Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-21
and whiting, and are prime food fishes affording capital sport with fly.

affording capital sport with fly.
 ! The members of the Irish Conven- tion have been photographed. And the group shows some interesting conti- | guities. For instance. Lord Middleton l stands next to Mir. Joseph Devlin, M Primate, Dr. Crozier. and the Provost | of Trinity. the witty and learned pr. MahafYy. At the back Of the group stands Mir. George Russell. the Irish
 author, and not far from him is Colo nel Wallace, Grand Master Of the Uls ster Orangeemn. The photograph will be of historic value.
 MT. Gerard tells us how the Khe- dives daughter. wife of the Turkish am mbassador, made the boorish King of Saxony $hake hands with her = and laughlingiy calls it presence Of mind. Said Pasha- when khedive had a prst-
 ty wit in emergencies. His courage
 caused a kilometre of road ta be
 strewn a foot deep with gunpodwer.
 He then walked staidly along it smok
 ing a pipe, accompanied by a num-
 erous suite. Each man smoked, under
 penalty of death if he should be found
 with pipe 1nlighted at the end of the
 parade. A momentary absence of mind and relighting of a pipe would have spoilt Said and his story.
 The Speakers Mace of the old Irish Parliament is. as MT. Swift MacNeiH
 points out, in the keeping of Lord
 Massereene. So also is the Speakers chair. Lord Masseraene descen6s from John Foster, afterwards Lord Oriel the last of the Esish Speakers. Foster de- clared that the Mace should be re-
 stored only to an Irish Parliament Hence lord Massereene must regard himself as trustee of the precious re- lies. Earl Grey gave back to America the portrait of Franklin footed from Phi,adelphia 11s years before; John Fosters descendant may be able to Irish Parliament in the year?
 We have heard a great deal about the minor horrors of war, such as feas and other pestilent nuisances of the trenches. A learned professor has already written a fascinating book on the subject. Why as the Challenge" suggests, does not someone write a book upon the minor blessings of the war? In such a book a leading place would have to be given to the devel- 0pment of alIotments, which has pro vNed for thousands of people of all classes a healthy and profitable occu- patton, even in the inner Ledon sub urbs.
 Our sympathy goes out to our Eng fish bees. whether of long native de- scent. or naturaHsed Italians for the shortage of sugar threatens them with extinction. If VIC could only change with. some warmer countries, there would be no such danger. In Egypt, almost from time immenorial bees have been taken O nseasonaI trips up and down the Nile. to the district richest in blossom for the time. They l used to travel in one year from the furthest end of Upper Egypt to the ] mouth of the Nile, making money at l each stopping place. In many other 1 countries, where the seasons are ia 1 a similar plan has been l adopted with success.
 President Wilson's refusal to discuss 1 peace with the faithless military mas | -ers of Germany wiH,s perhaps, aston l sh the Kaiser. Yet Germany, in her | 1our of strength, adopted an attitude ! 'f hostility to peace negotiations on Ire strong. Terms to end the Franco 1 German War we're made difficult by the 1 assumption that there was no suitable | in France that a self-re.psSt- should treat with you?" said Bis narck to Jules Favre. Why give to ,our republic an appearance Of legal ty in signing . treaty with their re- y a band of rebels.''
 If the Pope could take counsel of his ,reaecesS0r, Leo XIII, he would not vase high hopes upon the Kaiser's at | itude towards his peace proposals. When the Kaiseer- first visited Rome nd paid his respects at the Vatican, i' he courtly and astute Leo was unfav- urably impressed by the bearing of is imperious Majeety, and afterwards eferred to him contemptuously as that yongster." 1
 NapeIsen, and ths kaisse Ii
 Germanys invasion of RussIa sets 1 verybody to worrying over the conse- uences: That is, everybody except ( he Germans It was the same way ]