Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-05
fALL|ERES MUST
Be PHOTOCRAP HE'D
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
PARIS, November 5.-President Falleres
in this advertising age. has an incompre-
hensible. extraordinary and paradoxical re-
pugnance to having his portrait taken.
Ministers and public men generally cannot
understand 1t, and still less photographers
and artists. The medallion which is al
ways stamped by the mint on the access
sion Of new presidents has. in the case of
M. Fallieres actually been turned out with
no portrait Of him. but only decorative en-
blems and the inscriptions. Now. at last.
however the president has consented to sit
for his official portrait. which, according
to custom, will be reproduced In about
100000 copies to be hung in every town
hall and government Office of France. The
obligation, in fact Is one which M. Fall
Heres could not possibly get out Of. If the
presidents portrait were not hung in every
country marie. country folk would GER
tainly believe him to be not a real, right
full president, but g. uSurper. The artist
who is to depict M. Fallieres at last is
young but already most academic painter
and engraver. having been the pupil of that
ultra-academic master. Bouguereau. The
order is worth a good deal of money, as
the artist draws copyright fees, amounting
to $3OOO 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 small but regular reve-
nue. to the artist.
There has just died at Belley an old gen.
tleman of seventy-two. who during his life
time was notorious for his eccentric and
misery habits. though he was in possession
of an income of $4,000. His funeral was at
tended by large number of relatives, who
were aStoniShed to discover only few
coppers in the house after the funeral. The
will was then opened. and 1t read as fol-
lows:
MY dear relatives. I am afraid you are
going to be disappointed. 1 know that none
of you have any sort Of affection for me,
and that if you come to my funeral 1t will
be in the hope of dividing up between you
whatever l may leave behind me. l now
inform you that have left no money what
ever. 1 sank the whole of my fortune some
years ago in a 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. $500 worth
Of annuity Stock the coupons of which ap-
peared to have remained unpaid; but on go
ing to the bank to have these coupons
cashed the heirs discovered that the cou-
pons had been paid. but at the special re-
quest the old gentleman, who had given
d
had not been Cancelled. This is only lit
tie surprise 1 am keeping back for my
heirs he said.
1t appears that on the occas sion of the an
nual village festival this year the old gen.
tleman deliberately burned $4,000 worth of
bank notes. which he found he had been
unable to spend.
stricter regulations are being introduced
xx,it IN re
the telephone by various men of business
at the bourse They have been in the habit
of securing a telephone and monopolizng
it for any amount of time. communicating
with different towns the while and making
their plans accordingly. 1t appears that
there have been lively exchanges among
boursiers and their clerks. who have ar
rived on the stroke of noon for the purpose
of occupying the telephone cabins. The
post office authorities say that such state
of things could not be tolerated any longer,
as the whole service was upset. to the det-
riment of the public, by persons who de
liberately prolonged Their communications
by means of a number of subterfuges."
One firm in another big French city had up
ward of fourteen subscriptions to the tele-
phone. which enabled it to monopolize it
for more than hour with its agent In
Paris. So. while set of business men
was sending information all over the coun
try, and receiving it as well, another batch
was debarred from even the most ordinary
communication. The authorities are now
making firm stand. so that this odd state
of things is to cease.
X *
Prof Behring Of Marbourg declares that
he has discovered a method of keeping
milk for an indefinite time without boiling
it or damaging it's nutrtive qualities in any
way.
A sixth of an ounce of perhydrol is added
n9 mill he 10 bap
heated to 100 degrees. The perhydrol de-
composes into water and oxygen, the oxy
gen escapes and the milk is left diluted
with an exceedingly small quantity of wa
ter absolutely free from microbes. Milk
treated in this way 1t is said. may be kept
for an indefite time without change.
Prof Behring is also said to believe that
milk, loses some of it's best qualities when
exposed to daylight. He is said to advo-
cate green or red milk bottles
Lane de Pougy. whose beauty and clever
ness have made her the idol of the halls
in Paris. was severely injured in a col
lision between her brougham and motor
cab at Suresnes the other day
She sustained a deep flesh wound In the
leg and several severe abrasions. and is de-
tained at the Beauion Hospital.
France is organizing a fotilla of airships
for army purposes In two years she will
have large airships posted at Verdun, Toul,
Epinal and Belfort-in other words, at all
the important points on the German from
tier.
They are being built on the model Of the
Lebaudy airship. which was bought by
the French government some time ago.
RURAL CARRIERS ROUTE.
New Course Through Alexandria
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