The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-04
OUR FOREIGN LETTER

Paris, Sept. 4-The Society of Tele- phone Subscribers, an associa tion fciency of the governm ent- owned tele- phones in France, has just made Dr. seroison. of Paris, against the telephone administration. The doc tor was frequently bothered by pa tients informing him that they could number was obtained, the reply fre- quently was that no such person as Dr. Serioson was known at the ad- dress. Five years of this passed. Then having lost many patients through bad telephone service, the doctor investi- gated and discovered that his mum Der still another person as well as to him self. So he brought suit. He got a verdict for $40 damages, but the ad- ministra tion appealed and the verdict was reversed. the Court finding that the State, though proprietor Of the telephone lines, was not responsible directory. France has six telephones per 1000 people. Holland has Il, Ger many 16, and the United States s1.
 vie1 ra Sept. 4-FIungarian official dom does not admit that you have any right to stop a train just because you want to jump out and rescue a drown ing person. A passenger on the~state railway found this out when travel ing across the bridge over the Waag river, he saw a boat capsize. Its oc-
 
 drowning so he promptly pulled the signal to stop the train and plunged into the river. His fellow passengers cheered Justify when he got the drown guard pointed out that the train was in no danger and that cons eQuentfy 1t was misdemeanor to pull the danger Nieutra, he gave the heroic rescuer into c1etody- The man was eventually released with a warning, thanks to h nSfe of @I7n
 By majority of fifteen to one the town council of Nagy Perkate, Hun gary has decided to tax bachelors for the benefit of the childrens' hospital The solitary dissentient was the only bachelor on the council Finding his protests unheeded he is appealing to the provincial authorities to veto the proposal.
 London. Sept That the 5OO:OoO ma tives who form the population of the Indian state of Jhalawer are to have chance of trying constitutional gov ernment, is due largely to their rulers desire for a new sensation. The Ma haraja of Jhalwar, is enlightened despot who is allowed a pretty free hand by the British authorities. and while in London he amused himself by looking into the conSt itu tiona1 Sys- tenn. He was tiekled to death by Brit ish parliamentary methods and inn medfatedly decided to experiment on his own account. Like a cautious des- pot, however he isn't going to allow his subjects too much freedom all at once, and he does not figure giv- ing votes to more than about five thousand Of his most trustworthy men just yet.
 Professor Bernard Novamber, fa- nous New York scientist, has come over to teach the British how to win the 1916 Olympiad. He has come to teach them how to cook. The connec- tfon between the two things may not be apparent at first, but in an inter view he told the reporter, If the English people want to regain their lost supremacy in the athletic field, the first and most important step to be taken is to educate the average English housewife in the fine art of cooking
 During the course of several visits to England" he declared, 'T have discovered that the women of the mid de and lower classes; sspeeialy Lon Lon ledge of cooking. She is also more CT less wasteful-'
 So the professor intends to start a movement for the inauguration of open air evening cookery classes.
 Turin, Spet. A twlve-inch cannon being installed in the Italian fortifica tions at the summit of Mount Chaber- ton crashed down the side of the mountain the other day for a distance ian soldiers who had been supervising it's installation. By almost a miracle only one of the soldiers were seriously injured, the others catching the trees and bushes as the cannon hur- | tied downward.
 l The big gun had just been hauled to the top of the mountain as one of the twelve 12-inch pieces that are to | compromise a part of the aramanent 1 of what is to be the loftiest fortress | in the world. It was being installed on a part of the mountain over 12,GO0 1 feet high and in a position that would | command miles of the border between France and Italy when the founda-