The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-21

not make mixed parties Of visitors de |sirable, Besides the impleme nts used in the scomnfssion of famous crimes. perhaps the most interesting exhibits in the place are death masks, former ly made of every criminal executed in England.
 Berfils.s March 21-German ass! tronpneFs, are already taking a live ly interest in a total eclipse of the sun occurs August s2I. The city Of I1ambl1r is fitting out an Expedition at it's own expense, and dsPrussia will ed by Prof. Miethe; of the Fechilo- logical Institute in Eharlottenburs A number of German astronomers switl attach themselves to American expe-- ditions.
 Prof MiethA's expedition which will be chiefly for the purpose of making photographs of the eclipse. will go tol the island of AIsten, far up on the. <coast of Norway, where the path oE totality first touches the European fcontinent.
 The Hamburg expedition win male its observations in Russia. It is 11ll- derstood that the Russian astrono- mers are making extensive prepara- tions for facilitating the work of the American and, other foreign expedi-. lions by having the proper astronon:- fcal calculations worked out for each imp portant point in the path of total ity.
 Rome, March 21s-A grieuItures is proving so successful in Tripoli. the new Italian colony in Africa that the government expects to see soon a great deviation of the usual emigra- ton to the United States in favor of the opportunities near at hand The Italian soldiers in Tripoii, with the fla tigue of war past and the most UT 7r with various kinds of agriculture to learn what is best adapted to the son.
 Already immense tracts which have hitherto yielded only missiles are green with the promise of abundant crops, the government having dis among the Arabs on the condition that it is returned when the crops are gathered At Azizia the harvest of barley has been Anultiplied forty times 1 and at Sosfa medical herbs and pota- toes are being grown with great sue
 cess
 l Brussels, March 21.=The Union of International Associations composed
 of some fifty fnternational associa- lions, professional, scientific, techni- 1 cal, benevolent and political has de- I ctded to, organize a worlds congress to meet next year at San Francisco 1 during the Panartia exhibition. It appears from a communication i received from San Francisco that 2O2 various congresses have already been announced The Unions idea is that the Worlds Congress should be made up of delegates chosen by the nation
 al and international congresses which 1 will assemble in San Francisco. No
 effort has yet been made toward a program
 Paris, March 21.-A new and sim pie system of electric towing has been installed with great success on the canal from the Marne to the Rhine near Nancy. Along the banks a ser ies of stout posts has been placed fit Ited with rollers, over which run end less cables which, at each end Of the installation, pass round a drum work
 ed by electric motor The barges
 hitch their tow rope to the cable by
 a special contrivance.
 Prolonged trials have estabIished q
 that the new method costs about fifty I per cent less than any other method ltried up to the present, and is, in ad- dition, much quicker. The great sll- ease in which it can be applied any
 where without altering in any way the
 banks of the canal or the type oi
 barge used.
 Berne, March s21.s- Opponents oi the prohibition of absinthe in Swift
 zerland declare that since the law l went into effect the consumption oi that spirit has greatly increased. They
 claim that the principal effect has been to give to absinthe powerful and
 widespread publicity and to intro I duce it into many homes where il was hitherto unknown.
 Another effect has been the f1oodinu
 of the market with a host of inferior products destined to replace absintfe
 which itself is snuggled in in large
 quantities and forms a fast growth:
 and highly remunerative illicit indus | try. F a'ssssss <