Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-26
HEARD IN PASSING.

A New York lawyer admitted in court that he had charged a client $115 for collecting a $39 bill. The judge told him he was disgrace to the bar. Surely he charged enough, didn't he?-New Haven Union.
 With sixty-six life convicts in her states prison. Connecticut ,o not,, laply surpasses her own record in that line, but it Is probably safe to say that she surpasses the record of other states, proportionately to the population" ," Sort of a left-handed compliment Meriden Record.
 In the Bavarian city of Munich the streets are cleaned by women. "They are kept in such an immaculate con- dition that they are constant source of surprise and delight to visitors" :" says the Cleveland Leader. This cus- tom, however, will hardly be adopt ed over here.-Meriden Journal. A fellow has come forward with a solution of the reason for the great depravity of New York city. He de- clares that people who write poetry are let out of jail, while any com munity with a sense of duty to its citizens should see that no guilty poet goes at large.-Torrington Reg ister.
 You take the cake," said Mary Ann Fox to Judge Tyner in the city court in New Haven, when she was sent to jail for 150 days for drunken ness and night walking. She passed | Policeman O'Brien thirteen times in three hours between midnight and 5 o'clock in the morning at Chapel and Church streets.
 The concealed weapon habit is one which the cities of the state is giving considerable attention at this time, and 1t is one which might we'll be suppressed. No one but coward would carry a concealed weapon without great cause, and towards are SO nervous they may shoot people | from sheer fright.-Bridgeport Post.
 A Washington political prophet de- clares that the drift of the prelim- inaries for the congressional cam paign of 1906 indicates that the tariff is sure to be the important issue, and. in fact, the main differ. ence between the parties. There is
 not enough difference between repub.
 licans and democrats on the other questions which have developed in
 eongress to make an issue.-New Ha'
 ven Journal and Courier.
 | We have heard nothing recent!
 from the gypsy moth of Stoningfon and hope and trust that it has beer frozen solid in the recent cold snap
 That is not probable, however. ana
 the opening of spring weather, ''rea
 spring" will call for the application of the remedial measures calculated to take off the pest and end it. w
 shall await anxiously to hear tha
 this has been done. for otherwise | will be only a question of time wheI we shall have tO fight the gypsy mott or surrender tO its ravages as som of our Massachusetts neighbors haE'
 d0ne.-BridgepOrt Stndard.
 Justice Harlan of the United State . supreme court maintains that tn present congress is as high grade a
 any of its predecessors. He says
 sThe Congressional Record Is a re markabte publication If a man weri east on a desert island and had tn BibIe. Shakespeare and the Congres sfonaI Record he would have all th
 reading matter he wanted" Wh |. Iug in the Bible and ShzkeSpesre2 ] | considerable part of all of the speech tos made in congress can be traced | lone or the other The Bible tod
 might object to the zss0ciation sine lits golden rule appears to have los its supremacy--Neu Haven Regis Her