The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-03-28
TIMELY BREvITIES

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picture shows in New York each day.
Norway, Sweden and Finland com
bined have population Of 10,03OOoO
The postponed Japanese, world ex-
position will probably be held in 1916,
The United States exported strnc-
turaI iron and steel amounting in value
TO $7,OOO,OOO in 1910.
st. Petersburg. Russia, has twelve
commercial schools, the admission be-
ing restricted to boys.
Travelling from one place to another
in Turkey without tescereh local
passport is now permitted.
More coal is mined per person EN-
ployed in the United States than i'll
any other nation, with Australia frank
ing next.
British India, with a population Of
over 252,0OO,O00 still has more than
1874 100000 acres of cultivable land un-
cultivated.
The japanese manufacture much of
their paper from millet stalks. Man
churia furnishes about 245.OOO tons of
pulp year.
& According to the government re
ports, there are more than 9.00OO0O
persons in the United States who have
accounts in the savings banks.
Silk coCoons to the weight of about
t1fty-four tons and worth over 100000
are exported from the British island
of Cyprus in the course of a year.
Game birds have almost disappeared
from the sections of France most fire.
quented by ueronauts, which seem to
have frightened the feathered tlfers
away. p-.. .s.t 49, Co., .....
Buenos Aires is the fourth city in
the two Americas. and 20 per cent Of
all the people of Argentina live with
in a radius of twenty miles of the
capital
The island of Margarita. on the north
coast of and belonging to Venezuela,
has population of 10000, who subsist
principally by its pearl and other
German sugar sales have been increas
ed in Morocco through an instailment
system of payment. A shopkeeper
buys $1,000 worth on the payment of
500 a week.
On account of it's great length drawn
glass is being used for many purposes.
1t withstands sudden changes of tenn
perature. resists fire to great extent
and is very strong.
An English economist has evolved
the theory that the writing and print
ing of superf1uous books form seri-
Gus item in the deforestation problem
of the civilized world.
There are forty mines being worked
in the state of New York There are
twelve iron mines, thirteen of gypsum,
eight of tale, three of graphite, one Of
salt and one of pyrites.
There is nothing better than lime
water TO drive white worms out of the
soil in which pot plants are growing
A good many people fail because they
use air slaked lime instead
Tranent colliery in Haddfngtonshire,
England, which has just been closed.
had been operated for nearly 700 years
For many years women were employed
in the mine as well as men
The tunnel under the Seine for the
Metropolitan railway of Paris when
completed will be the largest subrtver
tunnel in the world. The work Is be-
ing done by American engineers.
Students in the technical school at
Northampton. England, one of the
manufacturing centers for boots and
shoes, are given a thorough course in
leather and footwear manufacture.
Ten years ago the total number of
passengers carried one mile in the Unit
ed States was about 1888 100000. In
ten years time this has increased over
100 per cent, reaching total of 30.
$4,000 600
The whistles on the new ocean liner
Olympic are the largest ever made,
They consist of three bell domes.
measuring nine inches. fifteen inches
and twelve inches in diameter, respec-
lively
A life buoy with an electrical battery
which comes into play only when the
buoy is taken from its rack on tire yes
sci is new device A brilliant light is
given by two lamps above and two
below water
The principal telephone company of
Spain, with stations in Madrid, BARGE
Iona and seventeen other cities, has
only 1896 subscribers. The city Of
San Sebastian has a municipal tele-
phone service.
The plant Introduction bureau of the
department of agriculture has secured
for distribution seeds of the yerba
mate tree from the boundary line of
Brazil and Paraguay This tree is a
member of the holly family, lex para
guariensis.
A municipal councillor of Paris has
introduced proposal to tax all cats
in the city The proposal has not met
with popular approval 4 large mum
Der of women who own cats have writ
ten him, threatening to make things
unpleasant for him if he persists.
Louis Regis Rome, better known as
Romette, an itinerant newsboy and