Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-10
HEARD IN PASSING

The creation of a state board of en- balmers is going to lift an awful bur- den. from the minds of Connecticut people who have been worrying for fear they wouldn't be properly em- balmed and inferred. Post. z It doesn't matter who fired the first shot nor whether the captain gave the order to fire into the Evansville mob. The volley from the soldiers was the medicine that was needed in the crisis. Deplorable as bloodshed is in such cases, it is better than social anarchy Springfield Republican.
 Some of the Kansas papers are fond 5 of each other. The Williamsburg Star came out as an eight-page paper this week." says the Chanute Sun. Bar ring the fact that two pages were up side down and another was an absolute blank the typographical appearance was neat and attractive. New Haven Union.
 Connecticut will be well represented at the Christian Endeavor convention which is about to open in Denver, Col. The Nutmeg state Apologies to the Hartford CouranD need mob be afraid that young people who have gone in this capacity will disgrace her in any way. The Sentinel wishes them a pleasant and profitable outing.-An- sonia Sentinel.
 We are told that in California they are planning to run long distance trol- ley cars at the rate of a mile minute, and that they will face the cars with a sharp wind-cutter which will reduce the air-impact very materially. 1t IS safe to assume that these cars will not stop on every corner, nor wait long while female friends take affectionate farewell of each other on the side walks before climbing into seats on the train. n.-Bridgepor Standard.
 Cornelius Farmer of Rockville and Mrs Cornelia HuFlburt of Hartford are probably the oldest twins in Connectl- cut. They celebrated the eighty fifth anniversary of their birth on Sunday. For many years MT Farmer was a pros porous agriculturist in Rockville. lie is in good health, walks out daily and retains the possession of his faculties to remarkable degree. Mrs Il urlburt and Mir Farmer occasionally take a car rfage and drive to the old homestead in Bolton w estport Twins.
 Instead of idle and empty protest against the noise and danger Of our idiotic way of demonstrating our patrl- otism on the Fourth, Prof Charles E. Norton of Harvard suggests suits for damages against city and village cor porations for permitting the use ot dangerous explosives within the cor porate limits. If the taxpayers were compelled to pay damages for the loss of life and limb and for loss by fires, public sentiment would not be long III discovering a safer method of ceiebrat. ing the anniversary
 Farmer
 It is awfully handy to have a feW idle millions Out in San Francisco | the electric company's plant of thai place was regular nuisance on ac' count of smoke. Citizens asked te 1 have the nuisance abated, among them being Claus Spreckels, the sugar king
 The electric company gave the laugh | to any interference and declined to dc 1 anything save smoke up' MI l Spreckels. in a quiet way, started a new electric plant and cut prices. The ] old nuisance came to terms and paid 1 Spreckels four million dollars more | for the plant than it cost him. Now the company consumes it's smoke.-Br1dge l port Post.