The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-04-09
TIMELY BREVITIES

The salary Of the mayor Of Dublin
has been cut from $4,000 a year to
$1,000
Employees Of jam and marmal"9e
firms in England earn from s. to $500
per week.
The total value OF church property
III the Cnited States for all denomlha-
tons is $l.257,3771,SOT.
In the white public schools in Alas
ka in 1910 there were G21 pupils, main
tanned at a cost OF $}6,4SG.
Forty years ago the paper making
industry Of Finland was in its infancy.
Now it is worth $9,000,0O0 a year
An Italian inventor living in Phila-
delphia has patented a burial casket
to hold a corpse seated upright ON
stoo..
The record of cost to manufacture
moving picture film was attained
when French firm spent $4,000 to
reproduce an opera.
Cocoanut oil, egg yolks and small
proportion of cream are the ingre-
dents of a new butter substitute man.
ufactured in Bohemia.
Of similar form to the usual type of
life preseryers is a new one made OF
air tight metal chambers, which will
not decay, as will cork.
The art of photography has been
advanced in Siam by the royal family.
several members of which are expert
amateur photographers.
By making sweet scented black
beads from rose petals, pulverized and
baked into a pulp. California woman
is believed to have rediscOyered lost
art Of the middle ages.
The Egyptian government imposes a
heavy fine on firms using Egyptian
tobacco to fill Egyptian cigarettes
The tobacco actually used is Turkish
and the paper Hungarian.
The earth and rock eXcavated from
the Panama canal when finished If
piled into a column a yard square
would reach three-ffths of the way
| from the earth to the moon.
Tests made by the University of Hi
nois have shown that coal loses less
| heating value by exposure to the air
while being stored than it does by the
| breaking of the Jumps into dust.
! Trade of the United States with non
| contiguous territory in 1910 reached
total Of over $200,OGO,O00, an increase
of roundly 100 per cent over 1908, the
! first year for which figures are avail
able.
Even though Russia's fisheries yield
more than 1,2O0.OOO.O0O pounds of sea
| food annually the demand exceeds
! the supply to such an extent that the
empire imports more than 400,OOO,000
| pounds of fish a year.
That California last year shipped
15,344,1S6 pounds of prunes to Ger
many and almost as great quantity
! to France is one of the interesting
facts of California's export industry
revealed by the custom house mani
tests.
The inner bark of the cotton tree is
utilized by the inhabitants of Bahia
for many purposes. 1t is a remarka-
bly, strong fiber. and a strip one-half
inch in width will without any prep
aration sustain a weight of so to 100
| pounds.
The largest international hygienic
exhibition that has ever been held will
take place the coming summer from
May until October in Dresden. the at
tractive capital of Saxony. 1t will be
! open to every American article of first
class make
4 French financier. Auguste Loutre-
fl, who died recently, left 100000 to
various institutions for the advance
ment of science, and his gift is con-
sidered very unusual. Giving money
for such purposes is not a rich mans
habit in France
An international musical congress is
to be held in London next May to
bring together the leading musicians
of the world. A fund of $4,000 has
already been guara. teed This will be
the first congress of it's character ever
held in England.
There are over 10000 foreigners in
Portugal, including some 1900 Eng
lish people. The total population at
the last census $4,000 was 5,423, 900,
just a little over the population of
London, which was estimated in the
middle of 1909 at S33, 1888.
Last year oyer 55,000.000,oO0 feet OF
timber were cut in the United States
More than $4,000 acres of timber are
cut in the United States every work,
ing day. At the present rate of con.
sumption the desirable and accessible
timber of the country will be exhaust
ed in between twenty-five and thirty,
five years.
The German war office has placed al
order for another dirigible balloon o.
the Parseval type for the use Of thu
army. The specifications provide tina
the airship have motors developing
800 horsepower. which will assure ;
speed of thirty-six miles an hour. 4
wireless outfit is to be a part Of thu
equipment.
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