The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-01-29
NEWS FROM
COAST FILES
Some Interesting Notes
In the Worlds
Diary.

Revelations of the impurity OF foods i'll
Europe are made by Professor Allen,
secretary OF the National Pure Food AS
sociation, 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 att
thorities OF the municipal laboratories
OF Paris that 90 per cent of the French
wines and SO per cent OF their cham
pagnes are either adulterations or imi-
tations, Notwithstanding that the French
vineyards had the greatest yield the past
two years within a 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
ernment has excellent pure food laws,
and eniorces them against adulterations.
he 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, "is
the dumping ground for bad foods. Her
! food laws are insufficient and poorly en-
+ forced"
AFTER A FOREIGN MARRIAGE.
NEW YORK, January l6.-Marquise
de Monstrieres Merinvile, formerly
Mary Gwendolen Caldwell, Kentucky
beauty and heress, one of the founders
| OF the Catholic University of America
at Washington, and once the tancee of
Prince Joachim Napoleon Murat, has re-
turned to America without her husband
and is now in critical condition in her
apartments at the Buckingham. She Is
said to be suffering from complication
of diseases brought on by nervous de-
rangemcnt. She has lost her hearing
! and is almost totally blind.
Gwendolen Caldwell was born in Ken
tucky, her mother being one OF the
famous. Breckenridge family. When still
little girl she inherited from her father
s., 100000, and at her mothers death, a
few years later, inherited $5oo,ooo more.
Her engagement to Prince Murat,
grandson OF Murat, the King of Naples,
and of Catherine sister of Napoleon |,
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
Bompard, 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 ef-
fort to prove that Eyraud, who strangled
| Goutfe, had hypnotized her and therefore
she was irresponsible. Eyraud was gull
lotined. The object OF The crime was
robbery
Accompanying the Bompard woman
was CASTOR kardos, dents ed pro-
fessional hypnotist" of p; is lln era
ton Inspector Jackson OF lie boar ding
staff, noting that Kardos and Bompard
occupied the same statei oon dec ded to
detan them. The couple weie taken to
Ellis island and sent be ore board of
special inquiry, which qliclly decided to
+ exclude them. They wee asked if they
had counsel and Kardos answered that
they had not. He was told he might
they had not. He was told he might
he would do SO. He will get lawyer
tomorrow. Bompard was excluded as
an immoral person and eXconvict, and
the dentist was excluded because he was
likely to become public charge" (his
stock in trade being Bompard) and on
general principles" perding settle
ment OF their appeal to Washington,
they will stay in the detention apartment
on Ellis island. Bompard and Kardos
%, come here to give exhibitions. kardos
hypnotizes Bompard and size goes
thu, Sh the movements of the Gouff,
murder.
HEAD OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.
ROME, Jan. 16.-The Pope has just
ordered one of the most precious relics
of Rome restored to the Church of San
Silvestro, from which it was removed
to the Vatican in 1870, when the church
was besieged by Italian troops The
relic is the authentic head of ST. John
the Baptist.
According to tradition the head,
which was demanded by the daughter
of Herodias as reward of her dancing,
was carried from Palestine TO Rome ten
centuries ago by Greek monks and
deposited in the Church of st. Silvestro,
then a monastery.