The Caucasian., 1912-04-18

Slate: is being quarried commercially
in ten states of our country, Vermont
and Pennsylvania leading in the indus
try.
The total number of parliamentary
electors in the United Kingdom is now
1854 900. an increase Of 80,925 over last
year.
Hothouse grapes. which only million
aires can afford to eat in this country,
cost in London only 16 to 35 cents
pound.
More than 11,OO0 of the $4,000 pas
senger cars in use on, the railroads of
the United States are now electrically
lighted.
Japan'S theaters are ordered to give
expression Of the ideals of the people
and give up blood and thunder repro
ductions.
Ten years ago Turkeys exports to
the United States were worth only
$S,000,O00. In 1911 they amounted to
$1S.OOO,OO0.
An Athens (Greece) immigration So
ciety is telling the Greeks to emigrate
to the Pacific coasts of North and
| South America.
Buffalo and camel races are among
| the sports which give local color to the
amusements provided for guests in
Egyptian hotels.
1t is stated that European margarine
| factories using cocoanut oil as base
produce 100000 pounds of this but
| ter substitute per week.
A restaurant in Paris keeps a COW
| which is believed to be the smallest in
| the world. 1t is two feet high, and 1t
has reached its fifth birthday
| 1t is thought that electric lights will
| ultimately take the place Of all others
| in lighthouses. The difficulties in the
| way are being gradually overcome.
Milking machines have been in gen.
| eral use in New Zealand for four years.
Over hundred cows may be milked
! by one of them in less than two hours
| At Alden, in British Arabia. drinking
and bathing water is drawn from the
| sea, condensed and delivered to resi-
dents in wagons at half a cent gal
lon
While the United States ranks only
third in the matter of exporting iron
and steel, her recent progress has been
more marked than that Of any other
| country.
The total number Of workingmen's
houses already constructed near Ha-
l Dn-
to the workingmen on small annual
payments.
The property assessed for income
| taxation in the United Kingdom has
/ increased in England by f275, 900,
in Scotland by f2S,o0O,O00 and In Ire
land by f1,500,000.
Importing American mules into Cuba
is profitable business. The mules
| quickly become accustomed to Cuban
climatic conditions. They are treated
well by the Cubans. as they are looked
upon as expensive animals
A wine grower In France. convicted
| of diluting his vintage with water,
was fined $400, sentenced to months
Imprisonment and compelled to pay
heavy forfeit, while as a final punish
ment his wine was confscated.
One change that is noticed in the
ceremonies at the English court is that
| King George has resumed the practice
| which prevailed before the accession Of
| King Edward and stands in front of
the throne. King Edward always sat
| on it.
London's new county hall. the foun-
dation stone of which was laid by the
i king March 9. will be nine stories in
height, 750 feet long and 325 feet wide.
This will make it the nearest approach
to "skyscraper" that London pos
sesses.
| The Russian government has grant
ed concessions to corporations to build
a considerable system of railways in
the territory south of the Siberian rail
way in the valley Of the upper Obi
river, on the west shore Of the Altai
mountains.
Professor Keith In a London lecture
on the evolution of man said that the
resemblance of the prehistoric mon
keys found in the Faylm. in upper
Egypt. TO South American monkeys in
dicated the common origin of the an
| thropoids of the old and new world.
The old home of the doll Is Thurin-
gia, especially the town of Sonneberg.
| twelve miles from Coburg. Most of
the poorer families in and around Son.
neberg are engaged in the industry.
| which is the chief source of revenue
of the population, giving employment
/ for the whole year.
Kiosks of Paris. as the street news
stands are called. are to be sacrificed
! to the need Of widening streets They
are not to be abolished for the pres
ent, but are to be permitted only with
In restricted areas. Some time ago the
new prefect of the Seine cleared the
city of advertising handbills.