Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-16
HEARD IN PASSING

EOfEunaUeAys--MeA WSAo ,AAAA4teAAN1~. : ~l1. 4 l mirrors. Women are still maoe oe fore mirrors. .--Life.
 Charges have been preferred agalnse a Waterbury policeman for slyliis sil1 wrong legal advice iii a case concern ing which he had 10 license to give advice at all Hartford Post.
 A few Philippine Island ofhclals have been arrested for misusing pup Lie funds. 1t looks more and more as if malfeasance in office should De made capital offense. New Haven Register.
 Does Mir Cleve1and's declination of a college presidency mean that he ls' merely getting his hand fn to decilhe another offer later on, or that he ex-- poets to be engaged in more irnportant business during the next few years than disciplining riotous college stu dents. Syracuse Herald
 There are men who love the horse and atlaor machinery who would not have an automobile if it cost them nothing in either cash or care; but, apart from such sertifnentalists,1 the progressive man, once he tries 1t, will find that llas motor car affords him more sport, broader scope of travel, greater economy Of time, and less Wor- " than his horse. and for that reason will conclude that it pays to choose the automobile. Everybody's Maga- zine.
 John Mitchell has the credit of havs ing indi1ced the hot heads in the rnin- ers' convent ton at Scranton to abandon their desire to engage in another battle with the coal operators at the earliest possible moment. The members of the board of concination are to be chosen according to the rules laid down by the strike commission and the hot heads, who are entirely ready for ar1- other six months strike, will bfde their ime.-4Hartford Times.
 The average villager is better off than the average dWeller in a town. His hed1uh is better, he is more con tent, he is not afraid of work. he Is a righteous God-fearing man, he is not
 mixed up in scandals. he rears a big famtly, lie hAs a better time on BIO than the city man lias on $20; but he ought, for his own sake, to understand his advanta ges, to spare the woods and me, waters and the birds, to better his roads, to let the sun shine in at his windows, and not to take criticism so sorely to heart. Brooklyn Eagle. Amazing" said scientist, s'is the popularity of the felief that etoads live for long spaces Of time in rocks Only last week 8 dl1arrynaai1 sent to me a toad that he had found ifnbedded, he said in a solid block of stone. Of course, there Is no truth in the idea that these reptiles can exist shut up for years, without food and air, but there is truth in the stories of, their being found iii rocks. The rocks, though, are not solid. as the finders in cline to think, and the toads have only been in them, it is probable, for a few hours, instead of for years and years" " l Ohio, too, has it's Breathitt county. 1 A state officer. Inspector Lindsay of l the bureau of inspection and supervis- l ion of public offices, has recently sub- l nitted report to the state auditor il, which he declares Clermo1lt county ofl 1 the Kentucky border, directly east of l Hamilton county, to be < the Breathitt 1 county of Ohio" He describes a state of Generalization in the public busi- neEs of ta1e county which requires, in
 his opinion, that all the offices be de- clared vacant and receiver appointed to conduct affairs until such time az
 the citizens were aroused to a sense of their responsibilities Tie report shows illegal fees to a large amount
 have been drawn by county officers and several cases Of assault are men.
 toned where too zealous editors have
 attempted to purify the morals of the l county. y.-Exehange