Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-29
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the machines which should have gone to Russia,
 Two Canadian soldiers were talking. One said. T hear the Australians were ir Jerusalem on Christmas day" To which the other replied. .'Bercher the shepherds watched their ilocks that night" The term, a 'boskertime," which the Illustrations use to describe a cheerful leave, comes home to it's birthplace little altered "Bosky" with a, similar meaning, was in English collequialism in the eighteenth century. And "bos- ky" is still current slang with us, but implying too generous use of the wine cup. There is one phrase in the book of slang which is decidedly pleasing, Australian grip" It stands for that best of greetings, the honest, hearty hand-shake.
 We use the werd "eoupcn" pretty frequently nowadays. perhaps, without realizing what a newcomer it is into l English speech The credit of its in treduction is given to Thomas Cook, f. and the thing from the French in con- neetioH with his excursion and hotel l tickets. Long ago, however, we had similar word, eulpon, derived from mediaeyal French, which signifed to slice. and also, strangely enough, "a slice of meat!
 He put an interesting possibility: l Suppose that instead of the Allied I Soyereigns capturing Napoleon, Napo- l leon had, as was possible in 1913 or 1 1914, captured the Allied Sovereigns | There would have been no question 1 of Napoleon's immuring or exiling the soveFeisns of Austria, Prussia or Rus sia; their countries would not have endured it. Their subjects would have l ceded provinces and Actresses. and l regained their masters in exchange ) l Were the sovereigns of those countries, l with their military supports, now safe- l ly in bondage. would their people give l a pinch of land or 8 handful of mor- l tar to redeem them?
 In capturing Jericho General Allen 1 by's troops have trespassed on a DOT tion of the Sultan's private estate. Ii l has always proved a difficult city to l defend, since its dramatic fall before l the ranshorn offensive of Joshua One l excuse for it's frequent defeats has
 been urged in the humidity of its at. 1 mospfere, the town lying in a hollow l but that circumstance could hardly
 account for the collapse of the walls
 Many theories have been advanced to obtain credenee for the Biblical ac i count some asserting that the Eng fish version is too drastic, and tha the walls merely gave way under thu I continued shock of tramping hosts I sufficiently to make a breach. An
 other view is that the walls, "higl
 and fenced up to heaven" topplet l over of their own weight, under tha steady tramp of armed men.
 An appellant, named Albert Cox
 who appeared recently before tn | Pensions Tribunal, had in his tim been:-
 : Sheep farmer in New Zealand Il Rough rider.
 Petty officer in the Navy.
 I Detective in India.
 | Sergeant in the Foreign Le
 zion before Antwerp.
 Employee at a whaling stotion.
 Machine Gun Corps instructor
 Ordinary driver
 | 1t was said Judge Parry, who hear the appeal a most romantic career | Coxss who was discharged from tn
 Army as medically unfit owing to de rf fectiye hearing, attributed his deaf ness to the noise of machine gun fire The judge allowed his appeal agains | recall to the Army.-London Chronicle | In the course of his speech at tn
 meeting of the Prudential Assuranc Company March 7th, Sir Thoma Dewey, the chairman, described re
 narkable chart which had been pre- l oared showing the rates of mortalit
 If the whole of their male industris
 ,oiicyhoiders during the year 191
 915, 1916. and 1917:
 He stated that before the wax-i 1 913-the mortality experience exactl
 'eproduced that of the latest Censu
 rab1e, particularly at the militar
 ges. At the age If q the mortalit 7 ate in 1915 was five times that {
 he pre-war experience; in 1916 min 1 ines; and in 1917 12 times.
 The diagram shows that in 1913 tn Il ote of mortality for men of 21 wa
 'ather less than four per 1000; i
 s15, 20; in 1916, 38; and in 1917, 4
 Aast year the rate of mortality fe
 ten of 20 was equal to that of me
 { 46.-London Times.
 This quotation is taken from th
 eichstag speech in which the leadt f the Socialist Minority, Herr Haas ,I protested ggzifst the German an