Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-24
HEARD IN PASSING

After it's recent Schwabbing out, the ] steel trust will now be able to swallow a lot more of undigested securities Augusta, Ga, Chronicle. | Jim Iillman, who assassinated Edi- 1 tor Gonzales, says he wants a fair l trial. The fervent general hope is that he may get it.--New Haven Union.
 It appears that the democratic party worried along without any principles up to the time of the Chicago conven- tion.-Springfeld Union. s~>. l The smallest woman is dead, so a news dispatch says. but the smallest man still lives and 1t is not hard to find him in various places.-Bridgepor Telegram.
 A scientist estimates the strain upon a piano player in reading and executing music. Even science hesitates to at tempt measuring the strain upon the hearer.-New York World.
 It's about time for New Haven to spring some new state political sensa- tion. Things are in the line of politics are awfully dulIsjust now. We look to headquarters to rectify this matter- Torrington Register.
 Asked why he left hell out of recent sermon, Brother Dickey replied ''Eve'thing to his season. Whilst I was a-preachin' dat sermon de ther- mometer was in de nineties, en hell spoke fer itselfr'-Atlanta Constitu- l tion.
 A stranger unacquainted with the situation, and depending on the varied ''state league standing published in the papers, might be pardoned for get ting the bottom, the top and the middle a trife mixed. The pennant appears to be in danger from all points of the compass.-Meriden Record.
 The annual encampment of the Con necticut National guard will be held at Mantle next month--and next month l will shortly be here Preparations for the military event are now being per fected. Our suggestion is that this I years encampment, like Caesars spouse, be above suspicioD.-Hartford Post. ,.,
 R. M. White. editor of the Mexico Ledger and a candidate for the demo cratic nomination for secretary or state, refutes the statement anony- mouslly made that he is a machine
 
 cally states that he is not a politician / and that he is bossed by no one--but his wife.-Hartford Post
 A good ad in the newspaper. starts the business ball rolling and the wo- men do the rest. Bargain hunting women are the shrewdest buyers in the country and the best business pro- motors. There is no use joking about Il In1 TT 4f~ for the men and every man of experi- ence knows it.-New Haven Leader. I Children of fashionable people in Stamford have developed fad of go- ling barefooted. At first barelegged children were seen with sandals. but now all foot covering has been discard ed and there are those who consider it the most wholesome fashion that hos been in vogue for years. Possibly the late Father Kneipp and the author of "Trilby" may be jointly responsible for the custom.-Bridgeport Post.
 ] The present day behavior of young people is continual source of regret to aged travellers. "We used to f1irt I when I was young. I don't say we didn't" said an old lady, a Sunday or two ago, who was travelling in a su- burban train to hear her favorite clergyman preach. 'I did it myself, but''-with full consciousness of by gone attractions-'I firted in Christ ian manner, not as girls do now.''- Spectator.
 Three-fourths of the republican edi- tc-s of the north who are meekly Sub- hitting to another term of Roosevelt ism do not believe in Roosevelt, but they are afraid to say so. Practically every democratic paper in the south has opposed the Bryan movement They are tired of trying to carry MT Bryan. and have said so. Why is it that republican newspapers that have been made bow-legged trying to carry Roosevelt are afraid to throw him over board? Is it cowardice, lack of inde- pendence, or what?-Chattono News.
 Mental weariness overtakes the reader now and then, so that the busi- ness of keeping posted'' costs much effort. There are times when the mere fiutter of pages or the crackle of any , thing which sounds as if it might cou- tain print gets on his nerves, especially in midafternoon, when his collar falls moist and listless about his neck and the thermometer has reached the apex of it's story. There are moments in } days like these when the mind likes nothing better than to consider refrig- ating processes or the action of ice upon crystal receptacles; when the eye is content to rest upon the illusions created by the revolutions of an cleo trio fan.-St Louis Republic. ~r l Whatver differences of opinion may exist among the cardinals and what ever intrigues may be prepared to de termine the conclave's choice, the meetings of the sacred college that arc held daily. as they will be till it goes into the conclave, are marked by dig nifty and unexpected harmony. A question that caused much trouble a the death of Piux TX seems to have ; been settled for good. The cardinals now, after twenty-five years, decide unanimously that the election of pope