The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-20
INDIAN PRINCES
 SPORTING BLOOD
 STARTLES PARIS

lTyIn6nS9AV who among other things is head of the Nohammedan religion in his country, caused a sensation at Deauville Casi- no recently by his high play at bac- carat He seemed to be quite indiff- erent whether he won or lost, and many people who observed him ex- pressed their conviction that he had no actual knowledge at any time on this point
 It was the custom of the prince to 20 to the gambling rooms accompan- fed by a servant carrying 8 vaIise full of bank notes The prince, from time to time during the play would either request his servant, who stood behind his chair, to remove the plies of winnings and stuff them in the va lsse, or else to supply him with fresh bundles of 1,O00-franc notes to haz- ard Perhaps the servant was more observing than his master and knew whether fortune, smiled or not, but to observers he was as 1nscrutable as the prince, and gave no sign
 The Grand Duke Boris of Russia dI-' v,sSed the attention of on1ookers with the Aga, frequently winning or losing 'BOsoo0 C$1OsOeO) francs at a sitting.
 Americans taking their vacations at. French resorts this season have been @naazed at charges which appear to be higaaer than anywhere else in the, world A room with a bath for S5 francs ($7) day during July at one of the frequented hotels in Deauville, rose to 200 francs ($4O) day throughout August The ordinary charge for a single room at the re- sort Is 100 francs ($2O) a day. These are prices asked. of allscomers, wheth-- CT Americans, Russian Grand Dukes or Frenchmen-
 A Parisian journalist made note of his experiences at Deeuvt11e- The clerk at, the first hotel he entered re- piled to his enquiry for a room that one remained at so francs C$16) a day, just room for one person with, of course, no bath. The clerk seem ed to apologize for the low price, and to fear the visitor might suppose that a room at so trivial a rate could not be of much account we abandon it to you at so francs,'' said he, 'fbe- cause it is not large, but really is a good roonn.'' The enquirer hesi- tated at that and crossed the street to another establishment The best that could be done there was a room for 21O francs ($24) a day; he re- turned and took the 80 franc room A simple lunch at 31.50 ($6.30), a cab | to the races after considerable bar | gaining, 40 francs ($S, and dinner at 43 francs C$8.60) completed an ex- | pensive day.
 The refusal of several aerop1ane | manufacturers to enter their machines for the International Cub competition at Rheims, indicates that aerial rac- | ing is going the way of automobile | racing
 Designers- aver that the aover-en- | gined and lightly constructed air ma chimes built for speed do not actually | advance aviation more than machines i built for automobile racing alone are | fit for everyday practical use. Avia- | tfon appears to-day to be entering up | on a period in which study and ex- pertinent will be carried out in the | direction of heavier, slower and safe | machines The effort will be to drive 1 a heavier apparatus at a speed less dangerous than a mile-a-minute or | more. the velocity attained by most | lightweight aeroplanes of this season. 1
 President Poincare received four | centenarians during his recent visit to | the Limousine country. The eldest | was 1O6. The youngest, 100 years. .old, | had been the postmaster of the village of Vaulr-y for sixty-seven years.
 The President was told, as are all | visitors to the Limousin, that health | and long life are the finest products | Of the region Besides the four cen tenarians, the President was told of ten other persons who were 99 years old, and of twenty near the village of l Vau1ry~ who are in sound health, al though well along in the tenth de- cade
 M schomel-Roy, a resident of Yer
  self on account of his age. He re- gently started civil proceedings in an infringement case, and it came out during the hearing that he was born August 25, 1907, at Versailles, and | that he saw Napoleon 1, frequently. l Owing to the fact that his father had an appointment at Napoleon's court, | M. SchorneI-Roy frequently played with the little King of Rome
 Count Stenboch Fermor, of the Isl and of Great Lyakersky, New Siberia, has presented to the natural history museum in Paris what is considered to be the finest specimen of a man. moth yet found.
 The gift. is especially interesting be- cause the animal had not finished di- gesting his, last meal at the moment of his death, countless centuries ago. Thus the sa1ants are, for the first time, able to study accurately the na- ture of the flora of the far distant epoch; they have simply to examine the contents of the mammotln's stom- ach- He was found in absolutely complete condition in a strata of ice. The skin, which is without a scratch, is covered with reddish hair, thick and soft to the touch as that of a lap dog The work of digging out the monster from his priHneval cold stor- age and bringing him to Paris was one of extreme difficulty: The body was cut carefully into pieces, each one labelled, and then carried 1,8OO miles to a railway line on dog s1edges.
 The museum has come into posses sion of the skeleton of an enormous dinosaurus found near Majunga, on the west coast of Madagascar, by the explorer Perrier de la Battle. Some idea of the dimensions of this mon ster may be gained from the fact F. that strong man can barely lift one section of the vertebrae. Although only partially disinterred, the natural history experts of the museum esti- mate from measurements of the parts they already have that this dinosau- rian consid erablY exceeds in size the |