Putnam patriot., 1912-03-22
Editorial Scraps


 finder lowering skies and a heavy, fumbllng sea, on Saturday Inc old bat- ileship Maine, fesurTected after four teen years burial in Havana Harbor, plunged with her eolors flying 10 her 1 final rest six hundred fathoms deep in 1 fhe sapphire waters Of the gulf The 1 sinking Of the hulk was carried out f precisely as planned, marking the end i of the great work begun more than year and half ago.
 Out of 60,000 suggestions the best slogan New Haven can muster. ae. cording to the judges, is "Old Films, New Ideas, New HaYen.n
 sydney Brooks tells the readers Of The aFounighlly Review that tbe Roman Catholic arehbishops and bish- ops Of Ireland will not lift finger for home.fule, do not want II, and will be "heartily relieyedn fl it's defailed and ditched.
 Only last year, in New York city, Colonel Roosevelt was telling the Re publican Club and it's dinner guests how glad he was to find them in favor | Of reciprocity. "I hail the reciprocity | arrangement, he said "because IL | represents an effort to bring about closer and more intimate and more friendly relationship of mutual adyan. tage on equal terms between Canada and the United States
 There was report Tn London that Miss christabel Pankhurst-fof whom the police have been looking-got safe ly of on an Atlantic liner and Is now well or her way to New York.
 First and last, the United States government has spent s708, 000 on our spent" notes Washington cores. pondent, "in rivers and harbors i'm proyements texelusive of the Panama Canal) S627 ,000, ,oO0 of which s36, ,000,- 600 has oeen devoted to New England, $lT,000, ,000 10 massachusetts,
 Lieut.. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., retired, is one of the leading lights Of an organization called "Guardians Of Liberty recently sprung into be- ing The objects and aim of the Guardians of Liberty are simply and solely To .'pfeserye, defend and forever hold sacred the blood sought legacy oi liberty inherited from our fathers" as The first article in the declaration oi principles of the order has it.
 Londons "Spectator," which has idealiyed mot to say idoized) the Col oneI, seems bit fiaboefgasted by his present doings. The editor of the "Sational Review has nothing te say about them, His American cor respondent, MT. A. Maurice Low, wrote and mailed his letter before the publication of the Colonel's letter to the inquiring governors, but he sup pose1 the improbable case of the Colo mel getting the republican nomination at Chicago. What them "The third term will again be burning issue perhaps the most important issue ol the campaign"
 Ten of the sufifageltes who were committed for trial by the police mag, istraie at the Bow slfeet court, Lon don, on March ?, on charge oi smashing windows during the wom- en suffrage demonstration on March were sentenced at the London Ses slons court to terms of imprisonment ranging from four to six months.
 John Lyons sang under hypnotic in fuenee at lngeside hospital, while q surgical operation was performed on him. No anaesthetic was used, The hypnotist first got the patient into a condition in which pain was not felt or realized mentally, and then, when the knives began cutting into the flesh, the subject on the operating table was given the suggestion to sing. He sang all during the operation, and his voice was strong and free from any quaver. When brought out of the trance Lyons had no memory of the operation or oi his vocal outburst.
 The New Haven road has ordered twenty heavy mail cars of steel con struetion to take the place in part oi the old mail cars that are now being run on through lines. The order will probably not be filled before next fall
 Silk culture in Japan is the sole oc. cupation of nearly l,5o0,0oo families Fully ,o00,0O0 men earn their liveli. hood by fishing. and there are 100000 more who are fishermen part of the time and have other occupations.
 There is a government reward of 5000 for specimen of certain spe- cies of lobster. It is said that lob ster of this species was found by Pa eifie fisherman mol long ago. Believ- ing that 10 sell the lobster would be against the law, he ate 1t. Later he learned that IL would have been worth 5000 to him.