Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05
BACTERIA VERY BUSY
Electric VentiIators in Paris
Do Not Purify Air.
DOG FRIGHTENS BURGLARS
Monkey Causes Havoc in Apartment
of Bachelor.
M. FAGUET KNOWS GOOD JOKE"
Murder at Saint Peary Recalls
Crimes Worse Than Those of
Jack the Ripper.
M. FAGUET KNOWS GOOD JOKE"
Special Cablegram to The Star

ana other places where little or no air
comes in from outside. Five experiments
were made. The first one was made at
$50 o'clock in the morning in large cafe
In which the ventilators had not been
running for eight hours There were 10,
| GOO bacteria to the cubic meter. When
the ventilators had been working for an
hour there were $4,000 bacteria.
In another cafe there We're $1,000 bac-
terra with the ventilators working, as
against 1900 without. And much the
same proportions prevailed in all the ex-
periments. It is terrible thing to think
OF the millions of bacteria that must be
swallowed in those places. and. although
the result of these experiments will not
be to prevent people frequenting cafes in
Parls, 1t may, perhaps. prevent the use
OF quite so many ventilators. For the
two doctors who made the experiment,
and who are public officials. both declare
that these electric ventiators on fans are
directly responsible for the spread of
grip and tuberculosis.
Dog Scares Away Burglars.
Burglars broke into the private resi-
dence of Baron de Neuf1ize. governor of
the Bank of France. the other night. but
through the timely barking of a good
watchdog they were scared away. and do
not seem to have carried off any booty.
The baron, who is also one of the stew
ards of the Steeplechase Society. and d.
rector Of the P. L. NJ. railway. had gone
with the baroness to his chateau at Chan
lilly. The concierge heard a dog bark
about l in the morning. and on
seeing that one Of the windows had
been forced open, he called police
time to escape. They had succeeded
In rumaging about in some of the rooms
on the first floor. and objects were scat
tered about. No papers of any value
could have been stolen, as Baron de Neu-
fiize makes it rule not to keep any i'm
portant documents at his private resi-
dence.
He must be preparing for removal
reflected the neighbors of well-to-d do old
bachelor when they heard a sound as of
men stamping about. dragging chairs and
| tables. and increasing the din now and
then with an ominous noise of falling
china. The racket had continued for a
while in this particular fiat when it's en-
trance door was heard to open and pres
emily certain loud and emphatic exclama-
tons indicative of intense disgust re-
sounded. The old bachelor had returned
to his home to find everything in the
widest disorder. Curtains had been torn
down and strewed the floor. upon which
also lay smashed lamps and vases and
ornaments much valued by their owner
while any number OF chairs and tables
ndu Deen overturned. After contemplate
ing this so4ne of ruin the poor man
dashed down the staircase to confide his
troubles to the agents of the law, and he
was wondering how many burglars could
have broken into his apartment when he
learned that diligent search was being
from an adjoining house. With an escort
of several policemen he returned to his
fiat TO find the monkey hiding in cor
ner. 1t seems that the enterprising ami
m n hn .tn,rc t.,
trusted by its owner to neighbor, and
that. having a taste for adventure. it had
broken its chain and visited the fiat in
question with dire results to the property.
Only Wives May Visit Prisoners.
An amusing anecdote is related in con-
nection with an appeal made to NJ
Clemenceau. who is minister of the in
terror. as well as president Of the coun-
Gil, on behalf of the individuals who are
at the present moment awaiting in the
Sante prison their trial on charges of
anti-militarist propaganda. On their be-
half permission for their wives to visit
them whenever they pleased was asked.
VERY WELL" NJ. Clemenceau answered.
81 give this leave to those who are mar
ried." AS some of the couples had not
been through the wedding ceremony the
fact was mentioned to M. Clemenceau
who. after rejecting a moment, an
that it is always the same woman for the
same man..
The warders now scrutinize these fe-
male visitors very carefully, and it is
new face. and say to it's owner, NO.
madame is ii not You who called the
other day. And off she has to go
NJ Emile Faguet though a member of
the French Academy, knows a good joke
as well anybody. He is a Stanch adj
vocate of spelling reform. and has writ
ten number of articles advocating it.
The members of the academy who were
to give their opinion in answer to a min
isterial question the subject asked Nj .
Faguet to draw up the report They were
almost unanimously against the proposed
reform. and it seemed to them a good OPP
portunty 10 punish NJ. Faguet. The
academician. far from declining the task
accepted it, and has drawn up such
virulent denunciation of spelling reform
that the weakness of the academy's posi-
ton is transparent in every line 1t is
easy to see. now that the tables are
turned in favor of NJ. Faguet. who has
had good joke on his colleagues of the
academy. The only pity is that in spite
of this, the French spelling will remain
about as puZz!ing as that of English for
a long time to come.
Worse Than Jack the Ripper.
Worse than the crimes of Jack the Rip
per are those of which a certain Vacher
was accused some years ago. He made
il IA point to assault and kill all the shep-
herd girls in the country, and now a
similar crime is reported from the parish
of Saint Peary. near Valence. where a
young woman. aged twenty eight was
found strangled in a vineyard. She was
the wife of day laborer at Saint Peary
and seems 10 have been lured out to the
vineyard which is a short distance from
tI,a viii loo nv
maniac. After stranglng her to death
a knife, making bits of everything, and
scattering them about The corpse was
found in the morning by the proprietor of
J authorities. but the only cues left by the
criminal are a white handkerchief and a
packet of cigarette paper. The inhabi-
tants of the district. which is near the
one where the notorious Vacher accom-
plished his exploits. are now wondering
whether they are to be terrOrZed by a
similar maniac. Vacher, who was exc
cuted, was convicted of some seven muir
ders. and was said to have committed
twenty-three in all.
Madame Curie, one of the discoveries
of radium. who was. soon after her hus-
bands death. appointed a professor at
| the Sorbonne, has been selected to pre-
| side over the electro chemistry section at
| the international congress of chemists.
etc. to be held in London, this being the
| first time such an honor has been con-
ferred on a woman. M. Armand Gau-
| tier. member of the Institute of France
| is to be president of all the united sec