Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-13
HEARD IN PASSING

l N6VpT JuuS6 a SuI1lIueT TeSOTL uOLSA
 dinner by the amount Of noise the
 gong makes.--Hartford Post
 Lieutenant Totten foresees all sorts
 of things, but he doesn't appear to try his hand on the weather Bridgeport
 Post. .r, r -.s
 Another survivor of the battle of 1 Waterloo has just passed away. All l the other Waterloo survivors, with the ] remaining body servants of George | Washington and the original Uncle 1 Toms, should hold a farewell reunion 1 before it is everlastingly too late.- l Pittsfeld Eagle.
 Did you notice that President
 Roosevelt sent flowers from the white house gardens to decorate the graves l of Confederate soldiers in Arlington 1 cemetery? This is the first time that
 such formal ceremony ever took place
 in the national cemetery. It should
 mark an era of good feeling.-Bridge-
 port Post.
 1 A seat in the New York stock ex- I change. offered for sale this week, is
 said to have brought $70,OQ0-$1O ,000
 less than the price which this privi- 1 lege commanded a few months ago,
 and $13.O00 less than the highest price
 on record, which was in the booming
 September of last year. The decline 1 is significant one.-Hartford Times. l A wreath of laurel should be placed
 upon the grave of David DflIane of Waterbury,. As fireman he perform 1 ed as brave an act as was ever record ed on the field of battle. He faced
 death for others, and the fact that his fate was wrapped in the flames of a treacherous gasoline stove instead of being pent up in a bullet did not les sen his heroism. He did his duty, l Tnselfshly. bnavely.--Ansonia Senti- nel.
 A mouse recently wrecked a train out west. It was walking along a rail l looking at the moon one evening, when an owl saw 1t. The owl immediately gave chase. and the mouse retreated gracefully into the jaws of a switch, l The owl got wedged in the jaws of the switch and prevented it's being closed, ! so that freight train was derailed. Unfortunately the dispatches failed to
 say whether or not the mouse escaped.
 New Haven Union.
 President Baar threatens to shut off I 1 sumption if the courts and the inter 1 state comm cree commission do not let him alone. He said in the hearing at I New York yesterday: Pennsylvania l will never allow her great corporations \ and mineral deposits to be spoilated for l the benefit of the rest of the United States" Possibly the federal govern, ment as representativeNo of the people of
 the United States might have some
 thing decisive to say when the aniable
 MT Baer and his colleagues attempted ! to carry out their anarchistic pro- l gram.--New Britain Herald.
 l We are inclined to credit the stories with reference to the removal of Charles P. Kellogg from the secretary
 ship of the state board of charities to
 desire on the part of some politician
 to get the job, rather than to dissat- isfaction on the part of the board it. self with his services. It would be a public misfortune if Mir Kellogg should either retire or be retired. He is sin 1 gularly well fitted for the post in tenn ] perament and by education. More than that, there is not more efficient and
 conscientious servant in the employ of
 the state. Who is ringing this bell?
 anyway?-New Haven Register A Philadelphia school teacher tells l of these blunders children in physi- 1 ology examination papers: "Occupa- l lions which are injurious to the health 1 are carbohc acid gas,. which is impure
 blood" When you have an illness, 1 1t makes your health bad, as well as ] having a disease "A stonemason's s l work is injurious because when he is l chipping he breathes in all the little l chips, and then they are taken into the
 lungs" All mechanical work is in- l furious to the health" The word
 function" seemed to puzzle the chil-
 dren tremendously. Questions con-
 taining that word were answered as 1 follows: "The skin discharges a func- 1 ton called precipitation. "The func- 1 ton of the heart is between the lungs
 "The hearts function is called thor
 ak"
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