The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-02-14
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The use of nursing bottles for chill
dren is strictly prohibited at the Paris
Maternity Hospital.
Tho people of London, it is said,
pay $780, 900 every year for water sold
as milk.
There is 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.
MIR. Casatta, the eminent Neapoli-
tan coral dealer (who gained the first
prize at the Fisheries EXhibition), esti-
mates the value of the coral exported
from Naples by sea last year at nearly
100000.
Much of France, nearly all of Spain
and large port ons of Italy are entirely
destitute of forcs'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 well known TO be a skill
full billiard playe", that he recently in
vited the famous professional player
NignauX to the Elysec, and that the two
men played together. Rumors are now
ahoat that the President actually beat
the professional player.
The Hungarian Ministry of Inter-
nal Communication has issued orders
that only officials of the rank of min
isterial councillor shall be allowed to
step on the staircase carpets, and that
all officials below that rank must mount
or descend on the uncarpeted strips OF
the slaircases. These important orders
are intended to save the state carpets.
According to the statement of the
Vice Director of the Rio Jane 70 Facul-
ty of Medicine, in Brazil, where all the
inhabitants take coffee many times a
dav, alcoholism j. unknown; it is fur
Their stated that immigrants contract
little by little the fondnesS of the Bra
zilians for drinking coffee, and their
ersion for 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-
sumed. A South American correspond
ent of the Medical Times confirms the
above.
Singers are most superstItious
race, and most of them have some pan
ga of their own t. which they attach
implicit faith. Herr Stockhausen, the
great German baritone, partakes abso-
lutely of no solid food on the days when
he has to sing. A famous tenor takes
sips of champagne in the intervals OF
acting; a great lady artist believed in
the efficacy of Guinness stout; oysters,
raw egg beaten with sugar and slices
of cucumber are named among the in
Vulnerable eccentric remedies resOrted
to by our numerous Lucas and Manri
cos, Lohengrins and Elsas
In a letter to the London Times or
"Genuine and False Inscriptions in Pal
estine,' NJ Clermont -Ganneau says
there a'e only seven inscriptions which
certainly belong to the historical past
of the country, and he adds, with great
complacency, "hy piece of good luck
six of these have fallen to my share.
lie also says that, to remedy the deartt
of ancient monuments, there were es
tablshcd ut Jerusalem several years
ago certain manufactures for the fabri
cation of antiquities at prices sometime
moderate, sometimes fairly remunera
tive, not only for the benefit of tot +
lists, but also of S0cantS, which is NOR;
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