Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-02
HEARD IN PASSING

In order to reach the port of New
 York with shipment of cotton intend ed for Liverpool spinners, freight train on the New York Central recent ly covered q 425Amile run in sixteen hours and twenty minutes. The success that came to the Ameri- can efforts in the Philippines during the brief administration of Governor Taft has been little short Of plenOm- enai, and it reflects double credit, part of which rests upon the American system of government and part upon the man chosen to direct the work Syracuse Post Standard.
 Don't be afraid to ventilate your sleeping rooms this zero weather. Pure air never injured any organism, deli cate or otherwise. Confinement ill a. room, with windows sealed and the air yitiated by furnace heat. gas light and human breathing, is nothing more nor less than lingering suicide. New Brit ain Herald.
 Mayor Mulvihill of Bridgeport an- nounced on Thursday his appointments to the various city commissions. The changes are exciting a good deal of gossip in local political circles. Both of Bridgeport's representatives in the general assembly have received ap- pointments, Charles H. Botsford as q building commissioners and Napoleon Bissonette as member of the board of assessors
 Those who think that Senator Hoar will sconle around" all right when the time to vote on the Panama treaty ar rives may find corroboration of their opinion i'll a haracterization of the Massac chusetts man once given by the late President Mckinley. Senator Hoar," he said, stalways gives the ben eft of his views to the opposition and the aid of his vote to his own party. .''--- Providence Journal.
 Another revolution is on the tapis i'll Cape Town. The secretary of the gen. eral postoffice there refused to accept a5 Bank Of England note, writing as follows: 'sIt is with regret that I must return. the RanlS of England note Of E5, as this department cannot ac.- cept Bank of England notes at the present time. owing to the belief that there are a large number of forgeries now in circulation ',',--New Haven Union.
 The sugar trust has been slowly but steadily absorbing the sugar business of the Pacific coast. It has now taken in the large Spreckles concern in San Francisco. known as the Western Sugar Refining Go. The beet snsar factories of California and Idaho have already been afwnrbed by the Have meyer concern, which seems likely to obtain control of the entire sugar in- dTlstry ill the United States. Hartford Times.
 New Haven's interest in the proposed consolidation consists in a proper gov ernment Of West Haven, which during many months i'll the year Is our con- mon play ground, in uniform fire and police protection. and i'll the general prosperity of two peoples which have mutual interests. The two communi. ties are literally thrown together, for better or worse, and to resist union is 10 benefit neither and injure both New Haven Register.
 After continuous service Of nearly twenty years, Edward H. Champlin turns over the office of town clerk of IitchfleId to-day to John J. Karl, chair man of the republican town commit tee. It is another case of the fortunes of war and that Ltchfeld is no longer democratic stronghold. Whatever may be the reasons of the change, the fact remains that it began in ''96. Tn '92 Cleveland had q plurality of Il, while four years later McKfnley's plu- raIity was over 200. Cooke and the other state officers having little less.
 Hartford Times.
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