Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-03

Another advantage enjoyed by Field Marshal Oyama is that of having the board of strategy under his hat instead of i'll the national capital.-GalvestOn l News. f
 While the Nv York Evening Post bolts the nomination of Judge D. Cady Herrick, the Sun bolts Odell. Tn this case odds are even, If the paradoxical expression be allowed. Pittsburg Ga zette.
 'He was in an angry passion" l ssYesg" "He, tried to poison himself,
 but mistook a cake of yeast for the I poison' 'Yes?' HAnd the yeast cake made his angry passion rise.''-41 Cleveland Plain Dealer. In this campaign Michigan is ire vocably Roosevelt state. If all the democratic national speIlbinders in the United States made speeches from now until election day in Michigan this state would still be for Roosevelt as solid as a rock.--Detroit Tribune (rep) 1 The fact that President Roosevelt has just sent his picture to the father Of twenty five children is additional l proof that Colonel Henry Watterson l fears that he means to run for the presidency again dn 1908, and for the third time in 1912, are not without foundat ation.-Charleston News and l Courier.
 The Japanese have already lost 45,- 900 veterans before Port Arthur, an army in itself, and apparently are as far as ever from the capture of the fortress Yet it can be predicted that -E in the end Port Arthur twill , fall through the mere process of attritioIl upon the valiant defenders. Their
 losses cannot be replaced and the time Is coming when they cannot muster forces sufficient to man the fortress.---
 New Britain Herald.
 The tide of immigration is receding. There is less digging and blasting, and
 other rough work to be done than l there was a year ago. Vast public land private works, like. the New York subway and the metropolitan water
 works system in Massachusetts have l furnished employment for hundreds of
 thousands of the hardy workers from the south of Europe during the past five years, but at present fewer re-
 cruits are needed in this division of
 the grand army of labor. Hartford l Times. 4 Once dn while one of the Sunday exhorters on the Common startles the j crowd with his hits. A well known old spellbinder was comparing the vices and amusementS of various fcountries and the relation between the 1.-two. Tn particularvhe described bull- I fighting in Spain and pugilism in. this country "An' I don't know but
 what bullfighting Is the better" he
 roared God Almighty made the bulls for beef. But when you kill a
 pugilist, what use is he to anybody ?"---
 Boston Record.
 A pretty incident occurred the other morning on an E1mwood avenue car. l A young woman vainly endeavored to
 quiet crying infant which she carried Ibolt upright in her arms, and her ef-
 forts only made 1t more vociferous
 scLet me take the baby;"e.; saad kind faced elderly lady iii the car, T 1T sthink I I can manage 1t for you" She laid the little creature across her lap then ] tiandIed 1t softly in her hands, and in
 a few seconds it was asleep. Tt is
 not difficult when you know what to l do," she remarked smfMngly to gem
 tlaman opposite who had watched the
 soothing process with warm interest
 and admiration. Buffalo Commercial. .l A noiseless typewriter is something
 devoutky to be wished for The clat-
 ter of the average machine ought to
 have been fruitful stimulus to in E ventors long ago, but typewTitdng ln-
 genuities seem to have followed other
 lines rather than that of producing
 noiseless working, so that the problem
 is still an open one. Not only is the constant din of the machine nerve straining to others than the operator, < but from an engineering point of view Il it means wear and tear of mechanism and mfsspent energy-imperfect de :. sign and construction ion-which thought |, I.ful consideration ought to overcome in measurable degree. -Cassier's Mag azfne.