Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-08
Cleaned from Foreign Ex-
 changes.

Nobody in England dreams that theI premler wants to fix the indemnity for the sake of favoring Germany still less, in order to injure our felIow-clajm- ant, France. Is it not strange, as well as regrettabie, that in the French press such absdrdities should have a serious circulation? May We hope to see that circulation somewhat diminished as a result of Lloyd Georges frank and friendly denials?
 Drawing out-of-Work Pay--Returns from trade unions show that at the end of October unemployment among their members had risen from 2.2 per cent to 53 in the month. According to the La- Dor Gazette, the number of people who claimed out-of-work benefit under the in surarlce act and the donation scheme fo [. eX-seryice men rose from 274,000 to about 600,o00. In addition, larger mum bers of work-people in many of the prin 1 cipal industries were on short time. 1 Plenty of HolIy-Unless the controIl- CTS of the market forbid, there should 1 be no shortage of well-berried holly this Christmas. Bushes in Kent that for the Rast two or three years have been, as the children complained, nothing but prickles," are today loaded thickly with berries, and it is to be hoped there will be no obstacle to it's widespread and cheap distribution.
 Win It Dust Bridge?-A new occupa- tion has arisen, that of teaching society tauctien piquet, the new game for two players which is capturing the fancy of
 card players who complain that they
 know all that there is to be knowr about auction bridge. Enthusiasts whC
 are bitten with auction piquet say tha just as nobody who now plays auction
 bridge ever wants to go back to bridg, or whist, so nobody who once tries auc tion piquet will ever revert to the par
 ent game. And experience is daily prov ing that many who have taken up anc
 tion piquet prefer 1t to auction bridge Park Squatters:-In the house o
 lords. Lord Gainford will cah atten-
 tion to the continued use of temporary buildings in the London parks by tn,
 staffs of government departments, ant will move that they be vacated, ant the buildings dismantled before Jun, next. At the beginning of the war ther, were 1S,000 persons engaged in gov / ernment departments. When the arm istice was signed this number increas
 ed to 100000. Since then it has beer brought down to 65,000, and of thes l6,000 are in temporary buildings
 
 $ house them when these buildings ar : l demolished?
 A. New Income Raiser:-An ex- ser vice man has hit upon new mean 2 of. livelihood. He attends a, theatr 7 with bundle of camp stools, and of . fers temporary seats to members 0 7 the quesues awaiting admission to tn z pit and gallery. His charges vary ac ,. cording to time, from a shilling to tn 2 person who turns up at four or fiv ' o'cloek,for the evening performance, t z a sixpence or threepence for an hou or half hour.
 = Lauder the GOIfcr-Sir Harry Lar der has, we are told, announced his il tention of taking up "gowff", seriousl Before he went away the great lit z, comedian was one of the best golfers ( i, tho stage, and Neil Kenyons greate rival at the game. Unfortunately, he W; {. too busy to give the attention the spo a requires if one desires to become real s good at ''smacking the sn1a' ba'," bI