Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-07
HEARD IN PASSING

A Misourian wearing whiskers seven feet long was on the Worlds fair grounds the other day. Unfortu- nately there was no wind blowing and the exhibition was shorn of it's most interesting feature.--Denver Post
 1t is a pleasure to record that the administration of the state police ap- pears to be efficient and that money collected or soon to be collected for fines and turned oyer to the state will pay all but $3,252.77 of the $13,- 737.59 the department has cost the state. Hartford Times.
 Reporting on Little Italy," one of London's most crowded districts, the health officer of thesdistrict says that the Italians are general llssesuperiorh to the English persons who are their neighbors. They also take more care of their children, among whom the death rate is low, and they are sober. Governor LaFollette, who, was un- tremendously dubbed a rebellious and revolutionary deserter of party principles by the republican national. committee q few months ago is ad- | judged by the supreme court of Wis | consfn to be the regular republican nominee with the "stalwarts'' as the bolters from the party fold. Justice 1 for once triumphs over" partisan poli-s | tics.--New Britain Herald. 1osta-as s8 President Hadley begins this year \ very sensibly by telling his Yale stu dents the man who cheats in football l will cheat in business later on, leav- 1 ing his hearers to draw their own in- ferences about dishonesty in sports. l This kind of talk is not only much more in tlie spirit of the times, but will do much more good than de- nouncing all college athletics as teaching lying and trickery, which some educators are prone to do.--Bos- . ton Transcript 4al Nkaa .s,saSs
 They tell some funny ayaIllsh about l the operation of wireless telegraphy in the present war. When Admiral l Togo was at his island shelter, some miles from Port Arthur, he was the victim of what might be called a Russian" joke. The Russians knew | that Togo's ships were equipped with l wireless apparatus, so the Russian wireless station at sPort Arthur sent l the following message: "Russia's
 fleet coming outs and signed the name of Rear Admiral Dewa. Togo came rushing up, with his whole fleet | forced draft, four boilers, four bells,
 lippity split, anxious to get, there.
 Uncle Sam has long arm. He
 will catch the rascal who has been
 boring holes in the Connecticut and putting Instructions in her path.
 When the scoundrel is caught, it will be found that no union of working
 men had anything more to do with
 the attacks on the Connecticut than
 the house of bishops did. No sor-
 ganization of American workingmen
 would ever sanction the scuttling of
 nationig ship. If 1t turns out that
 a member of some union did make the
 attempts to disable the Connecticut,
 his fellow unionists will be the first
 to denounce and discipline, him.
 New York Sun.
 There is story about little game of draw poker indulged in by a party
 of horsemen at one of the Broadway
 hotels, in which big western specu'
 lator who plays rather stiff game was a participant. The. cards had been running steadily against him for couple of hours and his temper was therefore not of the best. Knowing
 that without perfect control of that necessary adjunct to success at the great American game he had nc , chance, the westerner threw down
 his hand, admitted "cold feet" and left the game with the remark } Good night, gentlemen. No more for , me this evening. Why, if I should draw for an auto I wouldn't even get :, smell.--Exchange.