The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28

Der meets
 l An instance of an employe of the post
 office, who has saved the state $10, 0,0o0,
 900, is given today. Paris Is connected
 with all the large towns by system of
 underground telegraph wires. In 1879 l it was found that the wires did not
 work satisfactorily. In the following l year they did not work at all. The wires were abandoned for ten years. In 1900 the budget commission of the chamber acting on the advice of the en- gineers of the post office. decided to abandon altogether the wires, which had cost $S,000,000.
 The employe of the post office who had read the report of the budget com mission called on the under secretary of state for that department and informed him that it was possible to utilize the | condemned wires. The employe, Que innec by name, was listened to- but the engineers laughed at the idea of his do ing anything with the wires which they had condemned.
 M. Queinnec set to work At small expense he repaired the wires one by one. He not only repaired but improv- ed them. The engineers did not laugh now. M Queinnec was given an ad- vance of $200 year, and made district inspector of telegraph wires.
 He has again been heard of. In con sequence of the floods which devaSted the suburbs last year several overhead telegraph wires were damaged. M. Queinnec called upon the minister Of works, and pointed out that there was around Paris a network of underground wires which had cost $2,000,000 and which had been abandoned for 20 years. He promised to put them in order. Again the engineers laughed, but the minis ter of works placed the job in his hands t1ac cat,aa To h lie ra,-lP ttcfn torily thus saving the state $2,000, 900.
 In recognition of his admirable work he was decorated last year, and it is now a question of giving him another increase of $200 a year, and making him principal inspector of the underground telegraph wires in France.
 The Paris assize court has had to deal with a murder case rather out of the common, for the accused, who has been sentenced to ten years imprison- ment, is a titled teamster-a genuine count. He was accused of having mur- dered his wife, an equally genuine count ess.
 Comte Paul de Castebled, an authen tic nobleman, was reduced to exercis- ing the profession of teamster. It seems to have been the only means of livelihood that he ever had, his wife the countess Angelo, exercised no very su- perion profession either. They had one child, and occupied a small workmans flat, for which they found it difficult to pay the rent, Being evicted from their wretched lodgings, charitable neighbor offered them hospitality and gave them mattress as their only bed. Misery notoriously sours the tenn per, and that of the count became very cross-so in fact that one night he cut off the head of the comtesse.
 kclr rA1 to a1ai xxrl,x, ha ho nor petrated this atrocious act. he stated before the jury that, wretched as they were, he felt exceedingly grieved that his wife should bave proposed to leave him with their little daughter. She had had received very tempting offer from some one who said that he would take care of her and her child. Comtesse Angele decided to accept it. and inform ed her husband of her intention to leave h i'm They quarreled over the matter and their hospitality neighbor interven- ed and expelled the Comte for the night. But Comte Paul de Castebled returned by stealth before morning and severed his wife's head from her body with a razor, whilse she was asleep. He had acted, he said, in fit of blind jealousy The jury gave a rather lenient verdict, whereupon the court sentenced him to ten years solitary confinement.
 TWO young dOClOrS or DlJOn nave performed an operation by using elec- tricity as an anaesthetic. In the hospit- al at Dijon a man had to have finger amputated. An electrical apparatus was fixed on his back, another on his fore head. Doctor Cremeaux attended the accumulator and current was passed through the mans arm, rendering the limb insensible to pain Doctor Lecledc proceeded with the operation The sen- sation of the patient was that of need les pricking him.
 Doctor Leclerc tells of two operations which had been performed under cleo tricity in Paris in 1908. A woman suf- fering from cancer was successfully op- erated on. The electrical anaesthetic lasted ten minutes. The pulse was lit- tie below the normal; the breathing kept it's normal rythm, and the awak- ening was immediate. The patient af- firmed that she had not felt anything. The second operation was performed on a woman so years of age, who suffered from cancer in the face. In this case the electrical anaesthetic was main tained during 50 minutes. The awaken | ing of the patient was almost instan- | taneous but she remained in a half stupefied state. She died five days later after the operation. But 1t is ar- gued that he great age was the cause of her death.
 Doctor Tuffier. referring to electric