The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-08-22
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AS many rs 10 roc.s ana >u,2;5
eere discoWrea last veg On ito IL
seas.
8omen are employees be the I2v. !
posice % unasts baby Earns" ~ TIA,
city.
Cleveland millinsrs, 1ressmakcrs al
office girls male an average Of 50 a
week
50. louis r. claiming O BevivaI Of its
fall fair, which has lapsea Gur SeEera!
years.
2eking and Jientstn are tie only
ciths of nossA Chiaa Chat Nave water
works.
A mosoraR eRva~d esils0d like tie
one in 8srln is planBed Co. the City
OF Mexico
4 Moscow dentist Gains to be allie
to supply false seetn stlas will grow"
! into tho mouth as srnaR as natural
anes.
The average ensuao sutpas of the
world in rubber is 0S0Oe Cons Salued
at $2O,OOO,O0.
The South African eossessi@ls of
England require 100000 postarc
stamps per annum.
Italy requiRs makers Of clReses cor
| tanning oIeomargarine to eaint them
red on Che outside ana "a label thel1
properly.
A Norwegian expedition Gill study
~ e
unknown regions of gorthern and cen
| trail Asia.
| Horses are used to mix the clay b.
treading it in many Argentine brick
yards instead of employing more eI-
pensive machinery
Copenhagen's sea commerce is III
| creasing each year. partly because OF
| the modern facilities for loading and
| discharging cargoes.
Apartments rent in Madrid for as
| high as $1,000. Cooks get frdBl $40 to
$50 a month and chauffeurs from $50
| to $50 (without board
Cleveland's city chemist wants ap-
| piled chemistry taught to technical
u1Su anu lCl Hal SClOoI SlI 10 ~ Su1DlC
them to make food analyses.
In an automobile race around the is
| land of Sicily the distance of 652 miles
| was covered in q hours, - minutes
and 43 seconds over bad roads.
The name of the new Chinese repub-
| lie, as indicated by the postage stamps
| which are now arriving in this country,
| is Chung Hua Min kua, or Middle
| Flowery Peoples State. The name is
| evidently adapted from the familiar
designation of China as the FloWeTy
| Kingdom.
A Chicago physician has made
| translation of an Egyptian papyrus
| which. it is claimed. dislodges Hip
pocrates from his place as father of
medicine" by anticipating his discov-
| cries some 5000 years. Even appen-
dicitis, it is asserted, is described in the
| old papyrus.
During the year 1911 ffty-eight small
planets were discovered, but eight of
these were found on examination to be
| Identical with bodies previously oh
served. Of these more than thirty
were discovered at Heidelberg, the next
| largest contribution coming from the
Johannesburg observatory.
Boilers as big as house-such are
| the new water tube affairs recently
| tested at one of the stations of the De-
| troit Edison company, and the house
| would be good sized one, twenty-eight
| feet deep, thirty-one feet long and thir-
| ty-six feet high, for that is the size OF
| this monster steam maker
The federal government maintains in
Hawaii a college of agriculture and
| mechanic arts, toward which the terri
torial government contributes for
buildings, support and equipment The
| college curriculum includes, among
others, courses in agriculture, engineer
ing and household economics.
Russia is to have north pole expe
| dition of it's own under the command
| of Captain Ssedow, who purposes pro
ceeding in ship to Franz Josef Land
and to go thence by sledge over the ice
to Greenland by way of the pole. Any
solid ground he may find near the pole
he will name Nicholas II. Land.
Recent experiments in England have
shown homing sense in crabs almost
as remarkable as that in birds. Crabs
caught (and marked in Yorkshire were
| taken to Lincolnshire and freed and
caught subsequently in their old home
Ten months later the same crabs were
again caught in the same place.
Considerations of economy have in
| duced the German postal authorities to
approve a plan by which 5000 girls
| and women will gradually supplant
| men ION the staffs of the different
branches of the administration. The
! innovation will especially affect the
smaller post offices ranked in the third
| class
The red trousers of the Austrian SOL
der are to be discarded and garments
of less conspicuous color substituted.
| This change follows similar one in
! the French army, in which this feature