Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-06
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All Atlantic travellers are familiar with fog on the Banks, phenomenon which is said to be holding up the aeropianes waiting to start from New foundland.
 The explanation profered by the steward when the siren begins it's mel ancholy hoot and the vessel moves through a thick white vapor is that the fog is caused by the cold waters from the north meeting the Gulf Stream. Just steam, in fact, and as it cannot extend far from the surface it scarcely seems an adequate reason for postponing a flight which, we are old. is to be made at an average height of 10c00 feet.
 |. Professional betting. which some are suggesting should be taxed instead of beer, was apparently a by-product Of the French Revolution, previously to which bets on race horses were mainly confined to wagers between owners and their friends. It was during the last decade of the 18th century that the first ''bookie" known to fame as V2uxhan Clarke. came to bad end the end Of a taut rope.
 As Mir. Clarke was hanged not for ! 'welshing," but for highway robbery, the profession or calling of yelling "six to four on the fee-ald' cannot at that time have been a very profitable occupation. Betting to odds with pro fassional bookmakers. then styled blacklegs. did not become reputable until the thirties of the last century.
 She came scorchina up Praed street, London, on g, motor bicycle. She was not on war work. but she wore a sort of uniform all the same. Her trench coat looked as though it really would have been useful in the trenches. The ends of her bobbed hair were tucked away almost out of sight under a mo tor cap of khaki blue. She wore a well cut pair of riding brooches. with buckskin strappirgs, and her shapely | legs were encased in well fitting put tees.
 She propped the motor bicycle up against the curbstone and walked to- wards shop window decorated with { articles of feminine wear. But she did l not go inside. In fact. she scarcely ; deigned to notice it at all. Instead she ! swept by and marched boldly into a ! tobacconist's shop adjoining. A couple 1 of minutes later she emerged with a |! packet of cigarettes in her hand. She i paused on the step while she broke the ! packet. selected a cigarette, and lit up. 1 Nothing extraordinary at a1l.' she l | l that's all: perhaps some people might | say I was very modern. but that's all
 nonsense. I'm half product of the , War-half sign of the times. I did
 my bit during the war. I've won my
 freedom-my emancipation, I believe is the proper thing to say. And I've
 earned my right to smoke cigarettes. ;
 She got astride the motor bike
 again. The engine started up, and
 the very modern girl whizzed off down the road again. the blue smoke from
 her cigarette trailing away behind her
 There will be more than one objec-
 ton lodged to the claim of M. Secomte to have broken all previous height rec
 ords by his ascent last Friday of S,20C
 metres. Capt Lang, R. A. F.. ascend ing from the Martlesham Gpswich) aerodrome on Jan. of this year, at tained an altitude of 30,500 feet, when his engine stopped owing to the re- duced air pressure; and 30,500 feet ex- ceeds S,200 meters by no fewer thar
 3958 feet.
 There is also the American record
 made by Capt. Schroeder of the Amer ican air service. on Sept. IS last year } The altitude he attained was officially
 ica as 2S,900 feet or 1000 feet higher
 
 There is some uncertainty as to wht began it. but, once started, the aSser ton that crime has increased in thi
 country to an appalling extent sine
 the armistice found many commenta } tors. Alienists and other experts hav explained that this is the inevita bl result of what is vaguely called Iva psychology and that at least fv
 years must elapse before the natiol
 becomes normal.
 Criminal statistics give no suppor ] to this alarming theory. The retur1 f published this week end shows tha |, the occupants of our prisons have de
 creased since 1915 from 22,9e4 to S,25s
 fairly equally divided among al
 classes of offenders. That leaves bi n margin for "a return to the normal" d Bishop Weldon does not seem t f have been very happy in his inter f change with the Bradford people whe D caught in a crowd and recognized or
 i May day. Others of the cloth hay
 been much more successful with roug
 hecklers. There was the Bishop c = Oxford wfo dining at market ordi }, nary, declared himself off 'his feet 2 "Try Thorley's. mister" bawled a rud T farmer. '"Thorley's," said the bisho, 4 "is excellent for horses. and, as SC, for asses. But I doubt whether
 would suit Oxon."
 And there was the bishop who. s,o h ing to consecrate a cemetery, foun Il himself in the midst of very rous O crowd. My friends" he said, T de f clined police escort in the hope tha 7. you of this place would give me u bsodyguard. I see you have done S, ', and I commit myself to your charge When the Empress Marie of Russi
 lands here we shall have in this islam