The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-08-25
ROUND The GLOBE

Asssias state forests eosse e37 y0oG-
600 scsea
New Isrk . tAs greatest oarbse Or
California fruit.
Dsamark Ass mere than 49, Q oil.
Hon draft horsso.
The Londsa tranvsys o. sovsppsd
with coin testeW
storkA wA.cb usel - b much liked
i German stllases, sF0 being fast Ok
terminated.
The &exisas sosern0sas Aas en-
nounced . aev educational plan where
b salaries TOO oil teachers etll be
doubled, and h some eases trebled.
Competitors coming from swsnt,-
seven airssent cosntrsss end 9umbsR-
ing close on a,7oo took part In the
Oaympie games ct Stockholm. Sweden.
Last year 4,s2s,0oO gray squirrels,
100000 white hares, 90O,Oo ermine
and l2.25O "a bies were killed IN 81
berfs b provide various garments II
fur
The world famous De Beers diamond
mines, hy alleged careful limitation,
psoducs q regular annual quantity,
stated 10 be from 100000 60 2, 500, OoO
earatA
Prussians have takes the had fn
peoposinS peace monument az Water
loo Ms . symbol % the horrors II war
and the blessedness Of anity aploas
civilized people.
sNearer. Ny God . Thee the hymn.
has been 50 Tar popnlarized BY the
band Of the Titanic that n he's been
translated into French and b being
sung BY itineram musicaBS
Stavangsf. Norway. % new making
experiments with q view 30 Installing
a municipal electric heating system foR
the entire city By enlargine and Ok.
tending the municipal power plant
Bombay, INDIA. is enjoying it's first
'scenic railway" such as are found so
plentifully In American amusement
parks. The few accidents that have
occurred have not seriously impaired
its popularity.
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bread and spice cake use quantities of
Chinese albumen,' and even the large
restaurants and hotels use some of it.
Chinese albumen" Is the dried whites
of hen or duck eggs.
1t will be possible when the Persian
railroad is built to 60 from London to
India in eight days, so that from New
York, taking fast boat and making
good connections, one could reach India
In less than fortnight.
Nothing seems to have been omitted
in the regulations for aerial travellers
adopted by the international congress
at Geneva. They even include rules
for the registration of births or deaths
during an aerial voyage.
Scotland is estimated to possess
1,OOO, 600 horsepower from water. Even
half of that amount would represent
on a ten hour working day basis
throughout the year power equal to
that obtained from 100000 tons of
coal.
The state barge from which the king
and queen of England witnessed the
Henley regatta this year is 223 years
old, and it's oaken timbers are so sound
that the London Times sees no reason
why it should not be seaworthy
century hence
Chinas republican dollar, will. it is
understood, bear two lions and the Chi
nese characters for 'one dollar" on
one side and on the reverse the char
acters current money, Chinese repub-
lic," with wreath Of flowers. The
minting will begin at once.
Different German states have differ
ent rates for persons who want to
hunt. In Prussia, for instance, Ger
mans pay about $3.50 a year for the
privilege, and foreigners pay four
times that amount. In Wurttemberg
native hunters pay about $3.50 a year,
and foreigners pay twice that amount.
Experiments have been made by
Norwegian in an endeavor to show to
what depth rays of light penetrate the
ocean. Working in the Azores. he
found that sunlight reached 1913 feet
below the surface and that red rays
were weaker at that depth than violet.
Violet and ultra violet rays penetrated
to a depth OF more than 1900 feet
Goose liver pies are the celebrated
speciality Of Strassburg, where 250,-
900 geese are said to be fattened and
killed annually, besides large imports
of goose livers from Austria Hungary
The Strassburg manufacturers COM
plain that their business is seriously
injured by the French pate de foie
gras, which they claim is not pure
goose liver.
Claim is made that more than 1O0,-
600 laborers have left Pittsburgh and
vicinity since 1907 TO take advantage
Of openings in South America and to
return to Italy and Austria Hungary.
In Italy and Poland it is said the cost
of living has not materially advanced.
while wages in Italy have doubled in
six years and have quadrupled in Pc
land In the last ten years.
A new storage tank for benzine and
nj ovnIoesuo Huui1S 10 oIont