The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-02

last night as a result of eating ar senic-poisoned pie in the SheIburne Restaurant, New York. Eighty are i'll and several are near blindness. The authorities believe that piecrust was deliberately poisoned It is difficult to understand the state of mind of the person who will perform an act as diabolical as this. The insane us- ually have some objective and do not attempt the wholesale destruction of persons whom they do not know. and in whom they have no interest.
 Civilization has many pitfalls for tha unwary. Mrs. Frank Shipley, Newark, and her two sons were turn in blue yesterday and had to be re- moved to the hospital. They sprink- led their home with oil of mirbane, a. disinfectant supposed to be harm less. The basis of this oil is bit ter almond juice, from which prussic acid is extracted, one of the deadliest poisons known to chemistry.
 Henry Lee. formerly mayor, makes an interesting gift to the city libra ", a collection of the charters Of Bridgeport adopted since the city was incorporated. These charters tell the story of the oft-repeated at tempt of the citiens to rid themselves of the baneful effects of the partisan spirit in municipal government. In the beginning the aldermen and ooun- ci1 had most of the authority, CO., operating with the town meeting. This system. too cumbersome to be effective, has been changed at one point and another some hundreds of times. The power of government is so diffused, the wonder is city functions at all.
 Harry Roland. well known in Bridgeport, dies in Dublin of wounds received in the Irish war. An incl dent like this makes vivid to the mind the reality of transactions which are taking place in Ireland. The mind is a feeble instrument. It appreci- ates scarcely at all the meaning of distant events. The death which oc- CUTS before the eyes, moves the heart with keen sympathy. Occurring many miles away, it has the effect of a moving picture, in which there is only q mildly curious interest
 The Earl of Balfour. acting foreign secretary, has addressed @ note to France. Italy. Jugo-slaviae Rou- mania. Portugal and Greece 'The British government cannot treat the repayment" he says. "of the Anglo American loan as If it were an tso- lated incident in which only the United States and Great Britain had any concern" ''The transaction" he continues, 'is but one of a connected series in which Great Britain appears sometimes as a debtor and sometimes as a creditor" He adds that if Great Britain must pay what she owes, she cannot omit the collection of what is owed her. This is a. world in which events are closely related. 1t is one world.
 Silas Rosenstein, six-year Told At lantic City boy. when eating his din, ner, bit his tongue. He Is slowly bleeding to death and surgeons have been unable to stop the flow of blood. Transmission will be attempt ed. In all of these cases it is not the injury which Is the proximate cause of death. but the state of health that existed when the injury occurred. More often than not, the particular disease to which death is attributed is but the axe by which the weakened timber is cut down.
 Prince Aymon de Faucigny-Lucinge is dead at his home. Chateau Char donneau, near Tours. France. The item interests Americans because the Princess was Mrs. Joseph Stickney, an American whose husband, coal operator, died in 1903, leaving her s10, 900. The true nobility of a country are those who are doing the big work now. The ancient nobility are merely the descendants of those who once did the work. The king led his troops to battle, yielding a wicked axe. Kings are a disappear ing commodity because nowadays they have usually no particular function in the state.
 Comes from London. via the Daily Express, g. plea to American tourists gathered about the shiny topped tables and bars of British public houses" to stop talking about pro- hibition. Morning, noon and night, these Americans discuss nothing, says the Express, but ''the failure of prohibition in the United States