PRESS SIFTINGS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1916, Page 8

PRESS SIFTINGS.

SATISFACTORY. A rough young man jostled passengers in a Xew Orleans street ear. He was arrested, and proved to be a longterm prisoner who had escaped from Sing Sing in 1(112. .Because of his street ear rowdyism the young man will now serve twenty-one years in the penitentiary, which is satisfactory from any viewpoint.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. WAR NEWS. The European war appears to have reached the stage where the only consolation the belligerents can draw fa "You should see the other fellow."— Pittsburgh Dispatch. SURGICAL. » Brown sugar as a dressing for wounds having been recommended by a physician, it is evident that the sugar trust has a great field in Europe.—Chicago Xcws. TRUE. Holland has got out an orange book about the war, but if somebody could just get the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the war, it would make a peach hook.—lndianapolis News. The Treasury Department notes a shortage, in Idol bills. The Treasury Department and we are- suffering from the same complaint. Frederick Palmer says the war in Europe will last another year. Evidently those Europeans believe in long ensagements. The Gorman navy, no doubt, wislies the English blockade were as inefficient as President Wilson terms it.