Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-29
HEARD IN PASSING

According to a Philadelphia paper, several hundred tons of frankfurters and sauerkraut have been purchased by the government for the navy. An other graceful compliment to Germany. Hartford Globe.
 With a subsidy of $6O0,OOO and keep" for his family, Booker T. Wash ington in time will be able 10 add to his lecture, Up from Slavery" a CO., dicil entitled From Slavery to Sub- sidy.'-New Haven Union. v
 One of the leading Chicago papers made a cruel mistake last week when it referred to prominent young soci- ety girl as "a society spud'' instead of ''bud." The awful part of it was that the proud father of the ''spud" made his millions selling potatoes.-Meriden Journal.
 Though our senate has rejected the resolutions for popular election or United States senators. yet the con- tinued abuse of power by the senate, and the danger which that body has become to our government will pro- mote the cause, just the same, notW1th- standing the position of our legislature. |-Fitchburg Sentinel.
 Herr Most, who has been until re- gently ''at home on BlackwelFs s Island, celebrated his release by de- nouncing John Mitchell, the miners leader, as fool or a knave. No higher compliment could have been paid MT Mitchell than this tribute of hatred from Most. John Mitchell is all that Most is not and for that reason wide ly popular.--New Britain Herald.
 Messrs Gaynor and Greene, the two fugitives from the United States au- thorities, are still living peaceably in the city of Quebec. Captain Greene has bought a property in the outskirts of that city, where he now resides but Mir Gaynor and his wife and son are still boarding at Chateau Frontenac. Young Gaynor, it is reported, is study 1 ing theology, with a view of entering religious life.
 The number of American gentlemen l is fast increasing Only the other day Reginald Vanderbilt formally announc- ed himself as such in Newport, R. l., and yesterday "Al' Adams. the emi- nent policy expert, so registered on l the books of Warden Johnson at Sing Sing. N. Y. Eventually one may hope to find persons Of the best quality wherever he goes in this country | Hartford Times.
 1 MT Man: .sNo, Maria, didn't SUD- pose you would appreciate this ball game. What you need is something sensational; you women are so hysteri- cal, while man is a calm, reasoning 1 Wheel Soak i'm again! Rah! Rah!! Rah!!! Home run! Home run!! Take l it, you Idiot! Slide! Slide!! Slide!!! | Confound that internal fool of an um- 1 pire, he ought to be strung up to the nearest lamp post"'-New York Sun. The Duchess of Marlborough was one of the witnesses of the marriage of her father, w. k. Vanderbilt, to Mrs l Mary Rutherford in London on Satur- day. The duchess is what might be called an ''alI round" daughter. Ii will be recalled that about the time she married the duke of Marlborough her mother who had secured a divorce from her father, was married etc O. H. F. Belmont, also divorced, and that the two happy couples made a joint F'wed, ding journey" in southern Europe and Egypt. Divorce and re-marriaga have given the duchess an unusual supply of parents of one sort and another. Not only are her father and moC'ler both living, but she has stepfather and a step-mother, mother-in-law and 8 step-mother-in-law. Hence it may be truly said that the duchess is an "all l round" daughter.-Rocheste Union
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