The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-09
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house property in Vienna amount to
 more than AZ per cent of the gross
 rentals, any reduction would be ex-
 treme1y welcome.
 workers living in suburbs are
 found to be badly crowded, as many
 as eight persons sometimes occupy
 ing a fiat that consists of one small
 room and a kitchen.
 Notwithstanding that the Austrian
 Governm ent's tobacco monopoly
 three years ago increased the retail
 price of cigars and cigarettes. the
 smoking habit appears to have held
 its ground, yielding to the state
 a year. The tobacco nnonopoIy's re-
 port for $1912, which has just been
 issued, shows 43.000,000 profit, an
 increase Of about $ss000,000 over the
 preceding year.
 Cigars had a great falling off, there
 smoked during 1912,y g decrease of 82,000, 900 as compared with the pre-
 vious year, but the consumption of cigarettes reached the enormous to-
 tai lllsof 6.222, o0e.ooo-
 Telephone and telegraph facilities
 are being rapidly extended in the Re-
 public of Panama in anticipation of
 a greatly increased demand for lines
 Of gcommuntcation when the canal is opened. The Department of Public
 Works recently has ordered 1,sO0 miles Of telephone and telegraph
 wire, the larger part of the order be- ing placed in the United States The
 frsA new line to be constructed Will
 be to David the most, important town in the Republic outside of Pan- anna City and Colon. The whole ex- penditure will amount to some $500,- 900.
 The famous yacht, Princess Alice, formerly owned by the Prince of Mon aca and used by him in his deep sea researches, has been purchased by Lord InYercIyde, who will take par ty of friends on her to San Francis co for the opening of the Panana,- Pacific International Exposition. The Emperor of Germany who since his visit to the Swiss rnanoeu- vers two years ago. has shown great interest In the Swiss army, believes that the present somewhat dark 111ai-l form worn by the Swiss Alpine troops makes them too conspicuous against a background of snow. He has there- fore just Forwarded through his min fster at Berne a hundred square yards of a specially made gray blue cloth to- the Federal government The gift has been accepted with thanks and the cloth is now being converted in to uniforms for the Alpine company as an experiment It is not said, however that if the experiment will provide a larger stock to clothe all the Swiss Alpine battalions- The Catholic Church, have con- demned ilnnodest attire of women, has carried the war 9 step further. The Archbishop of Besancon has is- sued warning to parents; through Tall the abbes and cures in his dfo- cese which touches the western Swiss frontier. that in the future neither given to youne girls who are dressed in the present extreme fashions, which in his opinion are indecent Following is the order issued to the congregations.
 Y oling girls must not have their arms naked and above all they must
 not come to Church decollete If the present ridiculous fashion continues we shall be obliged to make exam pies by refusing to admit to confrma- ton and the communion young girls,
 dressed up in the images of the The Archboship in his sermons re- gently denounced the modern dresses and dances.
 A yOIA s 4AAt4 IL O1 OAaLznE ulE1S ca aQ- pearance who calls himself Prince karageorgevitch, and who has been supposed to be a son Of the King Of Servfa, was arrested at Lugano re- centIy accused of cheating at cards. He appears to have had many vic- tirns among rich American and Eng fish tourists at bridge and baccara a. The Prince occupied magnificent apartments and entertained generous l 1y- He usually. lost when the stakes were small but when they were high he won. Finally two women sus-
 pected him of cheating and inform ed the police.
 A detective who posed as a rich American from New ork registered 1 at one of the hotels and was pres ent1y introduced to the circle of the z Prince The usual thing happen- l ed z The stakes were high and the Prince was winning. After mak- l ing sure that marked cards were be- ! ing used the detective called in sew era1 agents Of police, and took the Prince and all his baggage to the l police station.
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