Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-17
HEARD IN PASSING

When you exclairn over the lowell. ness of the June bride, give a little credit to the quiet dressmaker, sitting |. isaodestly in one of the back pews.- ! Boston Globe.
 The refusal of the house to pass this tdemurrAge) bill is unfair to the rail road company and an injustice to the state. It is one more colossal error added to a lot of errors which the house has committed.-New Haven Leader.
 Everybody grabs the newspapers these days to read the description of the wedding-how the bride looked and what formed the decorations of the church. Incidentally they glance at the bottom to see who was the bride groom. Journal.
 Thieves who undertook to rob a freight car loaded with honey and bee hives, the other day, found out to their sorrow "How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour" In the absence of policemen. they defended themselves and their product as best they could, which was good enough Ansonia Sentinel. a @as-~gt . .ss.. ,s..
 Come and go with me to the zoo," suggested MT Seezem. 'No, thank you" answered Mir Gotten. ''I'll stay at home. My oldest daughter does the kangaroo walk my second daughter talks like a parrot, my son laughs like a hyena, my wife watches me like a hawk, my cook Is as cross as bear and my mother-in-law says I'm an old gorilla. When I go anywhere want a change. Judge.
 A Dresden, Germany, physician, hay ing addressed a list of thirty-six ques- tions to seventy-three persons who were more than 90 years old, learned, among other things, that all of them are below the average height; most of them have light hair and have retained plenty of it, and none of them has any teeth remaining; all but five are in veteFate jokers. Few of them take kindly to the bath or to fresh air.
 A dispatch from Pottsville says that the anthracite coal mining companies are planning to keep the miners stead fly at work during the dull summer months and store more than 10,00Q,00O tons, supply that is not to be touched when the fall trade comes on, but to be held as a reserve i1i case of strikes In the meantime prices will be kept ur all along the line. The benefit to the miners and the operators is obvious but where does the patient consumer come in?--New Britain Herald.
 The white shirt waist has rights which trainmen-Boston and Maine trainmen at least-are bound to re. spect. A new rule of Superintendent Sanborn orders conductors and brake men to allow women in white shirt waists to get on and off trains. without assistance. They may, however, offer their arms to women wearing materia of other color The new rule meets the desires of some particular patrons oi the road who complained that the train mems hands were not always clean.- New Haven Union.
 MT Roosevelt attended the saenger. fest in Baltimore, yesterday ant looked little after the German vote. During the day he found time to re- ceive a Jewish committee and to tel them how highly he had always regard ed the Jewish people, and how intimate he had been with them. Somehow the idea was spread that he would be de lighted to receive the Hebrew vote. To day he is at Charlottesville, Va, and al the University of Virginia he will have an opportunity to remind the southern white voters that his mother was z southern woman and that he is hall southern himself.-Hartford Times. IA According to the New York Herald the floods in the southwest have never been equalled or even approached since the great flood of 1881 in the mighty Missouri. Tn that year the flood wave which rolled down the broad stream 1T | the third week of April was almost en. tirely of snow water, the melting of q hard winters icy accumulations far III stream. From Sioux City, Ia. to Glas gow, Mo, the valley between the bluffs averaging five miles in width for 37f miles, was submerged, and, as recorded by the government engineer. Thomas Russell, the current was too swift fol steamboats to stem until the river go out of its banks from Omaha to Kan sas City.
 DID NOT KNOW ''JEEM CROW"