Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-09

has amused herself by writing the most charming verses and painting the most graceful and delicate pie lures imaginable.'
 This little Lady Diana is the daughter of the Earl of Bradford and a grand daughter of Lord Aberdare.
 America's New Poor-A well-known American who lives in London has re- ceived letter from one of the sons of the late Theodore Roosevelt an- nouneing that with his two brothers, he has embarked" i'll business. The young man makes no secret that cash is not so plentiful as it promised. to be at one time. The new Roosevelt venture is a cheap restaurant scheme to be known as the Paulisto Cofes Inc.
 The late MT. Roosevelt left an estate worth about 200 GOO, but the greater part of it was bequeathed to the giFis, the Old Roman ex-President main taining that "a lad who could not make good with 94.o00 to start with wasn't worth troubling about"
 December in Ireiand's Story-De- cember, which has brought so much trouble in Ireland this year, has in past times been an unlucky month.
 There were the two explosions at Dublin Castle, December S1, 1890 and December A, 1892. The great split in the Irish Home Rule party Gas re- sSIlt of the Parnell- O Shea case) took place in December 1890. And on De- cember r, 1883, the last scene of the Phoenix Park tragedy closed in the execution of Patrick O'Dennell. the assassin of Carey, the inforner. There is often sort of fatalism in months and days and years.
 SOME MOoSE!-Two newly-arriv- ed Scottish immigrants wandering up a well-known thoroughfare in Mon treal, were attracted by a magnifi- cent specimen of a moose in the spa cious window of the c. P. R., says the Canadian Pacific Railway Bud get" It was their first view of the King of the Canadian forest. and their wondering curiosty was aroused Going inside, one Of the Scots in quired what the big animal in the window was?
 That replied the assistant gen ially. lis a Canadian moose" "A Canadian moose!" calculated the Scot, his eyes buiging with amaze ment; "oLsh. if yon's a Canadian moose, what's Canadian rat like ?''
 Prehistoric Beasts-I have reason bIOnlOSduIQS ] somewhat modified to suit present day conditions still survives on the Congo, writes Robert A. Whitmore. There are several noteworthy exam ples of creatures still surviving which date back to far earlier date than BrontosauFusJ which first lived in Yurassic times.
 The Nautilus has closely allied l relative in the Silurian rocks, and il certainly dates back to the Devon ian Age.
 The fish Ceratodus, which is stil found in the rivers of Queensland had very near relatiye-Dipterus- i the Old Red Sandstone, and the ac. tual fish itself is found in Triossit strata-older than the Varassic Age
 Moreover. we have the Sphenodor which has been called tour olres living fossil" linking together lizards crocodiles, birds and manmals-sur viving from remote ages-and thu okapi lately discovered, which has i the characteristics of antelopes ani giraffes.
 Why, then, should not Brontosauru 1 equally survive in conditions so fay ourable
 1 Russia's Peasant GeneraI-Genera Deniken. with whom Dr. Harold Vii | lIaIHS, the '-Oally CnrOnlcle IaIn
 ous Special Correspondent in Rus sia, has been described by his ad mirers as the peasant soldier wht will save his country.
 Over the army that is fighting Bol shevism in South Russia rules thi
 man of the people, slovenly of dres and slow of speech, even, 1t has beel
 said, playing locke" a card game
 with drunken mutineers after en
 treaties, scoldings, arguments and I prayer, His methods have been de scribed as kind of CromwelIian pa l ternalism.
 His fine phrase, q shall ceHtanu fighting: I cannot do otherwise" i
 strangely reminiscent of Luther at tn
 Diet of Worms: There I take m
 stand; I can do no otherwise, so hel
 me God"
 1 The Written speeeh-Now that tn
 PriIfee of Wales has expressed hi
 disapproval of the reading of publi speeches, perhaps some of our after
 dinner orators will take the hint. N
 doubt on certain formal occasions tn
 written oration has it's merits. but a