Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-06
HEARD IN PASSING.

Notwithstanding that the records of the patent office show that 1,S0O mouse traps have been invented, we still have to rely upon the domestic cat.-Norwieh Bulletin.
 It is pleasant to notice thai Uncle Sam's balance sheet for June shows that the income of the country is largely in excess of the disburse- ments. There is a nice surplus on hand to take care of the growing ex- penses of the country.-New London Telegraph. aS
 When the airship went cavorting in good shape all over Washington recently the citizens, true to their | bringing up, didn't hail the spec tacle as promise of pleasure trips iii the air, but as proof that Uncle Sam would get into line first with flying battleships.-New Iondcn | Globe.
 Governor Guild met with rebuke from the state senate on that anti merger bill he essayed to jam through at the eleventh hour of the legislative session by adopting the Rooseveltian style of tactics in at tempting to dictate legislation. The senate, by an emphatic vote, refused to stand for such business.-Fall River Globe.
 Some lethargic Americans can learn lesson by watching the flag celebration of adopted sons. Bridge port on the Fourth will be visited by natives of Hungary residing in va rious towns in Fairfield county and the parade will show the American flag the largest banner and holding the most conspicuous place in the line.-New London Day.
 The contest between senate and house over the railroad rate bill ends in a victory for the latter. In addi- tion to the oil pipe line companies being left exempt from the prohibi- tion against engaging in production, the new anti-pass provision is so lit- erally broad that but few are ex- cluded from the joys of deadhead iourneying.-Bridgeport Farmer.
 Work was commenced yesterday or Providence's s2,000,000 railroad tun- nel. Twenty years ago the undertak- ing would have seemel of prodigious proportions. To-day its attracts little attention, and the chances are that it will be completed and put into use without the public hearirs very i.'uch about 1t except as Il very or,li- nary hole-iA-the-ground. - Ansonia Sentinel.
 Exports of manufactured products for May. surpassing in volume those for any previous month in our his- tory, exceeded s56, 900. For the eleven months prior to June the ex- ports of manufactures amounted to day. These figures, stunning in their stupendousness, involve a sort of ex- pansion that everybody will approve. -Hartford Times.
 New Jerseys colored voters. said to number 25.000. are pledging themselves to oppose Dryden's re- election to the senate. They accuse him of being an enemy of their race because the insurance company of which he is the head will neither is- sue policies to negroes nor employ IUetU III lAS btllItSs ht NulNN lhSui- rection against Dryden was already formidable.-Bridgeport Farmer.
 We read of the battle of old Greece and Rome fought by slaves "un- chained from the door posts of their masters" but the Kansas farmsrS re- verse the process and fight or the trains for men whom they can kidnap and drive to work, for big wages. On their farms. It is a curious economic condition. and one that will he solved only by the invention of the autonat- ic steam hired-man. able to do any kind of work required and so simple in oustruction-that" chilli can run him. ."-Bridgeport Standard.