Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-28
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pursuit, it would only be a matter of
 "a thrilling second or two" for the | two to pass right across the celestial
 searchlight, for Gothas waste no time when being hunted. and the probabil- i ity is that both machines were doing 1 nearar 100 miles an hour than 70, which is a quiet amble for up-to- date
 fiers.-London Observer.
 One day. in the now ruined city of
 Ypres, a British major and a ser- geant stumbled upon an old printing
 press. Before the war called him the sergeant had been a printer. and his
 instinct was to get the press to work.
 printed, and so there was founded a
 queer war journal. the 'Wipers
 Times" of which we are to have a 1 fac simile reprint in a book just an- I men who were under fire night and l day should find time and inclination l tc produce a paper of high spirits, for l the "Wipers Times" was high-sphited. printing works but that only led l to the getting of better plant" Some day a whole library will be l written on the strange half devil and kalf-child" German psychology which begat Arnageddon. There will be lights for it in a book bearing the ti- tie. christine" which the Macmil- ians are to publish this week. Chris tine went to Germany to study music a few months before the war broke out, and the book consists Of her let ters to her mother. T am publishing the letters just as they came to me leaving out nothing" says her mother. Alice Cholmondeley," who may only be her literary mother. She leaves ( (.JIt yN-a stripped of our secrecies and our pri- ,vate hoards. We live in a great rela- tionship." It is an unusual book.- London Times. We are nearing the four hundredth anniversary of the Mayfiower's great emprise, for it was on Sept. 9th, in 1G17. that she sailed. Her pilgrims numbered five score and one, and Ii years ago nearly 2.o0o of their de- scendants were carefully traced. The old roll-caH included curious names: Remember Allerton, Wrestling Brew ster.- Humility coope=, crackstone. Power Dixory. Priest. Georee Soul. Resolved White, and. of course. Miles Standisf. Like latter-day England they had a rope and a Ellington. and their John of that ilk died hanged
 If only we had retained the tastes of
 
 might be golden opportunities for our wounded soldiers whose productions in needle and thread are being shown at the Economy Exhibition. During the first half of last century Miss Lin- woods needlewck.k pictures. all of them copies of paintings by great masters, attbacted large crowds to tte the rooms in heiesster-sauare where them. copy of Dolci's 'Salvator Mundi," she refused an offer of 5000 guineaS.
 Another new war word. For we presume we must accept the descric- tion of the dockets fired to warn Lon don as "pipsqueaks' as one that has come to stay. And it might be use fully employed in describing other ex. for example. @ Many aapeass people have Sa pR; the pip" and little more. By adding the sufi1x squeak" many states of | mind and temper might be accurately | diagnosed. As Pope says: The sound | is made an echo to the sense"
 The inquest on an airman who | tainted on attaining an altitude of | 16.000 feet is a reminder that avia- 1 tors have to get their lair heads" just as seamen have to get their 'sea l legs" The pressure of the atmosphere l decreases in geometrical progression l as the height increases with arithme- | tlcal progression, and at the heights | aeroplanes now attain, the reduced | pressure is very considerable. At sea level the normal pressure of the air | Is about 15 pounds to the square inch barometer at 30 inches the pressure is 14.76 pounds per square l inch-and at 0,000 feet it is only two thirds of normal. the barometer then | falling to 20.4 inches, compared with 27.12 inches Ca reduction of rather un- der ? pounds per square inch). the lowest the barometer has ever stood at on the earth's surface. At fS.000 feet. the height at which the airman concerned lost consciousness, the par ometer would have fallen to 15.3 in, and the pressure per square inch have decreased to only 8 1-5 pounds.-The London Chronicle.
 If tea is really to be scarce in the | future, an excellent opportunity pre- sents itself of famfliarizing this coun- try with substitute which. unlike Il most other substitutes, is better than | the original. That Is mate" so large N y used in South America. It is said I to have all the virtues and none of the vices of tea. Made from the leaves and green shoots of a species of holly, it is drunk only with lemon and sugar, 1T and it's use would do much to econom- III ze our milk supply. The fresh crop N should just be ready now. Cannot the