Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-09
HEARD IN PASSING

A Boston woman declares that ''the need is not more children but better ones." She is probably going upon the old theory that her own are the only good children in the neighbor- hood.-Chicago Record-Herald.
 Somebody once said that there was nothing as gorgeous under the sun as 8 governors staff in time of peace. If the truth of the stEatement had ever been doubted the doubts have been blown away by the exhibition at St Louis-Indianap Sentinel.
 Uncle Reuben says: 'I like a con- scientious man, but like him as I like him. In other words I don't want him so conscientious as to admit dat he quarrels wid his wife, cuffs his chil- dren or starves his dawg to carry out sartin principles. s."-Detrott Free Press.
 If men would study politics, not striving for office, it would change the face of affairs all over the country. The danger of our age is not partisan ship, but that our thoughtful men will belong to no party. Don't form your selves into a third party. Don't iso- late yourself. Go into the arena and take an active part.-Woodrow Wilson.
 A man who has just died at Mount Vernon, N. r., Burr Davis, was more famous some 50 years ago, when the pocket-knife with 365 blades, which he had made, was on exhibition at the Crystal palace in New York city, and attra acted much attention. He was a native of Connecticut and grew up in the cutlery business at Waterbury. And Burr Davis was only one of many. For skilled craftsmen and ingenious inventors Connecticut leads the nation New Britain Herald
 When the house on Thursday reject ed the bills giving part or the whole of the trolley taxes to the towns in which the roads operate, it took action hardly to be expected from a body so dominat- ed by the towns. The explana ton may possibly be found in the extent to which the state is being called on for the benefit of the smaller towns at the cost of the larger, so that to use the old phrase they are 'sure to get it in meal or dn malt'' anyway. Under either of these two bills the large towns would have received consider able in proportion to those going to the small towns.-Hartford Times.
 Do you twirl your cane or umbrella ill a reckless manner? says the New Haven Union. If you do, you are a psorabdomaniac Do you contract your brows and wrinkle your forehead upon hearing trivial news? Then you are a synophyromaniac. Do you count the lamp posts or the boards in fences? Tremble, for you are aff1ict- ed with arithomania. You are a stomadactylomaniac if you have a hab- it of placing your finger in your mouth, an otodacty1omaniac if you have 8 habit of placing your finger in your ear and moving it violently, and masta- kostrepsomaniac if you twirl your moustache. And if you ponder on these aff1ictions for few hours you are extremely apt to be afflicted with monomanta There's lots in a name, when you glance through a list of hor- rible examples.
 Manifest1y the loss of $1,OOO,O0O a year cannot long be sustained by the Consolidated Railroad company. If that expenditure is a necessity it must be provided for in some way, and the only way is to increase freight rates, which means that every receiver of freight must pay his proportion of this $1 ,0OO,0 ,00O, and such payment will In reality be for the benefit of compar- atively few large shippers who are un- willing to keep pace with the business men of every other state in the union. The farmer who receives only limited amount of freight every year will be compelled to pay extra freight rates because large shippers in Connecticut are availing themselves of law which was passed at time when conditions were wholly different than they are to- day, and which under existing circum- stances ought not to be continued or l the statute books another hour.-NeW Haven Leader.
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