Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-07
HEARD IN PASSING.

Premier Asquith is in a bad dilem-
 ma over the Irish question. as has ! been every one of his predecessors.
 He realizes that it is much easier to
 ask questions when in opposition
 than to answer them when in power. I-Meriden Journal.
 Madame Gould and Prince Helie de
 Sagen, says dispatch from Rome, go l about the eternal city hand in hand" This keeps at least one hand
 out of the Gould strong box. Count Boni plunged both in up to the arm
 pits.-New Haven Courier-Journal. The keeper of Washington state jail has devised worse torture for prisoners than the solitary cell. He
 puts phonograph in front of the
 cell door and turns on the juice. Af-
 ter about twenty-four hours of this
 punishment the prisoner is willing to
 be Bridgeport Post.
 Negligence and filth put a larger tax upon this country than cleanli-
 ness would if the people would adopt
 regular and systematic plan to
 keep their premises neat and the city fathers would see to it that the loose filth in the streets was kept down to
 the least amount.-Norwich Bulletin.
 Republican conventions from here and there in southern states, African, of course, are still instructing dele gates to vote for the nomination of Senator Foraker for president at the Chicago convention. He will prob- ably get half as many votes as Can non, or Fairbanks or knox.-New
 London Telegraph.
 Senator Bulkeley killed his chances to be delegate to the re- publican convention when he lined
 up with Senator Foraker against President Roosevelt. The Connecti- cut idea is that you cannot strike the president without touching the secre- tary of war and the majority of re- publicans will not stand for that New Britain Herald.
 Harvard defeated Yale in the joint debate at Woolsey hall, New Haven, on Friuay night, the 1st. and repeated its previous victories along that line Yale takes the lead in football and rowing and Harvard in debate Which is the more creditable victory to great university the prime con- cern of which is the intellectual de- velopment of its mbers?-Bridge- l port Standard.
 Connecticut law knocks out the l Vanderbilt cup race, so far as this | state is concerned. That is the atti- 1 tude taken by State Highway Con- missioner Macdonald, and in view of the damage which the race would cause to highways, he does not seem to care very much whether this state ever has the race or not. Clearly, the law must be revamped before such a contest is pulled off here. Present indications are that this years race will be held near Savannah, where there is said to be a good course and state troops for protection.-Ansonia Sentinel.
 The report has been sent out from Paris that a French scientist has suc- ceeded in getting a photograph of human soul. Quite as improbable yarns as that have been featured as news in the past and until the nega- tive has been subjected to critical ex- there will be no necessity of getting excited over the alleged discovery. If souls are capable of be- ing photographed at all it is not un- reasonable to suppose that improved methods will bring out the details and establish the nature of the mys- terious force that is believed by large number of persons to live in the human body.-New London Day.