The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-08-01
ROUND THE GLOBE

Finnish women have bacome D na-
tional asset as bank clerks.
AS an exhibit in the London museum
q hanson cob Is to be found.
The English Royal Biographies so
ciety now has eeaFly 5000 fellows
The largest stone statue In the world
Is in japan. a figure forty four feet
high.
The telephone line across the list emus
of Panama is strung ON old fat]road
tracks
Old age pensions I'D England for the
current year are expected to aenount
to f12, $4,000.
Ton for ton, warships are buila In
this country as quickly as those abroad
and at less cost
The coal consumption Of tue world
has just about doubled every tee yeats
for the last century.
Queensland is estimated TO Nave 49,,
100000 acres OF forests as yet unin-
spected and unreserved.
A single vessel recently carried ss
South Africa to England.
Formerly scancer Of the tongue oc-
Cured only among men. Now that so
many women have taken to smoking
1t also occurs among them.
A new high record was established iD
the Transvaal in producing gold worth
Sic. 2s6,71S last year. an increase over
the previous years figures 81 $l4 SO,
375
So many streets of Berlin are paveA
with asphalt and wooden blocks that
it has been found necessary to fit the
horses with rope" shoes to prevent
slipping.
A night telegraph letter service s'as
inaugurated by the Rritiab postoffice
on June l. The rate Ia II cents for
thirty-six words and / cent for each
additional word.
Hobart. Tasmania, has machine
for spraying hot tar nn the streets to
prevent dust It contains furnace
which heats the tar to the boiling point.
and the tar Is applied under pressure.
A tablet and f0Bndati designed By
John Duncan, A. II. 8. A.. has been
unveiled by w. r. Rlaikie on Edip
burgh castle esplanada to mark the
place where witches used to be burned
In telephone service New York city
may well claim precedence over Paris.
Official tests In each city show that a
telephone connection may he obtained
In New York in just half the time that
is required 10 Paris
Two girls In Budapest who had de
cided to fight duel over young man
with whom they were both in love
have settled the matter by becoming
engaged to the two men who volun- 4
.teered to act as their seconds.
That man is not too old to work
after he Is sixty years Of age Is proved
by the figures just made public by the
Pennsylvania railroad. which has in
active service Att employees who are
between the ages OF sixty and seventy.
The twenty-four hour day has just
been adopted officially in France, but
it has not been received with any sn
thusiasm. The people fail to see its
advantages over the old fashioned
twelve hour day and twelve hour night
Americans are now consuming 1876
pounds Of meat annually per capita.
The people of Great Britain. who rank
next in the meat eating scale. get
along with 115 pounds, while those of |
the Netherlands exist on forty eight |
pounds.
Every German city Of consequence
has number Of palatial cafes which |
are nothing else than huge clubhouses
without membership formality. In any |
one of these cafes are hundreds or
thousands of patrons glancing over do
nestle and foreign newspapers and |
Black rain recently fell in Hamp- |
shire. England. but such a thing has
been known before. In November.
1919, ink black rain fell steadily for
several hours in New York. and at
least twice during the last century a
similar phenomenon has been obsery-
ed in England.
massachusetts woman has invent
ed an individual car strap" for the con-
venience Of women strap hangers who
dislike to hold on to the soiled leather
straps that are provided for their sup
port by the public service corporations.
The new device Is made Of webbing
and hooks on to the leather strap
Recently patents have been taken out
for an artificial silk the base of which
differs from those now In USE 1t has
the advantage that 1t Is uninf1amma
bic. unaffected by humidity and in
lestructible by acids or by alcohol.
The new silk is at base spun glass
spun at one-eighteenth of hairs di.
ameter.
An international exposition of book
making and the graphic arts connected
With it. including photography. will be
held at Leipzig. the center of the book
industry in Germany, from May to
October. 1914. the one hundred and IF
ieth anniversary of the royal academy
Tor graphic arts and book Industry at