The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-06-26
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Manila is to have electric or gasoline
motor driven street sprinklers.
British firearms are sold abroad at
the rate of about $1,6OO.OOO a year
Growers of vanilla In Guadaloupe
get for the dried bean. 81 so to 1920 a
pound
Salt Lake City may construct a city
water storage system. in City Creek
canyon.
The United States is.now the great
est Photographic materials producing
country.
A hail insurance company has been
formed in Argentina. with capital of
$4,000.
The fourth international congress on
home education will be held in Phila-
delphia in 1914.
In 1912 the production of iron and
steel rods in the United; States was
twice that of 1901.
More than 5000 tons of hazelnuts
were exported last yearsfrom the AS
Part of the Kern oili fields of Cali
fornia have been set aside for the use
of the navy in case Of need.
1t will cost $6O,OOO,OOO to increase
the needed water supply of Rio de ia
metro. according to present plans.
Argentina is thinking of importing
camels into certain of its semiarid re-
gions to displace the horse ,and OK.
Russia is to spend millions of dol
lars in making the port Of Vladivostok
adequate to an enlarged commerce.
The Goldfish from a scientific stand
point will be exhaustively studied by
Norwegian government commission.
One of New York's largest stores has
abolished Dear Sir" Dear Madam"
and yours truly" from its letter writ
Ing.
I All motion pictures in Bavaria must
be shown before a board of censors
before they can be put on a screen in
the shows.
A Cincinnati man the other day
crawled 100 feet in a filthy sewer to
rescue a baby and succeeded, although
nearly losing his life.
Drilling for Oil has begun on the is.
land of Sicily Well informed people
have known for a long time that oil
was to be found there.
The French inventor of a telephone
antedating that Of Alexander Graham
Bell by twenty years recently died In
comparative obscurity in Paris.
OF late years the Swedish govern
ment has granted ''cultivation loans"
very extensively, and this has made it
easier for the farmers to obtain credit
To accommodate dirigihle balloons
no matter which way the wind is
blowing, German hangar is mounted
on turntable and is provided with
doors at both ends.
In the hope Of introducing it into the
United States an expert from the de-
partment of agriculture has been sent
to Manchuria to get specimens Of
peach that weighs pound.
Cars containing apparatus for disin
fecting the clothing and baggage of
passengers who have been exposed to
contagious diseases have been put into
service by an Italian railroad.
The United States has always been
the chief destination of emigrating
Germans, and still remains so, although
diversion to other parts Of the west
ern hemisphere and to Australia Is
now observable
Moving pictures showing attempted
murders, attacks On religious bodies.
highway robberies and, in fact, any
presentation wherein there Is vice or
violence in any form cannot be shown
in Quebec, Canada.
Chicago has broken new ground in an
important departure in city transporta-
ton service. The city council recently
passed an ordinance which forbids the
admission of more passengers to a sur
face or an elevated car than can be
seated.
Grocers who smoke cigarettes while
cutting cheese or serving butter, who
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while waiting on trade and who sweep
their floors while goods are uncovered
are to be boycotted by the Housewives
league of st. Paul.
Covering period Of twenty three
years, the statistical reports show that
1912 was the year when commodity
prices were the highest and in 1896
the year when they were lowest. The
cost Of living was in 1896 the lowest
ever known in this country.
Rotterdam, Holland. has munich
pally operated labor bureau for wom-
en-. In the three years 1t has been run
ming it has increased so greatly in i'm
portance that now the director and her
nine assistants. also women. can
scarcely cope with its business.
In an exhibition Of a model kitchen"
given by French merchant at Havre
the total value of the contents at re-
tail prices was S2S0.77. Six American
arei IS we're included-an ice cream
freezer. l.. ice pick. a hashing machine,
a cake baking mold. coffeepot and