Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-21

A Petrograd message announces the abolition ''of all class titles. privileges,
 and distinctions; so that we may
 presently have q Russian version Of
 the old story of NJ. de Saint Cyr. who
 applied for passport in the days of
 the French revolution:
 What is your name?"
 "M. de Saint Cyr."
 There are no more monsieurs."
 "Very we'll; de Saint Cyr.'
 There are no more De'S.
 Good. Saint Cyr, then.''
 There are no longer any Saints"
 Then I am simply Cyr.''
 'No, for there are no sires: kings
 are abolished
 Colonel Archibald Young, V. D., in a
 lecture given few days ago in Edin-
 burgh, mentioned 8 curious incident of
 the recent British advance towards Palestine. When the British troops were approaching a certain town in the desert deputation of the natives came out to meet them. The head man of the deputation asked for an interview with the British comman- der. In the course of the interview he urged the claims of the natives to kind treatment, and mentioned that he had brought with him a document showing how well and honorably they had behaved on the last occasion on wlIich their town was visited by Eu:- ropean troops. He duly produced the document, which was found to be all tEdI ne represented IL "slS SiSuS0 Napoleon Bonaparte."
 NaIona, or Avlona, where the Ital ians seem to have had successful fight with the Austrians, exported to London before the war the tanning material called '.Valonia," made from husks and cups of big aeorns, which is preferred to oak-bark b3 the tan of Albania seldom visited by British travellers, two of whom, Lear the ar tist-pareQt of "Limericlss," and Colonel Leake the soldier -antiquary, were both Lear finally put his tormentors to ff1ight by bouncing on the ground a bit Of india. rubber, then a novelty in the Balkans, which they suspected to be some new imp of Satan. He'll is not only German surname, but the name of the general who was mainly responsible for precipitating ! the declaration of war. According to 8 Berlin journal, this fiery" soldier, stationed on the Russo-German from tier in July 1914 and assured von Moltke by telephone that tie Russians were mobilizing. And Moltke prompt 1 ly decided to give then-"I1eil." One may note that the adieetivai form of Kirriemuir is ''Kirriemarian,' not srKirriefnuirian as the London papers print it. At least the Dundee Advertiser" which ought to be ,thk better authority, gives the former spelling to Sir James Barrie's tele- gram.
 Two men at the club were talking yesterday of funny groups of names. with three boys named respectively Trotter, Walker and Gallop." And I, ;" said the other. served in a department which had to settle queries. and three clerks there were named How, Wenn and e."-Lont1on Chronicle. It has come to my knowledge that on Sunday. November z5, the police in Belfast discovered an attempt to inn high explosives. On the arrival of a steamer in Belfast from Ardrossan two boys. who are said to be members of the Sim Fein Boy Scouts. came They were folIowed by the police to their destination, where the portman- teau was found to contain a sufficient l.quantity of high explosives to blow iup a whole street.
 i An arrest is reported to have been made in Glasgow, and the authorities in Ireland take very serious view of the matter. One of the Boy Scouts is which were fastened inside the lining of his coat
 According to another report the boys are stated to belong tq Mne. Marekie- Dublin correspondent.
 Rather a charming suggestion is made in . "Spectatof'' article on the titles Nurse" and Sister" of which. of course, Sister" is the more popular with the soldiers:
 |. For really, you know, Sister is the happy word. It fits the situation-alI such situations. Wouldn't it be pos- sib1e to add the one perfect touch: that our women comrades should drop into the habit of addressing us as "Brother,'! It would be a symbol, this, Of what the War ought to mean to us all. One has sometimes been tanpted to envy the workman his fraternal term of greeting-eMate"
 I Tsree bridges across the Lower Piave, Venice, which the enemy was using for supplying his troops in the delta between the two channels of the