The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-02-01
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suction Of cotton Ger W'it % .lsa
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creased in EuglHsl eo0lly pser0s Q
s"und Wlh,g a yeaT.
Il 6r"cnt discovery a. 9rclaNI tn,aS
0NtoS che tIeSpnc" AZ o tlTg~ aVra Gich
IN copper. sulphur ana arsrIs'.
Srtitirial siola O. D1Ss o. fNsWty
concerns iN Ncw S"rk s;EWls Ssba&O-
Ole are smrIose7 in 'he BUSINESS.
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Grad" paper toIe Of ssc',Iace sfcaBls
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ang sold for $9"'asN
4 london h,iic ara lVrsn sVss2a
quite nee a'ss in gt3tS ehs ether
Gay, tor shoy gave each O9Sss &C. Sassss@
as e'oGaIing presents,
G'hirsse architects sGeseGt11IA s4aaa
arH Sues and designs Sov GuD,s, anG
Tor that reasoa sEHeicSW sasN anS
s,o0r> find no sale eN.Vs.
Sixty per cent Of che Naeiocle 0ank
faiuIsS On Vhc 0'Ntc.A STAGES deuring
"a" past Ssar ~'"re caNscO Ny s,l.
ti"nS oP eht' national Ransiglg saes.
Gle WhaFcS caught lasS ssar ~ eRe
north Pacific ocean eS.,sD exceedingly
?at, layers of hlubb.r ewHlvso 10 six
teen inches chick being no9 Uncor0mon
An English Cour: has decided eMas y
woman is not compelled - change Ger
name when she marries anl thaQ she
incurS no legal disability by suc1 g..
fuSal
A new British ship th" ViIdelVani,
has been built in such % way thas fnos-
quitocs cannot get inside through thc
D0rth0loS, VcntilatorS or doors o. oili
ply to Brazil
Insurance men IN London are consid
"t"s against divorce. This would give
each person divorced partial payment
for his or her wounded affections.
London papers say that Great Britain
is to be the only nation absolutely in
dependent of cable communication with
any part Of the globe, a result 20 be
brought about by a chain of world en-
circ,in2 wireless stations
Among the voluntary helpers in che
WORK Of compiling the Oxford English
dictionary, the most learned authority
on words and phrases of the Eliza.
bethan period, according to Or. H. A.
Micrs, principal of London university.
was railway clerk.
Winnipeg owns the largest municipal
stone crushing plant in the world. The
output is from 600 to 1000 cubic yards
per day. The price obtained is 50 cents
or $1.20 yard, according to the grade,
and in five years there has been
profit Of nearly 100000.
Whoever rents a tenement or apart
mant house in the Paddington borough
of London must sweep the floors of all
rooms once a day, wash them once IL
week and open the windows of all
sleeping rooms for at least one hour
each day or pay fine of $2J.
The British people last year spent
f25. 100000 in amuSementS There are
G7 theaters in London, 73S in the PRO
vinCial towns. and there are besides
81 music halls. Over 10000 persons
claim TO belong to the profession"
Last year J4l new plays were pro
duced
Paul la Fargue, a former Socialist
deputy of France, and his wife. Lera
Marx, daughter of Karl Marx, the great
Socialist committed suicide recently
at Draveii, France. Fear Of old age
and poverty were set down in letters
left as the cause of seeking death by
the pair
1t was stated by the consulting sur
geOn of Guys hospital in an address
before the Royal College Of Surgeons
that there is no such thing as heredi-
tary tuberculosis" and that the ODin-
ion of the medical profession is about
equally divided" as to whether or not
cancer is hereditary.
Realizing the value of the vast de-
posts Of Ignite which exist in several
western states and particularly in
North and South Dakota, Montana and
Texas, the United States bureau of
mines recently obtained from Germa-
ny a powerful briqueting machine,
which is being used to determine the
suitability of American lignites for the
manufacture of briquets.
Seventeen of fifty French recruits
who were asked the question "Who
was Bismarck" returned answers
showing their complete ignorance of
the Iron Chancellor. Eleven showed
an equal lack of knowledge Of Ma
poleon I. Thirty-nine knew something
Of the war of 1870. though nine dis
played ignorance and two answered
that it was a war between France and
England.
England's pure food law requires