Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-07

l dare say that stevenson preferreQ
 Liljuokalanfs brother, King Kala M, to any lady of the family, for he was
 an old rascal rather after. his own heart. A letter of 1889 describes one
 of his numerous capacities:
 I am so well I do not know myself
 -..Sea bathing, if you please, and,
 what is- far more dangerous, enter
 taining and being entertained by His Majesty here, who is a very fine. in
 teiligent fellow, but, O, Charles! what
 d crop for the drink! He carries it,
 too, like q mountain with a sparrow
 on it's shoulders. We counted five f bottles of champagne in three hours and half tafternoon) and the sov- ereign quite presentable. althc 9Th percepttbly more dignified. at the end. It was this kalakaua who essayed to federal te the islands of the Pacific, and despatched an embassy to Samoa. Tonga, and the Gilbert Islands for that purpose-London Observer. The Prime Minister of China has resigned, and will probably be fol- lowed into. retirement by all the cab, met. Chang Hsun. the Chinese Napoleon; is to be exifed for his sins to Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean. which has already been the home of broken Monarchs. such as the King of Da- honney and the Queen of Madagascar. He has been in sanctuary at the Dutch Legation since the reversal of his coup d'etat, and in the uncertainty of the situatien in this distracted coun- try there has been anxiety lest he should escape and again, disturb the peace of the Far East. - London Times.
 "The man who is prepared to sit down and negotiate terms with Ger many in the belief that she is sincere ir. regard to a desire for a permanent | a dangerous foe fool" sAid Dr. M DMacna- @ mara. Secretary to the Admiralty, at Stockten n-Fees recently. To-day Gefmany'e rulers will do anything to get out of the present mess in such a way as to be able to say that they
 wa want peade, it means they have had had enough of war for the present. un- less the German military machine is existing hurdeT. of war taxation, we shall have a crushing burden 10 bear as the cost of preparation against the next attack. which is inevitable so long as the grim junkers axe in the l saddle. E The service of America in the cause
 of the Allies win be rendered not f-so1o performers. Take. for instance, Luther Burbank, the .'piant wizard of California. He is lighting the l Kaiser with the hoe" He is growing l and creating forage of extraordinary | nutritiye qualities. Burbank is typi- 1 cal of our oriEinative inteflects. Never l yet was the protraeted hihernation of l We have cent some of our ab1est en- l giheerS to srappIe with the mammoth problems of transpertation in France. l And all this In a humble, teaehabie spirit. We ask those with whom As | are standing in the fight to pay no heed to few "extrava9ant and errinS l spirits,~ who are loud of mouth and predfgal of grandiose promise. They are our nisfortunate. not our fault l London Observer.
 | The Prince of Wales, In finding I some difiacuity with. the language of | Italy, in which he has gone to bear the burden Of battle against the com I mon foe, has a new bond Of sympathv with King Victor Emmanuel Ot1 go dialects are spoken in Italy. Some l himself. If he spoke the language Of 1 hie native Piedmont, there are those I in his army who would not be able to 1 uaderstand him. But then it Is much l half a dozen dialects in the North I alone which King George could not | folioWs-Lcndon Chronicle.
 VI my yuSS1eF 9St4o0oo Wero neeooo l as to the source and Inspiration of | the Beishevik movement 1t is surely supplied in the Daily chronicae's's massage from Petrograd:
 l The Bolshevik soldiers arrested 1 scrne hundreds of women soldiers, who had been prepaying to defend the l Winter Palace. and handed them over I to the hcentiousneas of drunken sol. | diers in the various barracks.
 There is only one nation In Europe I which does these thinss.--Lendon Observer.
 l Redip, the ssstwhiis sarnin, dyinE. a I prince of his calling, carried on the old. tradition that the born artist will find his goal, no matter how strait the
 gay, gay s.,s GanGva ;v the little stoneSuttsr; sss cahdle in. hts cap Grinitns Gibbons. discevered in his hut by Evelyn: Gi- otto. taken, like the later Seganf1ni, from his Hocks on the mountains to the studio; Rembrandt and consta- 1 hfe. from the mill: Tintorstto, from the ryeshon; Turner from the bar her: Mttlet, from the flelds he iuanscr- . fsx<f~ Tns I-