The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-16
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kinds.
Fowles versus Katz was the title. OF
q -legak case in England
Sixty-nine banks hold city funds OF
Chicago, totaling S21, 100000
Lyons, France, is trying to drive out
cocaine fiends and to restrict sales.
AS butter exporting country Aus
traIia now ranks second, Denmark be
ing first
+ Pittsburgh clubwamen have decided
to abolish the hatpin as dangerous
nuisance.
Operated much like job printing
press is a new rapid, printing machine
for photographs.
Esperanto is@ttaught in some of the
state supported schools in England
France and Germany.
All over the world oil fuel is grad
ually taking the place of coal and 9th
er less easily handled fuels.
A steamship line has offered to carry
free to Englfnd the first 1000 tons of
| cotton grown In South Africa.
An electric alarm that gives warning
| when a mine roof begins to move has
been invented by an Australian.
| Brazil is to have the largest reser
| yoir in the world after the dam at
Oros, in the state of Ceara. is built.
A manufacturer of artistic furniture
in Paris has just completed a chair
the fore legs of which are Of solid gold
A Michigan knitting mill is making
artificial silk from vegetable fiber and
converting it into hosiery and under
| wear. GI
An electrical machine for cutting
umbrella covers III Il New York facto
ry cuts $50 thicknesses Of fabric at
once. @ GE
As much as $1,000 has been paid in
| South Africa for a male ostrich Of a
good strain and producing exception
ally ane feathers.
DR. E. II. Sven of Washington pre-
diets that the woman of the future will
| have a thick neck, broad shoulders and
other masculine features.
| The Germans are doing a great road
| building work in Africa, and at no dis
| tant date the possessions of that coun
| try in the dark continent will be In
| touch with each other by motor routes
For cleaning floors a New York in
ventor has patented an electric ma
chine which applies water to floor
and scrubs it as it IS pushed forward
and picks up the soiled watefa as it is
drawn back. W.
In the stomach of crocodile which
was s&ot by Mr.. Wells on the Merguan
estate. Madras, were found a python
thirteen feeeIong. two tobacco pipes
a number of pieces of whisky bottles
and pair of trousers.
Tan Teong, a Chinaman residing in
| Malay states, was recently fined EGO
with the alternative of three weeks
IMPRISONMENT, for selling his adopted
| baTy girl for Flo to buy a coffin In
| which to bury his wife.
/ Exports of American pianos have
trebed in the last nine years. Amer
| lean monographs are popular in all
| parts or the world, In Mohammedan
countries phonogra phs are used to re
| peat portions of the Koran.
There Is Il good deal Of vacuum clean
ing done in France by fargo machines
| that go through the stfeats and clear
| houses and apartments by hose reach
ing to any floor The individual vac
nun cleaner is little known. @
~s.Iere is@soday in Paris a concierge
who is reaping a small harvest of tips
from visitors to an attic which quar-
ter of century ago was tenanted by
| the present king or Servia in the less
palmy days of his premiership
An officer of the United States navs
has found that the power Of h1gt
speed vessePs propeller is increased
about 10 per gent by placing ribs OF
the faces of liz blades to decrease the
| partial vacuum that always occurs
there
Silk merchants of Tientsin, China
have learned lesson from the lootins
of their shops during the revolution
The entrance to each shop now is mar
| row and the door made very heavy
| and plated with iron. The small stree
| windows are protected by iron bars
Miss Mary Blnke of London was re
Gently charged with insulting beha
vior' in the Bow street court and tinet
Is ito be of good behavior for 81,
months" Her offense consisted of in
sisting upon remaining with n woman
prisoner who was being tried by mel
in court full of men,
A dog in bread pan. woman will
dirty fingers poking chocolate cakes,
woman clerk carrying a half dressed
baby and waiting on customers will
her free arm were among the sight
that greeted the Chicago councils sub
committee on health recently on
bakeries inspection trip.
DR.. +. R. Bergius, the scientist wht
has been conducting experiments il
producing artificial coal, has by EN-
ploying high temperature and a higl
pressure changed cellulose to peat in ;
few hours The same change by thu