The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-11

T . 1 the Austrian took the officials to task on this count. Another passenger, 1 overhearing the talk, summoned gen. darmes, who arrested the critic Only on protest by the Austrian consul was | he released.
 Before the Grecian occupation, the Turkish authorities left the street car | management free to employ Turks, Greeks or Jews, as it wished, and the men were allowed to dress as they pleased. Now, to force out the Turks, kthe Greek off1cia1s have invited" the | company, which Is Belgian, to order i the men to wear caps. The result | aimed at was accompliSneds since the Turks, rather than give up the fez, l resigned. In this summer, the Mos lems have been forced out of employ ment in many other quarters. Health certificates for brides is the demand of the Swiss Society of Pub 1 lfc Utility for Women, an influential organization having branches in the i chief cities of Switzerland The aim | of the society is to obtain healthy l wives and children in order to better the race and also make for the .happi- ness of the home.
 e It has hopes that later the govern ment will take a hand in the agitation | and require "a certificate of health from both the bride and the bride- froona, before sanctioning marriage. \ l quietly. is strongly supported by the medical profession and the university professors.
 A fine point in law has been raised in Vienna as to whether a person can be convicted of attempted murder when blank cartridges have been fred in the belief they held bullets.
 The case is that of a young woman who bought a pistol from a dealer T,Tr, shells. The girl then shot at her Iov-- i CT without doing him the slightest harm. On arrest she admitted her. in tention to murder the man, but her lawyers have now raised the point that a person can not be convicted of shooting with intent to kfl1' when 1t is impossible to carry out the inten- ton. This point is now the subject of ingenious argument on both sides.
 No home in the future will be com plete without a katathermometer, says Professor Leonard Hill of the Lon don Hospital. Also, the futurist home must be equipped with a hypo- caust to meet futurist conditions. which demand warm feet and cool head.
 Prof. Hill's sinvention, the katather-. | rnometer, tells whether the teKnpera- ture Indoors sapprodmates that out of doors, his theory being that it is ! heat in rooms. This is responsible, ! he believes, for the prevalence of | nerves troubles Houses should have plenty of air in circulation to match the air outside
 lf The hypocaust, to keep the fleet \ warm while the fresh drAughts cool the head, is an idea borrowed from the Romans It is a plan for keeping the floors warm by hues from a fur mace.
 The latest advertising scheme in | Paris, recently launched in the depths 1 of the subway, adds a, new terror to underground travel. An elegantly dressed person, appearing at one of | the main subway stations during rush hours. carried a, large leather case, apparently containing photographic apparatus He touched something at the end of thescase, and a strident me- tallic voice of some talking machine began to rec1te poem celebrating the artistic cut and perfect finish of somebody's clothes. When that was I over the waiting passengers were ad- .jured in the same tones of metallic thunder to buy a certain brand of chocolate.
 The American muskrat Is invading 1 Germany. He has not come directly i from Ameriea, but by way Of Aus l tria- About nine years ago a large | pairs of the animals from America and turned them loose on his estate i which lies some twenty-five miles from Prague. They propagated rap idly and soon over-ran all Bohemia | Recently they have crossed the Sax on frontier into Germany, and now lit is regarded as only a question of l time when all German streams and lakes will be infested with them. 1 The spread of the animals is re- -z<7.- sAr- 1t is claimed that, although a. vegetar- ian in America, the nausk-rat has 1 become carniverous in Europe, and the whole tribe of fishes, from the delicate brook trout to the heavy,
 nud-sodden carp, is preyed upon by evil habits of the animal is that he
 burrows into the dams of hsh-ponds and lets out the water.
 While the American visitor was at first regarded as a valuable acQufsi- ton to the fauna of the country and was protected against poachers, there is now a. general demand that he be
 declared an outlaw against whom ev-
 erybody shall be invited to make war.
 An American Society of Denmark
 has been formed to encourage and fa-
 cilitate the exchange of scientific and applied knowledge between Denmark
 and the United States and particular AS tO3 e1Au CCdA0l4dVlan SLuOGnLS III
 America and American students in
 Scandinavia. Help will be given
 through the society to citizens of eith-
 CT country desiring to establish trade
 relations with the other. A special l committee has been formed also to
 work with the Danish government in
 selecting students under the Ameri-
 can Scandinavian foundation, as the
 Niels Poulsen fund is called.
 | y~1,e old AosIaro ,,,-oi,,7.-. .. -..s,. -.4
 portraits is disappearing from Tur-
 key even to the extent of printing the
 likeness of his sacred majesty, the
 Sultan. Pictures of the reigning l af