New Britain herald., 1915-05-28
FACTS AND RANCHES.

ss FACIS AND FANClES. S The Italians are initiating the Ger
 mans, who started the fighting quick. This was David Harum's advice. Doing 1t nfust'' has nuvantages.- Troy Times. %
 We. have no sympathy with Police man Becker, of New YorK, but when that state kills him she will be as guilty as he ever was of murder New Haven Journal-Courier.
 The Germans are hating Italy so "unutterably'' that it may put crimp in their hatred of England. Hate so intense cannot be widely distributed. Syracuse Standard.
 The ''statistics'' of the Barnes Roosevelt trial are interesting. Yet the statisticians failed to tell us how many times the colonel was near to, exploding. Rochester Herald. @s
 When a man has finished days work, and is tired ana weak in the knees, the giggles of girls on street car do not make him feel any better Meriden Journal How long have you been married. Old TOD!
 Tn looking after the interests of the warning nations by request the Amer ican ambassadors and ministers are the busiest diplomats in the world out-s side Of the foreign offices.-Buffaio Courier. c
 The navy reports our coast safe, the i,,1r 6iv@xr 1,o ,oxyiy1 cally repulsed by the defenders. Good! This confirms our own pre- v:ous belief after examining the big guns at Lighthouse Point and on East Rock.-New Haven Union.
 Some of the poetry we read in the 15-cent magazines nowadays would make Shakespeare turn over in Bacon's grave or Bacon turn over in shakespeare's grave, we don't know which. The jury is still out.-Bridge- port Telegram. <.
 According to the census bureau fig ures of per capita wealth the average man Is worth just $1,965; and if you confess to being an average man there are lots of people who will tell you they know of dandy car you can get for that much.-Brooklyn Stand, ard Union.
 One of the best things said of Presi- dent Wilson and Secretary Bryan yet is the statement of Golfers Weekly that they are not likely to do any thing like the episode which made Roosevelt's foreign policy famous his ultimatum that the Moroccan gov- ernment should produce z Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead. .''-Buffalo Ena quirer.
 It is proposed to levy an additional water-rent tax on automobile owners under the assertion that great extra amount of water Is used in washing their machines. Why not on owners of carriages also, or those who have front porches and verandas on their houses and give them frequent wash .ings 2? Watertown Times. N ,sa Charming as Queen Wilhelmina may be, we may doubt If Europe will take her to arbitrate all differences. Even the kaiser would sooner accept Mime. Curie or Mime. Rernhardt. The feminine mind, unspoiled by court at mosphere, is more capable of judicial balance.-Brook1yn Eagle.
 It is just beginning to dawn upon the public that the ministerial over turn in Great Britain means more than at first appeared upon the fsur-z face, It is due to widespread dissatiss faction of certain phases of the war The men in the field have measured up to high standard of efficiency, but there has been serious laundering at home, and it has not been confined, as was at first supposed, to the navy department.-Wi Record.
 so Carrie Nationism is introduced into the suffrage campaign to the inn periling of it's success, to the great sat- isfaction of the participants and to the pecuniary benefit of newspaper pho- tographers, and to the disnay and dis couragement of those suffragists who the New York election.-New York Times. ..:
 Boy. Scouts of Glastonbury destroyed 1908 egg masses of tent caterpilIars, Saturday afternoon, and will probably win the pennant given by the council of Hartford to the troop that destroys the greatest number of nests in the campaign which the Scouts are wag- ing against the pest. Other troops of the Boy Scouts are active in the same useful work. A general war by those active young fellows against the public enemy could not fail to have visibly important resuIts.-Stamford Advocate.
 President Wilson and Secretary Mc- Adoo will find, however, that the sole instrument which the Baltimore plat