The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-05
ROUND THE WORLD

| The faulGtlS La t3kE ttbhtto Ivy
averages only 800 tons Il year
! New York has within its city bound
aries. 5000 vacant acres of land
! Manufacturers are seeking Il substl~
INF. for rl;,ss which will not ne brittle
! Wages in belgium are lower general
IL thuu in ANY other European country
I Porto EIrauS are diSplacin@ DUH
! drawn carts on great estates by auto
mobiles
| The demand for their hides in South
! Africa is met by Matching alligators IN
! incubaturs.
/ Evangelist Billy Sunday says the
! last genuine religious revival III the
= United STATES WIS that of 1871.
| Indias latest great irrigation PROJECT
is the N!ri Right Bank canal. III Bonn
bay presidency. 1t cost SS.oNlUoo
/ :, hospital; for women VIII be estaD-
lished i'm south London because or at
least a supposed demand that women
want women doctors.
. There are now New York. Chicago,
pjt1sllr-h and Philadelphia market
ing clubs, the last to be organized De-
! ing those of Philadelphia.
Motormen of the traction system OF
! the English city of birmingham re-
ceive cash bonuses when they aVolo
! accidents due to negligence
| Old Epiphany Baptist church, Phila-
delpha. long landmark, is to be de-
| molished to make way for an apart
! ment house to cost 100000
Recent official figures placed the
number of sheep in Australia and New
Zealand in excess Of 100000, the
greatest number in eighteen years.
/ An American sewing machine COM
pany has opened eight schools In
China in which the natives are taught
tpenlbroider with silk by machinery.
| Or. II. 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
New York authorities are starting
campaign for a stricter law to govern
and restrict the sale Of cocaine. The
present law is too feeble to check the
traffic.
! Germany's area devoted to vine eul-
ture reached it's maximum. 297. O37
acres. in 1906 and has since decreased
by $1,000 The vintage varies greatly
from year to year.
4 slladowless drafting table invent
ed by Wisconsin man Is made OF
plate glass, lighted from below by
electric lamps. which also quickly dry
ink used on dra wings. 49,
The record for submergence is claim
ed by the Italian navy. AS one OF its
submarine boats recently remained IN
der water with twenty men on board
for twenty four hours.
On the back Of each seat of a new
London theater there will be coin In
the slot telephones to enable persons
with defective hearing to listen to
what is being said on the stage.
The National Poultry association has
been organized in Havana. with
branches all over the island, for the
purpose of promoting the breeding Of
all kinds Of rnuItry on a large scale.
The price Of fresh salmon in Ger
many is about a cents pound in the
spring and reaches double that figure
at other times. Canned smoked sal
mon Is preferred to the fresh canned
fish
Minute measurements Of bah bear
ings on the axles OF n New Jersey troll
ley car that has Travelled about 49,
600 miles in four years showed that
they bad resisted abrasion almost per-
fectly.
Parties sent out by the French gov
ernment to explore the Sa hara desert
have reported that the obstacles in the
way OF building railroad across the
waste of sand are not 50 great as was
supposed.
Captain Louis c. Flatan Of St Louis
has 40 practical inventions to his
credit i'm the patent office at Washing
ton. His latest is "A turbine engine
which he expects to revolutiOniZe
transportation by land and sea
Deck benches that have been in
stalled on the stea mers of one trans
atlantic line can he converted into life
idItS " f'sFrE SIX persons bf raising
lower portions to Il level With the
seats. where they lock AUTOMATICALLY.
The popular belief that the Panama
railroad was constructed ut a cost Of
one life for every r.liirnad tie is y gross
evaporation There are 10000 ties
ana ~ the five years IF its canstruc-
tion total ~ 7.WiO laborers were EN-
ployed.
All oar coffee must he purchased
outside ~ This country Bnt this does
not deter the American pnblic from
Using Sih.'sNWN pounds Of it every
year or nine AM! one-q,iarter hounds
TOT each man. woman aud child in the
country.
No" that l.assa has succumbed TO
The advance OF the gtohe trotter what
Is the most inaccessible place IN the
world outside The polar regions? The
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