The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-12-26

IL than in any otb~' European c"un
try.
a tablet weighing four oI3lmeS com
States armys newest emergency IA.
ton.
Every year GO0U,0"0 pounds of CON
dens,-d milk and ;.U,lottO pounds Of
biscuits are sent to China from Eng
land
The british army costs Per man more
than twice as much az the most eH-
penSive compulsory service army in
Europe.
Within ten years twenty-five square
miles of land around New York have
been reclaimed by being filed in with
coal ashes gathered III the city.
"EducHtion. detertion. control"
should lie the watchWords Of the cam
paign against tuberculosis according
to the ChirHgo tuberculosis institute.
| Primarily for the use OF invaIids is
chair Invented by Tennesseean. so
equipped with mirrors that an occu-
pant can see what is going on around
him without rising.
The supreme court Of Leipzig has de
cidch in the case of waitress who
was dismissed for flirting with custom
ers that flirting was not criminal and
was necessary for a waitress.
The education conference in Peking
| has resolved to esta bliSh in the next
three years further universities in
| Canton, Wuchang and Marking. in adj
dition to the existing one at Picking.
The largest destroyer in the world
was recently put a1oat at Cowes She
is called the Tome. Her displacement
| is | $50 tons She has been built for
| Chile, ana mounts six four-inch guns.
| With the completion Of the Panama
canal Japanese steamships will prob
ably for the first time ply on the At
lanttc s"aboard. particularly in con
necti0n with the extensive raw cotton
freight traffic.
Thirty-tive young girls at Albacete,
Spain. have vowed not to marry any
young men who prior to their twenty
eighth birthday have not given proof
of their prowess in the bull ring as
amateur toreadors.
A process for making alcohol from
the waste parts Of henequen plants has
been discovered in Yucatan, and it is
believed that the new industry will
add considerably to the already large
income accrUng from that plant.
Ont Of approximately $500 students
listed in the college catalogue at Har-
ward fifty bear the name of Smith.
The Browns are a poor second, with
twenty four representatives, but are
tied with the members of the Davis
family,
All our coffee must be purchased
outside of this country. but this does
not deter the American public from
using S70O0O,a0O pounds of it every
year. or nine and one fourth pounds for
each man, woman and child in the
country.
Nine Mathilde David, a Paris shop
keeper, who set herself on fire after |
saturating her clothes with petrol, stat |
ed in a letter that she had chosen the |
most painful death she could think Of |
to punish herself for having vexed her
dead husband during his life
Large districts in the far east for
merly planted In tapioca are now be-
ing planted in rubber trees, and as a
consequence no lower prices for tapi~
oca are looked for. Land for tapiOca
growing can he used only one-fouIth
of the time and must be left idle for
the remainder.
Consta ntinople's principal department
stores are run on the same lines as
the stores in New York or Chicago
They do great deal of window dress
ing and interior decorating Advertise
ments are run in French, Turkish and
Greek newspapers. and they have spe-
cial bargain days.
In Rome, Ga, the percentage of old
men, hale and sturdy. who are making
a living without assistance is large
More than fifty men beyond the age Of
Seventy-some are nearer eighty-are
caring for themselves, earning suffi-
rient for their needs. Most of them
ven lDuI years III Inc SOutDpfD army. |
Two thousand three hundred love
letters, dating from the year 1880 on
ward, arranged in bundles Of fifty.
tied with jeweled silver chains and
written by six different girls were
found preserved in an ivory ,casket In
The bedroom of a lonely bachelor who
has just died at Melbourne at the age
If eighty-two.
The Suez canal, according to Ship
hing Illustrated. is owned by private
company. the Gle Universelle du Ca ,
lal Maritime de Suez It's president. ,
manager and a majority OF ,
is directors are French. Great Britain. =,
t is stated, has never tnterfered in the :
management of this company, nor has r
he French government
Norway intends to celebrate the cen 6
enary Of the adoption Of constitution q
N May IT, 1914. by holding 4 national q
exposition at Christiaua, May Is to i
sept. 30 or possibly as late as oct Is,