Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-15
HEARD IN PASSING

Of the 129 librarians in Connecticut Just about all even hundred belong to the sex that rocks the cradle and doesn't spit on the sidewalk.-Ex- change. ' 5,
 We harbor sneaking suspicion that if anybody should ask unanimous con- sent in the house of representatives to endorse Joseph L. Bristow for vice. president, Congressman HiH of Nor walk would rise to object.
 An English woman has met heroic death. She went to bargain sale at London, bought a bit of silk remnant, and fought for two hours to get out of the crowd. She died from the in juries she received, but before she gave up she disabled six other bargain hunt ers.-Meriden Journal. ... The Troy Press observes that Pres ident Roosevelt has so far failed to dine any of his Utah co-operators ill the anti-race suicide movement, al- though many of them are sojourning at Washington No doubt, though, Theodore would be very sympathetic with the Mormons for the time being. Buffalo Courier.
 The naval officers who have already relegated the Oregon. Indiana and
 
 rather shock the conservatism of the plain citizen, who cherished the belief that the Oregon and her sister war ships had several fights left in them yet and were, so to speak, ill the prims of battleship life. To hear them spoken of as candidates for the junk shop is shock.--New Britain Herald. Tn his efforts through the columns of London Truth to expose and defeat schemes for swindling the British peo- pie, Henry Labouchere, M. F., has been the defendant in no less than forty-four libel suits, of which he has won nineteen in court, and lost only eight. Ten cases were withdrawn by the plaintiffs and five were settled. In a case which went against him last week he was compelled to pay the heaviest damages ever given against | him, $5,000. This was obtained by a | doctor ill Paris whom he had called 2 quack. While the total amount which 1 he has ever paid in damages is com 1 paratively small, the charges for costs l in courts must have amounted to many | thousands Of pounds. But these have | been scattered through a quarter of a lcentrlry and have not seriously bur-
 dened Mr. Laboucherel whose Truth ! has always been q highly profitable publication, and who had a large per- sonal fortune before he began its pub 1 lication.--Hartford Times.
 4 prominent educator i'll Philadel-
 phia tells the following story on him.
 self: III his early teaching days he had 1 positioI in a country schoolhouse in l New England. The people in the ueighborhood worked out their taxes 1 by giving him board, and when there ! was no vacancy in the farm houses he ! took q small room. while the neighbors sopplied him with food. One day a 1 young boy came running breathlessly toward him, ''Say, teacher" he ! gasped, 'smy pa wants to know if you like pork?" Indeed, do like pork, , l tt.c teacher replied, concluding that
 tue very stingy father of this boy had l determined to donate some pork to
 him 'sYou tell your father that if l there is anything in this world that I do like 1t is pork" Some time trans-
 pired. and there was no pork forth l coming. One day he met the boy alone l in the school yard. Look here,
 Tohn," he said, "how about that pork ?''
 "Oh," replied the boy, ''the pig got 1 "-Buffalo Commercial.