Crows first appeared in Russia after the French retreat from Moscow, and the people still hate them and call them Napoleon’s scavengers. M. Jules Claretie flays that a high medical authority told him lately that he attributed the great increase of drunkenness among women in Paris to the war. During the seige, especially, they contracted the habit, when there was little to eat and they wanted to keep themselves up. Fifteen years ago, he says, habits of intoxication were rare among Parisiennes.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 137, 21 May 1884, Page 2
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82Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 137, 21 May 1884, Page 2
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