The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-14
ROUND THE GLOBE

IN Cleveland hote6 are hsaiteA % tee
Ret In height.
RainI days in toe Brag-h tsies sssr.
age 1873 per snnula.
Egypt 10 encouraging smaR feal @.
tate holdings sua vet back % Che
hand"
Despite the competition OF eisetsscity
the coal gas business 10 Esglasad d
rapidly expanding
Aluminium pulaa's soe nsachisesy aes
said o. lessen the friction and thus IN
tend the life OF belts.
There are aow sevsa Direct eanae
hnes between London and Parfa sad
soon there will be eight.
The estimates for Hritish nHsai 81.
penditure FOR 1913 are over E4.@O, CD
in excess OF those FOR i9te
El Mercur4o celebrated it, centennias
Feb. Is last, being The oldest news
paper now published In Chile.
Total debt pee capita in the Thsaed
States IN 1911 was e1OA3 a. against
S1i35 in 1910 and SLIT In 1908.
In the mineral regioa sroQnd Mount
Aepro. in Sardinia, have been dtscovss.
Cd some valuable asbestos deposits.
The manufacture Of cement has a..
tanned eighth rank foP value among
the Industries OF the Unitrd states.
One pit pony which was broughe up
from a mine at the beginning OF o.
English coal strike haA not seep dry
light for twenty-five years.
White ants in Australia have devel-
oped IN appetite for the lead covering
and Insulation Of cables, which 10
proving costly 10 telephone companies.
For testing the power OF x ray
apparatus there have tRen Invented
skeleton hands. made Of paref. which
are about a. Opaque b. the Wys %
rear hands
Al exhibition OF rabbits ercently
closed ut Hamburg. The object OF the
exhibition was the encouragement OF
rabbit culture with q We've to erosiA.
Ing cheap food.
Bankruptcy proceedings against On
Oxford student showed that he had
incurred liabilities Of $4,000 elnce
June. 1910. through racing. gambling
and extravaganza diving.
It Is estimated that In Asn there are
about 10000 telephones. mostly N Ut
pun. The numbes In Singapore es.
ceeds 1000. ana thesc are about 40
many In STAN and Cochin China.
About 100000 japanese will be g.
amlned for army service this year. an
Increase Of 10000 over last year's con
scription. An improvement IN physique
In expected In this yeaSs recruits.
One hundred thousand placards bcar
Ing the words Beware Hatpins!" have
been distributed broadcast In Nont-
feal This Is the first step In move
ment to abolish the modern danger.
The commercial prosperity of yunI-
sin Ia mainly due to the discovery Of
In the territory by
French scientist. to whom. on account
Of his public services. monument Ia
to be erected.
Vital statistics ascribc short lives to
printers on the average. but the recent
report of the public printer states that
there are employed at present In the
government Office at Washington $50
persons over slxty-five years of age.
The Danish government, under the
advice of Professor KelIers, Is trying
open air treatment as cure for luna
cy. The island of Llyoe has been ac-
CURED for the purpose, and u large
number of iunatics are already under
The population of Belgium increased
100 per cent In the ten years 1900-f0
and showed the same drift from coun-
try to city observable In other nations.
More than one.fifth of the population
Ia now concentrated In the four towns
of Brussels. Antwerp. Client and Liege.
Lady Ashburton. the formee New
York beauty, caused 5000 moles to be
trapped on her English estate and their
skins made into coats and muffs for
her three American sisters The coats
cSV ShiHS GSttii Hhu tHR
each between eighty and ninety skins.
After being abandoned for the Inst
few years endless steel belts are coin
Ing into nse again IN Germany. they
are very thin bands from .0i to 80
inch thick, but very broad. from eight
10 sixteen inches. An adhesive mate
rial is applied to the pulley side to pre-
vent slipping.
Mark Twain satirized the French
iuel effectively, but he is almost ont
lone by the sober report of duel be-
tween two Partisan dramatic critics.
N which the person. most seriously In
Iured was one of the seconds. who ac-
cidentally got In the way of the cium.
" swordsmen.
A recent report from Finland shows
that eight times as many men have
cancer OF the lip as women. Cancer
Of the stomach Is about IA common In
women as In men. A cancer COM
mission was appointed by the Finnish
Medical society and made u study of
the cancers In the hands of 3i3 physi-
rianu