The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-03-14
ROUND The GLOBE

Newspapers are springing up in Chi
ma like mushrooms.
The SWISS government has mGnop-
oily of the salt trade Of Switzerland.
The average temperature OF Egypt
is being slowly lowered by irrigation.
Many shoes sold abroad as "Ameri
can made" are not such in any partic
ular.
English people consume on the aver
age eighty-live pounds of sugar per
annum.
Ten states last year passed laws pro-
viding compensation for men injured
while at work.
The United States produced 3O,305,-
$50 barrels of salt last year according
to recently issued official figures.
Hills have been washed down and
five miles Of the city of Seattle. Wash,
regarded within the last few years.
Anti-rolIing water tanks. designed to
overcome the rolling of ships. are like
ly to be adopted on all the big liners
The whales caught last year in the
north Pacific were the latest ever
known. The blubber lay fifteen inches
deep.
Austrian scientists are preparing for
south polar expedition, every mem
Der of the party to be a specialist III
some branch of science.
There are 100000 women earning
their own livelihoods In the United
States More than so per cent of Eng
fish women are self supporting.
The board Of health of the city of
New York has ordered that public
Mushrooms make arrangements to pre-
vent the use Of a towel by more than
one person.
American born whites are increasing
more rapidly. Between 1900 and 1910
their number in the United States in
creased from 56,595,379 to 6s,3s9, 1O4.
or by 11.793.725. equal to POS per cent
To keep radium emanations from get
ting out as well as burglars from get
ting in. a safe built In England to hold
that metal has lead lining three feet
thick inside steel walls of the same
thickness.
Andrew Carnegie and other philan-
thropists have established a fund of
| SS50,0O0 for the erection of marble
building in Washington to be known as
"the Home Of the Brotherhood of North
American Indians"
England imported from continental
countries last year 100000 great
hundreds n2O Of eggs. of which Rus
STA supplied So per cent and the aver
age price of which was 431a per cent
above that of thirteen years ago.
Social statistics of the Lancashire
| spinning industry show that 13 per
| cent of the managing directors of the
mills, AZ per cent Of the superintend-
ents and 81 per cent of the assistant
superintendent are of working class
| origin.
! The degree Of bachelor of business
| administration will hereafter be CON
ferred on graduates of Northwestern
have had two years regular college
work and have spent two years in the
| school of commerce.
The proportion Of Mohammedans to
| the aggregate population Of India has
| steadily risen since 1881. 1t is estimat-
ed that the number of Moslems under
| British authority in the Indian empire
is now 69.OOO.O0O, as compared with So
100000 thirty years ago.
| London is plagued with multiplied
ty of councillors. Despite the abolition
| of the old vestries and the creation of
borough councils, London has IA gov
| erning bodies. some of which, of
course. are quite small and lukewarm
| to the mass Of the people
The Mansfield England colliery,
which holds the worlds record for the
| greatest amount of coal raised In one
day, one week, one month and one
year, has an output Of 1,1S3.S76 tons
to its credit for 1911. an increase of
| 4O,756 tons on the previous year.
| Herbert p. Banner. Columbia uni
| versity student who has worked his
| way through his entire course at that
| institution. will start soon on trip
| around the world without cent in or
der to demonstrate that an education
| is a greater asset than ready cash.
A Kansas City tailor who has taken
| the trouble to count the number of
stitches in the last coat he made says
he counted 32.937-23.sO 800 machine
stitches and 9.137 hand stitches. The
| coat was four button sack coat. thir
| ty-three inches long and single stitched.
The Actors association at Breslau
has issued special forms of applica-
| ton, price shilling each. for the use
| Of romantic schoolgirls who write for
autographs of artists. No requests for
autographs will be complied with I'm
future unless they are made on these
| forms.
Professor William Gowland, the new
president of the British Institute of
Metals. pointed out In his inaugural
address that "the campfire was the
fret InataIlurpioal furnace. nnd from