The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-12-10
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new 1Ork uses eleFtflc uElte> 10
heat its geological gardens
Recent Yukon fires have destroyed
timber valued at $lOO.0OO.QO
The first legal autopsy was perform
Cd In China 4 few months ago.
Flies are not pest in Scotland, ana
the use of screens Is exceptional
St Louis has started crusade
against palmists and clairvoyants.
New Zealanders consume more than
seven pounds Of tobacco per capita per
year.
Stockholm is in 1916 to entertain the
International congress n mathemati
clans.
During the past twelve monehs 49,
800 ships entered or departed from the
port Of London
Nearly f5OOOOO,0e0 Of British capital
is estimated to he invested in the Ar
gentine republic.
OF all the coal that passes through
New York. ten out Of eighteen tons
comes from Pennsylvania
In the whole German empire only
$500, COO has 90 tar been donated for
the erection of free libraries
An accident in q London hospital led
to the discovery that some forms II
deafness could he cured by X rays.
Chinese farms are for the most part
too small to make machinery protita bic.
and the farmers cannot afford to buy 1t.
After many tests under government
in Germany salt has been
found the best preservative for butter.
The government mint at Denver Is
operated entirely by electric power.
motors totaliing 800 horsepower being
used
Among other foreign garments Chi
nese are buying many sweaters. In
colors they prefer green, white and
maroon.
Italy requires makers of cheeses con
tanning o!eomargarine to paint them
red on the outside and to label them
In the west end Of London there are
scores of head walters whose Incomes
range from $4,000 to $4,000 Year from
tips alone.
The Stuttgart book publishers have a
curious way Of estimating their exports
by the kilogram instead of by the NUM-
Der of volumes
Offering prizes to its motormen for
the most effective operation OF cars by
an English company has resulted in
saving of Is per cent of the current.
In England every dog over six months
old costs $1.S3 for an annual license.
and the animal must wear a collar
bearing the owners name and address.
The women Of Idria, in the Austrian
province of Krain. were SO dissatisfied
with the fire brigade that they formed
one of their own, consisting of sixty
"firewomen."
In Spain the savings banks have only
$3.50 per inhabitant In Belgium the
figure is 5000 per inhabitant; In
France. 1.s9; in Italy, $ls.5s; in
Great Britain, $21.SS.
Within a period of nfty years the
number Of the insane and feeble mind
ed In the United States has increased
ESQ per cent, while the popuia ton has
increased only $50 per cent.
To overcome the tendency of plants
to grow in the direction of sunlight
Philadelphia college laboratory uses a
slowly revolving table to expose all
sides Of plants to the sun the same
length Of time.
The Argentine national health de-
partment has posted signs along the
principal streets of Buenos Aires tell
Ing what animals and insects should be
avoided to lessen the dangers Of infec-
dous diseases.
The population Of the United King
dom. Norway. Austria and Switzerland
has increased at slower rate in the
last ten years than before. but at
more rapid rate in Sweden, Belgium.
Holland and Germany.
In England there are at least half
million stamp collectors. Within
few years there have been printed
nearly 5000 books, each about some
phases Of stamp collecting. Two firms
have between them 81, 25O,OO0 invested
In stamps.
The legislature Of Vera Cruz offers
prizes Of 400 to $1,000 to ranch own
srs who shall plant and be the first to
harvest crops from orchards Of or.
anges. mangoes and pineapples. This
ts the first permanent and definite in.
cent1vs OF the kind offered to farmers
In Mexico.
There 10 4 steady stream of Arme-
MAN emigrants coming to the United
States, made up almost entirely o:
young men. In many villages this ex-
odus has left hardly any males except
the old men and young boys. and there
b frequently a scarcity of labor at hsr,
vest and thrashing time.
One OF the Rothschilds is said to
value his life 80 highly that be is now
visited every day by three doctors, and
wherever he goes be is followed by
Falet carrying bag containing every
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