Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-04
HEARD IN PASSING

It is said that Swift & Armour are back of a deal to corner lard.i More than $3,OOO,00O worth of it is stored in the warehouses in the stockyarus district Notwithstanding this, the packers of the lard corner may slip up.
 Albany Journal.
 Clarinda, in Iowa, is the only town of it's name in the world, and was ,christened in honor of Miss Clarlnda Buck. niece of Alexander M..Tlee, Who
 lived there in 1851, before it's incorpor-
 alton. She was then p years old ana famous for her beauty of person and character She afterward married ana moved to Oregon, where she dled twenty five years ago.
 Ernest Legouye, who recently cele brated his 97th birthday, was asked to what he attributed his long life ana good health. ''No cares, no ennul, Ho sornowsrthat's one reason of my good health" he replied. But that IS not enough. The body must be kept eia as- tic. and for this reason we must WaIA' n1ay billiards. and, above all, renee. For me fencing is the ideal exercise. New Haven Palladium.
 The word goes that there E 2 dearth of Roman purple in New Aorh. With the elevation of Monslglio, v,
 Mooney to the episcopate, there Viii be left a solitary monsignor. one Ioi' +he great archd ocese of New 1ork' whereas the diocese of Brooklyn has i've It is said that news of this un- en,ral distributio nof honors mas reached Rome. and that things are
 soon to be evened up. The names or several meritorious priests are ihen- tioned, all of whom are ripe for non ore Some of the s.cand dates" will
 probably be more surprised than thelr friendes.- Catholic Transcript.
 A transcontinental flyer on tho Mis-
 souri Pacific railway made stop not on it's schedule the other night Tor Lne benefit of a squalling baby The H. fant and it's mother, youpg German woman. were both in tears because us
 bottle of milk had curdled, Sympa-
 thetic passengers urged the conductor to stop the train at Ottawa, 1n order
 that a fresh supply might be secured. He approved the proposition, and the train was held while the relief com- mittee visited an Ottawa hotel kitchen, where the nursing bottle was scalded out and filled with sweet milk. When the train resumed it's journey every 1 body was feeling better-NeW York 1 Tribune. There is. no reason why cities should not go into the .Old Home Week
 business as Bridgeport has been doing successfully and profta!bly this week. I but the sentiment attaching to the 1 idea is more suggestive of the small 1 town than the bustling city. It IS | hat ! up their sons to the cities and the chief purpose of Old Home week IS to | bring those sons back from the cities
 to their old country homes. The
 chief glory of the small country town, l perhaps, is the sons and daughters 1 who have left it. whereas the chief cumulations in both men and material I things.-Hartford Post.
 I The man who in New York city, I yesterday, committed suicide, after
 wantonly murdering the wife of an | other, was evidently one of those de-
 generates who was born to make l trouble for himself and everybody I around him. A failure as a business
 man, he worried and bled his rela- l tiyes till they could stand it no longer, | and then appears to have appropriated
 the funds of a church organiza ton ! which were entrusted to him. The
 probability that he meant to include
 his own wife and his brother in his
 lst of victims, makes te fact that he
 is out of the world cause of rejoic-
 ing. But what depraved and cruel
 haert must he have had to wish to de-
 stroy the yes of so many innocent peo-
 pie, merely because his life had been
 an utter wreck and failure. re.-Hartford Times.