The New York herald., 1922-07-30

| Rents in Paris are now more then
three times the 1914 figures. A ha.t
has been called. however. by the lat
est law, which enables proprietor
to increase only 80 per cent. on a new
lease.
If you want to rent an apartment
or house in France and the owner
imposes as condition the purchase
of certain furniture let him do it. A
court of arbitration will Immediately
nullify the contract fine the owner
and give you a lease at reasonable
figure.
Bread in France has just jumped
another ten centimes per long Loaf
and will go higher. This years wheat
and other grain crops are about 80
per cent. under the agricultural esti-
mates and scouts are now trying to
purchase in Australia, South Africa
and the United States.
Cocaine and morphine arriving ove,.
the frontiers from Germany and Switz-
erland is given as the direct cause of
the increase in so-called Grimes of
passion" The French police have
now instituted a special secret service
to deal with this problem, and unsus-
pecting voyagers. have been surprised
on arriving in Paris to learn that
their travelling companion. with whom
condolences had been shared was
dope spy.
There is not a city in France with
population over 1000 which has not it's
municipal park. In Paris the park
system now includes 275 separate
breathing spots,'' and the Municipal
Council has decided to abandon the old
custom of charging 2 cents for the
use of chair.
More than 100000 bottles of cham
pagne were released from warehouses
for consumption in Paris last year.
At grocery stores a good champagne
can be had for 1s francs a bottle; in
middle class restaurants the same
bottle costs 35 francs and in Mont
martre 100 francs. with Is per cent.
tax after midnight.
The controlling element in, the
French Chamber of Deputies is "a mix
ture of Right" and Centre" groups
known as the Bloc Rationale 1t viii
be contested in the fall elections by
news grouping of Socialists and Com
munfsts. who are already boasting of
being able to rally $50 on party call,
or only fifty less than half the Cham
ber's membership.
More silk is manufactured in the
city of Lyons than anywhere else in
where silk weaving has for centuries
been almost national pastime, is
one of the biggest clients for French
designs.
Less than per cent of the great
wars trenches in France remain to
be filled and leveled. Only in few
sections, such as Verdun and small
villages near Rheims can traces be
found of the old barbed wire entangle-
ments.
The present French National OBJ
servatory, on the outskirts Of what Is
popularly known as the Quarter
Latin" was started in the early part
of the seventeenth century. 1t is to
be torn down in a few months, as
tronomers claiming that the rumbling
of heavy trucks shakes the founda-
tions and causes oscillations in the
official charts which frequently arouse
the criticism that the French scientists
themselves are inaccurate.
More than $4,000 finger prints were
added to the Bertillon collection at the
Central Prefecture last year. besides
almost double this number of photo
N1,y hn Va1o .f foo.x xfxxr~ -f,e,
d'identite to all citizens. and thereby
obtaining a complete classification of
the nation has apparently broken down
owing to the red tape involved.