The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-12-12
ROUND the CL0BF

OF every hundred smlsranR rom
ally eighty are males
Uncle Sans ANIMAL market bill is e.
ttmated at ss.0oo.No. COO
The United States geological curve.
will expend Sl.4l0520 next year
The scabbards worn BY Russian of
ncers are made Of PAPER mache.
Artificial arms and legs. and ever
ears, are being made Of aluminium
British Empire IN the Antarctic re-
gton amounts to 1.50G square miles.
Both the Chinese and japanese maH
ufacture alcoholic beverages from rice
Meat il cheap In Lima. Peru. LOil
cuts Of the best beef are only IL ceat,
pound.
A woman living near London 10 en-
gagged in raising Eskimo dogs for are
tic expeditions
American made shoes compete il
parts of Russia with american" shoes
made in Germany.
Tortoises are cultivated far thei,
shells In the Seychelles island, and the
industry 10 very extensive one.
A new electric process for coatias
iron or steel with lead Ia. bee.
brought out by an English scientist.
A power driven rotary hoof parer. Il
take the place OF the horseshoer'a
tonga, knife and rasp, has been Invent
ed.
Merida, Yueatan. boasts 1913 privst<
automobiles and four garages. Th.
streets are paved with asphalt and
brick
South Of the equator Buenos Ayres
Rio de Janeiro and Sydney are the
three largest cities, according to poln,
lation.
Newfoundland has eleven separat.
cable lines, belonging to four .:oml.s
MES, which connect Europe with Norf
America
Inclosing one asbestos box within an
other. with an air space betweeu ,
Frenchman has invented a nrepfao1
jewel case
A new occupation Tor women ha,
just been started In Germany, tina, Of
aids In laboratories and other scientific
institutions.
In France 21.24 per eeut Of the pop
ulation are employed In agriculture
pursuits. In the United Kingdom The
percentage Is 5.5s.
Bombay gets its water supply fror
fhpoo orfiHnfol Ia kop hAf
the rainfall in the monsoon sea<t.l 70.
their replenishDent.
OF hops worth $2,970.0OO imports,
into Great Britain In the FIRST ii
months OF 1912 S2,29O,0oo worth cam
from the United States
The Jerusalem municipality 10 con
posed of ten members, only one
whom. the president. receives a ~,
ary-about fe4 a month.
Success has a TENDED the ezperimen
Of transpianttng rubber trees in Brssi:
where groves are being raised at NOR,
accessible points than the existing
ones
The consular district Of Madrae 0c-
cupies the southern portion of the In
dian peninsula. extending over 2a5,uH
square miles, and has total popnla
ton of e5,55e. 2e4
The food consumed by New York
city costs at the railroad and steams,
terminals 1850. 00o. 600 year, bns whe,,
1t gets to the consumsfs' kisehens |,
costs $500, Oo0. 900 a year,
A Judge Of the Wellington (Aew Zea.
land court proposes TO petition the
legislature to make ths, custom OF
shouting australian for treating, III |
public houses an offense
In 1907 the average outlay for food
per each American family was Sa75. |
while ten years before It was tribe
less than $500. At the present time |
this figure hes reached s4l0
Children In the public schools OF Sta. |
vanger, Norway. are treated with the |
aid Of American dental apparatus by Z |
dentist who received bic postgraduate
dental education IN ths United States.
A steamship company II being form
ed for traffic GA the rivers T1grh and |
Euphrates. The n1st coutrset covers
the transportation Of building material
for the Bagdad railway from Bassorah.
Since bread 10 the .staR of life, and
bread to the Americans means wheat !
almost exclusively, It IL perhaps not
surprising that We consumed approx
mately SGT. 100000 bushels Of wheat
last year.
Among the many surprising facts
brought to light relative to the fem
mist movement in India the news that
il per cent OF the monay lenders Of the
country are women 70 particularly IL
teresting.
A Chinese. Fus 1u by name, lived
many years In this country end bs.