Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-14
Foreign Notes ofReal Interest. London theater going is said to have de-

clined to @ remarkable extent Beefsteak and black coffee are said to have reduced 6 lady of 1S2 pounds to l40. One of the most eminent English physi- clans recently said that every modern house ought to be destroyed after it had been built for sixty years.
 Jesse Fothergill, the novelist, author of ''The First Violin" Peril" and other works, died at Berne on July 30. aged forty years. She was born in Manchester. The..iewels and bric-a-brac of the actress Leonide Leblanc have been sold in Paris with unuaual results. A pearl neck lace of 2l2 big pearls brought 2SO, 900 francs
 Jacques, who in January last, at Christ jana, Norway, lasted forty-seven days, is now in the first stage of fifty days fast in London. He began weighing 142s pounds.
 The Cossack lieutenant, Backmontoff, has walked from Vladivostock to St. Petersburg in thirteen months, and has since started for Paris. He is accompanied by small gray dog.
 The champion bicycler of France, NJ. Dubois, has been murdered near his home at Lux. He was riding home one night, when for no justifsble reason a workman became irritated at him. and, ouarrelling killed him with a crowbar. The shape of some of the new clothes for Frenchmen is eccentric in the extreme One sort of jacket is worn buttoned at the waist, with skirts like a frock coat, and | very low-crowned and broad -brimmed hat makes the Parisians look like English curstes.
 About 25,OO0 Germans, Austrians, and Austrian Poles in the southwestern pro l vince of Russia will have to leave in con- | sequence of the rule in Podolia, Kieff, and Valhynis that colonists of the above | named nationalities must become Russian | subjects.
 The decline of French cookery is said to have begun about 1850. The restaurants began to deteriorate through the Paris ian diner losing his aesthetic sense and many of the best chefs being attracted to London by the high offers of the English nobility and club.
 Antoinette Sterling, the we'll known con- tralto, who used to sing in oratoria here and in England, and who has lately joined | the Quakers, created an unusual sensation at 8 meeting at Legtonstone. After the meeting she sat for a long time without the spirit moving any one to speak, Mime. Sterling got up and sang. Singing is un- heard of in Quakers' meetings, but she sang ''Rest in the Lord" without an inter ruption. Afterward one of the elders ap- | preached her and said: ''Thee knowest,
 sister, that it is against the rules but if
 the Lord telleth thee to sing thee must
 ''Can a hypnotized person be made 10
 commit crimeF was very emphAtically an-
 swered in the affirmative by Doctor Voisin
 of Paris in a paper delivered before the
 British association He suggested to &
 subject under his influence to commit acts
 of ineendiarism while hypnotically asleep,
 and there was obedience in each case
 More than that, woman was recently
 sentenced in Paris for 6 succession of acts
 of robbery. It WAS ascsrtained that she
 had been habituAlly hypnotized, and upon
 investigation it was discovered that she
 had robbed under the suggestion of out
 side parties.
 The Swiss watch trade has undegone 6
 e complete transformation during the past
 fifteen years, owing to the work being done
 in large manufactures instead of at the
 homes of the watchmakers The result is
 that there are much better watches at less
 cost, and greater sales. There are schools
 for teaching watchmaking at Geneva,
 Neuchatel, La Chaux des Ponds, Locie,
 Bienne, St. Imier, and Porrentruy. In the
 last six years the number of watches ex-
 ported from Switzerland has increased
 from 2, 734, ,534 in 1885 to 4,43l 1901 last
 year, the figures not including the works
 and cases exported sepatately. Altogeth-
 CT, the value of the exports last year is cal
 culated at S20, 100000.