The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-15

tai population was found to be 37,e61. composed of 10,o7o Americans and
 27, ,8S1 aliens. A comparison with the
 figures of the census of February
 1914 shows that during the interval
 7,8S5 persons have departed from the Canal Zone. The previous census
 showed a total population of 46,298
 of whom s,S95 were Americans and Sb. 4O1 were aliens.
 London, Aug. 15.-The grouse shooting season opened in Great Brit
 ain. on August 12. but the prospects are for smaller bags than usual owing to two nisfortunea.
 The cold spell of last spring wiped
 out the early breods in certain areas and destroyed the clutches of eggs in exposed places. In southern and eastern Scotland, g mysterious disease believed to be due to the bad wealth CT and unsuitable food, destroyed many birds. Worst of all, was the loss of about half of the breeding stock. t
 Geneva, Aug, 15-More than r. 500,00O persons climbed the Alps, by funicular railways last year, accord ing to statistics just published There
 ways, and the authorities have before
 them demands for seven more. If
 this continues every Alp will have it's funicular in the future.
 Panama, Aug. 15.-After having spent the better part of a week in an
 extended examination of the Panama
 Canal, Philip Bunau-Varilla, ex-chfef engineer for the sdefunct New French
 Panama Canal Company, is still of
 the opinio that ultimately. the 18th
 mus of Panama will witness the con | afS, sof Ir.x11
 declares that at the end of the first
 20 years of operation of the preSent
 lock canal 1t will be found necessary to reconstruct that waterway in or1e
 to take care of the increased traffic that will use it.
 Bunau-yariIla is emphatic in his
 statement that within 20 years the
 present Panama Canal will have reached the limit of it's carrying ca
 pacfty, 5O,Oo0,OoO tons annually, and
 that then 1t will be found that only
 sea-level canal will adequately care
 for the traffic. The former canal
 engineer makes it plain. however. that
 he does not, mean to criticize the con struction of the present lock canal, but maintains that sthis is merely the secondary period in the construction
 Of waterway across the isthmus.
 Bunau-Naril1a has spent most of
 his time since his arrival on the 18th mus in making voyages of inspection along the canal In many of his trips he was. .the guest of Col. George w. Goethals, governor of the Panama Canal, who explained the work to his
 distinguished visitor. He has made a
 number ofkmotorT boat trips through the CulebrA Cut and Gatun Lake Be- sides this he, spent many hours in a careful examination of the Gatun Dam
 and the SpillwaY, and watching the work at SCucaracha Slide He was ta-
 Ixrx
 ted with many of the workmen. He
 was considerably impressed with the capacity for work shown by the huge 15-yard dipper dredges, both of which
 are actively engaged in pushing back
 the hitherto advancing toe of the
 slide.
 Tokio, July 15.-Great interest has
 been caused by the announcement that the American Episcopal Mission
 Hospital at Tokie, known as tSt. Luke's will soon be extended into a Isready a large sum of money has been contributed in the United States for this purpose; an American council has been formed. with Headquarters at
 New York and an American Woman's auxiliary board will help make the project successful. The Iatests step is
 the organization of a Japanese coun-
 cil. with Premier Count lOlxuma as president, which promises to furnish land for the hospital ~
 The institution was founded s14 years ago By pr. Rudolf B. TuesIer, who came from Richmond, Va, as a missionary doctor. It is now an in- stitutjon of 80 beds with a staff of three foreign and 10 Japanese doc tors, a nurses training school with 40 pupils and a medical society of about 50 Japanese members. The profess syrr q Imperial University are consultants to the hospital. Foreigners throughout Japan as well as members of the embassi es and legations avail themselves of the hos pital.
 The project is to erect a new instf- tuition, on the pavilion plan at 8 to- tai estimated cost of $485.O0O.
 Copenhagen. Aug. 15.-On the bill boards of Copenhagen appears the sign, s@The most dangerous of all an-
 inals is not the lion. the tiger or the
 reptile bllt-the dy.'' This is the means Herr Falck uses in waging a campaign against flies.
 Herr Falck is4 the bitterest enemy
 the fly has, in Scandinavia. and his one ambition is to see a fy1ess Den mark To preach his new crusade. he has organized in Copenhagen the first complete fly exhibition in the world It contains every kind of weapon yet invented for trapping, poi soning or smashing flies. Most of
 these contrivances come from the United States.
 An old superstition that Herr FaIck hopes to rid the people ofs is that a
 Christmas fly brings good luck A
 Christmas fly, according to Herr
 Falck. is the potential mother of 195, ,312, 100000 descendants in the
 course of the summer season.
 NEW BRUNSWICK AND