Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-28
HEARD IN PASSING


 MT GTosvenor was as bad a prophet this year as usual. He never included Missouri in his forecast.-N Nashville Banner.
 It is now said that the presidents message this year will be brief. 1t viii be long enough to meet every re- qutrement.--Norwich Bulletin.
 Governor-clect Hanly of Indiana is reasonably lucky. He has been guar, antined on account of smallpox, and the 0trice-seekers cannon get at him -- pittsburg Times. King Menelik Of Abyssinia has sent President Roosevelt lioness, zebra, two ostriches and two monkeys. But then Thanksgiving dinners in Abys- sinia are so different.-New York Mail. The defeat of Thomas ". Lawson's $3O,000 carnation by H. N. Higin- botham's posey at the Chicago flower show must convince Mir Lawson that even botany is becoming ''frenzied. - Kansas City Times.
 The opinion is expressed by tue war correspondents that, after some of the battles in Manchuria. the charge of the Six Hundred at BaIaklaya was not such desperate piece of heroism; but the Manchurian battles have nc Ten nyson to iInmortalize them.-Philadel- phia Inquirer.
 If the czar holds fast to what seems his present intention gradually to widen the share of his people in the administration of his vast empire il would be rash to set any limit to the possibilities of Russian development within the next quarter. of a century" Cleveland Leader. . The advance of over 5 per cent with in two days ill United States Steel pre- ferred stock carries this security once more near to par, where 1t will doubt. less arrive within short time. The steady advance in this stock from be- low 50 in the, middle of August has af- forded one of the best opportunities i'll years for maAIng money rapidly in safe and sane'' speculat tiOn. Hart ford Times.
 1 If President Roosevelt persists in his Provision plans, he may find the tariff sword thrust into his party's vitals, just as MT Cleveland found the silver issue. The president, even when the cheers over his great victory of 1892 1 were still audible, wrote to MT Lamar that he feared the money question 1 would cloud his administration and | wreck his party. Has any republican leader had such a letter from President Roosevelt since November 8?-New York Evening Post. Eg Tn a communica tion to the Norwich Bulletin Eliza Mowry Biiven argues that tobacco is ...e sum of all villainies. If all lands for raising tobacco" she says, waxing impetuous, "were divided l into homnsteHds. all money spent for l tobacco were used to buy and build homes, all time wasted in using tobac- co were employed in improving their bones, all laborers could have home comforts, clear heads, prosperity health and happiness: no poverty drunkenness nor crime. Single tax, socialism, prohibition. do not reach the 1 roots. Break your chains by abolish, ing tobacco, the demoralizing cause" c. J. Murphy. prominent citizen of
 Minneapolis. argues that the high price of wheat should induce people to get accustomed to corn products ou their bill of fare. sSIf tka people would learn to eat more corn." he says, tit would be much to their beneft. both from an economical point of view and las q matter of health. I have spent eighteen of the best years of my life 1 in teaching the people of Europe the valne of our corn as human food, and now more corn is used in Belgium and
 Ireland as human food than we use in the United States" {"