Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-05

SpondenC mentions tneSe llm1tS:
 women's Mems Costume or Suit. 10 %. Q Q Hat ................ 1 12 .. Is 0 Boots ............. F 0 .. 2 0 0
 Any excess will be taxed, so that for the future fine feathers will make | fine birds. Perhaps one of these days we shall come to rationing clothes, with a special code of imprisonment 1 for large wardrobes.
 The French premier says: My motto is the same everywhere. In do
 nestle politics wage war. In foreign politics I wage war. (Cheers.) f1denee of our Allies. Russia has be- 1 trayed us. I continue to wage war. Unhappy Roumania is compelled to capitulate I continue to wage war, and I shall continue until the last quarter of an hour for it is we who shall have the last quarter of an hour. | Cloud cheers, and cries from the Ex- treme Left, Everyone thinks and
 desires the same.") We agree. {" l-London Chronicle.
 1
 of fourteen who had stolen some lab oratory apparatus committed suicide,
 leaving a letter in which he spoke of 1 chemistry, which love and die for" was glad to see that in the case of another boy of fourteen, charged at lCambridge with having stolen over 160 maps from boks in the Public Li- brary," the end of the adventure was the less tragic one of being bound over Theft of maps is, of course
 wrong, especially from books in pub lie libraries; but boy must be pretty fond of maps to take the rick, and typographical enthusiasm is not such Ia notable feature of English youth that it should be discouraged by too lpedantic an adherence to the moral law. Besides, there will be deal of work in the near future for map ex- perts.-Londor Times.
 l If only we could take leap into the tfuture-say, 8 hop of eighty odd Iyears-and M Berthelot's prediction
 were verified! For in the year 200O
 the great French scientist told the
 Chemical Product Manufacturers
 energy will be so cheaply obtained
 that food can be made from carbon
 taken from carbonic acid, hydrogen | air. What work vegetables have done
 science will do better. with greater
 profusion, and independently of sea-
 sons, microbes, or insects.-
 There will be then no passion tc
 own land. Barren regious will bt l preferable to fertile, because they vii not be. pestiferous from ages of ma. , nuring. There will be no need tC
 disfgure our planet with agriculture or with the grine of factories anG , chimneys. It will recover it's verdurt
 and flora, and become vast pleasure
 garden" How refreshing is this , cheery optisim of N Berthelot. ant how different from the dictum of Pro. ) lessor Huxley, who gloomily re. , marked that science promises nc millennium! m!"-London Chronicle.
 It was King Edwards custom tt , present each of his three daughter: with one or two beautiful pearls on tn, ', occasion of their birthday. This h, | did ever since their early childhood
 and consequently when the Princesse; } grew up they all possessed very fint } pearl necklaces. Princess Victoria who is one of the Royal contributor: of pearls to the Red Cross necklace may possibly have given one or twt of these to help form the rope.
 
 Nothing more dramatic has marked
 the long exile of the Empress Eugeni, , than her transmission to the Frencl Government of the German lette, 5 which decided the fate of Alsace t Lorraine 47 years ago. All these year, r she has kept silence. The first new t the world had of any such core ] spondence appeared in the Bernstorf $ Papers, dozen years ago. Then tn, l Empress, for whom France hat 5 suffered, appeared for the first tiuo, l, as one who had suffered for France s For a German hand revealed how sh t threw away throne rather than ced g an inch of French soil. Had she no , behaved with spartan resolution th f world might have gone very differentl, r for her. Bismarck and Bazaine wer : prepared to ignore the imprisoned Ma s poleon H., and to crown her so, 2 Napoleon Wifi she would agree f,
 the cession of the coveted provinces
 Lord Cowley, our Ambassador. knew 6 for the negotiations were conducted ? ] at his house 20 Alternate -straat- ls.