Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-22
HEARD IN PASSING

Tom Reed ought 10 De aCle 10 say as much as Ben Harrison did without straining his conscience.
 The Hon Grover Cleveland never gave his unqualified personal supper: to but one candidate for the presiden. cy-himself.
 If the silent vote'' be cast for Bry an and Stevenson, us there are good reasons. for believing it will be, they will surely be elected. v
 It Is clean steal for the administra- ton to make the people pay the sal aries of government employees While they go home to vote, but 1t Is to be done. --. -.
 Sir Thomas Upton means to lift that cup if mohey and British brains can accomplish the feat. He will be given q fair field with no favors.-New Britain Herald. ..-.# ':. .'-er % .
 Representative Sulzer. of New York, said to an Illinois audience the other day: Put it down as 1 give it to you. New York is as surely demo- cratic this year as Georgia"
 The republican national committee is liable any day to put in q claim for the electoral votes of Arkansas and Texas Such a claim would not be any wilder than others 1t is constantly making.
 Teddy has grown so big. In his own estimation. that he Is likely to order the widening of the doorway of the private ear in which he travels. It really puzzles him to understand how he can still get through the doorway.
 The twin sisters who married twin h ho. pl, rlpn l husbands with triplets. If each of these 'triplets should. happen to marry other triplets we suppose the family increase would keep up a correspond ing ratio l The question would be where would it. 1end2-Ansonia Senti- nel. t',.; upD ,,I ... T. ,,i.-, | It is understood that Sir Thomas Liptons two Shamrocks will come over together early next. season, and that the preliminary testing will be done for the most part on this side. This is a rational plan, since it makes | the tests as nearly as possible under conditions like those which will exist in the actual races.-Hartford Times.
 A republican contemporary exults that its statistics show q 10 per cent 1 increase in wages in some lines of work If it will do little figuring or the increase of cost of living in the last four years it will find no basis to iaud the Mckinley administration. X 10 per cent wage inerease does not i keep pace with 15 or 23 per cent increase in the cost of the necessnries of life.-New Haven Union. VI
 The record of antl-,yphoid inocula. tion at Ladysmith during the siege thas been published It shows striil ing difference between the number of cases among those who were and those who were not inoculated the percentage of cases of fever among those observed theing only about one-seventh in the inoculated of what 1t was in the oth CTS. The number under observation was not large enough to be conclusive lnnr were the conditions known to be wholly alike. hut the presumption ir favor of inoculntion is strengthened by the result.-Hartford Times.
 In New York Recently Governoi Sayers of Texas said: We shall nev CT know just how many lives were lost at Galysston; aoo The 2 estimate 5, ina i. even now. from fifteen to twenty bod les are found every. day in out-of the way pTaces, T saw. With my own eyes 1 fwfeckag ge aflaf timber piled Tor t1ires to three and half miles that came from four solid blocks of houses alon! ffiea Gulf front In the interior of thu city the devastntion was not so bad btft Iscnn safely say that In the neigh horine counties there Is not one llous, In a hundred that was not either total Fly destroyed or badly injured.'