New Britain herald., 1915-08-16
FACTS AND FANCIES.

FACTS AND FANCIEs.
Like all employers General Joffre
is now giving his men a vacation
Utica Press.
Haiti evidently has the one term
plank and makes her presidents walk
1t -Milwaukee Sentinel.
What has become or the people
who bet that tho war would eno ny
october next ?-Berksh1re Eagle
The Italians do more adVdncl's ~
get over as little ground as the! ~
IMAM other people on EARTH III io'"
: imes-Union
The United States m1ghtnt NINA
swapping Henry James for, say, Kuo-
lard Kipling Or J. M. 6arr1e.-FlI's-
burg Gazette Times.
! The country backs up the presluehI
even when he plays go11, SO oeter-
mined is it to be loyal.-Baltlmore
American.
Every time a specially big war cargo
leaves New York the newspapers ad-
vertise it horoughly.-Syracuse Post
Standard.
The Invaluable remedy for the cot
ton situation, as prescribed by Old
Doctor McAdoo, is the. Snip Purchase
bil1.-Philadelphia Public Ledger.
One would think Colonel Roosevelt
~! Bryan were running for president,
Judging by the things they are saying
about each other-Co1umDia State.
AS a matter of fact, there's prob
ably more solid satisfaction in being
Mr.. Wilson's caddy than in being his
secretary of state.-Boston\ Journal.
The suggestion that maybe the
Grand Duke just dropped back for
punt would look likclier if Germany
didn't have the ban.-B1rmingham
Press.
Who says comic Journalism is a
failure in America? There's the Ger
lnan-Am erican press procIaiming it's
neutrality Louisville COurier-Jour-
raj.
The next text book on military
strategy should contain chapter on
promoting strikes in the enemy's arms
and munitions plants.-Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle.
If Mr. Bryan had stopped to calcu-
ate the average duration Of an ex-
change of diplomatic notes he might
Of hov ociC oil
York Evening Post.
Not even the deepening Of the Hud-
son river will console Troy if Johnny
EV ers makes good on his threat and
retires from baseball-Roche
Post-Express.
The Kaiser has q clear con-.
science" and so had Becker But
when the theory that might makes
right prevails conscience is a nuisance
anyway.-Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle. ..|
It was in 1881 that General sebas-
tian invented the saying: "Order
relgns in Warsaw The Kaiser will not
let, Germany off that easy, unless he
sadly neglects his opportunity
The London papers are being re- |
duced in size, but it's owing to !
scarcity of paper, and not because |
there isn't as much war news as ever. !
Philadelphia Record
The more Elihu Root gives the
country the results of his splendid |
mind with it's wealth Of wisdom and
common sense, the more the nation i
wishes he were fifty instead of
seventy.-Schenectad Union-Star.
Don't you pity the man who has
had his vacation and is back at work
with no hope of another one until
summer comes next year! Don't ask
him by the way, how many days Of
sunshine he had while he was away.
Boston Globe.
AS part of a defence, trenches do
we'll enough, but as a weapon OF at
tack they are worse than dum-dum
bullets Or the poisoning Of wells
almost worse than the sinking OF the
Lusitania.-New York Times.
Elihu Root demands that impeach-
rnent of a governor may be made
simpler and easier and quicker. our
judgment Is that William Sulzer sees
no need of reform on these precise
lines, and he has bad a lot of expert
ence.-Brooklyn Eagle