The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-20
OUR FOREIGN LETTER

Paris, Aug. 20.-Hippolyte Dousson, alias pr. Alphonse Joubert, who claims he has found how to change lead into silver, will shortly be tried in the criminal court of Paris. The man, who is out of prison on bond, has demanded that the Government furnish him with laboratory so he can prove his contention. Belgian named Van Den Hend is the plaintiff He says Joubert produced before Van Den Hend's own eyes 40 grams of sil- yer from 100 grams of lead and Van Den Hend advanced him $3,000. The charge against Dousson, or Jonbert, is swindling.
 The price of horse-fesh has risen so high. that butchers have decided to pe- tition the Chamber of Deputies to ioW- CT the tariff on it. The supply is dwindling and the demand is increas- is the only way out of the Adilemna.
 Motion picture targets now being tested by the French government to habituate the soldiers to shoot at f1u- man forms in action, are said to be a success.
 Rome, Aug. 20-Ihe present of an ar- tiacial nose has been made by Queen Elena to Signora Papa, recently ex- pelled from Asiatic Turkey. The wo- man, proprietress of a restaurant at Beyrout, was attacked by Arabs dur ing the anti7ItaIian riots and her nose Pisa where she was admitted to a hos pitai.
 Frankfort, Germany. Aug. 20.-Karl Koetschler, 8 peasant residing at Gratz, has had the unique. experience F,x H ling would-be suicide too roughly. Going home one day SC saw a man hanging from tree and promptly cut him down. The suicide, not quite dead, fell and cut his head on stone, and the doctor who attended him. sus- pecting foul play, gave Koetschler into custody He was charged with caus- ing the suicide grievous bodily harm. His defence that it was an accident was accepted and he was solennly ac- quilted and released.
 London, Aug .2O.-Commencing Oct. 15, six hundred hens will start out to beat all records In the way of egg laying during the twelve months fol- lowing. The contest which has been organized by the Utility Poultry Club. will be pulled off at Newport Shrop- shire, Eng, and valuable prizes and medals are offered. Points will be given for numbers and weight of eggs and hens are warned that anything under 1-2 ounces will mot be count ed.
 Rome, Aug. 20.--According to figures made public to-day by the department of Public Safety, from the beginning of the present hot season, about June 15, there has been a total up to date in Rome of 112 suicides or attempted sui elias c 6iraef 1<es111f oF 1nvo fairs Figures also received from the proy- inces and other Italian cities show a fatality in equal proportion
 At no time since the beginning of Italy's war with Turkey have the fa- talities to the Italian troops for an equal period been so great.
 Amsterdam, Aug 20. = Owing to a boycott on the steamship "Charon" by the dockers on Greek ports, the Royal Netherlands Steamship Company has been compelled to change its name. The men refused to work the ship on account of it's association with the, my biological old gentleman who plies the ferry across the river of the lower world. The ship has been named Ja- son.
 Rome, Arg. 2O.-The United States now :, ranks next to Italy as the country in the world having the largest Catholic hierarchy. Fol- lowing the recent creation in the Unit ed States of two new dioceses, official figures from the Vatican show that, after Italy which has 274 dioceses, the United States comes next with 84. The same figures show that the entire Catholic world iS now divided into 1,050 dioceses with residential bishops; with 256 minor organizations