Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-09
HEARD IN PASSING

General Nogi is under the impression that some kind of q peace conference will be Eeld at Port Arthur as soon as he can get Philadelphia h. Quirer.
 The declaration of General Stoessel that 'God is with us'' suggests that he ] dissents from the opinion of the late M. BoDaparte concerning the heaviest 1 battalions. ns.-Indianapolis News.
 Who is that man walking lip and down the corridor, with frowning brow apl shoulders weighted with the heavy burden Of legislation? Some distin> 1 guished statesman, no doubt?' That my dear sir, is the assistant secretary l ani stenographic clerk of the new con gressman from Alabama. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
 Judge Parker, at the close Of the campaign, is worth not mog than ST. 800, in addition to the Rosemount property, which is mortgaged. The efice he resigned after his nominatioh | is worth $15,000 year, and the judge | lived up to his income. His debts are due to the fact that he has never made successful investment. He lost money in Shipbuilding Trust stock and United States Steel holdings, as well | as in smaller enterprises, including q patent pill, patent egg food, a patent ear wheel, Colorado copper mine and a loan ssociation.-Cincinnat Times Star.
 That kinky little word ''zemstvo,' 7 which appears so frequently in news from Russia these days, is derived from the noun ''zemlia. .'' meaning land, and the verb "vopet," to clamor. Thus it ! signifies 'the voice of the land'' and is a council of landed proprietors appoint ed to deliberate and report to the cen tTal executive the wants of the rural population. 1t is something like an English county council without the lat I ters authority, yet that authority is what it now pleads for. The zemstvo was founded in 1864 and Alexander II intended it as one of the most impor- tant of his reforms, Trans, cript.
 A pleasant .anecdote concerning a famous Englishman of letters and the daughter of a Standard Oil magnate has recently been making tine rounds al of the clubs. It appears that the lady, in filial anxiety for a fitting biography for her father. appealed toNthe. great authority on Elizabethan English. As .-e had caught only the married name of his fair questioner, and had not been | properly coached as to her peQlgree III 1 Bradstreet's, he suggested that Miss Ida Tarbell would probably be an ex' cellent selection. Those who narrate the incident merely to arouse chuckle fail to grasp it's broader significance One can suck instruction out of the story.-New York Evening Post.
 It was not bad sort of joke which Senator Bailey of Texas fndulged il' when he asked Senator Ptatt of New York whether in his bill to reduce con, gressional representation in the south ern states where the suffrage is re stricted, there was anything affecting the representation of a state in the senate where the governor of the state and not the legislature regularly chose the senator. This was suggested ,by the recent interview in which Mir Plat said that Odell would not displace De pew, because the governor had prom ised in the campaign not to do so, but not questioning Oden's power to put anybody he pledsed iii the senate. Tht bill provides for the reduction of rep resentation in the house of representa- tives as follows: Alabama from 9 tC 7. Arkansas ' to 6, Florida to 2 Georgia II to 8, Louisiana to 5, Mis- sissippi to 6, North Carolina 10 to 8 South, Carolina to 5. Tennessee 10 tC 3. Texas 16 to 15, Virginia 10 to s. Hartford Times.