The Price Of Liars

One of the daily papers of Rome pubiishes in every issue the following editorial notice: "For a report of a fight or a fire in which one or more human lives were lost we pay 1 lire and 50 cents; for a report of a suicide, 1 lire; for a report of an attempt at suicide, 50 cents; for a report of an accident at which a person suffered bodily harm, 30 cents; for reports of a murder, hig-hway robbery, burglary and other happoningfs of this kind, we pay acording to the importance of the event, but in no case less than 5 lires."