The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-28
NEWS FROM
COAST FILES
Some interesting Notes
In the Worlds
Diary.

Revelations of the impurity of foods in
Europe are made by Professor Allen
secretary OF the National Pure Food AS
ISOLATION, in his report. Professor Allen
has just returned from London, Berlin
and Paris, where he had been sent by
the association to make an investigation
| of European food products.
Allen said Il learn from the an
thorities of the municipal laboratories
of Paris that 90 per cent of the French
wines and 80 per cent of their cham
pagnes are either authorizations or irni-
tations, notwithstanding that the French
vineyards had the greatest yield the past
| two years within century, and pure
Wine itself had been very cheap. Much
| of the wine included in this 90 per cent
| never saw vineyard, and the grape
forms no part OF its composition"
Professor Allen says the French Gov
eminent has excellent pure food laws,
and entorces them against authorizations.
The French food laws prohibit all anti
septics IN food products, and, like the
Germans, they condemn the use of sac
charine, which has been used extensive
ly in France to sweeten and preserve
artificial wines.
England" says Professor Allen, SIS
the dumping ground for bad foods. Her
food laws are insufficient and poorly en-
forced"
AFTER A FOREIGN MARRIAGE.
NEW YORK, January I6.-Marquise
de. Monstrieres Merinville, formerly
Mary Gwendolen Caldwell, Kentucky
beauty and heiress, one of the founders
of the Catholic University of America
at Washington, and once the fiancee of
Prince joachim Napoleon Murat, has re-
turned to America without her husband,
and is now in a critical condition in her
apartments at the Buckingham. She IS
said to be suffering from a complication
of diseases brought on by nervous de-
rangement She has lost her hearing
and is almost totally blind
Gwendolen Caldwell was born in Ken
lucky, her mother being one of the
famous Breckenridge family. When still
a little girl she inherited from her fatherN
S., 100000, and at her mothers death, a |
few years later, inherited $500, 1000 more. |
Her engagement to Prince Murat, |
grandson OF Murat, the King of Naples, |
and of Catherine, sister of Napoleon I, |
was broken the day before the wedding |
day. The Prince insisted upon having |
control of her fortune. Miss Caldwell |
refused this. Then he offered to take |
half of it. This the American girl re-
fused. She at once broke her engage
ment and returned to America.
GABRIELLE BOMPARD.
NEW YORK, January I6-Gabrielle
the French woman who was
pardoned several months ago after serv-
ing thirteen years in prison for assist
ing her lover, Eyraud, The Stranger"
to murder middle-aged Partisan named
Gouffe, arrived today on the Cunard
liner Lucania from Liverpool. A SEN
sational feature OF her trial was her eff
ort to prove that Eyraud, who strangled
Gouffe, had hypnotized her and therefore
she was irresponsible. Eyraud was gull
otined The object of the crime was
Accompanying the Bompard woman
was CASTOR Kardos, dentist and pro-
iessionaI hypnotist" of Paris. In1migra-
ion Inspector Jackson of the boarding
staff, noting that Kardos and Bompard
occupied the same stateroon, decided to
letain them The couple were taken to
Ellis island and sent before a board of
special inquiry, which quickly decided to
exclude them They were asked If they
lad counsel and Kardos answered that
hey had not He was told he might
hey had not. He was told he might
le would do so. He will get lawyer
omorrow Bompard was excluded as
n immoral person and exconvict, and
he dentist was excluded because he was
likely to become a public charge" CHS
took in trade being Bon1pard) and on
general principles pending settle
rent of their appeal to Washington,
hey will stay in the detention apartment
N Fills island. Bompard and kardos
ONE here to give exhibitions. kardos
Iypnotizes Bompard and she goes
~, I'll the movements of the Goulfc :
murder. )
HEAD OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. !.
ROME, Jan. 16.-The Pope has just
rdered one of the most precious relics .
f Rome restored to the Church of San
ilvestro. from which it was removed
. the Vatican in 1870, when the church !
-as besieged by Italian troops The
ellie is the authentic head of st. John Z
ne Baptist. !
According to tradition the head, 4
hitch was demanded by the daughter :
Herodias as a reward of her dancing y
as carried from Palestine to Rome ten .
ago by Greek monks and 6
eposited in the Church of st. .Silvestro,
len monastery. -
Innumerable miracles are attributed
, the relic 1t was held in such es-
EN- that battles were fought for its
1ssession from 1411 until 1870,
The relic remained in the church un-
1870 when it was removed to the
atican for safety by Pope Plus IN
-. +lnirl.S there is no danger now