Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-29
HEARD IN PASSING.


 dition of seething unrest. The re- volt which has broken out at Hong Kong and which has resulted in the assassination of the civil and military officials, and the footing of the Ger man missions at Lienchow are symp- toms of ugly disorder.-Hartford Times. .
 In 50 years the Hamburg-Ameri- can line has multiplied it's ocean-go- ing fleet from three clipper ships into lb6 steamships. It exchanged sails for engines only 53 years ago. Cele- brating. its Sixtieth anniversary yes terday the company had occasion to recite a great deal of the history of modern ocean navigation.--New | York World.
 Yale and Harvard track athletes will not have the pleasures of show 1 ing their heels to the representatives of Oxford and Cambridge, for the English collegians cannot get the money to pay the expenses of the trip. 1 Here's chance for Carnegie to thrust himself into the spotlight by giving the necessary authority to draw on his pile for the costs.-New London Lay.
 The retirement of Captain William Mclaughlin from the detective bu- reau of the New York police force is the first step in what Commissioner Bingham evidently means to be drastic housecleaning in this par ticular department with especial ref erence to its ever being used again as detective agency to further the ends Of private citizens. Mclaughlin has gone and others are to go and the general public is solidly back of the commissioners in stamping out this particular brand of police misfeas- ance in office.-New Britain Herald.
 The scarcity of shad in the Con- necticut river is under discussion again this season, and the same news comes from the Hudson river. Della ware river shad. however, are nearly as plentiful as ever. In the latter state a law is in force forbidding shad fishermen from fishing from sun down Saturday until daybreak Monday. Possibly this law in force in this state with the abolition of pounds leading to the still waters where the fish spawn would settle the question. h. formation could probably be gleaned from New Jersey fish laws as to why shad are scare in the Connecticut.- Middletown Press.
 Louis Agassiz, whose tooth birth day anniversary was celebrated at Harvard university last night, at- tained high place among the nat uralists of the 18th century, due in no small measure to the deep en- thusiasm and the unconpromising thoroughness with which he applied himself to the furtherance of scienti- fic knowledge. A few persons still survive in the Connecticut valley who will recall Professor Agassiz during his visits to some of the val ley towns to study the fossil foot prints which aroused so much inter- est among the scientific men of his generation.-Springfeld Union.
 The bill proposing that the salary of the county commissioners of New Haven county shall be s2,000 each, with travelling expenses paid-all fees to be turned over to the county treasurer-will probably be passed. And there will be plenty of thorough ly competent men who will seek the office at that figure. The Rockville Leader speaks bluntly of the prob- lem as follows: "The county con- miss!oners aren't overworked. Their duties are not arduous and they are not obliged to give all their time to the county. The proposal to pad their salaries looks a little like get ting money under false pretenses. - Ansonia Sentinel.