Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-05
HEARD IN PASSING

hEA6U IN EA0oAN0
 Darn old Noah, he should have killed the two mosquitoes he had in the ark. Savannah Times.
 The yachting fever has extended to police court, where offenders are now given a time allowance instead of be- ing sentenced in the old way.-Wash- ington Post.
 Tomatoes in Norwich cost $6 a bush- ell. In good tomato season, the same fruit would bring but twenty-five cents a bushel. This shows the power of rain at the wrong time.-Bridgepo Post.
 President Roosevelt's resolution to do nothing about the canal question at present and let the politicians of Colombia sizzle in the fat they have made by rejecting the canal treaty is a sensible one.-Boston Herald.
 Booker T. Washington advises the colored brethren to be bigger than those who insult us." The Injunction is all right. Nobody but a fool would insult a bigger man than himself.- Saturday Chronicle.
 Elaborate invitations were isued by the sheriff to certain privileged guests to attend the execution of Martin Zid- mar, who was hanged in Montana last hibition was not such as to justify an encore.--Lewiston Journal.
 In the battle of life bluff so often I.proves itself superior to honest merit that paradoxical as it may appear, it ! would seem golden truth that the man is best equipped for success who 1 is absolutely without equipment.- Judge.
 | James G. Bailey, who was mayor of | Scranton, Pa, from 1895 to 1898, re- gently confessed that while mayor he took a bribe of $1 900 to sign a paving contract He has now gone to pieces mentally and is an inmate of the city poor farm and insane asylum. For merly he was one of the most respect ! ed citizens of Scranton. Few cities of l it's size seem to have suffered so much from boodling in it's city government as this interior city of Pennsylvania. I-Hartford Times.
 Looking nearly year ahead "Trum- bull expresses his belief that the next republican convention will show 3 strong combination between "a repre- sentative of the small town principle. pledged to protect them against aI- other attempt to reform the constitu- 1 tion, and small townsman, himself q candidate for the senatorship," and he looks to see the small town influence l succeed at least once more.-Bridge- port Farmer
 A New Jersey editor who has this ! week completed vacation trip by trolley from Trenton to Boston by way of Hartford, does not subscribe to the opinion of many that the long-distance trolley trip is a pleasurable expert ence. He says that life on the trolley cars has been rendered tedious by rain and attendant delays and that water
 soaked seats have contributed to the discomfort. His conclusion is that long,
 distance travelling is not calculated to 1 make the steam road managers worry.
 Recently the Journal had an item about Mrs Frank Lange of Gas City,
 wbo became suddenly insane when her baby was drowned in a cistern. Her
 hallucination was that her baby rest
 ed at the bottom of every pool of 4 water which she saw. At different lItimes she plunged head foremost into l barrels of water or ponds. On We'd
 nesday she escaped the vigilance of
 her family and went to little lake
 from which her dead body was taken
 a few hours ter.-Kansas City Jour Il nal.
 | Further evidence of the decadent ltendencvies of the rural towns of Con-
 necticut is supplied by the recent an I nual report of the bureau of vital sta- l tistics of the state for the latest
 analysed calendar of the year. Tn
 more than two-fifths of the country
 the undertaken does larger business I than the midwife. In 56 of the 134 ! towns whose populations is less than ! 5000 the deaths exceeded the births.
 In other words, in AIS per cent of the
 small towns the obituary department contained more subjects than the birth I column. Moreover, in five towns
 Bridgeport, Canterbury. Killingworth,
 Salem and Union-the statistics of births and deaths exactly offset each T other. The total number of births
 in these fifty-six decaying small towns l during the year was LILY, while the
 aggregate mortality figure was 1:526.
 The excess of deaths over births was nearly 37 per cent.-Boston Tran script.