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

The battleship Kentucky made a
WONDERFUL sail in spite of the fact that
It mad to be done in Water.-Baltimor
Sun.
Emperor William will not allow any
OF his ministers TO learn to play golf.
If there is any swearing to be done the
kaiser doubtless wants it done in his
way and not according to the rules of
st Andrew. Denver Republican.
Senator Smoot of Utah has only one
wife. But that does not keep mac
curate persons from referring to him
as a polygamist. A beautiful case of
a man being known by the company h
keeps. New York Evening Sun.
No, we are not discouraged. Some
day the street railway company will
adopt the signal buttons and over each
a neatly printed card: tFYou push the
button, the car stops" will be our re-
ward. -Springfeld Union.
The Boston mother who has intro
duced the fashion of leading her rest
less boy by chain on the street when
she goes shopping has invented a
scheme which ought to be very useful
TO people who take their children to st
Louis.-Boston Globe.
Report comes that ex-Mayor Van
Wyck of New York called upon Rich
ard Croker at Vantage lately and
"after asking support for Mr. Cleve-
land hastily left It is inferred that
Mr. Croker kicked him out. He evil
IDENTIFY does not take kindly to the
Cleveland program.-Bridgep Stand
ard.
A A. a.
reyisiting the scenes OF Fourth of July
celebration might be curious to note on
how many village green's the Declare
ton of independence was being read,
how many orators were periodically
haranguing listening throngs, and in
what other particulars the old-time ira
ditional observance of the day was
being maintained.-New York Evening
World. A t1s
An anti-trading stamp bin was
passed by the legislature of Massachu-
setts and signed by the governor and
will go into effect on December rext.
1t imposes a tax OF 3 per cent upon all
stamp transactions, and the expecta-
ton with those who procured its pass
age is that the trader cannot afford to
buy the stamps and pay the tax too.
The law will be tested as to its consti-
tutionality and there are many who be-
lieye that it cannot stand that test
Norwich Record 47a is5i RI Il
1t is given out in New York that the
same steamboat inspector who exam
ined the General Slocum, and then re-
fused to answer questions for fear of
eliminating himself, was the last to
examine and report favorably on the
Norge whose wreck revealed rotten
life preservers and inadequate facilities
for escape. Isn't 1t about time for the
general government to part company
with this remarkable assistant? 1t is
said the Norge was allowed to carry
4S8 passengers and had over 700 on
board. Who is responsible for this p
Hartford Courant. sos sve.4
1t is a novel spectacle to see a Tam
many delegation 1000 strong rolling
into a national convention city shout
ing as one man for Grover Cleveland
as their candidate for the presidency.
Tammany has gone to many conven-
tions in the past in vociferous opposA-
ton to the candidate of it's party. in its
own state 1t opposed Cleveland twice,
as it opposed Tilden before, him, but
its opposition helped rather than in
iured the object of it. Indeed, it has
become custom to say that anybody
whom Tammany opposes In national
convention is thereby assured Of sue
cess-NeW York Globe.