Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23
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n WOfIfzH Just IT7OT1 EnQta remarked in surprise:-
 What heaps of people believe in ghosts nowadays! When I left home few years ago, if one had expressed any faith in the supernatural one would have been denounced at once as Weakminded and superstitiouus, but now if one shows no sympathy with with those who do, one is positively looked upon old-fasllioned and con yentional''
 Society, having accepted spiritua- lism, and yielded to the fascination and delight of hanging itself with in numerable barbaric charms, has added ghosts to it's list Of interesting sen- sations.
 Girls at college, actresses, brides, sure them luck. No African savages could display more touching conf dence in his own pet fetish. Men ac- cept and preserve special mascots. Haunted houses are reviving their old histories, and fashionable. people are debating the potentia1ities of psychic communion with the beings of anoth- CT world.
 The reduction of the sugar ration is not an arbitrary act due to the failure of the Food Ministry to acA cumulate reserves, or to coerce plant CTS in the British West Indies. Sugar has been comparatively cheap because this country limited it's purchases; if it had bought enough to accumulate reserves it would have sent up the price and defeated it's own object. The power of the Controller to raise or reduce the ration is an effectual weapon which we possess for bringing the ring of Cuban merchants to rea- son. Cuba has just had a good crop of sugar, and if by self-denying act of the ration we prove our power to limit our consumption the planters will be obliged to lower their prices. Sugar is very necessary thing for the health of the country, but it is worth while to undergo a short abstinence to secure a greater and cheaper plen- tg in the future.
 When a woman Proposed-Women who may feel inclined to put their leap year privilege to the test may furnish themselves with a noble and successful precedent.
 It was not Leap Year when Queen Victoria offered her heart and hand to Prince Albert, whom etiquette pre- vented from proposing to the Queen of England; but Sir Robert Peel de-
 
 of love as Juliet" and the marriage, which was solemnized in Leap Year, proved union, of perfect bliss.
 Sharkespeare's Garden-In appeaI- ing for gifts to re-stock the Shakes peare Great Garden" the authorities have done a commendable thing, and the heartiest response ought to re- suit.
 It would, of course, be quite im- possible to represent in the garden Shakespeare entire vegetable king dom if only on the question of space. A list was prepared, some time ago, of the examples specifically named in plays and poems, the total amounting to 1S2; but subsequent additions were made, bringing the number up to nearly 200 speciments. And which we see that figure is much more than double that of the next biggest veg etarble kingdom in English verse namely, Wordsworth's we realise how great a naturalist Shakespeare was.
 The Longest WiIi-Who made the longest will on. record? A Somerset House official, interviewed with the hope of obtaining an answer to this question, says: q know of one Whict runs to 500 foIios. or 45,0o0 words but cannot say exactly where it is.' It would be interesting to laerr further particulars regarding this will According to the Dictionary of Ma tional Biography, Thomas Cu5itt
 founder of the famous firm wfhicf blrilt Belgravia, C1apf1am Park, and Pimlfco, made the longest will evel
 seen at. Somerset House up to tho time of his death in 1855. Cubitt's
 will extends to 32,740 words, ant
 covers 30 skins of parchment. Twenty -four-hcur Days-shouId W, adopt the 24-hour day, there will stiI l remain a curious discrepancy betweeI l the computations of land, sea, anC l sky. Astronomers begin the day a
 noon; so do sailors, but theirs is no 1 the same day, for while the navigato begins January 1 at noon on Deeem l ber 31 the stargazer starts his nev years at noon on New Years Day. The commercial 24-hour day differ from both these, starting from Fer, l at midnight, so that the countrie l which have adopted the new reckon 1 ing will begin the New Year as VI
 now begin it, from midnight
 The Kings UncIe-The Duke O l Connaught, who left London on Sat 1 urday for a rather prolongedi stay il 1 the South of of France, will complet 1 his 70th year next spring, but he ha successfully hidden his advancin ] years. Many 2 time during the va