Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-05
HEARD IN PASSING

The republican state campaign in Ohio was opened with a frost. Vice President Fairbanks spoke.-Atlanta Constitution. tr ~ ss Indiana proudly points to the fact that her anti-cigarette law is fully as eHect1ve as are are prohibition laws or Kansas and Iowa.-Newark News.
 The Japs had two good chances in the late war, The Russians seldom hit them and when they did, the sur geons had them well in a iiffy.-Meri- den Journal. 't -'
 There is deficit of .$4,400,OOo in the Dutch treasury. The dispatches did not say: whether it was stock gambling or the ponies,- Chicago Record-Herald
 Railroad wrecks are expensive and when such train as the Twentieth Century Limited goes to pieces as that one did at Mentor. the cost is very great. Careful<figuring on all the ex- pense of that piece of carelessness or criminality now put it at $500 000.- Bridgeport Standard. s.3. 5. < CLC ol ulOol in the history of labor is that report ed from Wilkesbarre, Pa The break CT boys in a colliery there have gone out because the company, in calcu- lating their wages, retained the frac- tion when it was less than a cent. This ought to be an easy one to ar bitrate.-Hartford Telegram.
 Glastonbury officers should get on more familiar terms with their revol- vers. When man cannot shoot burglar at close range there's some- thing wrong with his markmanship, and a poor marksman who is given the right to carry weapons is a dan- gerous parsonage, whether he be an officer or civilian.3Ansonia Sentin- el. 7,
 The Russian reformers nave come to the conclusion that the most proGi. able policy for them to pursue is to cooperate with the government for the successful establishment of a national assembly, not because they admire the present regime or think the sLlIeme for a Douma f1awless, but because they will be able to oppose the beaucracy better from the new vantage point.-Providence Journal.
 Berliners have organized q rescue band that would be Appreciated hare. It's members. wearing their uniforms. will take care of drunken persons on the streets, will prevent them from drinking more and will escort them to their homes-in cabs at the society's expense if the spiticated one is help. less. The members of the rescue band are of both sexes, and some of them are pretty. Truly charitable organiza- ton is away behind the game in this country.-Boston Globe.
 Clingiug like a fly to the surface of the Flatiron building in New York, John Garrick, a steeplejack, walked down the side of the tall building from the 20th story to the street and up again several times Thursday, while thousands below stood tremb- ling at the daring feat. Women faint cd from the strain on their nerves; men turned white, while Garrick, as unconcerned as though he were stroll ing along Broadway. was rapidly as- cending and descending, stopping to pose for his photograph, waving sal utations to a reporter, clinging all the while to the sheer wall with his fingers and toes in the inch and a quarter deep grooves that indent its surface. And all to earn a S2 bet. Garrick did not touch a window sill save to leave or enter window. His hair-raising performance is unequal ed in daring in the annals of steeple- jack work.