The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-03-02
TIMELY BREvITIE:S

In this country grows larger every
year.
The yield Of the Egyptiau cotton
deldS for 1910 was about 7OO,0OO,0O0
! pounds.
There is great area of oil in the
gulf OF Mexico, said to emnnatc from
the Texas oil field
+ Much Of the CirCussiaD walnut ap-
pearing in up to date furniture Is the
wood Of the red gum tree.
Bavaria has started school for
porcelain manufacture The day school
tuition Is 1888 per annum.
1t is estimated that English interests
now have S5O,OOOOOO worth Of con
tracts for constructing railroads in
Chile and Bolivia.
In Korea private schools are being
rapidly replaced by public schools un
der the gradual spread of the new edu-
cattOna system there
An American sewing machine com
pany has opened eight schools in south
ern China. at which natives are taught
y.
Though nearly 1000 years old. a re
Gently discovered Roman mirror, made
by attaching lead foil to glass with
balsam, was as effective as when new
Thoracograph is the name that has
been given Il machine which has been
invented to draw diagrams of per,
sons chest movements during respira
ton
The Klondike has produced $3.50.
100000 in gold since 1893, and mining
experts estimate that the amount yet
to be mined is equal to that already
produced.
The Japanese are making strenuous
efforts to conquer Turkish markets, to
which they are sending silk goods, cot
ton socks, shirts. imitation Turkish
rugs, toys and chinaware.
In many Of the cities of the Domini
can Republic there are several Cup to
fivel lottery companies The law re
quires that 10 per cent of the total re
ceipts be paid In premiums and s per
cent to the city.
From Westland. New Zealand. has
come the largest block of Jade known
It weighs 1000 pounds. is worth $1,000
and has been presented to the New
York Museum of Natural History by
Mr. J. PierpOnt Morgan
Cuba is offering prize of $4,000 to
the person, native or foreign, who shall
discover the origin Of the disease
which attacks and kills cocoanut trees
in that island and the means neces-
sary for its cure and prevention.
A-plan is approved whereby an area
between Mautua and Pietole, Italy, is
to be converted into wood sacred to
the memory of Vergil, where all the
herbs, trees and plants mentioned in
his "Bucolics' will be represented
The use of Indian corn in British
dining rooms is very limited On com
ing to America the English soon learn
to like it, but at home they do not
know how to cook and serve it. HON
my seems TO be practically unknown
A Turkish state galley $50 years old
with seats for forty eight rowcrs. has
been discovered in the disused part Of
the Yali kiosk. in COnstantinope The
hull is richly gilt and inlaid with
mother-of-pearl. 1t is proposed to pre-
serve the ship In a museum.
An eighteen story hotel soon to be
built in Philadelphia will have
garage on the top floor Automobiles
may motor to the hotel, run their car
into the elevator and be carried up to
the top floor. where they may step
from the automobile into the roof gar
den
The annual value of the worlds fish
cries amounts to 100000, 000-almost
as much as the annual output of all
the gold mines. The United States
leads, with over $G0.O00000; Great
Britain next, with about $55,0O00 900
and Japan third, with about $4,000
600
In providing a crypt for the body of
John Paul Jones under the floor of the
Naval academy chapel at Annapolis it
is proposed to spend about $13J,O00.
The $4,000 sarcophagus is to he Of
solid porphyry. Eight vaults around
the crypt will be used for the burial
of other naval heroes
The total production of quicksilver
in the United States in 1910 was 90
937 TASKS of seventy-five pounds each,
valued at the New York average price
for the year, S47,O5 flask, at 1885 800
against 81 .075 TASKS in 1909, valued at
$075.773 t$i6.30 a flask. This means
50. 500 more money for 1888 less TASKS
George Westinghouse has perfected
device by means Of which the Of
ficer on the bridge of a ship at sea eau
himself stop the vessels engines and
reverse them by simply turning lever
Or pressing a button at his side. the
navigating officer thus having immedi
ate control of the engines as well as
the rudder
Professor Hugo Munsterberg of Har
ward university declares that the need
for regular athletic exercise Is a de
fusion and that ''ff the craving for II
is not Intentionally injected into the
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