Connecticut western news., 1919-02-20
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 Advicese from Portugal say Coim- bra is quiet. This puts Coimbra in a class by itself.-Detroit News.
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 We can't help getting the impress sion up here that New York enjoys it's mayors vacation fully as much as the mayor does.-Hartford Times.
 
 Somebody might fttingly remind Japan and China that it is a peace conference their delegates are at tending.-Hartford Times.
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 What has become of the old fashioned propagandist who thought that nobody but the Germans could make dyes?-Toledo Blade.
 
 A Gotham bandit tried to rob a waiter of his tips. Even profession al courtesy is neglected in these sor- did days.-Baltimore American.
 Southern congressman must be taught that the United States treas ury is no grabbing.-Baltimore American.
 It is an interesting coincidence that on the birthday of the rail split ter who became president of this country a harness maker became the first president of Germany.-New York Sun.
 Any girl will think, twice before consenting to marriage by so uncer- tain a mail as seems to prevail be- tween his country and the distribu- ting centers of our expeditionary force abroad.-Hartford Times. *##
 Now that the very destructive as well as expensive dogs of war have supposedly been leashed, it looks as if it is high time for the watchdog of the treasury to be at his post Iagain.-Boston Transcript. m#%
 If one is to gather anything from the six-billion tax bill, kaisers and kings are costly luxuries, even to republics, paradox which needs no elaborate explanation. - Baltimore American.
 Fashion is beginning to wonder whether there is not something wrong about the rule that makes evening attire cost more the less there is of it.-Washington Star. **#
 The reports from Portugal are to the effect that the royalist movement has failed and that the Portuguese republican forces will soon be in complete control of all the disaffect- ed region. The time was most in- opportune for royalist uprising that sort of revolution is not the style this winter.-New York Sun.
 
 During the war the United States has gathered about TOGO undesir- able aliens together, all of whom will now be deported to the lands from which they came. It is to be hoped that the process of repatriation will not add new burdens to the hard working peace makers in Paris i New York Sun.
 l A pathetic sacrifice offered was that of a woman in Troy who wanted surgeons to use her own eyes to re store sight to her blinded son. II may have appeared a foolish offer to surgical science, but it was sublime as illustration of what a mothers love will do.-Baltimor American. | ##*
 \ Liverpool gentleman was held uD recently by fo1r men wearing American army uniforms, whose spokesman shouted, "Hands up or we'll let daylight through you". This sounds too much like a motion pie ture "cut in" to bs convincing. Those highwaymen were imposters; nc American rcbber would use such language eff the stage CT outside a novel-New York Sun. 1 ###
 Lincoln at Gettysburg declared us dedicated to the ideal that Govern ment of the people, by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth" But the action of the legislatures of divers states, includ- ing the lower branch of the Connec- ticUt general assembly, indicates that these no longer concur.-HartforC Times.
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