Notes

Foresters and the press began to denounce U. S. woodcutters, asserting that Americans have bought many French forests and are cutting them down. The U. S. lumberman is so described: "With an ear-to-ear grin on his face and his hands overflowing with dollars milked from the rate of exchange, he scours the forest of Creuse and Correze, demolishing the beautiful chestnut trees. The forests of several French provinces are soon to fall under his axe."

Zizi, a desperate young thing, wandered through the Bois de Boulogne, where lovers are wont to prowl. But the lovers had fled far away leaving the Bois empty, save for gendarmes. Three days Zizi spent in the park while the man who had first wooed her from the Malayan jungle, wrung his hands in distress. Then one morning she left the park to visit a boys' school. The master spied her, called gendarmes. She fled into a lavatory, jumped out of a window, but the gendarmes pursued her with bullets and she died in a ditch. The leopard hunter who had brought her to the Paris Zoo, looked at her body and wept.

At the little town of Ptombiers a monument is to be erected in memory of Robert Fulton. It was there in 1802 that he experimented on the Augronne River with a miniature steamboat, tried without success to interest Josephine and the Great Buonaparte in his invention.

The French Governor of Martinique, going home on vacation, was shot five times through the window of the steamer's salon before the ship sailed from Port de France. The Governor was critically wounded. The would-be assassin surrendered, said he wished to kill the Governor because his own father had been killed in May in an election riot which the Governor had failed to prevent.

In Marseilles, where bank clerks have been on strike for several weeks demanding 100 francs a month more pay (they have been getting 500 and 600 francs a month), a 24-hour general strike was called. Everything in industry and transportation stopped dead. Firemen, and gas and electric workers were the chief officials. The only opportunity to ride by taxi, streetcar or bus, was in a funeral cortege, for funeral coaches were exempted. Postmen, musicians and many waiters took part in the suspension.