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M. Pasteue has received from the Emperor of Brazil the Grand Cross of 
the Imperial Order of the Rose. 
The Wiirtemberg Government has sent a medical expert to Paris to make 
a special study of the healing method of M. Pasteur. 
The Pharmaceutical Society of St. Petersburg numbers, at present, 363' 
members, of whom 85 are honorary, 49 corresponding, and 229 ordinary members. 
M. Vogel states in Bierdermann s Central Blatt the very remarkable fact, 
in relation to the chemical action of the solar rays, that chinchona trees growing 
in hothouses in Europe develop no quinine in their bark. 
A mad donkey at Mentone has provided M. Pasteur with two patients. 
The animal, which had itself been bitten by a mad dog, attacked its owner and 
a veterinary surgeon who came to treat it, inflicting severe bites on them both ; 
and they both started immediately for Paris, bringing with them the brains of 
the ass which had done the mischief. 
In the last number of the Revue des Deux Mondes there is an article 
on alcohol by M. Jules Pochard, who presents the following budget as represent- 
ing the direct and indirect taxation which France imposes on itself in the course 
of a year in alcohol: — Price of alcohol consumed, £3,639,272; value of days’ 
work lost, £38,510,840 ; cost of treatment, £2,833,680 ; cost of lunacy, £92,852 ; 
loss by suicides, £126,800; cost of criminals, £355,780. Total, £45,559,224. 
A cueious chemical phenomenon was, according to a science contemporary, 
lately disclosed in Paris. It appears that a celebrated Parisian belle, who had 
acquired the hadit of whitewashing herself, so to speak, from the soles of her 
feet to the roots of her hair, with chemically-prepared cosmetics, one day took a 
medicated bath, and, on emerging from it, she was horrified to find herself as 
black as an Ethiopian. The transformation was complete : not a vestige of the 
“ supreme Caucasian race” was left. Her physician was sent for in alarm and 
haste. On his arrival he laughed immoderately, and said : — “ Madame, you are 
not ill, you are a chemical product. You are no longer a woman, but a * sulphide.’ 
It is not now a question of medical treatment, but a simple chemical reaction. 
I shall subject you to a bath of sulphuric acid, diluted with water. The acid 
will have the honour of combining with you ; it will take up the sulphur, the 
metal will produce a ‘ sulphate,’ and we shall find as a * precipitate’ a very 
pretty woman.” The good-natured physician went through with his reaction, and 
the belle was restored to her membership with the white race. 
Divobce and Mateimonial Causes Jueisdiction. — Wednesday, 16th June. — 
(Before his Honour Mr. Justice Webb.) — Naylor v. Naylor. — This was a petition 
by Thomas Hamilton Naylor, a chemist, praying for a dissolution of his mar- 
riage with his wife, Emily Naylor. Dr. Madden for the petitioner; no 
appearance for the respondent or co-respondent. The petitioner was married 
to the respondent on the 8th June, 1885. She was at that time a widov, 
with several children. The co-respondent, Henry S. Haynes, was introduced 
by Mrs. Naylor to her husband, who said that Haynes was her brother. 
Shortly after the marriage the petitioner complained of his wife’s conduct in 
stopping out late and going to places without his permission. On the 9th 
October she left him, and went to reside at Park Cottage, Balaclava-road. There 
she was frequently visited by Haynes. His Honour made a decree nisi for 
dissolution of the marriage. 
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