The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-06-04
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ui'il' WORKS III Inc 'fililIllNeH are
to be pushed during the current season.
The Ravari;ul postal service utilizes
144 motor vehicles. operated on nifty
seven lines
TIE Japanese are laying a new sub
marine cable between their country
and Chosen.
Bone marrow oil is used in Bohemis
for oiling sewing machines. IL costs
only cents pound retail.
The personnel of London's fire s3i-
gade has grown from 42U officers and
men in 1873 to 1850 at present
1t is estimated by the japanese that
their coal supplies in the Fushun col
liery amount to S0OO00,O0O tons
The Chilean government has decided
to spend $12.TTI5 during this year for a
cooking department in some of the pro-
fessional schools
The total population vi Japan. ex-
elusive Of Formosa, SakhaIin, Chosen
(KOreal and other distant possessions,
is upward of 52.G0O,OO0.
Radical changes in the clothing of
the Chinese in all stations of life are
indicated by the expanding of the Chi
nese market for clothing
A Berlin scientist claims to have
found way to build IN diamonds
from chips with ordinary illuminating
gas and a mercury amalgam.
The big trees of the Australian for
ests are rapidly disappearing. The
giant stringy banks, which reach a
height of 300 feet. will soon be thing
of the past.
Petroleum fields covering a vast area
in Turkestan. extending. to the Chi
nese frontier, have recently been sur
veyed by Professor Hjalmar Sjogren
of Stockholm.
The capitol in Washington is 11S
years old. The cornerstone was laid in
September. 1893. But, old as the build
ing is. it is not yet finished and proba-
bly, never will be.
Italy purposes to establish life insur-
ance as a state monopoly. Life insur-
ance companies are to be allowed to
| continue operations for ten years IN
der certain conditions.
Such enormous quantities of fish are
obtained from the Caspian sea that
promoters in Baku are to attempt sup
plying Russia with all the fertilizer it
requires from this source.
Arrangements have been made by
the British admiralty for enlarging the
oil fuel depots on the coast to supply
the demands of the increasing number
of oil burning naval vessels.
Two policemen in Montreal were
compelled to work an extra hours duty
day for fortnight because tbay de-
cIned to give up their seats to ladies
who were standing in street car.
Free markets have been established
in Montevideo. Uruguay, in the effort
10 reduce the high cost Of living. In
these markets the prices of foods are
fixed by the municipal authorities.
The free lodging house in HOMO
ward. Tokyo. has housed $50, 5000 per
sons since its institution eleven years
ago Most of the dodgers have been men
between the ages of twenty and forty.
Lead production in the United States
last year reached 1,000.000,0O0 pounds,
an increase of 100000 pounds over
1910. Imports last year were 10000
600 pounds. a decrease Of 100000
pounds.
The city of Manila is building ten
tennis courts for the use of the public
In the sunken gardens, opposite the
city hall. The courts will have the
Accomplishments of baths, lockers and
reading rooms.
The women of Idria, in the Austrian
province of Krain. were so dissatisfied
with the fire brigade that they have
formed one Of their own, consisting of
sixty "firewomen." with Frau Marie
Straos as their commander.
Lloyd's reports for the three months
ended Dec. last the loss or condem
nation of 235 ships of 100 tons or over.
OF these twenty-four were abandoned
at sea. seven burned, twenty-one were
lost by collision, thirty foundered and
123 wrecked.
Midland Hall. Stepney. a London re-
lief organization instituted in small
way in 1891 by few young clerks in
an Australian merchants office. has
sheltered 100000 homeless men in its
twenty-one years of existence, at
total cost of f26.606
Oxygen applied by hypodermic in
lection has been tried by two French
surgeons to retard asphyxia in con
fined air. The skin was pulled out.
but the gas was gradually absorbed
and was used by the organism the
same as inhaled oxygen.
According to Consul George n West.
the japanese city of Kobe is especially
interested in the determination of rats
as a prevention against epidemics of
plague reward of 21a cents tgoldl
is offered for each one brought in. and
last year 354, 291 rats were killed, Oh
which this reward was offered.
Captain Monte of the italian army
has the distinction of being the first
aviator RI hn woDnda6 in acfuai war.