Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-03
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1 The ate LOTO btItS1OIo uSSA bO 1SA l story of his father which has some i bearing on the Sunday sport question, | in which many of our readers have in | terested themselves.
 His father was Irish sporting pafSon and was one day interrupted while shooting on a Sunday with the | indignant remonstrance: My lord. did the Apostles shoot on the Sabbath ?'' T don't know" he replied put I'm certain they fshed,"
 This year of eentenkries should not be allowed to pass without some men ton of it's railway events. for il was in 1S19 that George Stephenson began the conversion of the Hetton colliery tram road into a railway to be worked, on it's level stretches. by & locomotive and in the same year Edward Pease obtained after much opposition, his act of parliament for the construction Of the Stockton and Darlington line, the first link in our great railway sys- tenn.
 The unveiiine of the Cartier statue by King George on Saturday, by means of an electric current sent to Canada from Balrnoral. was not the first cere- mony of its kind.
 Shortly before he died King Ed ward. while staying at a Sussex man sion, similarly opened a university in Montreal. and six years ago Queen Mary. by merely pressing button in Buckingham palace opened 8 hospital in Ontario
 Of the 50 and odd British lands over seas, there are now only two not con- nected with the nlotheriand by cable New Guinea and the Falkland Isia nds the former depending on steamer link from Thursday Island. and the latter on q similar link from Monte video.
 Many people. not over observant. ima Zine Central London with the ex- ceptioh perhaps of Ludsate hin, to be place of perfectly level streets. b cially during and since the war when most vans and drays have been shame fully overladen.
 One is reminded Of this because of the sign which the National Equine Defense league has just set up at the bottom of John street in the Adeipf1i asking all drivers of horse drawn vehf- cles to avoid the streets in that neigh borhood. John street itself. which runs down to vi1liers street is prob ably the steepest short hill in Central London. But there are plenty of long and trying slopes Elsewhere in the are not very apparent to foot passen- gers. The drivers and their horses know all about them. though. Trafa1- gar square itself lies on hillside.
 Ia there an "o" in Rumania? In. the days before the war it was speit with usually in the press. Then when the war brought the country into excep- tional prominence, the custom of omit ting it became general as 1t became themselves and speII themselves Rutnunje.
 This was held to settle the question and to justify the war economy of emitting the "o'' despite the argument that 1t clearly ought to be retained in the name of Romance people.
 Now Count Czernin. in his memoirs just published: devotes chapter to the country, which he writes of as ''Rou-
 mania" It looks as if the controversy will be revived.
 Lady Marjorie He<vey, whose en- eagement to Lord Erskine is just an nounced. has spent nearly all of her 21 Years at 1ckworth park. the seat of her father. the Marquis of Bristol, near Bury St. Edmunds
 Ickworth is worthy of note as being one of the strangest looking houses in the kinsdosn. It consists reaify of two long wings, curvine away from 8 vast central tower ca1ed the Round only one wing Is occupied. and it is only in rec&nt years that the Round has been furnished This Round looks for an the world 1ike slender gasometer. and yet the effect of the whole building Is not tin3Ye aeirg 1.-the central struc- ture-is 1zo feet high, and it's summit commands fine views. It was built oyer a century ago by that Hervey intended to house large collection of statuary which never even reached England, but was lost at sea on it's way from italy.
 "tsrd Morley asked nc whether there were any volumes I was special Iy deSir6us 6f Keeping With that ab- sence of hun1or which has dogged my footsteps throughout my career asked for and obtained retention of the com plete collection of Punch"
 This is a passage in a, letter from Lord Acton explaining the advertures Of his fathers great library which MT. Carnegie Sought and presented to Lord Morley It is difficult to decide whether Lord Acton, who is a professional dip lomatist, means this as a compliment
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