Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-05
HEARD IN PASSING

The new high record price of raw cotton does not correspond well with, the 10 per cent cut of the hands that weave it into useful garments.--BIiddle town Penny Press.
 and Spooner are the men who will control the republican presidential nomination; it's game with five dice.
 Houston Chronicle.
 Several of the current magazines contain articles on How to Econ omize.'' The writerwl can tell how to get along without the necessity of economizing will have more apprecia- tive readers. New London Globe.
 The state board of education Of Pennsylvania tells the public school teachers of that state that they should improve their minds by foreign travel. This must have a humorous flavor for those unfortunate teachers who rejoice in the usual $500 salary that Pennsyl vania pays its expert instructors.
 Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Carnegie's proposed artificial. lake for Princeton university will doubtless be a magnificent sheet of water, "a thing of beauty and joy forever but make it as attractive as he may and set it sparkling with his millions if ne will, 1t can never compare with the. natural advantages which belong to Yale-on-the Sound. .-Ansonia Sentinel. :
 We simply want the reading pubic to stop and think before putting Yale and Yale students on the black list be- cause Of the disgraceful conduct of half dozen young men whose conception of tTfun'' is of a very low and disgust ing order. Six drunken students and chfppie do not indicate the character of Yale university or the Yale family. New Haven Leader.
 The Englishman is the last man among civilized races to be an artist, a musician or poet, but he is the first to be a gentleman. An Englishnlan thinks cold1y, loves coldIy and fights
 coldly. but he gets there just the same. l There is always a fascinating smooth ness about him. and he worships three 1 gods-his flag, his trade and his top l hat-Sydney Bulletin.
 There are limits to what the unions can accomplish in the way of water | ing wage stock, just as there limits to
 what MT Morgan can accomplish in
 the way of watering other stocks. l When that limit is reached the bubble l bursts, and it is hardly worth while to I enter into heated discussion as to
 the identity of the person that pricked 1 it.-Detroit Free Press
 I Another large manufacturing con
 cern, the Townsend & Downey Ship l building Go. passes into the hands of l <NPz 7@flu1 ] ble with the unions, for which it could find no relief short of submission to
 the walking delegates, This may be
 another triumph for labor, but the for mer employees of the concern, who are now hustling for q job, fail to see H. 1 New Britain Herald
 tsI still love you" said the sweet l heart of the confessed multi-murderer I Van Dine, in Chicago, as he indiffer- 1 ently permitted the girl to kiss him. testing broadly about her to his fellow ] criminals as ha left. Such is the pe-
 culiar attitude of womanklnd toward
 the most depraved criminals in prison l that she may even for the first time I experience the pangs of jealousy 1 Woonsocket Reporter.
 The Brooklyn Eagle notes that an 1 Italian cobbler fought with a Chinese l laundrynan in Manhattan over q stove-pipe job done by a German me l chanic. A Hebrew tailor tried to l make peace, and a, crowd of negroes gathered to see the sport. An Irish
 policeman arrested the Chinaman and
 an American surgeon bandaged tsAe Italian. Where else in the world could
 all this have happened? Incidentally,
 they were all Americans, come to think
 of it.-Hartford Post. s