The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-01-18
TIMELY BREv|T|ES


A motorcar service has been added
to the fire brigade of Calcutta.
The average cost of irrigation work
by the United States Is about $3.50
per acre.
Judgment has just been given by the
supreme court at Leipzig In lawsuit
which commenced in 1911.
Oklahoma Is the main American
shipping center from which black wal
nut Is exported to Germany.
Hamburg has number Of profit
sharing companies. the largest Of which
has membership Of over 5000.
Ships will be towed through the
Panama canal by electric locomotives
running on either side of the water
way.
New Zealand now ships frozen ducks
to London. They sell for about IS
cents each and compare favorably
with the English kind.
The careless use Of matches last
year is known to have been the cause
of 1859 fires out of 3,s75 fires Of known
origin in Chicago alone.
Instead of the usual four winged at
fair, new storm door for public build
ings is made in the form of cylinder
with an opening in one side.
The production of faxseed in the
United States in the past year has been
exceeded many times. but the total
value has never been equaled.
The south raises about - per cent OF
the tobacco grown in fOrty-six states
OF the country. This crop is the basis
Of $40 900, 600 worth of exports annual
ly.
An electric ambulance. equipped
with the newest apparatus for han
ding injured animals, has been sta
toned in Boston's heaviest teamIng
district.
Ernest BenZon, who in 1887 won con-
siderable notoriety by gambling away
$250,0OO within year, becoming
known as the jubilee plunger, has just
died IN London.
The municipality of Vienna brews
beer and grows wine in order that the
population may be sure Of getting un
adulterated liquor-at any rate In the
numerous municipal restaurants.
In Lapland when the door of q warm
room is opened during the winter it Us
Immediately followed by miniature
snowstorm in the room, the condensed
moisture falling in fakes.
Over 100000 people were forced by
the cloudburst in northern Anhwei and
Kiangsu, China, last August to beg for
a living, as no work was to be obtain
ed. Thousands died before relief came.
For the first time in history joint
stamp, bearing the legends both Of
France and Britain. has been issued In
jointly administered by the two coun
tries.
American -four, once largely import
ed into Manchuria, has now practically
disappeared from the market. The
chief cause of this condition Is Man
churian wheat, ground at Hardin and
other points to the north.
The American navy is rapidly be-
coming triphibious. In addition to its
battleships and its submarines it also
has growing fleet Of aeropanes. The
object is to be able to meet danger
above, below and on the surface
Even the dust of the charcoal is saw
ed as fuel In Japan. 1t is carefully pre-
served and mixed with clafr and chop.
ped straw 1t is then moisteued into
a paste. rolled into balls about The size
of an apple and sold in this shape to
consumers.
During the fiscal year ended June
80, 1911, the governments meat in
spectors condemned over 21O00, 900
pounds out of total Of 1000 600, 600
pounds Of meats and meat food prod
ucts canned, cured or otherwise pre-
pared under official inspection.
The recent epidemic Of foot and
mouth disease In Austria, which proved
fatal to 30 per cent Of the cattle, has
created such a scarcity Of meat that
the importation Of foreign meat will
soon have to be permitted without ref
erence to political considerations.
The French government derives quite
a revenue from the tax on bicycles ev-
cry one Of which must bear q new
plate furnished at the beginning Of
each year by the government. They
cost francs t5s cents for ordinary
cycles and 6 francs for motorcycles.
The department of agriculture finds
that the imported beet seed is showing |
in recent years: hence it
is highly desirable that the seed should |
be produced in the United States. The |
bureau of plant industry is considering
some experiments along this line in the |
valley.
Practically 100000. OoOss worth of |
from the United States |
was transported across the isthmuses |
Of Panama and Tehuantepec ir the is- |
cal year 1911 by the two railway lines
In the one case. Panama |
and Colon and in the other Salina Cruz