Notes

Negotiations started in Paris nine months ago for a Franco-German commercial treaty were definitely broken off.

Whenever a great Frenchman dies, the first thing that seems to be done is to cut out his brain, weigh it and forever after discuss it. They did it to Gambetta. They have done it to Anatole France, the distinguished novelist who died last year (TIME, Oct. 20, BOOKS). The weight of his brain was 1,017 grams, whereas the average weight of the human brain is 1,390 grams. Some scientist declared that it is now established that the profundity of intellectual power is not dependent on physical size. Others contended that, in M. France's case, the lack of weight was more than counterbalanced by strange types of convolutions separated by deep sulci (grooves).

A. U. S. gob staggered drunkenly along a Cherbourg quay. French police espied him, attempted to hand him over to the U. S. S. Pittsburgh's police; but his cries for help attracted the attention of six of his mates, who successfully pummeled the police and rescued the unsteady gob. The matter was reported to Vice Admiral Andrews.