New Britain herald., 1915-06-25

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 FACTS AND RANCHES. The South reports a watermelon famine. Not all horrors are concen- trated in war Rochester Union. Indiana is again srrogating to it. self one of the classis characteristics of the state of Denmark.--New Haven .Iournal-Courier
 Strange to say, the picture of the president with his second grandchild looks almost identically like the pie ture of the president with his first randchild.-Syracuse Herald. The American dollar is worth $1.02 ] in England. But you must go to Eng l land to get fifty-two cents change on, a fifty cent purchase.-syracuse Post Standard. Bryan's stock seems to be enjoying 1 the same experience that the securi- l ties of the New Haven railroad under went few months back,--a record
 breaking toboggan slide.-Waterbu Republican. ' John Barrett advises girls to firt. And the next thing the director gem. l eral of the Pan-Amerfcan Onion will be advising birds to fly and fish to swim.--N Norfolk virginian Pilot. Personally Vice President Tom Marshall can't see why a man should resign because nobody agrees with kim-Grand Rapids Press. M
 When there is nothing left to de-. light you, you can feel thankful that you are not playing q bass drum with the retreating Russian troops Buffalo News.
 A man in Camden, N. J., was ar- rested the other day for refusing tos tell his age to a census enumerator.s Equal rights for men!-Providence Journal
 Milwaukee vote looks like the big | te Spain in '9S thought that the South wouldn't fight. t.-Boston Transcript %s S%8as sf
 Col. Roosevelt broke two ribs; then
 went to New Orleans. Had 1t been 5 four ribs he probably would have visited the San Francisco exposition.. Saginaw News.
 Apparently Bryan is to run on as pace, prohibition and perticoats platE form. Why. not insist on reforms ifr hathing suits and tango teas ?--P -Phila-s delphia Ledger. "
 The newspapers of the South can no more see the reason for MT. Bryan's course than the newspapers Of the North--and so the unity of the country is once again In evidence.- Springfield Republican.
 The young woman who recovered X .t the s$2O, 900; diamond bracelet she lost on the golf links has reason to be- satisfied with her good luck. But is not the wearing of diamonds at golf 1 calculated to. feminize the game un- duly ?-New York World. I
 A "polymurieI' goWn-if your wife wants to know-really has nothing to to with Polly or the other girl. It's just a new kind of clothesware that's equally good for any time of day, and can be worn with equal elegance when she's taking in the milk or taking down her hair.-Binghannto Press.
 The Rockefeller. medical comnnis- sion returned from China reports. .] that many Chinese think the occasion al plagues, floods and .fa ines ia tha ts1 country serve goa8 ens9 Hi nsssbs. keep. ing down the population. Why do they not get into the European war
 Pittsburg Dispatch.
 There are .aawhole lot ofsjokes about woman paying s1O0 for new hat and about the fits friend husband throws when he gets the bill from the milliner. The truth of the mat ter is that you could walk around town for two hours and not see woman wearing a hat that cost more than $15. And the average woman
 pays less than s1o for a hat-Merideh
 Journal.
 We estimate" says Berlin spe- cial, that approximately 10O,o 900 Ger
 man soldiers have been killed by American shells, shrapnel and cart ridges, and another 100000 maimed fo~ 1ife stuf f1,ny ron,,, fo +1,ixl,