Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-07-08
HEARD IN PASSING


After all. the fool that rocks the boat
isn't much more in it than his fellow
who stops an electric fan with his fins.
| Worcester Gazette.
General Ma, with those 10000 Chi
nese troops on the borders OF Manchll-
ria, is doubtless only showing his ma
ternal interest in the Unsatisfactory
London Daily Globe.
The prohibition party s water wagon
has been on the road many years, but
| it can not get anywhere near the
white house. The band wagon takes
better-Norwich Bulletin.
Another sea horror emphasizes the
| desfrability Of an actual inspection and
| test of life preservers at least once g.
year. Inspections that don't inspect
are dangerous.-Haverhill Gazette.
Il somebody could invent q way to
dtvest the public mind Of the belief
that national campaign is necessarily
injurious to business he would be
hailed as a national benefactor. Min
neapolis Times.
I, The wheat fields OF the west are
| waiting for harvesters. In this broad
4 land there are work and opportunities
| for all. but the workers must 30 to
the work; 1t will not come to- them
New York Tribune.
/ The Igorrote might be heard to re-
preach, us, saying, IF you couldn
stomach me in my native innocence
! why did you assimiIate Ine?' Putting
pants on the IgorTote is cruelty encas-
] Ing him in capsule render him less
unpalatable.-st Louis Republic.
Business seems to have little to fear
now from politics. The number Of
strikes has diminished. There Is less
speculation than in several years. The
prospect is for large crops. Our for
efgn and home markets are steadily
growing. Railroad earnings are in
creasing. Why shouldn't business men
brighten Jp7-Kansas City Journal.
An effort is being made to Danish
| fasolene motors from Central park.
They make the live air sick with
| their stencil and people wro frequent
| the park for wholesome air and recu-
| peration are 1lauseated BY the fumes
/ that are continually thrown out by the
all-pervading autos. The smell is
not in cohsonance with the purposes
of the place. Bridgeport Standard.
Poultney Bigelow reports that Ban
dit Rafsuli laughed all day and part of
the night about the proposal to exhibit
| him at the st Louis fair. Yet the pres
ent exhibit he is making of himself is
no laughing matter, at least to other
people. Perhaps If he gets the dough
in time Raisuli may be willing for Ion
Perdicaris to go to st Louis. The
| brigand himself would probably prefer
to keep little farther from Uncle
Sans clutches.-New London Daily
| Globe.
A comparison of the listing Of new
stocks on the New. York Stock ex-
change during the half year. ended July
| 1 tends to show that the trust era has
come to a standstill. During the last
six months there were listed only SAL
527,8 300, compared with 1920, 957, 435 for
| the same period in 1903, $315, S53, 800
IN 1902. and $1.273,5S ,575 in 1901,
| when the trust creation movement was
at its height. But perhaps it's a case
of the supply being exhausted.-Meri-
den Journal.
The first prize OF the commence
ment at the law department of George
town university has been captured by
| a Filipino from Luzon, a youth be-
longing to a race we have treated as
incapable of overnment and UNI
worthy of citizenship. Is this know
i ing young man an unusual example
Of his people or is it possible that we
are forced into the admission that we
have made an egIegrious blunder in es-
worth philadelphia Record.
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