The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-28
ROUND THE GLOBE

and steel as all China does.
The British postGtice controls $40
600 miles of telephone wires
Greece buys 1000 sporting guUs each
year. 1900 of which come from France.
Blacksmiths in China make. kuives
and razors OF old soft iron hor&e&no"s
Sixty eight out of every hundred pub
English.
The French port of IIavre is having
improvements made which will Cost
$2O,OOO,OOO.
ing their two hundred and tiftIpth an
niversary this year.
An audience of 5000 attended re-.
cent moonlight performance of Aida"
at the base of the great pyramid.
An alarm clock for deaf persons that
delivers light blows on sleeper with
paddle is an Englishman's idea.
There is not much demand for ready
made clothing in English cities, where
tailors make suits to order for ST. up
A new directory to the cities of
Panama and Colon Is about to be pub
lished by Americans in the canal zone
A British company in the Vaiping
district of China has planted Il million
trees in beginning the work of atfor
estation.
Very few diaries of any kind exist in
or near COnstantinople, and with one
exception none is conducted on a sci
entitic plan.
The canning of paprika pepper in
Spain is done by girls and women.
who earn ID to u cents ii day Of about
eleven hours.
Resembling huge pneumatic ham.
mer is new compressed air pile driv
er, which delivers its blows so rapidly
that pile cannot spring back between
them
The possessor of property vahled at
$4,000 Is counted rich in .Inpan, and
there is only one man whose estate
of about S4o.00O00O rauks him with
the worlds rich men.
In one respect at least the Philip
pines are well AmeriCauized At a re
cent baseball game in Manila 10000
Filipinos crowded into the hig STADIUM
1t beats cockfghting.
Railway employees at RangOon. In
dia, are to have the advantage of lower
prices of food and other things result
ing from the establishment there OLA
store for their special bun
eft
In Yokohama, as well rs throughout
the empire. the moving picture show
is taking the place of the old time
theater The price of admission is
sometimes 2Ea cents, but usually =
cents.
In some of the municipalities of Ger
many the sight of d building operation
is regarded in the nature OF an eyeSore.
which Is to be depIored. and the strict
est regulations are made to meet such
An attachment for a telephone re.
ceiver by which another person can
hear what is being said over wire Il
for instance. who is to
take both sides of conversation hns
been Invented
One of the exhibits at. the recent |
sh6w In London was |
.rop of mustard plants labeled "Mus
ard grown on an old doormat on n |
'oof 10 Victoria street" Experts said |
t was fine crop
Among the unclaimed articles left in
he cloakrooms and depots of the
railway, in England. and
ecently sold at auction were twenty
,ags of -four. rowboat, tireproot
afe and u weighing machine
A minimum time rate of 34 pence
n hour has been fixed for women EN-
'loyees in the tailoring trade in Great
Britain. Apprentices or learners are
o receive wages of from shiIiings to
Is. Cd. per week of fifty hours
Inquiry among 2tB.270 mep of the
herman army developer that lO.392 of
hem were left handed Inp iuve~ti
ators claim that left bandpd persons
re not the equal of right handed ones
! physical and mental strength.
The old Congress bali in phiadel-
hia. In which George Washington
box the oath of office rs president at
ne beginning of his, second term 10
1913 Is being restored to the appear
nee 1t presented on that historic oc-
aston.
The Jungfran tunnel which nerces
! a semiverticai direction one of the
lghest mountains In Switzerland. has
cen carried up to the site of another
alton, the Jungfrauioch i1.4n0 feet
bove the sea. 1t is hoped that the
lnnel will be finished in 1914
The importation INFO cuba OF 81
ncers of any description for Urea rms
nd the use and sale thereof have been
by the government Ii was {
.dered that any persons in cuba hav .
e In their possession such silencers !
lould turn them over to the govern
ent
The efforts TO prevent the extermina.
Do of the beaver III tf1p~Adirondacks
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