Putnam patriot., 1912-04-12
Editorial Scraps


 of teeth was believed to be responsible for the death of Mrs. Margaret New. man, sb years old, of Boston.
 Beer yeast has become an article Of food in Germany, being put on the market in the form Of thin cakes If successful, il will be another addition 10 the fare of the vegetarians.
 There was A question about Mark Twain on the examination paper which 900 boys applying for eiYil-sef- vice positions as city hall messengers In Chicago tried to answer. Not all the boys remembeTed-if they ever knew-who Mark Twain was. One wrote with a flourish, eHe was my couHtry's greatest poet. Another said he was minister. A third eal- led him "good pfeaeher.n
 ''I have no idea of bolting the fepub- liean ticket II l am not nominated. Any such statement Is pfepoatefous. This was Col itooseyelt's decisive re- ply to reports that had been circulated That he intended to lead third party move fl defeated at Chicago. The Senate by n vote Of bi to 16, re- lected the Sherwood dollar-a-day pen slon bill, which had passed the House, and enacted the Shoot general age and service pension law which, 1t K esti. mated will increase the pension roll by go ,0B0 900 annually during the next five years.
 Scores of aeToplanes. thousands Of automobiles, and millions sof feet of motion picture film appear among the articles forming the foreign trade lof the United States for Inc current fiscal year. The number of aefopanes im- ported and exported during the fiscal year which ends 20 days hence will ag' gregate half hundred valued at ap' proxlmately A quarter Of million dollars Tine number of .aalomobiles imported md eXportedl will aggregate approximately 70 0,000, vuluel at about 2b million dollars. The motion pictnr, film imported and exported vii HfUbtit iR if IliilARh t'tt 'f iffAF h''f N' sufficient 10 reneh more than half waS round the world.
 Exports of cotton manufactures from the United States in February were 6t per cent larger than in February Of th' preceding yeur, having been In tha month practical live million dollars against three and one-quafter million in february, l0li and In the eigh months ending with February, E. mil lion dollars, against 26 million in thu corresponding period of lall. The val ue of cotton goods exported in tho eight months ending with February xg2, ,o2n, ,p4l, exceeds that of the core spending period In any year eNeep io08, when the total for the eighi months in question wns sd6,ai2,b4 thus suggesting that the value Of cot ton goods exported in the full Isca year which ends 20 days hence will be greater than In any fiscal year except loub and 1906, which made exception ally high records, duo to an abnormal demand for American eottons in Man ehurla.
 The hl.annual meeting of the health officers of the difletrm towns and cities of the state, held m Hartford last week took the form of q sanitary conference In the morning and n conference on the subject of medical inspection oi sehools tn the afternoon.
 Calbfath F Rodgers, the first man to cross the American continent in an aeroplane. was killed at Long Beach, tai., almost instantly last week, when hs biplnne,in which he had been soar ing over the ocean, tell from height of 2o0 feet and butied hun tn the wrecEage. ilis neck was broken and hls body badly smashed by the engine of his machine. lie lived but few moments,
 Six thousand tons of potatoes, the largest shipment ever received in New York, arrived from London last week on the steamship Minnehaha. Rough ly, there are enough ot them to supply e4,0oO, ,o00 meals for an adult. As po- tatoes were quoted there at S.25 hal of l6S pounds, the shipment Is valued at more than SER, ,000 The govern ment collected SSo, ,oeo tn duties.
 Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks, who Wal vice president once, is saiirsgist .Whereyer women have obtained th' right ,o vote, - he said, at asutlrsgis convention in Indianapolis Wednes day afternoon, "they have exercised their privilege with as much wisdom and with as sincere desire to adNano' the general good as men have eve' manifested
 Elisha W. Case, s9 years old, known as the worlds most extensive msAel of pies, died in Chicago on Friday lie began business In small way, ped dung pies from basket, until al his death he employed hundreds oi hands lie was born in Norwich.