Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-04
FALLIERES WILL
HAVE NO PICTURES
OBJECTS TO ANY LIKENESS OF
HIMSELF AT ALL
Ministers and Public Men Cannot un.
derstand His Repugnanee In This
Advertising Aae-Revenue
from Photographs
ny ARTHUR w, BAMoUREUx

ny ARTHUR W. L'AMoUREUx
Special Gable to The Herald.
PARIS, Nov. S.-President Fallieres,
in this advertising age, has an incom-
prehensible, extraordinary and para
doxical repugnance to having his por-
trait taken. Ministers and public men
generally cannot understand it, and
still less photographers and artists.
The medallion which is always stamped
by the mint on the accession of new
presidents has, in the case of M. Fal-
Heres, actually been turned out with
no portrait of him, but only decorative
emblems and the inscriptions. Now,
at last, however, the president has con-
sented to sit for his official portrait,
which, according to custom, will be
reproduced in about a hundred thou
sand copies, to be hung in every town
hall and government office of France
The obligation, in fact, is one which
M. Fallieres could not possibly get out
of. If the presidents portrait were not
hung in every country marie, country
folk would certainly believe him to be
not real rightful president, but a
usurper. The artist who is to depict
NJ. Fallieresat last is a young but al
ready most academic painter and en-
graver, having been the pupil of that
ultra-academic master, Bougpereau
The order is worth a good deal of
money, as the artist draws copyright
fees, amounting to $4,000 or so, on every
replica, besides, of course, the sum
down for the original AS long as the
president remains in Office the portrait
brings in a small but regular revenue
to the artist.
Old Miser Dead
There has just died at Belley an old
gentleman of 72, who during his life
time was notorious for his eccentric
and miserly habits, though he was in
possession of an income of $4,000 His
funeral was attended by a large num-
ber of relatives, who were astonished
to discover only a few copperS in the
house after the funeral. The will was
then opened, and it read as follows:
MY dear relatives, 1 am afraid you
are going to be disappointed. 1 know
that none of you have any sort of af-
fection for me, and that If you come
to my funeral it will be in the hope of
dividing up between you whatever l
may leave behind me. 1 now inform
you that 1 have left no money what
ever. 1 sank the whole of my fortune
some years ago in life annuity. All
the money that remained over and
above that L spent of the annuity L
have given away or burned, in order
that you should not have it. l hope
this will be little surprise for you"
A search revealed, however, $7500
worth of annuity stock, the coupons
of which appeared to have remained
unpaid; but on going to the bank to
have these coupons cashed, the heirs
discovered that the coupons had been
paid, but at the special request of the
old gentleman, who had given a sepa-
rate receipt for each coupon, they had
not been Cancelled.
This is only little surprise 1 am
nI nr hot 10
Burned His Money
1t appears that on the occasion of
the annual village festival this year the
old gentleman deliberately burned
$4,000 worth of bank notes, which he
found he had been unable to spend.
Stricter regulations are being intro
duced with regard to the use, or
rather abuse, of the telephone by vari-
Gus men of business at the bourse
They have been in the habit of secur-
ing a telephone, and monopolizing it
for any amount of time, communicat-
ing with different towns the while and
making their plans accordingly. 1t ap-
pears that there have been lively eX-
changes among boursiers and their
clerks, who had arrived on the stroke
of noon for the purpose of occupying
the telephoneic cabins" The postof-
fee authorities say that such state
of things could not be tolerated any
to the detriment of the public, by per-
sons who deliberately prolonged their
communications by means of a num-
ber of subterfuges." One firm in an
other big French city had upward of
fourteen subscriptions to the telephone,
which enabled it to monopolize it for
more than an hour with it's agent in
Paris. So, while one set of business
men was sending information all over
the country, and receiving it as well,
another batch was debarred from even
the most ordinary communication. The
authorities are now making a firm
stand, so that this odd state of things
is to cease.
New Way to Keep Milk
Prof. Behring of Marlbourg declares
that he has discovered a method of
keeping milk for an indefinite time
without boiling 1t or damaging it's nu-
tritive qualities in any way.
A sixth of an ounce of perhydrol is
added to a gallon of milk, and the
milk is then heated to 122 degrees. The
perhydrol decomposes into water and
oxygen, the oxygen escapes and the
milk is left diluted with an exceedingly
small quantity of water absolutely
free from microbes. Milk treated in
this way 1t is said, may be kept for an
indefinite time without change.
Prof. Behring is also said to believe
that milk loses some of it's best quail
ties when exposed to daylight. He is
said to advocate green or red milk
bottles
Lame de Pougy, whose beauty and
cleverness have made her the idol OF
the halls" in Paris, was severely in
jured in a collision between her broug-
ham and a motor cab at Suresnes the
other day.
She sustained a deep flesh wound in
the leg and several severe abrasions,
and is detained at the Beaujon hos
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