Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-05
HEARD IN PASSING

Between the boil wevil and the graf bug, the cotton planter is having q hard time of it.
 Missed the sultan again Wonder there is no correspondence school for assassins.
 It might be noted right now that Russia is making good her promise to the powers to retire from Manchuria.
 Bonanza Scott, who rediscovered the self by the time he gets ready to leave New York.
 The yellow fever experts are putting it up to the mosquito pretty strongly. 1 What are mosquitoes for, anyway? Do 1 they ever do anything decent or are they out and out inventions of his Sa- tanic majesty y:-Meriden Journal.
 With the opinion expressed by At torney General Moody that the nation, al criminal law could be codified and amended to the manifest improvement of both the lay and public policy. there will be Unanimous agreement on the part of the everyday citizen, who has more examples than he wants of the innumerable defects of the present federal law.-New Britain Herald
 The czar cannot be more determined never to cede territory to Japan or to consent to the payment of an indemni- ty than Jules Favre said he was never to cede an inch of French territory or a stone from French fortress to Ger many as the price of peace. It is quite possible that the negotiations at Ports mouth may not bring about a peace, but sooner or later peace must be made and the longer it is delayed the heavier the price Russia must pay for it. Bridgeport Farmer.
 The magnetic survey of the North Pacific ocean, of which something has been heard recently, will actually begir within a short time. A brig has been engaged at San Francisco and is ex- pected to sail about the end of this week. The object is to obtain precise data of the distribution of magnetic forces, and the work is in charge of department of the Carnegie institution ill Washington. The director is Dr l.. A. Bauer of the United States coast and geodetic suryey.-Hartford Times.
 Congratulations are in order in Chc case of Mrs Bridget Mangan of Min noka, Pa, who has coughed up two frogs and is enjoying relief after a sickness of several weeks. The phy- sicians are puzzled by the remarkable case. The only way in which they can account for it is that she swallowed the frogs in drinking water when they were young and that they developed in her stomach. The moral appears to be: Refrain from drinking frogs even if they are young. Certainly such an accident.n .never could have occurred in Kentucky or in Milwaukee. Record.
 Certain parties are striving to prove that the Japanese lost more ships ill the battle of the Japan sea, and also at Port Arthur. than they have been will ing To admit. Just what is to be es- tahlished if the surmises and conjec- lures of these people should be true is not definitely stated. With the Russian ships raised and repaired from the har- bor of Port Arthur and captured in the Japan sea, Japan has larger navy than she had when the war began. and beside this she has built several ships of war herself, of admirable quality. and can build as many more as she pleases. Russia has no navy with which 10 now oppose her and 1t is a matter of little moment anyway whether she lost many or but few in her sea fghts.-BridgepOrt Standard.