Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-05
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With the Elephant, the Donkey, and the Bull Moose kicking up their heels, it is almost impossible for the Com mon People to drive an OK team through the corn field.-Meriden Jour nal,
 As the average bricklayer gets about twice as much as the average school teacher, it Is suggested that the bricl1layers start a night school to in struct the teachers in the art of get ting a living.-Meriden Journal.
 A wife's diary, produced as evidence in a Boston divorce court, shows that the husband imposed fines of from S1 to $5 for various misdemeanors. That seems to be a field hitherto unexploited even by the get rich quick artists Rockville Journal.
 The fatalities of the air continue, and really this business is being robbed of everything but the attraction of it's danger. The automobile goes on and kills it's regular allotment, but the killing is not so spectacular as that in the air.-Bridgeport Standard.
 MT. Hearst will, of course. be allowed to assist. But as a regular in the line. of subordinate quality, he will lose half the interest and strength he has as a marplot and trouble maker. Mir. Bryan also is going to play a second Waterbury American.
 This is a great country and the wheels of trade and business cannot be kept at half speed indefinitely. Even big bankers quick to scent dan ger and also signs for prosperity, are putting themselves on record as dis corning good times ahead.--MeW Ha- ven Journal Courier,
 Most republicans and others whs believe in fairness and decency are pleased and gratified with the result of the republican convention, The Press has often expressed it's aBRFe citation of President Taft and believes that he will grew steadily in strength as the campaign PFsgresses.-BFistel Press,
 Fhe gift of tongues has beea ae- d1ised by a St, Louis teacher of art by three days of prayer and fasting; SC she says. Shs has resigned her position in the Teachers college ts de missionary work among foreigners. It IS te be hoped that the newly acquired languages may be understood as well as sPekeR.-SPriRg gfeld Republican,
 What has proved to be a very costly labor error is that which has just been recorded at Mechanicsville, where, at the instigation of a few organizers from the Industrial Workers of the World, the whole plant of the French River Textile company was tied up for five weeks and it's 500 odd employees deprived of the opportunity of earn ing. In the loss of wages alone it is estimated that the strike will cost s25, 900, which sum, of course, can never be regained by the employees who fail ed to earn it.-Ansonia Sentinel
 Half votes in national conventions date back as far as 1868. Each half vote represents a compromise, and usually means that the contest was sufficiently close and gained sufficient force on each side to make 1t advisa- ble, i'll the interest of harmony, to seat both factions and give each mem Der half a vote. Delegates who cast half-votes may be full-sized men in
 
 to pay full price at the hotels-unless | it is paid for them.-Ansonia Sentinel One hundred and thirty-si years ago today, Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams and Oli- yer Wolcott-Connecticu men, all four | of them-walked to the table of the | Continental congress in their turn and signed a certain document. When ir 1 the course of human events" 1t be- gan: for the support of this Declara- l ton, with a firm reliance on the pro- tection of Divipe Providence, we mutually pledge to each other oul 1 lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor" it ended. The document made a stir in the world of that time, and the world of eur time remembers it The flags are flying today in it's honor Hartford Ceurant.