Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-12
HEARD IN PASSING.

some ueENt uldHdSSi tiiSu 'o e' a vaudeville show in San Francisco last week. but the police promptly in terfered, justly saying that there was no time or place for theatrical offer- ings.
 The holders of the stock in the gambling casino at Monte Carlo nave just received a dividend of 70 per cent. This ought to make the people who think they have worked out sue cessful systems stop and think for d few minutes.
 Two Salt Lake City judges have de- cided against the teaching of modern languages in the grade schools. on the ground that more than 90 per cent of the pupils will never enter college or seek university degree, and also that the interest of the few must yield to the needs of the many.
 Corn and bread are still offered by the pious Basques of the Pyrenees to the dear departed on their death an- niversary. A traveller in Spain de- scrihes how at San Sebastian he has often seen some poor fisherman's daughter praying in church for a dead relative amid baskets full of fruit. loaves of bread and corn and kneeling upon the tomb of her anees- tors"
 The consensus of expert gallery opinion is that thus far the attack of Sentor Bailey on Senator Spooner's rate bill speech was more profound than Senator Spooners reply. says the New York World. The basis for this course of reasoning is that Sen ator Bailey used twenty-eight law hoskx4in making his speech~s while Senator Spooner had but -twentE-six books piled around his desk.
 A Chinese newspaper. the Chung Hua Pao. prints the following "A special correspondent at Fengtien writes that about the beginning Of this month Japanese imported some 5000 Japanese widows. whom he of- fered for sale either as domestic sery- ants or as secondary wives. at 6o cents catty lone and three quarters pounds avoirdupois.D Photographs are first shown to intending purchas- nrs. who then make their selection. and the woman Is weighed and her value calculated. There Is no condi- tion attached save that she must he allowed to return home once every three years"
 At the present term of criminal su- perior court. in Bridgeport. five per sons will ba tried on the charge of murder. And yet no particular inter est is manifested in any one of tho cases. Twenty-Five years ago a mur- der trial would have been the cause or nine-day sensation. To-day. the public seems not to wonder at crime. IL is accustomed to horrors. Resides. lt does not have to spend its time in court In order to got all of tho i'm partant facts regarding trial. IL can rely upon tho newspapers for in formation. Sentinel.
 The announcement was made yes terday ibat S. S. Mcclure had pur- chased all of tho interest formerly held by John z. PlIillips in McClure's Magazine. and in the hook publishing firm of Mcclure. Phillips & Company. Oscar W. Brady has heen elected treasurer of both companies to suc- reed Mr Phillips. Mr Mcclure dc clIned to make any statement as to tho significance of the change.
 Last month Marie Corelli applied to the courts in London for an injunc. lion to prevent publishers from issu- ing postcards purporting to depict scenes in her home life st siratford- on- Avon. exposing her to ridieule and contempt. The court rendered a de- cision in tho case yesterday. refusing the tniffnff inr-