The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-02-20
ROUND The GLOBE

France is talking Of taxing paintings
every time they change hands.
Los Angeles now has six clergymen
enrolled as special police officers.
A herd Of $40 buffaloes is thriving on
1850 acre ranch near Pierre, S. d.
The Geographic rate from peking to
European capitals has dropped to 80
cents a word.
Manitoba has prohibited the sale of
offensive weapons except under GER
tain conditions.
Milwaukee working girls are organiz-
ing cooperative buying clubs to reduce
the cost OF living.
India's first shipment of steel. made
few months ago, consisted of 800
tons. 1t was sent to Japan.
The material excavated from the
Panama canal would build Chinese
wall from San Francisco to New York.
Frances average annual catch On
the Newfoundland banks for the last
twenty years was 100000 pounds
of fish.
At one place near Brussels there are
more than thousand hothouses.
which yield over $500 metric tons of
grapes annually.
Paper from which gas nantes can
be made instead of using the more ex-
pensive fabrics has been invented by
an Italian scientist.
Kerosene oil is now consumed by the
world to the extent of 100000 gal
Ions daily. The United States output
In 1912 was 220O00,OOO gallons
A statue of Carl Schurz is to be
erected in the neighborhood of Column
bia university by committee of
which Joseph II. Choate is chairman.
DR. Fl. s. Frost, superintendent Of
Boston's hospital for the insane, re-
ports great success in the use Of warm
water baths in calming violent pa
tents.
DR.. Albert Abrams of San Francisco
predicts the early disappearance Of sur
gerry as remedy for appendicitis. He
says a massage treatment will dis
place it.
Meat inspectors in Berlin are employ
ing the. moving picture camera In their
work, enlarged photographs showing
micro organisms in motion if the meat
is diseased.
The last two swans have disappeared
from the octagonal basin in the Jardin
des Tuileries, Paris. They were an
exemplary couple The male died of
rheumatism and his widow of grief.
Under the new Australian electoral
act all newspaper articles and reports
during the currency of an election must
have the names and addresses Of the
writer's appended. The penalty for an
unfair or incorrect report is $500
The old Catholic cathedral of ST
Peter and st. Paul is to be torn down
in s.. Paul and Is to be replaced by a
department store structure to cost
100000. Archbishop Ireland was Or
dained a priest in the old building.
Nearly 600 English wild song birds
are soon to be dispatched to British
Columbia, song birds being rare in
Canada. The 600 birds is the first i'm
portation experiment being conducted
by the Naturalists' club Of Victoria,
B. c..
One of the war correspondents sent
to the Balkans was forced to ride in a
fourth class car on the way to Bel
grade. On a board was this notice:
Passengers are warned that they must
not scratch the window panes with
diamonds"
Colonel Teyssier. French soldier,
who has just received the grand cross
Of the Legion Of Honor, was comman-
dant Of the fortress of Bitche, which
held out against the Prussians from
Aug. s, 1870, until March "a, 1871. He
is now ninety-two years Of age
Fully 10000 persons will be evicted
from their homes by the project to
raZe the Notifications Of Paris They
order municipal improvements in the
French capital with a wholesale dis
regard of individual Inconvenience,
which goes to explain why Paris is the
beautiful city it is.
Amundsen's proposed north polar
journey has been postponed for a year
at the suggestion Of the Norwegian
government, seconded by Professor
Nansen, in order to give the staff more
time for thorough training in oceanog-
raphy, the subject to which the expe-
dition will devote principal attention
An illiterate in the eyes Of the United
States census bureau is person of ten
years or over who cannot write regard
less of his or her ability to read Judg-
ed by this standard, illiteracy in this
country has decreased in the last dec
ade from 1917 to rs per cent Among
children from ten to fourteen years old
only fraction above four to the hun
dred are now illiterate.
There are $50 colleges and UNIVERSE
ties listed by the United States bureau
of education in the current Educational
Directory. Ohio and Pennsylvania
have each AZ institutions Of college
rank and New York and Illinois 33.
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