The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-06-26
ROUND THE WORLD

postage stamps every DAY.
A home for stray dogs has been
opened In Fulham, London.
There are 4,3S6,OOO mules and 90
567. 900 horses in the United States.
Chicago Is to put up 10000 new
street signs at crossings in September.
Many Hindus of the higher caste
now wear European shirts. coats and
trousers.
AS far as earthquake activity Is con-
cerned, Italy and Japan are about on
par.
Seventy one per cent Of moneys In
vested in the gas industry of Russia
Is German capital.
1t Is said that the steel skyscrapers
of New York affect the compasses Of
ships making port there.
Brutus. Fraserburgh tScotland)
dog. has attended, unlimited. 700 fu-
nerals in the last fourteen years.
Last year the United States depart
ment Of agriculture issued more than
100000 copies Of bulletins, reports.
circulars, etc.
A motion picture theater on wheels
has been equipped by number Of rail-
roads to teach fuel economy to en-
gineers and fremen.
Philadelphia's filtration plant has
cost $4,000. Pure water has reduced
the death rate at least by three In ev-
cry 1000 inhabitants.
A million dollar hotel for working
girls and women employed In down
town stores is the aim of movement
started by the Chicago chapter D.
A. r.
There was remarkable increase in
transpacitic travel generally during
1912 over previous years, and 1913
promises to eclipse all records in this
line
Sicily is gradually feeling the awak.
ening that is SO marked in northern
Italy, although Sicilian agriculture is
still carried on in great part in a print
tive manner.
The value Of the gold produced in
the Klondike region of the Yukon ter
ritory during the last year was $685.
235. This was the largest amount of
any year since 1907.
With twenty-five dirigible balloons
in commission the German government
has established twenty-seven harbors
into which they can be run for shelter
il caught by storms.
At one time Germany encouraged the
use of peat moors and swamps for fuel
peat. Now the scarcity of meat Is
such that peat cutting will be stopped
and these moors and swamps fitted up
for pastures
China's new government will estab-
fish an arsenal of the largest and most
improved type to keep at home the
great amount Of money expended
abroad each year for the purchase of
munitions of war.
The latest type OF destructive war
vessel Is the Russian submarine cruis-
er, which is more than six times the
tonnage Of the next largest submersi-
bic. 1t is virtually an underwater tor
pedo Dreadnought.
American shoes set the styles in the
Lyons district. France, and encounter
no prejudice. The people seem to
think that the American stamp indi-
Gates general excellence. American
typewriters are also In the lead.
In Ipoh, Malay peninsula. one Of the |
In thA a.
now in almost constant use as a fu-
neral hearse. Hauled by coolies tho
proud old pioneer wends its frequent,
slow. laborious way to the cemetery.
OF all the ways to keep persons from !
taking poison by mistake. none is bet
ter than that recently adopted in a st.
Louis hospital. A small bell is at
tached to the neck Of every bottle that
contains anything poisonous. When
ever the bottle Is lifted the bell gives
Thanks. to American sanitation, not q
single case Of cholera was reported in
the Philippine Islands last year, and
there has not been case Of smallpox
In Manila for four years. Before the
American occupation there were thou
sands Of deaths every year from both
diseases.
A duplicate Of Columbus' caravel win
pass through the Panama canal In the
dedication parade OF vessels. This win
be made from the design OF the caravel
that was exhibited at the Chicago
Worlds fair and viii be contributed
FOR the occasion by the Harvard club
II San Francisco.
The number Of agricultural holdings
n England in 1912 was 374, 800 and In
Wales 61,O77. The totll ,8S8, for
England and Wales was :176 more than
n 1911. the increase bein., In holdings
'r from 5 to 300 acres. The number
II persons occupying land has increas-
ID In the course Of seven years by
1913.
The United States bureau Of mines
has discovered that more than two
birds of the radium supply OF the
world Is made in Europe from ores
hipped abroad from the United States.
Although this country Is known to ,