Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-12
HEARD IN PASSING

From the stories coming from the front about the Grand Duke Boris it is evident that it should have been spelled Booris.
 Boston physicians claim that piano music will cure neuralgia. This is on the theory of substitution, one sort Of torture being crowded out by another. -Brockton Enterprise
 Richmond Pearson Hobson may be failure as a democratic politician put what swath he would cut as a worker in the woman's suffrage party. y.-New Britain Herald.
 A Cleveland official refused to issue marriage license to man who was drunk. Perhaps the idea was to give the would be bridegroom a chance for q sober second thought.-Broc rockton Enterprise
 The campaign poet who makes Fairbanks rhyme with spare shanks' should have his poeticaI li- cense revoked. Metrical feet hooked on to that sort of verse do not go- Hartford Post.
 Whether that story about his river crossing feat is true or not, we shall have to admit, that Brigadier-G General Funston, commander of the depart. ment of the east, is getting along swimmingly.- Springfield Union.
 The four men who held up a Con. necticut freight train evidently went in for robbery on a large scale. Many q hnancier has made a smaller be. ginning and ended by stealing q whole railroad. d.-Morning Telegram.
 Prince Arthur of Connaught cannot wed the lady of his choice because the father of the latter cannot raise suf. | flclent amount of dough to provide the dowry. His princelets ought to have trained his affections on some Ameri can bud with an ambitious mamma l and rich, indulgent pa. The purse necessary to bind the match would iI that case have been raised some way Fall River Globe.
 The attorney general of the Baha mas has been making a first visit tc Montreal, and no doubt enjoying it He is of the opinion that govern ment like Canada's would not do fol the Bahamas; the population there is Of a peculiar makeup, and the per centage of illiteracy is larger than ii l should be. He reports the years l sponge output and pineapple crop nor mal He says it remains to be seer HOW S6TlOuSly the ldFllL pFGI6TeHc6f given to Cuba by the United States is going to affect the fruit growers ol the Bahamas. The islanders have be gun to buy Canadian flour, he says and they find it very satisfactory Hartford Courant. 58
 Dr Justus Ohage became few
 years ago health officer of St Paul
 He noticed a bit of shoal in the Mis-
 sissippi visible only when the river was low, but accessible within ten l minutes ride from t11e city hall. Sc.
 curing possession by gift of as much
 as he could and by purchase of what 1 he could not beg, he had the citv's
 clean waste dumped upon the little 1 island, thus rapidly bringing it above l high water mark. On the four and
 one-half acres thus ingeniousiy wrest. l ed from the father of waters thc I city Of St Paul now maintains within easy reach of majority of it's popu-
 lation a children's playground, q
 small zoo, vegetable garden, to sup. l port the forty uniformed attendants I public baths, with modern sterilizint l plants for the bathing suits, da,
 nursery, boys gymnasium and l girls gymnasium-and all united b,
 q small but satisfactory park.-Dan I bury News.