Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-10

the murk. His picture of that fight Is | certainly applicable to present condi- l tions, with aircraft battling over- head: "As if men fought upon the 1 earth. and fiends in upper air." Having spent many profitless years in attempting to persuade the world that Shakespeare was German, the greedy Hun is now opening cam | paign to explain why Napoleon was l of similar nationality. Herr Otto l Hauser, the anthropologist, declares 1 that Napoleen's mother was of Ger
 man descent. He states quite absurd ! ly that her maiden name Ramolini is a corruption of Rammlein. He might,
 while he is about it, put in similar l claim for Romulus and Remus. Ramo- l lini is unquestionably of Latin ex- | traction, and is so like the Latin ra- mulus, twig, the diminutive of
 ramus as to leave no doubt concern ing it's derivation.
 1 Members of the American Mission who visited the house of commons,
 expressed the emphatic surprise com mon to all transatlantic visitors, when they saw the smallness of our debating chamber. They could hardly believe that in such a comparatively small building the lightnings of Dis- raeli and the thunder of Gladstone
 were released to say nothing of the political thunderbolts of other world
 famous statesmen. It seemed but a
 meagre cradle of freedom when they
 recalled the spacious buildings at Washington and the imposing senates : throughout the states, with their pens and plotting paper and accommodat- , ing desks.
 Finland basks at present in the : sunshine of German favor. She is to be made great by Teutonic aid. She is to excel in glory and dominion the
 should teach the Films that Germany 5 is at best usurer. and apt to run amuck. To Belgium during the l Franco -Prussian war she was just as fair and smiling. Point out" said $ Bismarck, ''the great support which I Belgium would obtain from strong
 Germany, from whom she would have l nothing to fear, nor so long as Ger I many is strong, need she fear France.' l The proof was forthcoming in 1914. |, Will any of the magpies now con. = gregating in the home counties
 driven from France, it is surmised q hy the gunfre-venture as far as Lon
 don? A little over half century agC
 they were still fairly numerous in tn, . metropolis, and bird-lover could T write of having seen over a score ii
 one day in Kensington Gardens, but i must be many years since a wild mag pie was last seen in town. Probabl!
 the last nesters even in the suburbs were the pair which a local bird II suffer shot at Hampstead in 1889. O School boy gardeners are quite = common spectacle in the parks o n Birmingham. Plots of potato patche # have been specially designed to them d and it is expected that the worth o n the crops will cover the cost of tn
 instruction. The latest promise of tn
 corporation is the provision of aiEot Is ments on the outskirts of the oity-t .- be worked during school hours.
 y tumble sales continue to yield is nice revenue for war charities. bu .- experience proves that in rural dis a tricts the articles must be wearabl .e or edible. The other day, writes > correspondent, I sent to the countr s- an assorted batch of clothing, an as then as a croWning act of generosity I forwarded by a later post a signe l. photograph of Dr. Fort Newton. 1e week later the reply came: "Overcoa of trousers, shirts, collars and ties fetch er ed nearly three pounds. Your sister
 odd hat was bought Tor Tod. by tt
 sweeps wife (she simply flew at it or hut Dr. Newton didn't sell They al 10 mostly church people here"
 D. Scottish readers will be sorry a- hear that "Allan M'Aulay" is dea l. She was Miss Charlotte Stewart. ar to her novels won for her deserved al ar preciation. Of her books, '"The Es at gle's Nest" was perhaps the mo CT popular. Kate Douglas Wiggin ar w the talented Findlater sisters collal leI orated with Miss Stewart in "Tl h. Affair at the Inn" It was a relati7
 of Miss Stewart who. rescued as z
 infant from the Indian mutiny, b.
 came the mother of the prese q ail Duchess of Atholl.-London Chron ao cle.
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