Notes

Mme. Grandjean took a pinch of snuff--and sneezed. She said her husband remarked: "It is ridiculous to use snuff at your age. Why not leave that for old people?" Retorted she: "So that's what you think?" And, picking up a revolver, she shot her ban man dead. "He made me so mad that I killed him unconsciously," she concluded to the police.

Paris garbage men decided to join parcel-postmen in striking for higher pay. The city authorities are trying to improvise a garbage removal service, but Parisians were without any hope of receiving parcels through the post.

Mrs. Annie Dike, President of the American Committee for relief of devastated regions of France, who was last year decorated as an Officer of Agricultural Merit, was formally admitted to the Academy of Agriculture in Paris. She is the first woman member of this Academy and third woman to be elected to any Franch Academy. The other two were Mme. Curie, Academy of Medicine, the Queen of Rumania, Academy of Fine Arts. In welcoming Mrs. Dike, Pierre Viala, President of the Academy, said that the French population regarded "these American ladies as saints."

The largest bridge in the world is shortly to be built over the estuary of the River Elorn to connect Brest with Plougastel. The length will be six miles. It is to be made up of two approaches, one-third of a mile long, and four spans of one and one-third of a mile each.