The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-17

but these doctors state that the sub stance is not only useless as a preserVa- tive against insects. blt is highly in- furious to human beings.
 It gives off in slow form a carbon which poisons the blood corpuscles. The vapor from naphthaline balls has pro duced several cases of asphyXia. Naph- thaline is all tic more dangerous because it's effects are 8insidiouS and impercepti- ble until it is too late.
 Tho Paris bar has now one more lady barrister Mile. Helene Miropolsl1y, the daughter of a Polish physician resident here, but herself born in Paris, is not only the newest of the lady barristers, she is also the youngest, for she is only 20 years old, and is most beautiful
 Even before she took the oath she was celebrated for her beauty, grace and elegance. Her large dark eyes, fresh complexion, tall, well-shaped figure and exquisite chic in the barristers toga, with her masses of black hair surmounted by the baretta, created a sensation in the court, and it was speedily filled by a large crowd of pleaders and, d,Rawyers who were drawn to witness the Nhaccustomed sight-a beautiful girl of 20 deliberately entering the lists against men learned in the intricacies of the law.
 When Mile. Miropolsky raised a grace full hand and said in answer to the usual formula, q swear" the members of the bar present declared that she had an intensely melodious voice and all the grace and seductiveness that belong to oratory.
 The young lady advocates success was so great that two other notable figures among her young colleagues who were taking the oath almost escaped notice. These were M. Gounod, grandson of the IT AT... .1..T Cruppi son of the famous Maitre Cruppi, who has played such leading part in many causes ceebres of recent years, including the Castellane divorce case.
 The French government is about to put up at auction the right to keep packs and hunt over the state forest lands, with the exception of those of the de- partments of the Seine, the Seine-et- Olse, Seine-et- Marne and Disc.
 The privilege will be for nine years. This is a big event in the French world of sport, and is of interest to all the keepers of packs in the country, the chief of those concerned being the Due de Rochefoucauld d Estissac, Comte Ber- trand de Valon, Comte de Levis-Mirepoix, Baron Roger Comte de la Roche, M. Hubert Michel and other representatives of aristocratic families. It is pretty certain that all the present holders of hunting rights will renew their leases.
 All around Paris, in the forests of Rambouillet, Coynpiegne, Laigel, Hallatte, Fontainebleau, Isle d'Adam and Car neues, the Duchesse d'Uzes, Marquis de Laigel, Prince Murat, Comte Greffuhle and M. Paul Lebaudy are the holders of hunting rights from the state up to and including 1911.
 An astounding example of country ig- norance and stupidity has just come to light in the department of the Eure. In a commune called Calleville, Georgette Ton, the daughter of farmer died as the result of childbirth, and week after the father came to the mayor to make the customary declaration.
 The mayor was surprised that the an- nouncement of the birth of the child had not been made. With perfect nonchal- ance the farmer replied that the child was born dead, and that to give pleasure to the mother he had kept the little corpse ana it was going to be put in the mothers coffin.
 When the mayor said that the body must be in state of putrefaction the farmer replied; "Oh, not very; during the day it's mother kept it and at night we put it in the fresh air" He went on to explain that at night the body