Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-12
HEARD IN PASSING

A New Haven man who has stolen
 $500 from gas meters, has nervous col
 lapse and cannot probably appreciate
 how the other fellow feels when his gas
 Dill comes in.-Meriden Record.
 There is scare about the codfsh
 industry. The price of codtish has
 gone up on account of the alleged scarcity. Part of the scarcity is due
 to the lack of bait.--Wo Worcester Spy. Those who think it's a shame that the
 wooden nutmeg should longer stand
 for Connecticut and take occasion to
 say so whenever they see a badge ap- parently thus decorated, would find on investigation that the nutmeg is us-
 ually real one.---Hartford Post.
 A Kansas school board dares to say
 that public school teachers shall not
 only bind themselves to the town for a
 years service, but that they shall not
 permit themselves to fall in love or to
 be loved. That being the case, Kansas
 won't be likely to get any teachers from nnecticut-Ansonia Sentinel. 1t is said that the climax of investi- gation of postal frauds will cause a big sensation. Seventeen additional in- dictments against persons said to be
 implicated have been turned over to
 Charles ]. Bonaparte of Baltimore, who
 has been retained by the government
 to aid in the prosecution Bridgeport
 Post.
 Nothing tests a law or anything else like a practical application. Uuder l the new automobile law it is found | l. yrff ffa English can get registered as a chauf- feur That is defect in the law that
 should be remedied as soon as possi- ble. As it stands now it is a practical 1 inducement to incompetents to get
 ute shows the results of hasty legisla- tive work.-Lowell Sun.
 By his appointment of a colored
 brother to clerkship in New Ravens probate court the vaudeville candidate for the republican nomination for gov
 ernor has stolen a march on his rivals.
 He will have made the colored vote
 solid for him unless, indeed. Governor Chamberlain should appoint two addi- | tional aides on his gorgeous stan, SC lecting colored warriors for the posi- tions. The gold lace might divide the colored vote and be strong card i'll the governors hands to play for a re
 nomination. Bridgeport Farmer. Tn West Chester, N. Y, Tuesday a young farmer caught two men stealing green corn. They had wagon and they were loading the corn into it in sacks. He ordered them off and they drove away, he following. As often as he came near they pelted him with ears of corn. Thus he pursued them seven miles to the Bronx where he had
 the arrested. The police sergeant was l for discharging them on the ground l that not an ear of corn was left to serve as evidence against them! It
 does not appear that this view of the l law was abandoned, but the pursuer was so insistent that at last the men were held. The sergeant's contention,
 however, is curious enough to deserve record. especially as it may never be heard of again.-Hartford Times. On the left side of young Percy Bar
 rows, who was killed by lightning at Harlem few days ago. was found at l autopsy the image of a maiden-hair fern. most delicately true to life. The 1 fatal stroke was dealt in baseball
 park and there are 10 ferns near the
 place. Usually, when images, as of l trees. are found on bodies so struck, l the original is near, though even then there is no way of explaining how such 1 images appear. Natural photography, l it is sometimes called, but it happens through clothing. Perhaps the new
 discoveries as to the atoms, their
 breaking up into infinitely finer cleo irons, as shown in radium, may sug- gest something concerning the phenom- enon, which is not infrequent in cases
 of death by lightning Springfield Re
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