Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-18
HEARD IN PASSING


 Andrew Carnegie might try running Tor tne V1ce-pfesidency to keep from dying rich.
 The only time the English papers spoke kindly and nicely of President Kruger was after his death.-Norwich Record
 Anyway, the money question will not be entirely out of politics until the spellbinders get their pay for agitating the atmosphere
 The bachelor girl who is paying $15,- GOO year for New York apartments is not friend of her race. That is enough to keep husband. Brock kton Enterprise.
 The latest London fashion decree is to crease trousers on the side instead of in front. This will give thin man the appearance of having been run over by street roller.
 John Palmieri was appointed by Governor Odell as judge of the city court of New York. He is the first Italian in the United. States to occupy Judicial position.-Penny Press.
 A man 1O3 years old ascribes his longevity to the fact that he never rode on the street cars Perhaps if he had been compelled to become strap hanger he would not have wanted to live so long.
 The grand lama of Tibet tells the British that he will not be at home when they call to see about that treaty. About the only way out of it is for Great Britain to make grand lama who will be visible when he is wanted.
 1t is said that the British govern, ment plans monopoly of the wireless system Of telggraphy. A bill to that effect will be brought in and the pos tai officials are experimenting on a system of their own devising Bridge port Standard.
 A Springfield parson chose the fol- lowing theme for his Sunday dis course: Would Jesus Christ be an acceptable companion for most people in their vacations?' As this is a question that every man must answer for himself, the preacher might do we'll to explain how he feels about 1t. Morning Telegram.
 American ponies are being negoti, ated for the Japanese cavalry. 1t is reported in New Orleans on good au thority that a big Texas firm has been approached by the Japanese minister WAbA tL VIEW u SnlppluS luOuSulkuS O1 head of Louisiana and Texas ponies within the next two months, via San Francisco. Whats the. matter with those Missouri mules that rendered so good service in the Boer war ?--Meri, den Journal.
 Tn the halcyon days of glorious Roosevelt prosperity, when so many wage earners ill the factories, the iron and steel mills and on the railroads are enjoying protracted vacations, there are some people who evidently believe that there cannot be too much of a good thing. Tn this class apDar. entity are those local manufacturers who are zealously laboring to prevail on their brethren to confer on their ! employees more of this same dee-light- full brand of prosperity by slashing wages another 10 per cent.-Fall River Globe.
 It is said that the mercantile classes l in Russia are very gloomy over the war outlook and find little in the situ- ation to give them comfort. To the people of the empire generally the war means only hardship, high taxes, deprivation, death. There is for this no earthly return that the average Russian cares about in the extension of Russian territory on the far-off Pa cific coast, and the beating of a na- ton Of whom only few of them ever heard before this war, and about which they know absolutely nothing. On the other hand the Japanese are 1 fighting for national life, for what is essential to them as q nation here after and for something which every man in the kingdom knows about and approves. That puts the war. on d I parties and equalizes some of the points wherein the Russians are on the face of the facts greatly in the 1 lead -RridgRnnrt Standard