Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-06
HEARD IN PASSING

Little Bobs is down on drunkenness. Let us hope the cockneys will take his advice and give the returning soldiers q welcome without saturnalia.- Bridgeport Post.
 Mss Marie Dressler will star this season, beginning last evening at the Prinnt." Her role is that of an up to-date woman who wants to expert ment in journalism. The play is writ ten by George V. Hobart with music by John l.. Golden.
 As there is no doubt that the Chin csc Empress DOwager is personally re- spOusible for the outrages the demand, said to be arrived at by the negotia- tors at Pekin, for her removal from any share of influence in the govern ment is indispensable. She should be thankful if her wicked head is left on her Bridgeport Farmer.
 Lord Robertss request to the British public not to make his soldiers drunk on their return to London must be rather humiliating to both the soldiers and the British public. We suppose his request was necessary after the scenes of a week ago, when the City Imperial troops were received with q hospitality which, while it's object was all right, went beyond the bounds of deccnCy.-AnSonia Sentinel.
 A story Illustrative of the eternal feminine comes all the way from Cape Colony. A woman on trial for some offense or other was told that she might "challenge' any one on the jury to whom sine objected. She immedi- ately took advantage Of the permission by challenging q highly respectable farmer. On being asked afterWard what her reason had been for doing so, she explained that she had sup posed she was obliged to object to some one, so she had picked out tue ugliest.-Hartford Post.
 The Presbyterian church at Free dom Plains, New York. has split on the 'canUCCn" question. The pastor of the church. the Rev c. T. Shaffer, Is red hot opponent of the army post eX- change, and announced a meeting in
 his church to denOunCc it. The truS- tees declared that no political meeting should be held in the church, and
 locked the doors to keep out the anti canteen aGitatCrs. But the pastor and
 his friends climbed in through q win
 dow and held their meeting. As we have before remarked. the agitation
 against the army cantcen is well cal.
 culated to make Old Nick exceedingly happy.-Hartford Times.
 John William Durkin of Brooklyn wants divorce from his wife, Annie DUrkin, on the ground that he waa out of his head when he was married. We trust that the judges will go slow
 in setting up any dangerous precedents,
 OF this point. If just because man is ''infatuatcd," "out of his head and does not fully realize what he is do- ing when he gets married. he has ground for q divorce. then there may be more work in that line than the courts have ever had before or will care to attend to. The fact that his
 wife is old enough to be his grand
 mother and has only two teeth is much more to the purpose, we should say. although even that does not pro- hibit "infatuation. n.'-Bridgeport Stan d2rd.
 The editor of this paper has been | nominated by the democrats of this township for justice of the peace. The nomination was not sought after by
 us, neither was it forced upon US 1 There's no mistnking our qualifica- | tlOnS-we know about as much law as
 q brass monkey. But our friends said l they were looking for some good, hon.
 est man to make the race. In the face | of such an indirect compliment, how | could We refuse? In the race for
 office we would be monumental fiz- | gle. We wouldn't ask a man to vote | for us if he'd give us half q dollar. i Our opponent is NJ. l.. Blair. He's an
 honest man, too: But he's well fixed | financially and don't need the $4 or 1 s a year that's in the office. Neither | of us will make an active canvass for | votes. so you fellows who expect to | smoke our cigars, drink our whiskey l and have fun at our expense will get | left.'-FairfaX Forum.
 It is announced that Professor Koch,
 bacterlologist of Berlin, who has late | ly been hunting the microbe of ma- | laria in Java and other hot countries, 1 has perfected a medicine which is to l be of the highest value fp all malarial
 countries, It is half quinine, is to be
 used hypodermlcally and also as a
 swallow medicine, and is commended | both as cure and as a preventative of | malaria. Malaria is very much on the minds Of wise men in many coun- i tries just now. The disposition to | blame 1t all on the mosquito is sup l ported so far by many experiments | Not only has health been maintained l in nlalarious districts where effectual precautions against mosquitoes fed in
 Rome on. tertlan-feyer patients and 1 brought to London and allowed to 1 bite healthy man have infected him with tertian fever. If the rule mo
 mosquito. no malaria be demonstrat-
 ed, it will be great gain, for mosquito l bites are not so unavoidable as | tharpht Nav Hovan RaUiStar