New Britain herald., 1915-08-27
FACTS AND EANCIES.

At the first hint of the buckwheat season the same old cry is heard of
 Batter p!"-Washington Post. Vice president Marshal gravely de- clares the real trouble in Mexico Hes in the fact. that the country has ho vice president. Ha!-Worcester fos' Absinthe sellers are, being 1liieu III Paris. Plenty of it being solo Ill 'liiS state, although most of 1t no" 1i1"0 querades under another name'-Nei ei iden Journal.
 Lack of fresh air caused brlet la bor strike in this city; there Is iio lack of hot air once strike cohl-
 mences.-Springfie News. Peace must certainly surpass un- derstanding in the minds of large
 portion of the Mexican people, Rochester Union.
 Henry James, the novelist, is said
 to have renounced his Amerlcanlsm.
 But did he ever have any to re-
 nounce ?-Buffalo Enquirer.
 The Kaiser gives honorable men
 ton to the other partner of his well-
 known firm in his despatch on the
 fall of Novo Georgievsk.-Philad phia Ledger.
 The decision to stop the further ex- portaton of Limburger cheese is cer- tainly one act of Germany in this war that will not generally be regarded as plorable.-Providen Journal.
 That rescued passengers on the Arabic who also escaped when the Lusitania went down cannot afford to neglect his protection in anticipation of a third disaster-Norwich Bulletin.
 Safety first applies to everything nowadays except the children of the streets and they are subject to dan gers the same as ever. In large cen- ters the killing of innocent children is hardly noticed.-Middletow Press.
 The net results of years strife are: Men killed, 3,OOO,OOO. Property destroyed, O,OOO,OOO,OOO Changes effected the "v'' changed to "b" in Serbia and "Petrograd" substituted for "St. Petersburg" g"-Norwich Rec- ord.
 Potential volunteer army officers who accidentally smeared themselves up with poison ivy at the Plattsburg camp now know that if General Sher- man really said it he had reason.- Rochester Post-Express.
 A few of the progressive party still refuse to swim ashore. But history is repeating itself and the organization is following in the footsteps of the Liberal republican party of forty years ago.-New York Herald.
 If American lives have been lost as a result of the sinking of the Arabic by German torpedo, what would you have the president of the United States do? Count twice ten before you answer, and picture the president asking you yourself to do it-Bur- lington Free Press
 Bridgeport has the strike fever bad. No sooner is one strike ended than an- other is started The latest is the strike of 1S2 girls employed at two aundries. 'Spect the housewives will strike next, for shorter hours. They deserve shorter hours of work as much as any.-Seymou Record.
 Justice Hughes now says, according 70 former Gov. Stokes of New Jersey hat even if he is nominated for pres dent he won't accept. The justice is l man of his word and his little mo- 1as been repeated pretty often. Doubtless he will have to say it lew times more before Winter.- Springfield Republican.
 The Berlin Socialist organ, Vor- waerts is not only allowed to circu- ate peace talk and extend it beyond Germany. It is allowed to draw and export a gloomy picture of industrial conditions in the German capital, where the situation hitherto mas al- ways been "perfectly normal Evl- dently something besides k1utur is now yeasting in the Fatherland.- New York World.
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