Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-25
HEARD IN PASSING

There is some talk of restoring the army canteen. The question may
 again come up in congress as to
 whether cant or canteen shall prevail. Bridgeport Post.
 Senator John T. Morgan predicts the
 nomination of Foraker, but Senator Morgan is more expert at long-distance speeches than at prophesying. .-Balti- more Herald.
 1t was lucky for George Washington
 that he did not serve under Roosevelt
 and Root or he might have been
 shown to the door when he called to
 surrender his commission.-New York World The storm which Horace Johnson
 had arranged to hit this section amid
 ships between the 20th and the 24th,
 and which was to be the awfullest dis
 turbance that ever was appears to
 have been postponed on account of
 the weather. er.-Hartford Post.
 Professor Goldwin Smith had a talk with a newspaper reporter the other day on vital questions of to-day, and the correspondent ends with this: Professor Smith did not consider him. self competent to give a horoscope of the future He couldn't get 8 job on yellow journal.-New Haven Union.
 A story is going the rounds of an Irish automobilist who ran over a
 chicken, burt did not injure it, yet gave
 it's owner, an old woman, a six-pence.
 The thrifty dame thanked him pro-
 fusely and confessed that when she
 wanted bullet killed. she sent the
 flock into the road. Like as not,
 said she, 1one of them is killed and paid for, and I have my bullet in the
 bargain. Exchange.
 This is the way the Kansas City World eulogizes a tramp's rescue from drowning of a struggling woman in Chicago waters: His name is H. T. Graves. Address, Anywhere, Nowhere He is old and gray, a wanderer on the T. Graves is tramp. He is also an archangel in rags. The man risked, his life to save the life of a woman who was determined to die. He fought battle With two-Death and the woman-and won out"
 The annual story of thousands of children who cannot be received in the public schools comes from New York.
 This time the number to be excluded
 is placed at 78,O0O. The chief cause
 this time is the non-completion of
 school buildings that have been or
 dered, and which are said to have 1 been delayed by strikes. The addi-
 tional sittings actually provided since ] last year are 19,808. The, increase of children of school age was about l 25,000, and last year 6S,340 were yx<a1, the same story to tell on a small scale
 The increase in scholars completely eclipses the increase in schools for their accommodation, but the school board is doing its best to remove the l inequality.-New Britain Herald. i Poor Governor Pennypacker of | Pennsylvania is made to look foolish l once again, by a letter to Pennsyl- | vania farmer, written when he was a l candidate last year. 1t appears that l on farm in Fayette county is a stone
 which marks the site of Fort Neces~ l sity, where George Washington, then 1 British colonel was forced to sur
 render in the French and Indian war. l To the owner of this farm the present
 governor wrote. Dear Sir: I am the
 republican candidate for governor. l was aC your pldc0 Iue OLAeT udy dHu
 saw large stone with a square hole l in it lying in your meadow by the
 stream. I want to give you dollar
 for that stone If you consent, write
 me at sPennypac ckers Mills, Schwenks-
 vile, Montgomery County, Penn "
 The Philadelphia North American pub
 fishes as a parody on this, lettersa 1 dressed to the khedive of Egypt, say
 ing: "Dear Khedive: I saw to-day a I photo of a funny figure in your coun- 1 try, an old stone image of some un- l human animal If this is not caric- ature of some important person in 1 authority of ancient times, I will give you nine dollars (S9.O0) for it, part cash mart in Six-naonths' notes