The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-30
ROUND THE GLOBE

| banks falled IN 19lZ.
| e. 81. Harriman's estate Is now said
to be worth $129, 100000.
There is one policeman to every 775
persons in England and Wales.
| The United States in the last year
has received 1906 new settlers.
United States imports for 1912 will
exceed $1,sOOOOO,OOO in value; exports,
So, 100000.
st. Louis provides a rest room in its
city hall for intoxicated persons picked
up by the police.
Over 1000 fat jewellers in New York
| have organized tenants union" to
force lower rentals.
Owing to the popularity of automatic
| cigarette lighters, 100000 fewer
| matches were used in France last year.
It is said more than 10000 persons
| work in fire trap loft factories in
| New York In spite Of stringent fire
laws.
There has been an almost continuous
| growth in Russia's output of the iron
| and steel industries during the last five
years.
Belgium has 100000 laborers. Among
| them are s., 900 women and $1,000 chill
dren, who work more than eleven
| hours a day.
Great Britain owns siXty-f1ve sub
| marine naval vessels, France fifty
| eight, the United States twenty and
Japan twelve.
An outdoor sleeping couch patented
by a Washington man folds against the
side of house like a sleeping car berth
when not in use.
Treating them with certain gases,
French scientist has succeeded in keep
ing eggs fresh in ordinary tempera-
lures for ten months.
1t has been computed that 65, 965, 997
gallons Of water were made use of last
year in the washing and 'sprinkling of
the streets of London.
In London more fires occur on Satur-
day than on any other day of the week
and more In August and December
than In aRy other months.
Rotterdam and Antwerp are close
rivals for the position of second largest
port in Europe as far as tonnage is
concerned, Hamburg being the first
A monument will be erected in
France to the memory of Hubert La
than, who was the first aviator to con-
slider the idea of crossing the English
channel.
A new machine, little larger than a
standard typewriter, seals, stamps and
counts letters at the rate of 1000 an
hour, irrespective of their size. shape
or thickness. O.
The knowledge OF English among the
native population of Smyrna is almost
entirely due to the increasing activi-
ties Of the American colleges, where
over 600 pupils are now being educated.
DR.. Leslie c. Coleman, director of
agriculture in Mysore, India. now tour
ing the world. says that nowhere in
Canada or the United States has he
found roads as good as they are now in
India.
Germany, according to the religious
statistics of the empire, has an increas-
ing number OF persons without any re-
ngious profession. At least they are so
registered. The number has grown
from 1900 in 1907 to nearly 100000.
A duplication of title has occurred
between an American and an English
novel, each Of them having been named
'"The Upas Tree" and, perhaps still
more oddly, both were advertised in
the same issue OF an American journal.
The deaths in Irish warehouses dur
ing the past year included those Of no
fewer than seventeen centenarians.
One Of these persons was stated to be
ITO years and another 1903 years of age,
while two had reached lot and three
LOG years.
Among the communicates at the
Catholic church at Einsiedein, S0itzer-
land, on a recent Sunday were Herr
Benedict Kaelin, his wife and their
twenty -four children, the eldest Of
whom is fifty and the youngest ten
years of age. :.
In New York city plans are making
to celebrate the three hundredth ami
versary Of the settlement of Manhattan
Island by Dutch traders. The settle
ment took place in 1913, four years
after Henry Hudson discovered the
river that bears his name
Constantinople's principal depart
ment stores are run on the same lines
as stores in American cities. They do
great deal-of window dressing and
interior decorating Advertisements
are run in French, Turkish and Greek
and there are special bar
gain days.
Chile yields to no other country In
the extent Of her unbroken coast line,
which extends from Peru to Cape
Horn, distance of about 1000 miles.
The Chilean government is now en-
gagged in making this great coast safe
for mariners by erecting lighthouses at
points along its entire
length.
During its 125 years of existence the
revenue cutter service has proved ono