The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23
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 NEWS FROM ABROAD
wind From Cannon Rails Causes Illness and Even
 Death.
French Chamber Of Deptsties IS Slowly Becoming Social
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 Paris, May 2s Curious con firnaa- tioh ox the belief that man onn be killed and wounded by the. wind Of passing projectiles was given in q paper by Professor I1aurant. of Brus- aelE, read recently before the French Academy Of Science. @ s$
 hE Laurarat declared that several during the Balkan wars of soldiers who showed symptoms of cerebro- spinal diHtur bance. though they had no wound of any kind Tn syrnp- toms were faInling. tSng1Ing sensa- eion and even partial paraiysts n the more serious cases the yicf ms became ca1a1eptic- Spnaetinats death 4s.salted Tn the latter eases autpp- sfes were performed which Tailed to show any nervous Iesions
 if then appeared to Professor x@nxart that the vibrations of air produced bv the passage Of a bslI and f.fe sudden variations of atm pspherdc ! nre4azrre affected the nerve cells and { ssza razsed the pfss414n@na of inhihitaon- Fsruepzrsor IaurarAk recalled that ds1r- ar7ar the s4var i'm ALanchuxza Dr. MatlE- non had aaso observed ifihlbsx1on nrodslced b cannon balls. since the @1eea of r1sodern projecti1es Ilas been
 
 5rz4portarFt to warfare Prufessso AszzI- rant looks for large nu1nber of cases of the kind tndscate ed during conf1lch asss
 rme meet frnr orfsnt fact hr-oa1 g11t o..f bv the 1s14 elections Tor the r*hsxr1ser ef peputfea is the ew bnt asrd<7ed progress na7e by E3ciaziszn H@l4sa 4n MI the mere sIBmdft>aaat be- &s1assa theA body of French eopls 1s 5s.4sss<sgy ssonservatfye and cli1ass to s1dztzre things tenarapusly n edghE Bv sz6.gTz In the e1ect4cn cf 1908, HE party received sT ,9e9 votess t his xflt.re v4as increased 10 4 II .661 m 4a1u. ana tznzs year tAae Boc1a list cam 5{Hafes po1led altogether 3 s8, 714 votes The total nunnber cf pn71ed being ss 2s, SIS. the soeiaaasr as1 rtoe amounts to lattle ovad s per
 ps.,a 4s,a. 1faLy zs.-D One Of inc most fotHersorne pieces of work on the <:anaal nan just been completetE Tor aver four Enorths w0rk faass ps7s5n sa.. v. nroeresS on the dfke known as E&4no sss asa1e which " aA built to prev e1at E Ekzalz71s $ Lake from running into the < M Mfr4m45x ocean The dfle is locaf- ea about f6 milas north of Ga tnn and tsn only bs reached by boats on taa- s,7~ Tsa7xss. Il Al 4inax point the slrHace tsf +7ae lake reached to within q lew fe.t of a low narrow ridge through TFHfSh the wntefe uaiszht have worfSea fhe7r way azzd thus washed Q pas
 To prevent fsatA taae sal lFs, oi saddle. 5D feet high and bout IF o0 sf'set lszae. wa# constr ucted Duufng the course ef &fae Sv0rk About 4,fop xnem were empIayed. tlzts great nurn Der 7>si1sg necssse.zy bseasase 7f ttss prsy1 fnk place for horaes oE tnosquitoss and every man taken into tie place Tfab aIfs9st snetantiy affected It IS SA5d thak every white men who worked on the job was br pu sElt out sssssss. Tn spite of tlaik. however. not death occurred, every one gthe la@ norexs having recovered their health eu being brought back tc the Canal Zone
 caristianaa. May 2&The question of Norwesian enzmieration to Cena+ da has been brought Into pr onaia1- Hxzce by the trial acf II bel suit gainst the editors of the AEtenpost brought by the agent of the Cana- z in the snif was David Jacobs sn, N'hoa %wAs until recently the Norwegian Eansu1 at Montreal He returned to Nor way recently to take charge of the railway,s ipanni grafton agency here
 While fn Canada Mr. Jacob seu sent reports tp his government dennunc- ing the alluring premises held out by the Canadian a1ithor1tfes for attract ing enierants- He represent ed that the railways gave the most diff1cuIt work tD Norwegian aabors rs that fheae were ipadeuuately paid and not we'll protected legally On trip horne EIr. Jacobsen gave lee eurez in which hs expressed the sa ma views.
 The libel suit was based or an arr ficIe which criticised the former con- ahl. comparing bis work as sgent to promote emigration to Canada to his consular utterances upon the sub~ 5erf Tha verdict was in favor of fhe newspaper.