The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-08-08
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| Australia has taller trees tnaQ Call
fornia.
Pigeon shooting is prohibited II
Switzerland.
The population of the German en-
pire now exceeds 65,O0O0OO.
1t will cost more than $1,5OO,OOO to
furnish New York's new municipal
building.
Asphalt paving in London is prac-
ically in the hands of two firms, one
, French, the other Italian.
Articles of food were 10 per cent
dearer on the average in England at
| the close of 1911 than at the close of
1910.
Some remarkably fine frescoes. one
Of them representing a temple, the
other Venus, have recently been IN
earthed in Pompeii
A Swiss oculist noted thirty-tWO
| cases of serious damage to the eyes Of
his patients caused by looking at the
last eclipse of the sun.
According to the latest Portuguese
bon exceeds 436,4O0 while that Of
Oporto exceeds 1914. LOCO.
Snake poison is being used more and
more for medicinal and other pur-
poses. In Australia the collecting Of
1t has become profitable industry.
According to an English dietary ex
pert, growing children should eat to
repletion. The maxim Of leaving off
hungry at a meal must not be applied
to them.
For serving too much foam in the
glass of beer dispensed in his restau-
rant wealthy Munich brewer has
been imprisoned six weeks and fined
5000 marks besides.
In the French aerodrome at Villa
cOublay a well known aviator took up
on his monoplane his little son, who
thus made his debut in the air at the
age of three years and half.
The salary lists Of English touring
companies include men and women
who get only % to 81 shillings
week and on that must not only live.
but dress we'll on and off the stage
In Manchuria the Chinese coolie la
borer experiences no competition from
the Japanese. who in every instance
pursues an avocation a grade or two
above the Chinese artisan or laborer.
Austria seems destined soon to lose
its radium monopoly. A Paris jour
nal reports that large quantities Of
pitcbblende. from which radium is ex
tracted, have been found in Morocco.
In some parts Of Russia the rent Of
land is becoming too high for sheep
farming on the old lines, wherefore
f1ocks are being steadily reduced In
some cases the decrease exceeds 80 per
cent
The records of the British patent of
fee show that special efforts are being
made to utilize aeroplanes in naval
warfare by contrivfng means for
launching them from the decks of bat
tleships.
Australia has huge areas of forest
land, estimated at 100000 acres, as
yet uninspected and unreserved. Tim
Der merchants have so far secured less
than 100000 acres. chiefly because of
lack Of railways.
Of Zurich reached him, although it bore
no name. 1t described his appearance.
stated that he had travelled in Russia,
had married an Englishwoman and
never touched beer
Australians new stamp has picture
Of a kangaroo gravely contemplating
tuft of kangaroo grass" as the gov
eminent calls it. but scoffers say it
looks more like a rabbit sticking its
head out of burrow.
A Spanish historian of distinction,
Garcia de la Riega, declares in the
CORES Gullego that he has proof posi-
tive that Columbus was not born in
Genoa, but in the Spanish village of
Porto Santo, near Madrid.
The menu of a meal given lately by
the London Vegetarian association in
cluded walnut outlets with brown
sauce, caulif1ower and new potatoes.
asparagus on toast. spaghetti on toast.
tomato farcie and young carrots.
Berliners who suffer from the ill eff
fects of foodstuffs are at liberty to ap-
ply to the police. who will have an ex-
animation of the suspected food made
free Of charge. This very useful insti-
tuition costs the city less than $4,000
year.
The new Chinese republic dollars,
now being coined, have on one side
two lions and the Chinese characters
for lone dollar" while the other side
has on it the characters current mon
ey," Chinese republic" and a wreath
of flowers.
No American city. says the Scientific
American. has a pneumatic tube sys-
tenn for postal use comparable with
that of Paris or Berlin. The average
Partisan tube letter." it asserts, is de-
livered in an hour and a quarter after
1t Is posted.
At an auction sale of Greek antiques
In Paris not long ago one of the on
lockers let slip a small terra Gotta sky