The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-07
3 PARIS
AMERICANS NOW IN FRANCE
MILDLY CELEBRATE FOURTH
Year and
Deathknel Sounded for Racing No Bull Fighting
for raris-Sncial Season ill French Capital Coming


!, own misdeeds. some years ago they set the
fashion of wavy tresses, with the result
that many women are becoming bald. and
the demand for false locks has increased
tenfo1d. The Present vogue Of Louis XIV
and Louis XVI hats. necessitating compii-
Gated cOiffures. has also helped matters
tonsorial One artist told me gleefully that
he had just sold to an American lady two
pure white tresses for a thousand francs
600. which cost him five francs GID per
gramme.
The annual fair at Limoges for the sale
Of hair has Just concluded with . record
figure far exceeding the averaxe hundred
thousand.
Prices ranged from sixty to a hundred
francs ($l2 to 500 per kilogramme. LOUIS
Philippe tooknots all so in Paris. Pointed
boards are out OF fashion. They must be
fan-shaped.
AIR. Armand Charpentier. the well-knowH
author, has just defied superstition In his
attest work, which IL entitled Lies Theize
Jours d'Annett..' This was composed by
thirteen competitors. bound by thirteen
bookbinders. printed by thirteen machines
in thirteen editions and published on June
Is. NJ. Charoentier Is evidently making an
effort to destroy the ill-Iuck which sup
posed always TO be associated with the
number thirteen.
FRENCH AUTHORITIES WILL
NOT PERMIT BULL FIGHTING.
bull fight at the fremont bull ring has
been forbidden by the Minister Of the In
terror after all the preparations were made.
II appears that the managers had not con-
suited the authorities The police waited
until the last moment and then forbade the
show.
Donna Tancreda Mercedes. the heroine,
was to have remained motionless in q white
Toov ~ A he 10 Tn
this statuesque attitude the bull would have
approached her. and, according to theory
and precedent. would have turned and fled.
Unfortunately sometimes the bull takes an
other and more sanguinary view OF the
matter.
The difficulty of classifying ccnscripts in
the French army. according TO fitness for
service. has been ingeniously solved by NJ.
Plgnot. French army surgeon. His meth
cd is based on the relations OF chest meas
urement and weight. He adds the chest
measurement to the weight and deducts the
result from the height The smaller the
residuum the greater Is the endurance of the
subject. Thus, a young man OF 20 has an
average chest measurement OF 80 centimeters
and weighs 60 kilogrammes. The sum OF
these ID no His average height Is / meter
60 centimeters. Deducting 140 from $50 gives
20 as the classification.
The numbering ranges from 10. very
strong. to s.. very weak. An examination
of 40 men has fully borne out the conclu-
sion that the higher tho residuum is the
greater is the liability to illness and vice
versa.
DOCTORS CLAIM TO HAVE
MADE IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
At Tuesdays meeting Of the Academy Of
Medicine a paper was read announcing
discovery by Doctor Louis Julian and Doc
. tor Justin de Lisle destined to revolutionize
the therapeutics OF syphiliform maladies.
The microbe of this dread disease, which
claims over $1,000 victims yearly, has been
isolated and cultivated. 1t is in the form
of a short bacillus.
The Cardinal Archbishop Of Paris has ap-
pointed a canOnical court to ascertain
whether the mummifed remains of That's,