Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-22
HEARD IN PASSING.

New England now has a railroad octopus reaching from Port Chester to Fort Kent and from Rouse's Point to Machias. The age of closer railway re- gulation did not come too soon.--New York World.
 When the Jamestown exposition was opened on April 26 the management thought that the crude affair would be completed by May 15. Announcement is made to-day that loaa to provide funds for finishing the show has been negotiated. It now takes long range prophet to venture forecast as to when the exposition will really be completed. Times
 Nothing could better prove the fact that the natives of Italy are begin ming to absorb Americanism than the intention of the Italian government to make an effort to check emigration and to encourage the absent ones to remit their earnings for iIe benefit of the mother country. In one year the decrease in money orders from North and South America amounted to S2,- GOO, ,000.--New London Globe.
 Just to vary the kind of trouble for the Consolidated, that railroad now has strike of Italian laborers on it's hands. They are not. well disciplined or unionized and this Increases the liability of trouble. We imagine, however, that they will soon be swinging the pick and tamping the rail for the same old company. They have not cohesive force enough to run successful strike.-New Britain Herald.
 It is noticed as indicative of the character of the young Japanese sail | ors who are visiting New York city that instead of desiring to go into the Bowery and fraternize with the rougher clements of the population, they asked to be shown the great ! public buildings, the real objects of interest and the things which make New York as a city. Their apprecia- tion of the better class of attractions in the city is significant-Bridge Standard. It is no cause for surprise that our exports of canned beef for this fiscal year will amount to not more than a | fourth of what they were the previous year. The greatest falling off was in the trade with Great Britain. In the single month of March, the quantity sent to the United Kingdom was only 2S1, ,176 pounds against 3,1S0, 526 pounds in the same month of the pre- ceding year. It will take time to re- store the confidence in the wholesome ness of our canned goods that was shaken by the unappetizing details of the Packington exposure of conditions in Chicago.-Bridgeport Farmer.
 Oklahoma. our new state, has now more than 6.O0O miles of railroad in operation. and there is. great rivalry among the roads. The railroads have been extended in all directions into virgin territory because of the belief of. the managers that inrushing ilnmi- grants will continue to take up the land and that thriving, cities and towns are certain to follow the lines of the roads wherever constructed. About 65 per cent. of the population IS dcludlly euSdSeu III dSrlcuIluFe, diiu 15 to 20 per cent. of the remaining 35 per cent. is employed in handling the harvest crops between the farms and the markets of the world.-An. sonia Sentinel. ~ ti
 If the season is favorable here, this ought to be a year of unusual pros perity for Connecticut valley tobacco growers, for the crop in Cuba is prac- tically failure, except in regards the very choicest grades, which are grown under shelter and artiflcially irrigated. This fact will undoubtedly have the effect of raising prices next fall, in spite of the efforts of the planters in the southern states to supply the de- mand. What tobacco there is in Cuba this year is reported to be of excel lent quality, but the drouth has made havoc with the lower grades, with which American tobacco comes espec- ially in competition. and there is great scarcity of material for filling. which has compelled many factories ! to shut down.-Spring6eld Union. !