The Iola register., 1884-02-15
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


The use of nursing bottles for chill
dren is strictly prohibited at the Paris
Maternity Hospital.
The people of London. it is said.
pay $500, ,OO0 every year for water sold
as milk.
There is a modiste in Paris who
cuts and trims for dogs only. In her
establishment a,e mats and rugs on
which the animals repose while waiting
to try on their garments.
Mr.. Casatta, the eminent Neapoli-
tan coral dealer twho gained the first
prize at the fisheries EXhibition), esti-
mates the value of the coral exported
from Naples by sea last year at nearly
$1,000, 900.
Much of France, nearly all OF Spain
and large porto of Italy are entirely
destitute of fores;s. The tourist can
travel day after day in these countries
without seeing standing timber enough
to make a decent-sized barn.
1t is related of President Grevy, of
France. who is we'll known to be skill
full billiartSPlayer, that he recently in
vited the famous professional player
VignauX to the Elysee, and that the two
men played together. kumors are now
afoat that the President actually beat
the professional player.
The Hungarian Ministry of Inter-
nal Communication b; s issued orders
that only officials of the rank OF min
ister.al councillor shall be allowed to
step Oh the staircase carpets, and that
all officials below that rank must mount
or descend on the uncarpeted strips of
the staircases. These important orders
are intended to save the state carpets.
According to the statement of the
Vice Director of the Rio Janeiro Facul-
ty of Medicine, in Brazil, where all the
inhabitants take coffee many times a
day, alcoholism j. unknown; it is fur
ther stated that immigrants contract
little by little the fondness of the Bra
zilians for drinking coffee, and their
ersion 'or liquors; and as the chill
dren of these immigrants never con-
tract the fatal habits known to their
parents, it would seem that the number
of drunkards in the country is in in
verse ratio to the amount of coffee con-
SulHcu- ~ EOtlll hincIiC1l CO lcSpOuu-
ent of the Medical Times confirms the
above.
Singers are most superst.tious
race, and mot of them have some pam
q .ea of their own t, which they attach
impli, it faith. Herr Stockhausen, the
great German bar tone, partakes absO-
Iutely of no solid food on the days when
he has to sing. A famous tenor takes
sips of champagne in the intervals of
acting great lady artist believed in
the efficacy of Guinness stout; oysters.
raw egg beaten with sugar and slices
of cUcl mber are named among the in
hume able eccentr remedies resorted
to by our numerous Lucas and Manri-
cos, Lohengrins and Elsas.
In letter to the London Times on
'Genuine and False Inscriptions in Pal
estine,' NJ. Clermont Ganneau says
tn re e only seven inscriptions which
certainly belong TO the historical past
of the country, and he adds, with great
conpla 'ency, "by piece of good luck,
81 of these ha allen to my share.
He also says that, to remedy the dearth
of ancient monuments. there were es-
tablishcd ut jerua EN- several years
ago certain manufacturers or the fabri-
cation of ant qUitieS at prices sometimes
moderate, sometimes fairly remunera-
We, not only for the benefit of tor r
lists. but also of SG ans, which is more
serious"