The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-10
Ban Put Upon The Dance In Russia Is Copied From Germany
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(By Associated Preas.s I Paris, Jan. lo--Paris dancing naaatera are now teaching 900 steps of the tango, land many Of Che more difficult steps are being tried at the public resorts. I Afternoon tea dances are numerous, and ia the evenings, restaurants which q allow the tango are crowded with T dancers. American dance tunes, sonne of them Of not very recent origin. are played to a considerable extent. One song containing the strains of Dixie Is often heard.
 walk and of course the waltz and the I jtwo-step are danced. but preference is
 given to the tango.
 v1adikavl<a, Russian Caucasus. Jan.
 10-The chief Of police has banned the thousand Georstans composing the population of the city had ever seen i the tango, and most of them had never even heard of the dance, until they read the ukase of the police head. y1adtkaYka Is the headquarters for and peRuti3uI dances surpassing in grace and abandon the most exotic of tanRog, are watched every night
 until the early hours of the morning l city inha bitanta and visitors, The action of the police chief rather
 mystified the visitors in the city. for apparently the town was dance mad and the authorities instead of dda-s icountenancing the Tssgun dances
 rather encouraged them. Finally the secretxof the order leaked ont
 The police chief Is an ardent adnirer. of Emperor William of Germany, and when the news of the German ban against the much discussed dance was brought in by chance traveller, he los SaO in ir1e hi arFa szf model.
 London, Jan 10. An American auto mobile which was recently taken Into Iceland marks new era for that country. Not excepting the railroads, Of which there are none yet In Iceland the sAraericau car Is the first self propeiied vehicle ever seen on the. Island.
 fceIand is one Of the most ancient.
 highly organized and civilized com munfties in the world. but on account of the physical aspects Of the country the inhabitants expected to see an |aeropIane before they saw motor ear.
 The island Is only 800 miles long. and noaat line tndeatAtions are such that the coast measures 1000 miles. The inhabited IoWland iF limited and does very we'll with water traffic, while the rough highlands are practically ina- passibIe for wheeled vehicles.
 Berlin. Jan. 1o.-The canine population Of Berfin Is decreasing steadily. From 39, ,926 in 1909, the number of dogs in , the eity had dropped to 34. AS last year, according to tax statistics just Issued and an even greater decrease Is es-N timated for this year. The increasingly high cost or living, which makes the saving of tax Of q. 50 yearly big item to the poor families, is undoubt- edIy one explanation for the decrease. A further factor this year is the dog quarantine law, which has kept the animals muzxled and on leading strings for several months.
 There are 6,I10 tax-free dogs in the city, Eighty of these are owned by the Emperor and the an1s5assadors and ministers of foreign nations. There are 1,i74 draught dogs exempt from. tax. The city's income from the dog tax Is more than $25o,ooe annually.
 Copenhagen, Jan. 10.-The society for I the Protection Against White Slavery has become very energetic here, and is especially active in preventing the 1 turing away of girls to America. Tn their recent report, the directors de- f clare that they have watched closely the Mormon agitation In Denmark. for l the society considers the Mormons a. l great danger. The society states that several hundred giria, especially from Jutland. are taken to America every ! year.
 Copenhagen, Jan, 1o.-PIans to put | Greenland into wireless communic- | ation with the rest of the world are l being rapidly connpIeted. Engineers | who have returned from Greenland | report that the Kigsigut Islands on 3 the west coast are well adapted for ! the loca ton of wireless station from | which communication can be estab- I hslled with stations in Denmark and | Canada.
 It is little more than 2,ooo miles from ! Denmark to the islands, wf1ile the dis tauce to Canada fro .nthe Kagsisuts Is about l,oo0 miles.
 Paris. Jan. l0.-Jules sauzede, Dep- uty for Carcassone who died recently was noted in Paris as the most silent I. member of the Chamber of Deputies 1; During the sixteen years that he be- ionged to the Assembly he had never been known to make only one inter | ruptiou.
 One day there were very few mem |. bers in the Chamber, and attention |. was called to the fact that there was : an insufficient number to continue the [ discussion. M. Sauzede rose counted E those present, and remarked simply, E sThirty-two." It was his only parlia- E speech.
 Stockholm. Jan. 10.-The arrest of E former constable in the Swedish navy, F named Toerngren, and a youth, Hol- <. steinson. on the charge of selling E Swedish military secrets to Russia, has enabled the authorities to unearth scheme of organized and wholesale E espionage, the headquarters of which ts were in Copenhagen. H
 A number Of Russian officers. includ- ng former military attaches, and other E Russian subjects, are involved, and i of them have already left the country. either at the suggestion of the or for fear of being ar rested. The two swedas mentioned and ne z,isf, 1Haoer. nf r-aSo,-xr<, Tried l