Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-26
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How the All Ciear!" Boy Scouts do love their labors as i1eraIds of good tidings in the silent watches of the night. They did give us a fanfaron- ade yesterday morning. They had had a long wait, and beyish energies had accumulated till the lads must blow CT burst. In one district the bugiers sounded at the rate of three calls to every two houses, and not all in the. same key. One lusty soloist found his formal e. G." e. c. insufficient. SO. he ripped out magnificent Come to. the cookhouse door, boys, come to the cookhouse door" with a force that would have drawn the British army.
 Except on political platforms in the country the Sim fein leaders are lit tie known by sight to the Irish public MT. De Valera, their chief, for ex- ample, would scarcely be recognized in Dublin. outside of tine headquarters in
 Iarcourt street, though his picture is sold on the otuays. The son of a Span ish father and an Irish mother he has a foreign air, and is Q good looking young man, whose friends describe him as a scholar with a sword in his hand He lives in modest house at Graystones, near Dublin.
 It is not the dogfish, writes a cor respondent which displays itself in pink outlets upon the fishnlongers' slabs as rock salmon. Rock salmon is the trade name for catfish (Silufidas), of which there are more than a thouS- and species. The name is derived from the resemblance of the head and bar bels to the head of cat It is an ex- cellent fish, ranking 50 per cent. high CT in price than dogfish in the cont troller's scale. During eleven months of last year 26,G00 cTt of catfish fetched 4S,000 pounds, while 43.000 cwt. of dogfish realized only 39,090 pounds.
 There were the usual courtesies as to precedence in the use of the match. Its very English said the man in the corner. "In Scandinavia you can tell the nationality of man by the way he lights his cigarette. A Swede strikes match. uses it. and throws it away. A Dane uses the match first, and then offers it to you. The Nor wegian strikes match offers it to companion, and uses the fag-end him self"
  his influence felt on the land The county distinction. championship flag, offered by the board of agricul- ture to those ploughing the greatest acreage has been secured i'll Worces- tcrshire by two private soldiers who having fought in France, were dis | charged medically unfit. It is less l than six months since they had +kei1 first lesson in tractor ploughing. To- day they are the ploughing champions in the Midland county of hops and ci- der.
 General saInaond talks good figur- ative zoology when he says our air
 men have their tails up. The hyena when feinting for fight, curls his be- | ten off; but the lion, with all his tribe ereets his. Our fighters are only cubs l or kittens. One of them ''swanked' 1 into the army at 16. He came into the | writer's study early in the war "tc have Q look what Gibbon says about these Hun Johnnies,' and whiIe ht thumbed over the index he put out ot his pocket on to the floor little tame ] rabbit He has his tail up now:
 He has a ehum. They transferred tt | the R. F. c. after the rabbit man hat had appalling experiences and wor promotion. They learned at the same ] aviation school, and were to go ou 1 together. Owing to the illness Of thu l rabbiteer (aftermath of gas1, tn, ehurn went out first He has just hat
 his first joy day-a ripping fight ove1 [ the German lines. He got his man i but the dying German shot him bad Iy in the leg. He flew on to his ap pointed objective bombed the righ
 dump, returned, crawled oat. and faint ed from loss of blood and access 0 triumph.
 The sonne, along the banks 0 which the greatest battle the work has ever witnessed has been swayin! during these eventfu1 days, is asso ciated with the earliest known mill I tafy annals of France It is the an eient Samara, mentioned by Juliu Caesar, who met the chieftains o Gaul at Samarobriva, which mean ''the bridge across the Somme," in tn
 autumn of B. c. 54, and passed tn following winter on the bank Thi usually peaceful canalized river is al so connected with our own carries military history It was from tn estuary of the Somme that Caesa Estarted on his second invasion of Brit ain.
 When the kaiser returns thanks t
 krupp's for guns which massacre con ISregations of women and children i their churches he is. in measure