Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-16
HEARD IN PASSING

One Kansas law says the personal property of d dead man, when not claimed by relatives, shall be sold at auction. Another law prohibits the sale of liquor. Recently gallon or rye whisky was found among the CT fects of q dead man who had left no known relatives. The probate court has taken the whisky under advise ment."-Hartford Post.
 President Schurman of Cornell uni versity, who helped get us into our billion-dollar scrape in the Philippines, is down in Havana telling the Cubans that the only chance they will ever get to goyern themselves will be under the terms of the Platt amendment He seems to be able to do good many other things besides attending to the affairs of the institution which he is paid to manage.-Hartford Times.
 A Philadelphia chemist after analyz- ing the drinking water of that city, estimates that in the 2S0,0OO,000 gal Ions delivered every day there are oou tons of solids, composed of eighty tons of sewage and garbage matter, fifty tons of coal dust and 370 tons of clay. lime and oxide of iron. With daily consumption of such stuff it is no long, CT stange that Philadelphia should be noted for its solid men.--New Haven Union.
 MT Rockefeller has given or is go- ing to give $15,O00 to the Hyde Park Baptist church, Chicago, but his son notifies all concerned that 1t must not be considered precedent. The Hyde Park church is next-tloor to the uni yersity of Chicago. which has none of it's own, and Dr Harper, other members of the faculty and many students are members of it. That's why. it is "re- garded as special care" young Rocke- feller explains. Hartford Courant.
 To many people the fact is unknown that. while various states have laws governing the adulteration of foods, there is no national law on the sub feet. Food which is adulterated in New York state can be taken to New Jersey and sold while the law would prohibit the sale of it in the state of New York. This factfis from q state ment by Dr H. w. Wiley, chief chem ist of the United States department of agriculture. It does seem as if the adulteration of food were a matter that should be taken up by the federal authorities Bridgeport Post.
 Dan Daly, De Wolf Hopper and Will liam A. Brady were arrested Tn New York Sunday night, charged with vio- lation of the penal code in connection with the raising and lowering of cur tains for a theatrical performance on Sunday. The men are charged with having produced q burlesque on "IIncle Toms Cabin'' at a vaudeville nerformance at the Academy of Mu- sic. De Wolf Hopper having played the imitation of Uncle Tom. MT Hop per. who is prominently connected with the White Rats association or America, was released on ball. Later Brady and Daily were also bailed out.
 The first number of the Lunatic Her ald affords vivacious variety to the pe- riodical world. The editor and pup fisher has been declared insane three times. claiming the record as T lunatic of tho first class. As he himself in- genuously puts it, he is an individual "who has been more misrepresented than any man or woman on earth ex- cent St Paul and Mrs Mary Baker Eddy." This in itself should consu- tute a record. The editor Is of the opinion that it is far from being a re- proach to have gone crazy. A fool, he tells us. never goes crazy or gets baldheaded.'' Perhaps it is a mere ac- cident that places this attractive aphor- ism next to a statement of subscrip- 4to,, ,,,;oac Nav York Press.