The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-21

In cOnJunct1on With the imperial gov ernment. As the cost will have been paid off in 1920, the cable will then be able to rely solely upon it's earn 1ngs and rates to Australia, which have already been reduced from $2.50 a word to 5 cents, will probably be still further reduced.
 Some of the witnesses declared that so long as the control of messages between Great Britain and Canada was in the hands of foreign compan- les, the fact constituted a serious men ace to the prosperity and welfare of the British race. It was estimated that the cost of a cable to link up the British empire would cost S, 5o0,- 900 and that the working expenses, in- cluding renewal fund, would be just under $400,0 against which there would be earnings of over $700,000. It was figured that a sinking fund for repayment in fifty years of a $5,000,- 900 capital and interest would be about s2oo.OoO. leaving a substantial balance.
 peculiar bargain is being struck by some local governments in Eng land for the prevention Of the spread of disease. The Manchester city gov ernment has just agreed to grant a pension to a woman carrier of enteric germs in return for which she has given her promise to give up the keep
 
 to reports of physicians attached to the local government board, the. land lady was responsible for an epidem- ic of enteric fever among her 1odgers, and it was decided to buy her off with a weekly pension
 A more serious case is reported from the West Riding of Yorkshire where a woman employed as house Keeper at various farms is declared to be the source of sixty eases of enteric fever, six of which have proved fatal. For three years after her discharge from the hospital where she was treat. ed for the fever, she lived with her parents and no eases of infection were traced to her.
 Then she took up. work as tempo rary housekeeper in the. country and the enteric fever epidemic followed her from farm to farm. The local government board inspectors ordered her to return to the home of her pa rents and soon afterward the epidem- ic in that country ceased. The Wo- man will be paid by the local govern ment to remain at home.
 In the British army new regula- ton provides that a known carrier of enteric germs may be discharged when his condition refuses to respond to treatment and he is allowed a pen sion if he permits the fact that he is a carrier to be disclosed in his dis charge papers.
 An epidemic of humps has become so serious in London that lively busi- ness is being done inSuring business men against the disease. Mumps is not on the list of noti1able contagious diseases and the result has been that during the present period of cold damp. weather the epidemic has gone like wildfre through the office dis triet Of the city.
 One physician has written to the pa pers protesting against thes1evity with which the outbreak has been treated by the press. He asserts that the only funny thing about the disease is it's are no specifies against the humps once acquired, strong preventive measures should be taken.
 The medals gpresented to the pu- pills of the Christ Church Schools, bi-centenary of their faundation are syn1looIfcal of the curious endowment of the schools. The medals bear a representations of two asparagus leaves united by a pin The e,xplan- alton lies in the fact that in 1713 a Mrs. Catherine Bovey bequeathed her sparrow grass gardens to provide a free school for the poor children of the parish. At the same time Mir Johnson, who had made his money out OI pins, O0VOleO AA0 pIOcSe0S IO some of his property to the same pllr- pose As a result of these phi1an- thropic impulses the schools. have flourished for two centuries
 The colleges at Oxford have been having their silver reva1ued. No es- innate of the total valuation has been given but it must run into many thou sands of dollars. One or two colleges are said to have silver to the value of S1OO,OOO. Practically all this was given by old members of the colleges it being for many years the regular custom for men to give 8 benefaction of plate when they graduated. Many of the treasures are of great value, having been in the possession of the colleges from the fifteenth and six teenth centuries.