Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-04
HEARD IN PASSING

1n demanding q town clock for their clfy, the residents of Derby show a commendable anxiety to. be abreast of the ttmes.-New Haven Palladium.
 Why should the New York Times say that nobody takes Mr Hearst's presidential boom seriously? Is there journalistic esprit de corps in the me tropolis ?-Boston Herald.
 Having rendered the merger com pletely unconscious with epithets. At torney General Knox will doubtless ind 1t simple matter to tie it's tenta- cles and lug it away to the operating room.- Detroit Journal.
 That distinguished looking man is veteran of seven wars.'' "You don't mean it! Why, he looks too young to have seen service like that. How does it happen?' He spent month in South America one time. .''-Exchange
 A man in Baltimore stole $6,O00 in some of the industrial stocks which have been under the hammer Of late. A few days ago lle returned them to their rightflll owner. Even the thief could not afford to lose money so fast.
 Meriden Journal.
 People in the Italian town of Rosina, who wanted to celebrate Christmas with dynamite contrary to the orders of the police, while making arrange rrents accidentally exploded the dyna- mite and killed twelve, wounding many more. That was a most happy Christmas. Bridgeport Standard
 Platt's chief disability was derived from his weakness for cold storage rep tiles. He could not keep from gather ing them up here and there throughout the state and putting in warm places. and they commonly fulfilled their tra- ditionaI propensity as soon as they were properly thawed out.---New York Sun.
 The fact that the whipping post has no reformatory influence oI1 criminals in Delaware Is no criterion for the rest of the country. Delaware criminals, lie Delaware politicians, are law unto themselves. For instance, any man in any other state in the Union would have given up race for the United States senatorship after seventeen more American.
 From Melbourne the news is cabled that women, voting at the general cleo ton with t1e men, cast their vote ''al- most exclusively for the labor ticket, which won many seats.'' This will in terest women in America who are working for wonnen's suffrage. It will interest also the fancfer class of rather frivolous women who are amusing themselves by working against female suffrage. Most of all, the result at Melbourne should interest the labor unions and all working Chicago American
 1t will take three weeks oi. d month for the delivery in the far east of the supplies which Japan and Russia are now purchasing in Europe and in this country. During that period there is little prospect of, the opening of hostili- ties. The fact that each of the possi- ble contestants has either waited so long before ordering the necessaries of war or has thought it wise to SUD- plement it's resources is another sign Of the postponer1ent of hostilities. Such tardy precaution or prudent fore sight, whichever it is, was not dis played to all the world by Japan before the Chinese war. Both Japan and Russia, indeed, appear reluctantly ap preaching the verge of strife, as if, ill fact, there were influences which force the executive power to act contrary to it's position.-Providence Journal