Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-11
HEARD IN PASSING

AL IS 44ON Sd&u tAaL Lue C4SdLCLtC
 trade ot lndia-an enormous and a
 growing one, for every native smokes
 has been captured by America. It is
 the old story over again-surplus stock
 sold at ruinous prices. Ten American
 cigarettes, done up in a box, can be
 bought to-day in any Indian bazaar for
 half penny.-Hartford Post.
 A Marylander suggests that a DOT
 tion of the Yellowstone park be set
 apart for the occasionally exclusive use
 of the president and his family, and
 that it be stocked with game and put
 in charge of expert huntsmen. "The
 terrible strain," says this Marylander,
 under which our chief executives
 labor demands rest, and there should
 be spot to which they could retire
 when feeling the need of a respite from
 official cares.'' tE%
 It seems strange to read that 4 a
 gang" in East Hartford broke into the
 lookup there the other day. Two pris-
 oners escaped, but one of them re-
 turned later and gave himself up to
 the authorities. The raid was made
 for the purpose of obtaining some liquor which had been taken from those who were accused of selling the stuff illegally. There are some queer doings in the center of the state.--
 Bridgeport Post. ..- The Roosevelt heirs, including the president and William E. and James c.
 Roosevelt, his cousins, were awarded
 a verdict for $42,425 in the condemna-
 tion suit brought by the Pennsylvania Railroad Co and involving a strip of
 land 400 feet long in Stewart avenue,
 Chicago, Friday. The decision marks
 the close of litigation which has been
 waged in the court for fifteen years for possession of the property, on which a section of the railways main
 tracks are laid.
 Attorney William Kennedy of Naug-
 atuck is another of Connecticut's legal officials who believes that dfvorces
 should not be granted just because both parties are desirous. of separation. When the lawyers of the state will | unite with the judges in opposing the
 granting of divorces indiscriminately a check may be put to the practice of playing mafrimony, and marriage vows
 may come to be looked upon as legally and sacredly binding. Our divorce
 laws may not be found too lax when their interpretation is left to conscien- l tious offcials.-Ansonia Sentinel.
 The Washington newspaper core spOndents who went in a body to the l St Louis exposition were quartered in one of the exposition buildings, where they were provided with clean, com | fortable cots, but it seems that the ca terer who was employed to feed them failed in his contract. Hence they had 1 to scuffie around and get such provis- ions as they could find within the reach of their purses. At the press banquet one of these newspaper men, in a speech on the cession of Louisinana in l 1903, remarked that the chicken which l he had for breakfast that morning was ceded the same year!-New Haven Reg l ister.
 l The latest manifestation of race pre- l judice Is in Indianapolis, where Louise l Hadley, hotel chambermaid, has been discharged from her place because she 1 refused to make up the bed in which 1 Booker Washington slept on Wednes- I day night. In Rochester, N. Y., George W. Bucks, 3 negro porter, has got 8 1 judgment amounting with costs to
 S366.SS against Paul Rosso, an Italian | bootblack, because Rosso refused to l shine his shoes. The Italian says he will rot in jail before he will pay It.
 and the law of New York permits him
 to serve one day in jail for each dollar
 of the judgment if he does not pay l Hartford Times.