Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-02-23
HEARD IN PASSING

An egg famine is the latest announce ment. lhe barn stormers may look for q better season.
 Prof Pickering of Harvard college says he is watching the sun spots close. ly. The rest of us are satisned to be some ninety-three million miles away from them.
 Senator Mitchell of Oregon wrote d letter to his partner, but the United States attorney has it and it will come up ill evidence against him. It begins My dear judge, 1 am almost afraid to write word, as the scoundrels will misconstrue everything and distort all that is said.'
 The president of the United States, by virtue of powers already incontcst- l ably his and the blaze of glory envelop- ing his position, may easily be more than match for the % men who sit in the senate, in race for popularity during a great constitutional crisis. 4 president with the histrionic gifts of a Roosevelt might conceivably rout them in confusion in an appeal to pub lie opinion concerning some palpable, even outrageous, encr0achment by the executive upon senatorial rights Springfield Republican,.
 What our Havana correspondent calls the "unwarranted craze for light cOlors'--a craze of customers founded on the mistaken belief that light-cOlor- ed leaf is the mildest--cause the leaf growers, although they know better, to try to meet the demand by cutting their leaf when immature, with tho natural result that the leaf thus pre- ferred is apt to be acrid. bitter and strong-tasted. There are still some sensible smokers who judge tdbaccO and cigars not by the color. but by the taste.-Tobacco Trade Review. Is it true-what President Faunce of Brown says of freshmen? While the freshmen of today. he declares. know more than their fathers did at the same age, they are inferior to their fathers in logical strength. pow sustained thought This is important
 If true. Rut nobody can prove it. Many college teachers are said to be- lieVe it. and that is all. It is under stood that many freshmen believe | that the college professors nowadays are lnmentahly below ,n quality the
 professors who taurht their fathers Springfield Republican
 One view of Mir Rockefeller is that ho is the most conspicuous representa-. l tive of concentration and orcanizatfon in commerce and iinance. that he has
 "rnlind with extraordinary success ] tho principle that ''business is war"
 and that the influence of his public career Is malicn. Another view Is that | in his private life and in hIs personal ] rnlatinrs with other mon hn is a auiat
 courteous retiring. nhilanthrnpic gen. ! flcman. Roth of these views mny be correct. for the contrast between q
 mans public and his private lifa. he. | tween his business and his personaI character is often very marked. and | nnv well constitute an intn-oStinc | study For instance. Iav CorIT's rrIb
 i''- career and his private lifn were as wide as the poles asunder.-wal < Street Journal
 Tho evidence submitted to Judct I Grosscun convinced him that the pack CTS popularIv known as tho "Reef | Trr-s-" had heen enpaged' Tn unlawful practices and he ors'e~na them to de sist from these practices. The SUI ] prar,,e court has hold that tho aviIancs , u-hela !ss iniunctinn. It Is alleged
 that suhseruent to the iniunrtinn and tn -ro dneisic~l of fhe supreme court srrstainin~ f the packers have I-a.T
 tininr the thin~s fhpv were ordered
 not to dn. IL Is said that adenuate ev
 fTarca to prove fris is sn tIsa DosSe<
 sio- of ths government. Samethins
 fs I't-ei~ to hspnen in . fa-v weaks ir
 JE-s'~N C-ossrun's cou-t which viii at
 tract the attention of the Ame-fcar
 raarin who hsva i-ai'ev-d for years
 that fIsav we-~ heinz Sneced by tn. E beef trust-Chica~o Tribune.