Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-29
HEARD IN PASSING.

whipped one of her scholars recently and the little girl went home at once and told her mother. The mother at once got whip, went to the school and whipped the teacher. The teach CT swore out warrant against her for assault, but the case was con- tinued in the courts.
 An exchange says that one intoxi- cated man in street car requires more room than three merry widows" and he gets it. He is not en- titled to 1t, however not an inch of it. A man who makes a beast of him. self should be kept from public con- veyances until such time as he is per- fectly sober.-New Haven Leader.
 Whether men in street cars should give up their seats to women has long been mooted question and argu- ments concerning that as well as the halted man in the elevator are still doing duty. Now another has been added to the list. Ought men in pub lie parks occupying settees give up their seats to women when all the seating accommodations have been taken? As in all such cases, it de- bends on circumstances. - Meriden Record.
 It is estimated that the recent cold rains have destroyed nearly or quite a million acres of growing cotton, and already they are figuring out the ben eft to the planter. Another case of finding good in apparent evil. It may work for the general good. and for the special benefit of the certain planters who will get higher prices for their cotton, but it's pretty rough on the fellow whose cotton was destroy ed and who will not get anything for their labor.-Woman's National Daily.
 So long as it is business men who have to do business under the tariff why not let them have their say as to what it should be2 Politicians are too inclined to want to dictate in this matter, and yet it concerns them far less than it does the captains of in- dustry and the wage earners of in- dustry. 1t is a matter in which the National Association of Manufactur- CTS, as a non-political body, represent ing about all classes of industries should have great ntuence.-Ansonia Sentinel.
 In this day of germs everything gets included sooner or later as con tributary to disease, from dollar bills to whiskers, and from files and heas to rats. The ragweed and the golden rod and other pollen distributing plants are charged with producing hay fever. and now the pretty little buttercup has ruthlessly been scandal ized as a producer of the measles. No one of sense Is alarmed by .he nonsense that is talked in these days about causes and effects as they run. Norwich Bulletin.
 A crusade has been started against the barmaids in Washington. At mass meeting of the Women's Inter- denominational union, held at the na- tional capital the other day, com mittee was appointed to call on the president and endeavoS to secure his assistance fin driving the Darmaids from the city. These good looking young women are regarded as being too much of an attraction in the sa- looms and that in order to save the young men and many of the old ones
 they must go.-New Britain Herald.
 New Haven has lot of "Uncles. |" Uncle Alex Troup in his paper, the Union, last evening announced the arrival home of Uncle "N. D. as Congressman Sperry Is called down there. Mir Sperry says Speaker Uan- non said he had earned his leave of absence ny constant attendance. He also says that Taft is surely to be nominated, and that there is nothing in the talk about a bolt to Roose- welt. About the Lilley matter he de- clared that Lilley was thoroughly honest in his action, but it was not easy to get evidence to back up what passed as hearsay.-HaT:ford Cour- ant.