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Show j Composer Over Fond of Coffee. The Italian composer Donizetti was accustomed to Immure himself in n room, with a quantity of music paper, pen and Ink, and three or four cotee pots full of coffee. He began imblb Ing theso when he began to write and continued until the supply was exhausted. ex-hausted. Then he ordered in moro and when that was finished another supply. The amount of coffee which he drank was fabulous yet he deemed deem-ed It entirely necessary for his Inspiration. Inspira-tion. As the result of such extraordinary extraor-dinary habit the once handsome man contracted tho yellow complexion which wo aro apt to associate with a Chinese or a Hindoo; his lips were generally jet blank, his nervous system sys-tem broke down, and this brought In Its active train the premature decay of his faculties. o |