The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-07-11

nVeS last year by Alpine aScentS eieV-
en- were women.
Records kept for twenty-five years
show that the proyerbial fogginess of
London is decreasing.
A floating drydock with lifting ca
pacity Of 10000 tons has been built for
the British admiralty.
Experts i'll China are investigating
the possibility of using bamboo pulp
in the manufacture of paper Napkins
There are over 1000 beggars in
Vienna, and it is stated that their av-
erage income is more than that of most
workingmen.
Accurate photographs of buildings
and land have been taken by United
great as 1000 feet.
The Salvation Army is at work in
fortyseven different countries and has
fifty-five periodicals, printed in TWEEN
ty-One languages.
The value of secondary metals chose
recovered from scrap metal, sweepings,
skimmings, Dresses, etc. last year in
the United States was $50, $50, 800.
The recent census shows that New
Zealand's population is over 1000 600
The 1906 census showed a total of $685.
57S and the 1911 census 1,007,S11.
BY the construction of number of
short cuts in Siberia the time from
Berlin to Picking will within a year or
so be reduced from thirteen and one
half days to nine days.
Trinidad, which was the first West
India island to test wireless telegra-
ply, is now to have larger plant at
Port of Spain, which will have max
imum radius Of 1000 miles.
Military rowdies are again stopping
inoffensive coolies and others whom
they suspect of wearing cues in the
streets Of Marking and relieving them
of the Objectionable appendages.
Whales are increasing rapidly, as it
no longer pays to kill them. Twenty
five years ago 100000 barrels of whale
oil were produced annually. The guam
tity has now fallen to about 10000 bar
rels.
TO insure the owner of a private
shaving cup kept in a barber shop that
he is it's only user there has been in
vented a paper cap to cover it, which
cannot be removed without breaking
q seal
Collectors of etchings and engravings
must occasionally pay high prices for
Jan Sylvius," signed by the artist and
dated 1916 brought at auction recently
$1,625
The Westminster Mems Society For
Women's Rights of London publishes
weekly paper called the Eye Opener.
Among other things it deals with the
present inefficient state of the law for
the protection of women.
An elderly London woman, who lived
for many years with no other cOmpan-
panion than dog, died, and it is now
found that she left her residence to be
used as a convalescent home and be-
queathed the sum of $4,000 for its en-
dowment
No American city, says the Scientific
American, has a pneumatic tube sys-
tenn for postal use) comparable with
that Of Paris or Berlin. The average
Partisan tube letter." it asserts, is de-
liyered in an hour and a quarter after
it Is posted.
Bicyclists in England have lost pa
tience over the dogs that attack them.
They are making blacklist OF the
animals which do this habitually. The
owners of the dogs are notified, and If
the nuisance is not abated these own
ers are legally held to pay damages.
Three German countries, Bavaria,
Baden and Wurttemberg, besides Aus
tria and Switzerland, border on Lake
Constance. They are all expected to
contribute their share of the $4,000,
600 required for the projected improve
ment of the Rhine from Basel to the
lake, to make passage for the lbarges.
The fancy of the young people of
Austria turns to thoughts of matri-
mony at carnival time. and Carnival
Sunday-Fasching Sonntag-is usually
a busy day for those who tie the matri-
monial knot. The records for this year
show that on Feb Is upward of LOO
couples were united In marriage in the
various churches Of Vienna.
Mrs Despard's plan for a "hatless
brigade in England, for the boycott
ting of milliners till suffrage is grant
ed, has encountered. the opposition of
the church One ecclesiastic is quoted
as saying that whatever her views on
suffrage woman must certainly have
her head covered in church or the
churchwardens would refuse her ad
mission"
They are making the floors of big
office buildings in Germany of a mix
ture of magnesium chloride pulverized
magnesia and sawdust. laid from two
to four inches thick. Consul General
Robert P. Skinner reports from Ham
burg that such floors are waterproof.
almost fireproof. crack free, warm I'M