourteen to eighteen
pounds and the meat is said to be
very we'll favored.
PlumRge, skins or eggs of native
birds Of Australia and New Guinea
can no longer be exported, this having
been prohibited By the Australian com.
monwealth government.
At Bailarat. Australia. has been
found nugget Of gold weighing lit
tie less than thirty pounds. ana ex.
pcrts say Il win turn ont at Ieast az
teen pounds Of pure gold
Firebonts owned by several of the
larger cities are now supplied with
masts TO elevate the discharge nox.
kles. on the same principle that water
towers are used by land iremen.
Having been tossed about by the sea
for more than eleven years, a life pre-.
server from the stenmer Portland.
wrecked 10 1908. was recently picked
up In fair state Of preservation.
In Denmark there has been discoy.
cred deposit OF clay from Witch
may be mnds bricks that are Light IN
weight. yet 80 tough that nails may be
driven int them without cracking
them.
Foreign ships have all the coal trade
between Philadelphia. Baltimore.
Hampton Roads and the Panama
canal xcne, Tampico and Vera Crus,
about 100000 tons a year. they bring
back Cuban ore.
The foreign tourists who visited ia.
pan during the last year totaied H.
2s3. including 8,iai Englishmen, $3.50
Americans and 5.730 Chinese This
shows an increase Of some 200 as con-.
pared with the preceding year.
The United States leads the world az
an exporter of tobacco. having sup.
piled over S41 .oo0.0oo worth OF tobac.
co and manufactures Of tobacco which
entered international markets last
year. In the expectation OF manufac.
tured tobacco Cuba Il at the head OF
the list.
London doctors Interested in the nu.
tritiye value OF foodstufYs have issued
Z document IN which they recommend
the use OF whole meal in making bread
instead Of hne white -four. II Ii main.
tanned that there are In the whole meal
two and one-haIf times the amount of
mineral substances TINT nouriah the
body.
The department Of agriculture has
proved through experimentation that
$3.50 worth Of denatured alcohol can
be produced per acre from the fruit OF
four years growth OF the cacti ltunasD.
This means that = quarter section OF |
now arid land can be made to yield a
gross income OF $4,000 almost perpet-
aaily.
Eugen sandcw. whose feats of
strength aud systesn Of bodily training /
have long made his name familiar. has
been appointed professor Of scientific |
physical culture TO King George of |
FOR twenty years sandcw
hps been EnEland's foremost advocats
sf physical training He is a man of
wealth.
Lotteries are operated In ali impor.
ant towns and cities OF the Dominican
Republic. IN many Of the larger cities
here are from two to Ave. practically /
IN under munfclnal Ruflarvfsfou gavs