The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-06-11
Items Of Interest.

France has five doctors to each 10000 of
population.
Last year more than 1900 Germans set
tied in Canada.
In Hong Kong the law is that every
house must have at least one cat.
The salt production of the United States
has doubled in the last fifteen years.
Eighty per cent of the population of Bull
garia is engaged in agricultural pursuits.
Russia produces about all the worlds
supply of platinum, nearly $4,000 pounds
year.
The Pacific boundary contains about
seven eighths of the worlds active vol
canoes.
There are only twenty persons in France
with yearly income of more than ST.,
100000.
Reckless fishing has almost brought
about the extinction of the sturgeon from
American waters. II
New Mexico nearly doubled the value OF
its mineral output last year over the figures
of the year before.
Agriculture is taught in all Hungarian
perimental stations.
Seventy per cent of the cotton goods of
the world are manufactured in the English
county of Lancashire.
The number of postage stamps printed
for the United States Government last year
amounted to 9,773,424,O 900.
Ireland's first strike occurred in Dublin
100 years ago, when the piers of Kingstown
harbor were being constructed.
Wages distributed to white miners in
British South Africa during the first six
months of 1918 totaled SEE, 100000.
The United States now exports to Ger
a year and $4,000 pounds of raisins.
Argentinina's corn crop this year is es-
timated officially at 234, 1916 bushels, or 8O.2
per cent more than the previous years
crop.
The Mississippi River system, contains
1 ,240, 050 square miles within it's basin, or
about one-half the productive area of the
country.
The quantity of iron ore mined in the
United States in 1918 is estimated to have
been between 100000 and 10000, 900
long tons.
France maintains an institute of zoolog-
ical Psychology on farm near Paris for
the study Of the habits of animals under
natural conditions.
What is known as the Louisiana Pur-
chase"-the territory purchased from
France in 18O3-contained 824, 6O7 square
miles and cost S27, 267 1921.
From 100000 to 100000 goatskins
and sheepskins are shipped from Arabia
each year. The exports of these skins to
all countries last year were officially valued
at S233, O27.
| The Valley of the Amazon is larger than
that of the Mississippi, the former river
draining 1880, 900 squares miles, the latter
,244, 800 square miles. The Amazon drains
a greater area than any other river on the
globe.
Wireless messages are sent much more
easily at night than in the day time and in
winter thanin summer, and the range under
favorable conditions at midnight during
mid winter is said to be several hundred
per cent better than at noon in mid winter
OF the 100000 people engaged in
gainful occupations in the United States
$4,000 die annually, either from accident
or industrial illness. There are 1000, 600
accidents, of which something like five
/ hundred thousand are serious, entailing an
annual loss in earnings Of approximately
$40, 900 900.
]. The genuine Mocha coffee is produced in
the province of Yemen, South Arabia. 1t
takes it's name from Mokha, the chief port
of expectation on the Red Sea. The Mocha
sold in the markets of Western Europe and
America is from the East Indies. Some oil
it even never crossed the Atlantic, being
produced in the West Indies or Central OF
South America