Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-02
HEARD IN PASSING.

Think with pity of the sufferines during this heated spell of the un- fortunate dwellers in the crowded tenements of the big cities, the chil- dren especially.-Meriden Daily Journal.
 Justice struck with an iron hand when the sentence of twenty years was imposed upon the kidnaper of a boy within few hours after the mis- creant was nabbed.-New London Daily Globe.
 The astonishing dimensions to which the mail order business has grown in this country may be seen in the fact that one concern in that line is to be capitalized at $4O,O0O,- 900. It claims to do business of 100000 a year and to have G. OOO,00O customers.-Evening Bulle- tin.
 The French government has some what modified the sentence of i'm prisonment imposed upon Elliott F. Shepard, but it is still Imprisonment for all that, six weeks instead of three months. Not all the pull of djsplomacy could further modify. bis sentence or transform it into fine. New Britain Herald. Y fs'--a iNy's'
 Congress may end tonight by overcoming the differences between the two houses over the meat inspec- tion bill. Senators and representa- tives deserve rest and the country is inclined to welcome a vacation and to put aside consideration of serious government problems until next win ter.-New London Day.
 It must gall the theatrical trust to know that Sarah Bernhardt scooped in some $200,000 from the theater going public of the United States, despite the fact that the trust has been to all the trouble and expense of setting its nets so that nobody outside of it would have much of a chance of catching anything.-FalI River Daily Globe. -r tt
 The postofice building which is to be erected in New York city, west of the new Pennsylvania railroad ter minal. will be a very large building and will cost five millions of dollars. Ultimately, the present postoffice building at Park Row and Broadway will be merely the down town branen of the New York city mail system.- Hartford Times.
 That by raising the standard of ad- mission to the Yale Law school some worthy men may be debarred from entering the ranks of the profession may be true. but there is no danger of lack of lawyers. There are mem bers of the bar who think their ranks are too crowded now. It is true that there is always room at the top. but only a few can reach it, Bridgeport Farmer.
 English promoters of cotton cul- ture in Palestine are reported to have given up the enterprise for the reason that, though the price of labor Is only 25 cents a day and there is plentiful supply of sufficiently qualified working material. the na- tives are too lazy to work in the cot ton fields. At a wage scale of 25 cents a day. it is small wonder that the temptation to loaf is strong and widespread.-Norwich Record.
 The linen duster. for some time given over to the use of the grocer's clerk. is to come back again into general favor, to keep the automo- bile rider in countenanee and to make his needful garments some what less conspicuous. That is all right. The duster is a useful and an acceptable garment. but we shall draw the line when called upon to wear goggles for the same reason. There will be a limit.-Bridgepor' Standard.
 The London Spectator. in a reas- surfing mood. says. The British people are essentially friendly to America and to all that is best in America, and even though they may sometimes express themselves blunt Iy. elumsily and injudiciously. what they are condemning is not the American people. but that small min o-fty of persons who have done sO cruel a wrong to the American people" This comment is called out by the beef disclosures. and on the whole may be said to be extremely graceful in its eompliment--Nsv Haven Evening Register.
 Of the seven survivors of the class of 100 graduates at Harvard college in 1s41 oaly two were able to attend the class dinner in Boston Friday |eFsnfnz- IL was the sixty-ffth, and .ery likely the last dinner of mem bers of that clzss- The tro men sho sat down together were Coio1eI T.. ". HIxgtnson of Canbr1dgs and