The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-03-05
round THE: GLOBE

10000 diaries.
1t costs Germany $4,000 year for
the upkccp Of her spies in France.
The province where the Spanish on
ion is grown most abundantly Is Va
Iencia.
In Russia last year 1852 religious
books were published. the editions ag-
gregating 3,G92,399.
Fifty years have elapsed since the
first postoffice savings bank was insti-
tdted IN England by Mr.. Gladstone.
The gyroscope applied to a camera
for taking moving pictures does away
with the necessity for using tripod.
On an average the Scotch are the
tallest men In Great Britain, the Irish
next, the English third and the Welsh
last ~.
A study of the statistics of suicide
In 100 American cities discloses a
gradual reduction in the last three
years.
CRYSTALS of sodium nitrate have been
made In Paris so pure and perfectly
formed that they can be used In OPP
tical Instruments.
Having reduced begging to a sci
ence. an organized band of Jerusalem
mendleants send out 100000 piteous
appeals FOR help year.
Tests have shown that the air In the
crowded sleeping quarters of modern
warships Is purer than In barracks or
average residences ashore.
An electrically operated coin In the
slot machine has been invented In
Switzerland for cleaning the soles and
sides Of a persons shoes when enter
Ing building
Henry ID. Baker, United States con-
sui at Hobart, Tasmania, has sent to
the Yale university museum q collec-
ton of birds and reptiles now nearly
extinct In New Zealand.
In test in an Indiana factory a
pulley made of cast iron hub and
spokes and Illuminated wood rim was
made to Withstand speed exceeding
FIVE and a half miles q minute, rim
travel,
Mrs. james Speyer. president of the
New York Womeri's League For Ami
mails, announces that $4,000 has been
raised within the last few months for
the establishment of an animal hos.
pitai in that city.
at one point near Lyons the Rhone
at times when the SHOWS melt In
Switzerland runs throash defile that
makes it the most powerful of Euro.
pean torrents This wasted force 1t Is
aow proposed to turn into electricity.
Farmers In Holland have been oblig-
ed to surround their fields with close
wire fences as q protection against
hares and rabbits, which, having been
deprived by the drought of their usual
food, have been attacking grain and
other valuable vegetation.
One of Cecil Rhodes pet projects, tel.
egraphic communication by Il continu.
Gus direct route between Cape Of Good
Hope and Cairo. has been abandoned
by its organizers, the Transcontinental
Telegraph company. This was the first
of the all red route projects.
Owners Of English vessels are max
ing war on cockroaches 1t has been
found that these Insects carry numer-
Gus parasites, and cases Of beriberi
have occurred at sea, where there was
no contact with other cases, but cock
reaches had been found in the rice
which patients had eaten.
lnstaneing the fact that In the Boef
war it took 5000 shots to hit man.
the celebrated rifle shot Ommundsen
snys In spite of improvements In the
power, precision and rate of fire OF
modern weapons the percentage of hits
was UNNECESSARILY greater a hundred
years ago than 1t is today"
The number of illiterates in the Brit
ish army at the last period for which
figures are available was per cent;
France. 3.5 per cent; Austria, % per
cent; Italy, 81 per cent. and Russia,
90 per cent Recent statistics show
the number of illlterate recruits In
the French army to be 1900.
The Russian army Is trying the ex-
pertinent of using dogs instead of men
as sentries. The wolf dog of the Ural
mountains is found most suitable for
this duty. This animal does not bark
at the presence OF an intruder but
merely growIs and incites the other
dogs in the camp to do likewise.
Commodore Perry's flagship, the NJ
ats'lfil that has lain 1T the bottom of
the lake q, the Erie Pa harbor for
went i've wears. vi BIZ raised madc
sen worthy and taken IN tour of the
great lakes ii 1918 as Il feature of the
isesg'r eentcnnial celebration. The
stffe Of PENNSYLVANIA will bear the
eSllease
d London the rost OF ticket TO a
moving picture show Is from 4 to
81 tents The length of a film required
for an average performance LASTING
from one aud half 10 one and three.
quarter hours approximates $500 feet
Important and popular events are OF:
ten shown on the same day as theil
occurrence