Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-26
HEARD IN PASSING.

A southern man who hugged 100 women in the streets has been sent to jail for hugging one too many. It's usually the last straw that breaks the camel's back.-New Haven Palla- dium.
 Have you heard anything about the ice trust these days? lsn It about time to hear stories about the ice season being very backward and that the price is sure to ge soaring next summer?-NewH Haven Union.
 Judge Banks characterizes the statement of Fairfield county min isters as mot a manly retraction, and now the ministers are asking him to make manly withdrawal from the speakership contest, thing which he cannot very well do while under tire.-Ansonla Sentlnel'
 Mr Kern, democratic nominee for vice president in the late campaign, is a candidate for the U. $. senator ship from Indiana which becomes vacant on March 4th next. There are other aspirants and the canvass is lively. At present, MT Kern leads but has not enough pledges to as sure his election.-Bridgeport Farm CT.
 A citizen of Saugus, Mass, has just died, leaving the town a revela- tion that while he had been paying taxes on $20,O0O he had an estate which was appraised at $4S0,725. The assessors had not pressed him, for he was a large taxpayer, ana they were afraid he might get VeXed and change his a6ode.-NorWlch
 Bulletin.
 The earth seems to have revolved into the snow belt. But 1t won | hurt the feelings of Santa Claus. His new automobile and his old sleigh
 make him ready for all sorts or weather. Between his snow shoes and his rain deer he is prepared for frost or thaw, and for any kind or temperature or chimney he has jackets to soot.~New Haven Pal ladium.
 The bones of a human being who lived as long as TO thousand years ago have been discovered in France. Very evidently from their structure
 the first families of France used to
 move about on all fours. Prop ably that is why Frenchmen now adays use their hands so much when talking. They have caught the habit from way back.-New Haven Jour nal and Courier.
 There are some of democratic mind who object to what they deem the growing extravaganza or our ln- augural spectacle, and would re- turn in the direction of the familiar type of President-elect who rode to the White House on horseback, tied his horse to the back fence and went in and received the oath. That was well in it's day, but it's day is past. 1 The inauguration of Mr Taft. 1t seems likely. will be a ceremony full ly in sympathy with that greatness and grandeur of this nation,-New Haven Register.
 The Pittsburg bankers who bribed
 members of the city council in order to get deposits of city money are cer- tainly no worse than the respectable business men who made cOllusiVe bids for the cheating of Boston. But a worse scandal threatens to develop in the metropolis of Western Penn sylvania. In this case there was conspiracy upon its integrity from without. and We are evidently to have another fragrant case for fur ther advertisement of the general rottenness of municipal government in the United States. It is very depressing g-Springtield Republican.
 Recent tests of the new high pres sure system of fire fighting in New York city, have established some great records. One of the most con- vincing experiences was that in the heart of the dry goods district in lower Broadway a few days ago. when a blaze that under the old method would have called for at least three alarms. was drowned out
 in very short tin1e as soon as the pumps began to send water through the high pressure pipes. The district
 thus protected, however. is as yet somewhat limited. It covers .456 acres in which are laid fiftv-siy
 miles of cast iron mains varying from twelve to twenty-f0ur inches in
 diameter,-M Meriden Record.