The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-16
TIMELY BREvITIES

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postmen at Shanghai.
OF the 12,G0O000 TONS Of iron ore
which Spain produces annually about
1900. 600 are exported.
During the last two years CANADA
has sustained loss of over S45ooo,oOO
worth of property by fires.
Rubber boots are now made WITH
Il leather inner heel which greatly in
creases the boots period of usefulness.
One of the European companies man.
ufacturing harvesters for years has
EMPLOYED an American technical man.
ager.
Our farms are decreasing in size, the
average number of acres in farms hav-
Ing decreased from 14G in 1900 to l3S
in 1910.
The secretary of war and Mrs. Slim
son have leased the home of Mrs.
Churchill Candee of Washington for
the season.
Egypt receives ten times as many
tourists as Turkey does-about l4o,'WU
II
year from the tourist traffic.
Since the discovery in England OF
the lawn moving proclivities OF the
guinea pig the price of these little ami
mails has increased fortyfold
There are $500 pit brow girls in Ian
cashire. about 20 III Durham, 80 i'll
East Scotland 80 in the Swansea dis
trict and 100 in the Cardiff area.
France and Germany import from
Greece large quantities OF an inferior
grade of wine made from dried fruit.
! 1t is used for blending purposes.
/ For advertising purposes Pennsyl-
! vanian has patented Il fan in the shape
of human face with tongue that
waves in and out as the fan is moved.
The area of the abandoned farms,
/ of the United States is said to be
equal to that Of a strip Of land from
Maine to Florida ten miles wide
Six freshly baked pies were placed
in the cornerstone of the Domestic
Science building Cincinnati, by a bak
inc concern which will occupy the
structure.
Experiments prove that the gums OF
trees, so highly priced by man, are pro
duced by disease. Trees can even be
inoculated and made to furnish the
coveted gum.
Experiments with process for OBJ
tanning u textile fiber, with merits be
4 tween those of cotton and linen, from
the nettle are being fostered by the
Australian government
In the Malay peninsula an English
naturalist has discovered a species o.
ant that makes its nest in the tesh'
stems of ferns that grow on the limbs
of trees high in the air,
The number of depositors in savings
banks in the United States in 1920. th'
earliest year for which the figures can
r be shown. was little less than 900
and last year over 100000.
The worlds first international fibe
congress was held in Java last July
The raw products out Of which fiber
are made are now considered secon'
only to breadstuffs in commercial i'm
portance.
The Chinese colony in Paris has in
creased to such an extent that tn
Celestial empire has given orders TO
the construction of pagoda there. Al
chitects, masons, carpenters and deco
rators will go expressly from Pekin
and Canton to build it.
A small tailor in the Twin Cities ha
a head for advertising In front o
his store stands an oil barrel with th
head knocked in The barrel is brigf
green, and on 1t in red letters is paint
ed, Stand In My Barrel While | Pres
Your Suit For so Cents
Fishing methods are being revolt
tionized in the seas around the island
of Japan by the introduction of Englis
, steam trawlers.f The vessels on tris
, have resulted in the discovery of neN
and valuable fishing banks whic
could not have been fished by the rs
tive craft.
Rice is not, as commonly supposed
e the daily food Of all the Japanese. Th
/ poorer classes cannot afford it. Th
} maximum price of 50 bushel wa
3 reached last August. This was, how
ever, not due to the laws of deman
7 and supply, but to artificial manipl
2 lations of brokers.
The much talked Of bridge acros
: the Yangtze river in China is not
be built because it has been figure
out that the cost would be prohibitiv
But tunnel is likely to be construc
ed under it, as this Is not only pract
cable, but would cost only a reasonab
amount of money.
, Since the first woman deputy of No
: way, Nine Olga Roystad. has mad
such an exceptional record among til
lawmakers of that country doors hitl
;. erto barred have been opened to won
en-. The Academy of Sciences, for eel
: turtles tightly closed Against womel
has just elected its hrst woman men
Der.
With the opening of the America
factories at Niagara Switzerland 10:
control of the aluminium marke
Al, ltf&ia ,ara.1lli.s had hold r,