Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18
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 Tn the. old days, before the war, thousands of American tourists visited Europe every summerfi partly because ie was one of the cheapest ways of taking a holiday. Hotels, food, cloth ing, cost far less on this side of the Atlantic than in America Now the rate of exchange will be the principal financial attraction to economical tour ists. For their dollar they will get 25 per cent. more in English money than they used to get; in French francs they will gain 100 per cent; in Italy still more: and if they should venture to Germany they can have marks al- most for the asking. But from our point of view the American invasion will be equally beneficial. Every pound which they spend in this ceun- try will tend to improve the rate of exchange.
 Jewels which have spar<Ied in set tings of social splendour when worn by their original Russian owners were sold at the sale rooms of Messrs. Johnson, Dymond and Son, Great Queen street, yesterday. More of these jewels with a history are to be auctiened on Thursday
 In many cases the precious stones represented all which some refugee had been able to smuggle out of Rus sia.
 Ornaments for which Mr. W. E. Hureomb, who had arranged the sale had paid thousands of pounds to a Russian princess, came to him with flour still dimming their glow. The princess explained that the only way she could get her jewellery out of Rus sia was by hiding them in a bag of flour.
 A beautiful pearl and diamond bracelet which once belonged to a Russian Princess changed hands al { S60.
 The explosion which wnecked ar Edinburg cork factory last Saturday was probably caused by what is usual 1 ly considered as harmless dust Any dust that will burn can be made |tc explode under certain conditions. Al that is necessary is that there shal 1 be a mixture of air and dust in de- finite proportions.
 Some years ago three flour mill: 1 were destroyed as the result of . mysterious explosion, and experiments ] subsequently, carried out left no pos sibility of doubt but that flour dus 1 was the cause. It was demonstrated l that two ounces of four dust in bo1 l containing two cubic feet of air coulc 1 be exploded with sufficient force tC upset two big men standing on tho | lid. From which it was calculated tha1 ] about 2G0 ID. of flour dust fgnited il ] 4000 cubic feet of air would throw ( wegiht of 2,500 tons to a height o1 l 100 it.
 Our note on the amous abbot o- ] iEf1a ic +O k, i theory according to which the towr owes it's name to it's abbey church; tn, name Paisley being corruption ol Basilica.
 Paisley's Baptist Cathedral" as ths l Coats Memorial Church is locally known, has been called one of the foul 1 triumphs of ecclesiastical architectur. achieved in the British Isles during tn. nineteenth century, the other three being St. Mary's Cathedral in EdiD. i burgh, Truro Cathedral and St. Fin. barr's Cathedral in Cork.
 Charles Lambs original manuscrip A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig" ha. been sold by auction in PhiladelphI: 1 for e2,500. At an estimate the essal makes a short 2,S00 words: and tha ] works out at about 1Sc a word
 This is the highest price ever paiS for a manuscript in America and tn, i highest price ever paid for a Laml Ms. anywhere. It is probably 25
 times as much as he was paid for it | and nearly as. mach money as h earned in all his life as an author. collections of flower pictures in thi
 Queen Mary has one of the fines country.
 i She is also fond of flowers sed il decoration as, for instance, the furni
 ture of Princess Mary's own room a
 Windsor, which is hand-painted wit flowers in the French manner.
 There are beautiful tall screen hand-painted with reses by Miss Va.
 Heddeghem in her Majesty's ow
 rooms, and many pictures by the sam
 artists, whose work is said by con noisseurs to rival Fantin Iatour'; Miss Van Heddeghem was one of tn
 Queens discoveries"
 The flower pictures of Mrs. Louis
 Furmage are also among the Queen collection. Announcement tkat th, Kinq an i, Queen Alexandra are to give old
 fashioned English rose trees to tn ? Shapespeare Garden at Stratford- -on Ovon reminds me (writes a friend wh has spent a good deal of time i : Amerlca) that one of the most charm 3 ing plantations of the kind is in th s Central Park at New York. -, Every kind of old ld-fashioned Englis Y flower is to be found there, and tf care with which it is kept proves tr
 real affection of American Shake
 speare lovers'for the great teacher an
 dramatist.
 Q Would it not be a gracious thir Q (adds my friend), and making f,
 stronger bonds between the two ns
 tions, if delegation of British Shak, a speare lovers could journey to u United States, taking with them at
 diticnal roots from Royal and oth
 gardens, for planting in the enclosur,
 on the other side ?-The London Chr n nicle.
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