Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-02

scarcely felt. Iced water is the uni versal beverage, and in that thin, dry atmoshphere the stimulants commonly consumed in England are felt to be un- necessary"
 alleged previously for that love of "usquebaugn' which some malicious Soutkrons have attributed to Scots- men.
 ] ehahced upon the following adver- tisement, writes Sidney Walton. during a short sojotirn in Whitby:
 Wanted-Two or more apprentices to the jet trade; good wages and pros- Epeets: eight hours day.
 It piqued my interest, and I began to | make focal inquiries about jet making. | Whitby, the quaint little harbor be- meath tn hill, is haunted by the spirits
 Of the past, by the songful ghost of l Caedmon and the devout soul of St.
 Hilda; and Eie fashioning of jet tells,
 too, of ancient times and tolls. The
 ancients called jet gargates and black amber, and they used to say that if 1 mixed With the marrow of a stag strange potion-it healed a. serpent $ 1 bite.
 'Yes," said my informant. proud of his local lore, "John Carlil was in
 trade here as jet worker in 159S; but 1t Is only about hundred gears ago since the demand for jet ornaments for 1ersohal weaf became intense. Queen Victoria introduced into the court the wearing of jet. and as by magic she brought prbsi1erity to Whit by. The great war. with all it's shad cws and sorrows. has found in jet a seemly emblem of grief. and we are l getting orders from every part of the world. What, after all. can be more gracefully symbolic than a jet orna- nieht, fashioned here in this old town
 the cradle of nglish history in more than one sensel
 T delight. to be a townsrnan ant rraftsfnah of Whitby, and to have par in sending exquisite ornaments of je the world over. binding many clifae together, as it were, by rosary 0 , furnished black"
 II The Elephant and Castle has lenl
 been "the hub Of the universe of Lon
 dun,' as described by the eoffespon
 dent who wants to see the traffic clear
 1 ing house established there instead c
 at Clefkenwell.
 In an article on London published b Blaekwoed's in June, 1887, the write mentions "the Elephant and Castle.
 hestelry, inn. pothouse tavern or hot , W . dA 2 ifOS OCt edAAt nAlCIi IS It's Jt0pt ,, esignation-about mile beyon Westminster bridge, at which 1,5e
 coaches and other vehicles pull up ev . cry day. The real Londoner is prou ; | of this, as he is proud of everything : This city-the height of St. PauFs ti number of the bridges, the noisiness (
 the Strand, the dirt of Mapping Whe g the Thames tunnel is completed u i true Coekney will be the greatest co, 5 comb In the world"
 t nTheFs is one-and only one-ws e in which higher wages can be obtail Q ed," said Sir Hugh Bell in his addre
 on Economic Science and Statigti e before the British association. "Th re is by greater product per unit
 capital mad per unit of wage" That Vs to say, the average worker cannot b 1f come richer by any other means b " harder work. or improved methods It work Long experience teaches I of that 1t is in this way Chat is. by ir $, proved methods) that wages have a II Va1ced in the past, and that in u Id way alone can they be further ae | creased in the future"
 la l,l Many things had happened in u .n .a war, said Admiral Sir Henry Jacks to at Leeds which the public never kf, a- of and never would know. = There were records of men who h m been torpedoed five and, six times en one man seven times, and he want es another shipi
 e The admiral told how some fsht or men asked for a gun for their vess ny which was only sailing smack. IT. gun was mounted and concealed in 1 us hold, to be raised when necessary. T on ship had no motor or auxiliary pow
 and depended entirely upon it's saili
 It went in the usual manner to xx fishing grounds and waited. Then
 calm came and a German submar
 appeared and eonnmenced to destl
 the fleet ship by ship. The crew of ed smack lay low until the submar ey came alongside to investigate h ist then a whistle blew on board e's smack, the bulwarlSs fell away and us gun appeared. One shot was suffici ch. to finish the submarine
 A battleship of 25,0OO tons steam .. 25 knots an hour, could not have-d Lneai fflTfe---I sandf1n Chrot1iela