Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-10
HEARD IN PASSING,

| SA&1<A AaO AN ~AOSAN0s
 Boston lovers of good, clean bas
 ball, more fortunate than those il
 some other New England cities tha
 might be named, are to have an op
 portunity to satisfy their desires a
 last. There is to be reunion of re
 tired players down the harbor, an,
 there will be a game.-Proyidenc,
 Tribune. ~- >r
 President Stensland of the Mil waukee Avenue State bank of Chica
 go, who footed the institution, was ;
 wildcat real estate speculator. Beck
 less promotion of his skyrocket.
 schemes was probably the beginning
 of his bank wrecking. The incident
 indieting loss and hardship upor
 thousands of depositors, is an in
 glorious tribute to the shiftless and inefficient method of bank examina- tion in Illinois.-Hartford Times.
 Rather a hard blow Is struck at the medical craze for operations in cases of appendicitis, by Dr Chauyel medical inspector of the French army. He shows that out Of 66S cases of appendicitis in the military hospitals of France, 1S0 were oper- ated upon, while 4S0 received only medical treatment. Of the latter there were only three that resulted fatally, whereas of the much smaller number dealt with by the use of the knife, ninety-three were lost.-New Britain Herald.
 The complaint that bad food has been furnished to the United States navy yards is to be investigated and contractors who have undertaken to cheat the government and put off poor food upon the soldiers and sail ors will be made to suffer. The time is past when that sort of thing can be safely carried on. Government pays for the best and will insist upon having it.-Bridgeport Standard.
 Since the latest proclamation of profound peace" among our loving Philippine subjects they have only burned the municipal buildings of one town. killed its president and a few policemen, incidentally wounding a couple of American officers and few soldiers. The outbreak. We are told, is ''inexplicable." Can it be their way of protesting against our philanthropic efforts to put down the national sport of cock fighting?- Bridgeport Farmer.
 The old question. How old is Ann:" seems simple now in compari- son with the age puzzle offered ny the Payne-Carter-C Carter-Munro TO- nance. says one writer. Mrs Carter Payne, according to the marriage li- cense. is thirty. She was was mar ried to Carter twenty-six years ago. Dudley Carter, her son. is reported to be twenty-five. Miss Munro Is said tO be twenty-six. Now if Mir Payne Is about the age of Mrs Carter Payne's son and Mrs Carter-Payne is old enough to be her sons mother. how much older Is Mrs Carter-Payne than her new husband.
 The hIueberry season has opened in Maine and the pickers are at work on the 150,000 acres of bIueberry grounds in Hancock and Washington Most of the land lies in the last named county and the fruit is canned by professional packers. An idea of the value of the industry to Maine may be gained from the statement that ''the largest of the factories has a daily capacity of TOO bushels, and the average annual out put is $500 cases of two dozen cans each, representing 6,25O bushels of fresh fruit. The average price a case for the canned fruit is sI.s0-in other words, the value of the annual prOduet-0f this one factory is not far from s15.000." This season is very short and some 5000 men. wo- men and children pickers receive an aggregate Of about s30.e0O for the season. Whole families devote them i selves to it and make very remunera- tive wages for the time involved.-I Norwich Record.