Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-02-14
HEARD IN PASSING


 seeds are a humbug. The farmer thinks So toe, especially the seeds that have been bought because they were cheap.
 The governor of Oklahoma and gov crnor Folk of Missouri are Wagine war against lobbyists. The chase Su@- geSts the famous recipe which begins, First catch your hare.
 American railroad promoters arc about to invade China. When the Celestials encounter the rebate system they will have new idea of foreign dcvitry. Dispatch.
 John l.. Sullivan says that if he bad S1UO.00o,0QO he would give it to the poor. So would most other men whose assets consist principally of generous thirst and il willingness ln talk Kansas City Journal.
 Down on the east side Il butcher has hung I sign ill il couspicious place in ! his shop on which is the inscriptions; The supreme court has decided that i there can be no trust in the beef trade. 1 Our terms are spot cash from this date, New York Exchange.
 The Nebraska legislature has passed Il law establishing an eisht.hour day for hand organ monkeys. Dr Alder man may hr right in saying that tho south no longer produces real states men. but the breed has evidently not wholly run out iu all other parts of the lard.--Providcnce Journal.
 The spirit of hazing has infected even primary classes in our schools. A seven lcar old boy ill New York who failed of promotion 10 higher class was leased by his classmates un- til he dropped dead. Nearly every man remembers Il time ill his hoyhoo,l when his only regret was that he couldn't drop dead.
 While our settlement workers are teaching Shakespeare and Wagner to the masses they might proiitably in. cludc Il little instruction in buying The penalty of buying in small quantl' ties at greatly increased prices is a necessary one but little instruction in values would he q hopeful and much needed reform.
 The city's advance in adcu,Iat, [, sewer systems is being illustrated these days. While il was possibl, some years ago to dispense with snow and slush by flooding the streets in th, ceutral section of the city the same plan is being followed now in variou,
 localities and clean crossings arc th' [ rule wherever the sewers will bear tlI, , strain. Press.
 There k a ,-oluradcShip cAiStin: among drummcrs in all parts of rh' rountry akin [" ibat which marks ibf relations of the members of the hcS civic associations and while thcs,
 :ravcling men are not marked io picty they are most widely known fo
 their worldlrcs> and ioviality. ih"! are constantly showing an altruisu , spirit which is worthy of the best or , Ganizatinn or the day Norwich Eul l,'iiu.
 Wbat a wa>tr "f breath il is tu tall
 ahout reciprocity with anybody. Witt | conditions such as they are in the sen ai" uv treaty ,.ln hc ratified nv mat < u'r how advantageous to American iu lcreSts il may bc. There will alway
 l,s some petty industry to allege tla : il will hc injurcl. and il will have {. senator who will postpone action [" . tho treaty indefinitely or bavc : am"u,lcd in death. as the NcwfouDd
 land aSrccmcnt has ChicaG
 Tribune.
 - Emperor William "f Germany help e along the rau~c of temperance iu hi Y country by officially approving the H. , of water hy th0se wbn prefer il i place. of vinc in drinking toasts Q
 festive pcCaSi"uS. But we >uppOS l. there is uo likelihood that the win .- merchants Of Germany will have tv 1. ., uiIt of buSincSs immediately. be,aus
 sst this senSihIc action ou the part C a ruler who has neTeT been charge, '' we believe. in oveT-iHdulSine in braiI Y twisting liquids.-Hartferi Times.