The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-02-18
ROUND THE GLOBE

An Atlantic fog is usually about thir-
ty miles in diameter.
The lack of a sufficient supply of coal
IL keenly felt throughout Russia.
Pittsburgh is soon to have a new
combined city hall and county court
house.
CALIFORNIA; 1913 mining output, 1t is
predicted, will exceed $100,OOO,O0O in
value.
During last year in the United States
$19,OOO,OOO was spent fighting tuber-
culosis.
Five hundred dollars was recently
paid for the good will of humble cot
fee stall in London.
In Newark, n J., a lot of second
hand pianos were auctioned the other
day at 471a cents each.
Liverpool is to have the largest pipe
organ in the world in it's cathedral II
will have 10.567 pipes.
The leakage, seepage and evapora-
ton Of Lake Gatm are estimated at
LOSS. 100000 gallons per day.
With the stereotype, new keyboard
machine, dictation has been taken at
the rate of 500 words a minute,
The PAT newspapers published in
South Africa give employment to 1000
Europeans and $50 colored people.
For advertising purposes a Pitts
burgh automobile delivery wagon is
built on the lines of q locomotive.
Powerful searchlights are being in
stalled on the ocean liners as a protec.
ton against collision with icebergs.
Pennsylvania produces nearly one
third of the sand used in the manu-
facture of glass In the United States.
Turkish passenger boats in the Bos-
porus during the last fiscal year car
ried 100000 passengers for $1,000
900.
New York will have one Of the
worlds greatest skylights in its new
postofice, as it will contain ninety
tons of glass.
twenty-five foot statues, weighing
twenty-five tons, carved out of one
piece of marble, are to be placed in
front of the Union station in Washing
ton.
A New York hospital Is experiment
ing with illuminating the floors of
rooms from beneath with electric
lamps set under glass and backed by
ref1ectors.
To blacken aluminium alloys, states
the Electrical Review. immerse the
article in a boiling hot solution Of caus-
tic soda Of 80 per cent strength for
few seconds; wash off the excess of
caustic, dry in sawdust and polish with
a plumbagoed brush.
Americans are eating a great many
bananas, and the appetite for them is
Increasing. More than 6,OOO,OOO,OOO ba-
nanas a year, or more than five dozen
for every man, woman and child in
the United States, including Alaska
and Hawaii, are consumed now.
On account of the high duties inn.
posed on most things in Brazil the cost
Of living is extremely high. At Per
nambuco a house that in the United
States could be rented for $3.50 year
costs at least $1,000. Milk costs 20
cents quart, bacon 63 cents pound
and ham $3.50.
OF the 100000 tons If coal mined
In France annually 23,OOO,OOO tons are
produced in the Pas de Calais. AS this
coal is worth 81 ton at the pit mouth,
besides attracting Industries, these coal
mines are an enormous source of
wealth, the value Of the annual output
being nearly $1OO.OOO.OO0.
An ingenious method of disposing of
the ashes of cremated body has been
reported from England. After wom-
an had been cremated the husband
took the ashes to chemist for the
purpose Of extracting the iron, which
he Is now wearing set in his ring, as
one would wear diamond.
Recently twenty American engineers
and expert construction men sailed
from Galveston, Tex, for Barcelona,
Spain, to begin contracts for power
plants and irrigation projects approx
mating $4O,OO0,OOO. The principal part
Of the work will be in northeastern
Spain, where thousands Of arid acres
will be irrigated
With 73,OO8 deaths reported in
Greater New York for the year ended
Dec. 81 last the death rate per 1000
Of population went down to 1411 per
cent as against 1915 per cent in 1911,
1898 in 1910 and 16 in 1909. The
deaths showed decrease Of 2,415
over 1911 and Of 1857 over the aver
age for ten years.
One Of the most remarkable docu-
ments ever published by the govern
ment Is the "check list" just issued In
Washington. 1t records every publica-
ton Of the government from its founda-
ment down to and including 1909. 1t
contains more than 1900 pages, and ap-
proximately fifteen years were required
In its preparation.
London's old general postoffice is Lee
ing torn down and within six months
will be no more. It was built between
1925 and 1929 on the site Of the Cd