The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-31
TIMELY BREvITIES

Paris has double the number of fire
men and fifty more engines than Lon
don.
Eastbourne, England, has recently
approved a bylaw forbidding dogs to
bark on the sea front.
The best safeguard against infectious
diseases is to keep both mind and body
In healthy condition.
Plumage skins or eggs Of native
birds of Australia and New Guinea
can no longer be exported
A New York woman wants two years
separation to give her husband an OPP
portunity to try to win her back.
Female BARRIERS are numerous in the
prominent cities of Sweden, and many
of them own the shops in which they
work.
The BARRIERS of Paris after they have
attended one customer must wash their
hands before beginning work on an
other.
In the cause of quietness the canton
all motor traffic between midnight and
B a. m.
It is estimated that the proposed
ship canal in Scotland to link the
Forth and the Clyde will cost $685.
100000.
Though the bulk Of our lumber ex-
ports have not greatly increased in re-
cent years, the valuation shows gigan-
tic strides.
New York's sick list averages $4,000
names each day, or one person in ev-
cry thirty-fve, and within year
100000 cases of illness occur within
the city limits.
The owner Of probably the largest
number of dogs in the world is Rus
sian, who has $4,000 shepherd dogs to
look after 100000 sheep.
Artificial teeth made of paper can
now be obtained. They are said to re-
tain their color and are less likely to
chip than ordinary false teeth.
In times OF peace there are nearly
1900 deaths in the British army annu-
ally, the rate per thousand abroad be-
ing two and half times that at home.
The present harbor of Tsingtau, able
now to accommodate thirty of the lar
gest seagoing vessels, is being extend
ed, owing to the increased shipping
from that port
According to the computation of the
minister of finance for the union of
South Africa, the gold mining industry
of the Rand still has a life of 15O
years before it.
Phenomenally wet weather on the
northeast coast of Queensland was re-
sponsible during the first four months
of the year for total rainfall Of just
| under sixteen feet.
There are more university students
now than ever in the German father
land. Their number has risen from
50, 407 in 1910 to 54,S22 this year, an in
crease of 4.6 per cent.
The figures show that the number OF
British seamen employed in the British
mercantile marine is steadily increas
ing, while the number of Lascars and
Asiatics of all kinds is stationary.
Far from scorning penniless immi
grants, the Chilean government has re
newed its offer to pay sum equiva
lent to $15.44 in gold for every adult
who comes to settle in that country.
The government is constructing the
| 1ool- -, &1a xxyo,.ld of Mayx7's
falls at Sault Ste. Marie. Mich. The
dimensions of this lock are to be 1,35(
by so feet, with low water clearance
of % feet.
After Jan. 1, 1913, only white mel
can act as pearl divers in Australian
waters. Up to this time the divers
have been chiefly Malays and japanese
1t being supposed that white men coult
not endure the work.
Consul Norton of Malaga says man.
Spanish cities have poorly furnished
barber shops. One shop has SOM
American reclining chairs, which wer
imported ten years ago and are still
regarded as curiosities.
The latest returns place the popula
ton of India at 315,000000. Yet thu
entire area Of India is no greater thar
that Of nine of our western states
Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho
Nevada, Montana. Arizona. Utah ant
Wyoming.
| Alaska's fishing industry, next in i'm
portance to mining, gives employment
to 1858 persons, Of whom 1928 ar
natives. In the last five years the tel
ritory has sent us wealth of 5000
600 in salmon alone The total outpu
of fish in 1910 was worth 81, 1S1, 1888.
A proposed new colliery in Warwick
shire, England, is to cost $2.000.00(
Boring tests have proved the existenc
of twenty foot vein S14 yards down
The sinking and fitting Of a pair o
shafts twenty to twenty-five feet il
diameter will take five years.
As a result of the observation ad
vanced by two scientific men, Mari
and MacAuliffe, that the sanest typ
of man has the biggest feet, while tn
sanest type of woman has the smaIles
feet, pedestrians all along the bouls