Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-18

I a copy of the ultimaturn to Serbia | London Times.
 l Muffins and crumpets. nov forbid 1 den fare, have puzzled etymologists to i explain the why. and wherefore of their names. The former is said to l be derived from the old French 'mou- 1 pain" signifying soft bread, and the 1 latter from .'crumb-bread,.' that is, bread baked without crust. Some au- thorities, though, believe crumpet to
 derive from the Angio Saxon "cromz 1 peht," meaning wrinkled, word sur broke thinks the name descends from the pan cakes, or .tcrum-cakes," which found favour in the nunneries before
 the Dissolution.-London Chronicle.
 The Loretto Heights, near Arras,
 our capture of which is the cause of
 unconcealed German chagrin, are apt
 ly named, for the Italian town LOT
 etto is strongly fortified, is surrounded
 by rampant and ditch, and stands on a commanding eminence, affording ex
 tensive views of the country round
 about. Devout Catholics will find, too
 q happy omen in the capture. For
 Lorctto is famous the world over, be-
 cause it contains, as the Church of
 Rome and its followers believe. the
 Santa Casa, or Holy House, in which
 the Virgin Mary dwelt. The beauti-
 full legend of its transport to Loretto
 tells how in the thirteenth century 1t
 was brought from Cali ee by band
 Of angels, who,,son the way. found in Dalinatia temporary resting place
 from their labours.-London Chroni- c1e.
 Search my cellars said the Abbe.
 If there is a telephone there, shoot me as a spy. If not, set me free, aft CT your court-martial" There was III-f- ma fi.1I A-ff i1, the darkness the Abbe was taken away by German soldiers and set down not at Muille, but at Noyennes, ten kilometres or so away. and forbidden to go back to his village or his church
 He went back few days age when the Germans left. When he went in to his house he found that it had been sacked. All the rare o.d books in his library had been burnt There was nothing left to him.
 Sir said sister of charity, these people whom you see here were brave but tortured in spirit and in body Beyond the German lines they have lived in continual fear and ser Vitude. The tales which they have told us must make the good God weep at the wiekedness of His creatures There will be special place in hell, perhaps, for the Emperor William and his gang of bandits"
 She spoke the words as a pious onv1ction, this little pa-e woman with brlghe and kindly eyes, in her nuns dreSs.-LonGon Times
 Are you not afraid of being called of German officer who had not been brutal but, like others. had tried to soften the hardships Of the people.
 Madame" he said, very graveIy,
 we act un-er the orders of people greater than ourselves, and we are bound to obey. because otherwise we should be shot But we hate the cruelty of war, and we hate those who have made it. One day we will make them pay for the vile things we have had to do.'-London Times.
 Trout fishing on the Thames opened in April but the anglers were few. It IS slow business, fishing for trout on the Thames, where the average catch is one trout per mic per an who. on Saturday afternoon, caught two heavy trout at Sunbury It was his first experience of Thames trout ing, and so elated was he with his success that he took five years lease of riverside house. He fished fndustriously throughout the follow ing i've seasons and never caught an other trout
 By felicitous coincidence the A4SAe, where the. FT6ncn are making their brilliant new push" figured prominently in the earliest known mil itary annals of what is now called France. It is the ancient Axona. to which a Roman poet, who had clearly never seen the sluggist stream, ap- plies the iudicrously inappropriate epithet "torrentiaI." Caesar during the second year (B. c. SD of his Gall | lie campaign encamped on the banks 1 of the Aisne. which flowed. he says. | ''on the farthest frontier of the Remit | From his movements we may infer that the river was near their northern l boDrdary- These Renai were the why ! trlbe of t4atffs who gave the name to l modern Re.Ils.
 Though we may no longer brew our own beer it is still possible to pro- duce homemade tipple,' palata- | ble at least as sarsa parilla. which l Rhondda Valley miners are now | rather than pay publicans' | prices. All one, needs do is to go in | for bookkeeping and make mead | Mead is by far the oldest intoxicant | at least in these islands, and retained | it's pre- eminence as a beverage and | cd dicin 52f <5,-;.,