The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-03
Real Products of French Intel
Iect in America May Be
Brought Into Disrepute by
Present Over-croWding.
DOCTORS VISITS ON
SUNDAY ARE EXPENSIVE
Paris Physicians Will Double
The Fee for Them-Pres-
ent High Price of Provisions
Has Led to Action.
(By RaouI de Saint Rcne.)

(By Raou de Saint Rene.)
Paris, Nov. 2.-Mr. Henry White,
the American Ambassador, was pres
ent at the last meeting of the Alliance
Fraucaise at the SOrbOnne, when M.
French literature and French culture
in the United States.
NJ. lie ROux thinks it is of great in
terest and Importance for the United
States that the French spirit should
make Itself felt in the formation of
the mentality of the modern Ameri-
can citizen.
The Ambassador said he hoped the
lecturers word would be re-echoed
across the Atlantic and would serve
as a protest against the immoral lit
erature that is ovcr-crOwding the real
products Of French intellect in Amer
lea, tending TO throw suspicion on the
noblest efforts of French art and phil
osophy.
Doctors visits on Sundays will be
an expensive luxury after January /,
1903. The Paris doctors, who are
anxious to be free from trivial calls
on the weekly holiday, have agreed
to regard Sunday visits as night Wis
it's, with double fees. Patients al
ready under treatment will be exempt
from the new rule.
Our new rules" says DR.. Leredde,
who is responsible for them, ARE in
tended to free us from needless Wis
it's If patients know that they will
be charged double for a doctors visit
on Sunday they will unless they are
really i'll, retain from sending for us
until the next day"
The present high prices of provis-
ions have induced the municipal au-
thorities of Rome to revive the anc-
lent calimere of Pope Leo XII, who
defeated the food trusts eighty years
ago. The municipality has appointed
commission of twenty-five, including
the editors of the ten Roman news
papers, to fix a maximum price fo- all
articles of food.
The commission, after ascertainlng
the Wholesale prices of food at the
centres of production, will once fort
a
price which the retailers may charge.
This practice was universal in the
Middle Ages and to this day it is in
force at Cremona and Ferrara. AL
though the Roman milkmen have pro-
tested. the average citizen welcomes
the calimere as partial remedy for
the initiation of his domestic expen-
seS.
The real remedy, however, would
be the abolition of the heavy "octror'
duty levied on all food entering the
city, and a cheaper and quicker sys-
tenn of transportation.
The Eiffel Tower is going to be con-
verted into a gigantic timepiece, and
experiments are proceeding to this
end. On the barrier of the second
platform on the Paris side huge ell
ectrc sign has been placed, which is
to be Illuminated at night and show
the time by gigantic luminous figures
changing every minute. If the idea is
found to be practical the figures will
be placed at the top of the tower, so
as to be seen on all sides for many
miles.
NJ. Maspero, the director Of the ser
vice of antiquities in Egypt, has just
informed the Paris Academy of In
scriptions and Belles-Lettres that the
establishment of the Barrage for the
Irrigation of the Nile had done i'm
mense and irreparable damage to all
ancient monuments which had been
submerged.
This is especially the case with the
famous temple Phiiae, which was
flooded by the waters from December
last till April. He says that the new
irrigation scheme will do even greater
damage, for then the temple of Philae
will be wholly submerged under
twenty-five feet of water.
The Egyptian government has in,
trusted him with the task of consoii
dating the temple and copying all the
inscriptions. But, NJ Maspero says
the temple must be considered lost
forever. since the foundations are sat
uated like a sponge and the land is
undermined In thirty years at lates,
it will have disappeared.
Diabolo has not been a mere nine
days wonder and although the winter
is coming on us the favorite sport o.
the day shows no sign of abatins ir
popularity.
The presence of little French cham
pion Meunier. in England. where he
has been received by the royal famil,
and demonstrated his skill to the chill
dren Of the Prince Of Wales. has free
the adopts and enthusiasts here Dia
bolo. even from being simple diabolo
is becoming very complex and Their,
is no knowing what vagaries and var
ieties the game will adopt before long
The latest craze is double diabolo-
/. e., playing it with two strings ant
a double grooved bobbin. Another il
to play the game with the hands ant
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