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Show DECLINE OP FRANCE. Dreadful Results Said to be Due to Dissipation. Salt Lake Tribune,. The consumption of alcohol has increased in-creased enormously in France in late years, and that of the French light wines has increased proportionately. This is especially true of Normandy, at one time the. finest province of the jounti'y, whose population has decreased decreas-ed 30 per cent during the present century, and which shows a larger proportion of rejections on account ot physical disabilities among the conscripts con-scripts than any other province. The people are deteriorating rapidly; there is an increase in crimes of violence and in insanity; of scrofula, rickets and in illegitimacy. The mean duration of life has been reduced one-half) and all these frightful things are attributed by scie.ntists directly to alcoholism-. |