The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-04-03
ROUND THE WORLD

| escapes or close their doors.
Eggs laid by a New Zealand lizart
require fourteen months to hatch.
A small factory for diamond polish
ing has been opened in Jerusalem.
To save time for transatlantic travel
ers a railroad across Ireland Is pro
| posed
OF it's population Of 10000 before
the earthquake Messina has regained
10000
A model hospital for children is t
be built in Philadelphia at q cost Of
100000.
A new air rife can shoot sixty bullets
with single compression of air in iti
reservoir.
St Louis Black Hand gangs now de
mand payment Of blackmail on the in
stalment plan.
In 1912 Lloyd's Insurance company
paid out $36, 25O. 900 on account Of YES
sells lost at sea.
A French clerk lost 5000 worth OF
radium after the tube burned a hole In
his pocket at funeral
Fortytwo varieties of sea fish are on
sale in German ports. paddock being
first in quantity and cod second
Picking can now be reached from
Shanghai in forty hours as against five
days by the former shortest route.
In Iowa the average farmer produces
six times as much for every man at
work as the average farmer in Ba.
varia.
New York's free dispensary for AMI
mails. maintained by the Woman's
League For Animals, in 1912 treated
1892 cases.
A course in teaching children to walk
up and down stairs properly has been
introduced in the District Of Columbia
public schools
Prior to the present war Adrianople
had a population Of 10000. half OF
whom were Turks. the rest BuIgarians.
Americans and Jews.
Already over q thousand camels are
used in Queensland as a means Of
transport across the arid districts, and
the number is rapidly increasing.
Manufacturers of Finland have
formed cooperative insurance 50
ciety in order to reduce their pre-
miums. The scheme proves popular.
A new railway in Mexico Is expected
to make available soc. 100000 tons Of
iron ore heretofore improbable to mine
because of a lack OF transportation IA
cilities "a
While a letter can be sent from the
Bahamas to the United States for 2
cents. 1t requires Eve cent stamp ON
a letter from the United States to the
Bahamas.
Experiments by two English scien-
fists give promise Of solution OF the
problem of producing electricity direct.
ly from coal without using steam en-
CINE or dynamo.
To provide against false alarms an
inventor has suggested IRE alarm box
that locks a handcuff on the wrist Of
a person using it, removable only by .
fire department officer.
An electrical towboat used on shall
low French canal has propellers at
each end and is supplied with power
from an overhead wire. but cen also
be driven by storage batteries.
The new jute substitute. called tex
those, Of which great things seem to
be expected in England. Is apparently
a paper Irvine coated with mucilage,
then drawn through cotton waste and
spun.
Previous to 1906 Morocco had prac-
tically no public improvements, but
the international conference Of Alge-
ciras has forced them upon It. Now It
is to have harbors. lighthouses and
roads,
The following unique advertisement
appeared recently In Hanoverian pa
per: Lost. from an aeroplnne. gold
watch and chain: was last seen disap-
pearing in large stack Of rye on field
near Ulzen. Liberal reward for re-
turn of same"
Government estimates place the de-
veloped water power In the United
States Mt 5.35G6SO horsepower. the un-
developed power ut present available
at 86,51S.500 horsepower and the pos
sible ultimate development at &c. 800.
600 horsepower.
In dry seasons one may now travel |
throughout Uruguay In an automobile. |
the large rivers being crossed on fer
ries, the smaller streams f"rtled In
wet seasons the smaller streams be.
come impossible sometimes causing |
travellers vexatious delays Of weeks.
In Stockholm the street car conduc- |
tors sell hatpin protectors for a cent |
apiece to all women who wish to buy. |
The implements do not protect the hat
pin. They are fastened to the point |
and prevent hatpin from doing dam
age to the person or property OF men
and women sitting or standing nearby. /
DR.. s. Weir Mitchell. famous oeurol-
ogist and author of many books or
science and fiction, recently celebrated |
his eighty fourth birthday In Philadel.
phia. He is In splendid health and is