The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-01-17
TIMELY BREvITIES

have a gross annual output of $35, 00O,,
600.
Sawdust is widely utilized in Ger
many for the manufacture Of cheap
plotting paper.
The Frieburg silver mines or Sax
ony have been closed after having
been worked for 700 years.
A big Siberian bloodhound owned by
a Boston business man Is said to be
the biggest dog in the United States.
Old engines are much sought after
by hOrsesh0ers of Nantes, France, who
prize such metal highly for horse
shoes.
About 10000 lobster traps will have
to be rebuilt to comply with the new
regulations in Canada relating to lob
ster fishing.
The equal suffragists in Oklahoma
have translated woman suffrage liter
allure into the Choctaw, Chickasha and
Cherokee tongues.
Clockwork apparatus to automatical-
ly light and extinguish gas street
lamps has been invented to save the
expense of lamp lighters.
Many Norwegian families spend two
months each summer in the mountains
or along the fiords fishing and boat
ing. Many use portable cottages.
A solution of gum camphor in alco-
hol will remove ink lines from tracing
cloth and leaves it In better condition
than if mechanical erasers be used.
- Knives, forks and spoons so shaped
that they may be handled comfortably
only when held correctly have been
invented by a Philadelphia man for
the instruction Of children.
The coal mines on the arctic island
of Spitzbergen have been sunk to such
a depth that it was possible the past
year for the first time for the miners
to work in the coolest weather.
In Holland the average cost of keep
ing and feeding COW for dairying
purposes per year is about $50, the
amount realized from each COW for
the same period being about $Ss.
1t is predicted that the cultivation of
the larger haciendas in Spain will be
revolutionized by the Introduction from
Germany Of electric plows, one of
which does the work of twenty ordi-
nary two horse plows.
Tolstoy's presentiment of death calls
to mind the fact that his brother Mich
olas had a similar experience just be-
fore his death. Nine hours before he
died he had a presentiment of his end
and, asking to be undressed, went to
bed and succumbed soon after.
The pensioner Levy, who for fifteen
years stood before the massive front
door which leads to the sarcophagus of
Napoleon the Great has retired from
his post, being too old to stand on duty
for the seven hours during which the
tomb is open to the public. He was
one of the last of the pensioners of the
Crimean war.
A curious discovery recently made in
Crete leads archaeologists to believe
that Faust and Gutenberg may not have
been the real inventors Of printing In
Europe. A disk of clay has been IN
earthed at Phacotos which bears upon
its two sides the figures of men, ami
mails and trees, not engraved, but most
evidently stamped with punch or die.
The new game ordinance in Uganda,
which came into force last June, has
caused considerable amount of dis
satisfaction among officials In the pro-
tectorate and big game shooters in
particular. Formerly a ten pound
license entitled the holders to kill two
elephants, two rhinoceroses and ten
antelopes, while now for this privilege
f40 has to be paid.
In the will of Franz Botor, a rich
bachelor who died recently at Varadin.
Austria, Botor explains that he never
married because modern women are
utterly ignorant Of the principles of
cooking. He leaves his entire fortune
to the municipality for the purpose of
establishing cooking school in order
that young girls may be taught how
to prepare food in a civilized manner.
Emperor Nicholas will present to
Zaandam, in Holland, a statue of Peter
the Great. 1t was in this, village,
it will be remembered, that Peter
learned shipbuilding for the benefit of
his country The house in which he
lived has long been a place of pill
grimage for foreigners visiting HoI-
land. 1t was restored and inclosed for
its preservation by Emperor Nicholas
grandfather