Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-30
HEARD IN PASSING.

Application to the Massachusetts
 legislature for $300,00O to import
 bugs to kill the gypsy and brown. tall moths reminds us that it's about
 time to get busy pouring oil on the
 mosquito ponds and looking up pre-. vlous literature on the boil weevil.- New Haven Union.
 A good feature of our large alien
 labor population that we ought tc
 be very thankful for is that it has
 two homes-one here in times of
 prosperity when needed and another
 In Europe when business is slack This enables the foreigners to shift
 from one side of the ocean to the
 other with the increase and decrease Of business, thus maintaining a bal
 ance that offsets unusual conditions New Haven Leader.
 An interesting spectator of the re-
 publican national convention in Chi
 cago this year will be Colonel Will
 liam P. Myers of New Boston, III, S7
 years old. He was a delegate to the
 Philadelphia convention of 1856,
 which nominated John c. Fremont.
 So far as Colonel Myers is in formed, only four men who sat with him in that first republican na- tional convention are living Springfield Republican.
 In Elkhart, Ind, the New York Central photographed Tuesday mile of idle engines, 120 in num- Der. The picture is to be used as an argument for raising freight rates--a step which should logical ly tend to make still more engines idle. Meanwhile the American Lo- comotive company in Schenectady is building for the Central 135 new engines to be delivered this sum- mer. As they are bigger engines than the old, they will probably fill mile and a quarter of track when completed. Why not photograph them?-New York World.
 The New York Sun does a little arithmetic and figures it out that at the present rate of progress it will take 13,492 hours and 50 minutes to count all the votes cast for mayor at the election which Hearst is now contesting. That means three years and 10 months at 10 hours a day. MT Hearst, who slipped off anony- mously to Europe on Wednesday, is said to have done the trick for the purpose of evading a process-server who was looking for him to have him testify in this very trial which concerns his election. Instead of obeying he jumped the country Hartford Courant.
 The regular army saw it's birth on June 14, 1775, when congress au- thorized the rising of 10 companies of rifiemen, to be enlisted for one year. This was a vast improvement over the militia, but the term of en. listment was too short. The enthu- slasm at this time was great, and recruiting was easy. If congress had voted 50,000 for three years, or to the end of the war, the response would doubtless have been immedi- ate, and the revolution, instead of dragging on for eight years and cost ing s370.O00,O00, would probably have lasted eight months and cost of that amount.-Army and Navy Life.
 The decision of Justice Morschau- ser that Harry Thaw is still insane 1 and that it would be dangerous to permit him 10 be at large before l sufficient time has elapsed to make t reasonably. certain that there will be no recurrence of his homicidal l mania will meet with the approval 1 of the majority of the American | people. There will also be a sense 1 lf relief that he affirms Judge ! commitment of the pris- Dner 10 Matteawan and that no tech 1 1ical auibble is likely to bring about | , reversal of the sentence. The pub lie will further devoutly hope that l rhaw will be allowed 10 remain in he place set apart by the state of | New York for the confinement of criminal lunatics and that no differ anCe will be made between him and | my other offender.