Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-29
HEARD IN PASSING.

It is reported by some man who has been taking figures that one man in every three is idle. How he must be envied by the other two.
 We want eggs and we want them bad, advertises city dealer. It would seem that he would not have great difficulty in getting that va ricty.
 Lt is said that there is bottle of handy more than a hundred years old in the corner stone of Jersey der that some of the citizens are ad- vocating tearing it down.
 There was bargain counter rush in Los Angeles from which one of the women emerged with broken limb. Those department stores should he compelled by law to keep bargain counter surgeons on hand.
 The kind of wife that every man is looking for is one who can peel potatoes with one hand, curl her hair with the other, rock the cradle with her foot and accompany her self on the piano.-New Haven Union.
 Why wonder at w. Waldorf As tor presenting the flag of the fri gate Chesapeake to British mu- scum? Mr Astor has forgotten that anything in common with the people of this country. Post.
 Not all the old hats go to the ash heap, at least they do not all go there when they are discarded by the owners. Some hat dealers send them to the court house, where they are given to the trunks and other men who have lost their head cover- ing either in the scrap that preceded their arrest or in the proceedings that followed.-Boston Record.
 lncineration is recommended to the New Haven authorities for the disposal of city garbage, and it's practicability is being discussed. Up to date no system of garbage dis posal has been discovered that suits all places alike. A number of big cities are burning their garbage and Cleveland makes $25,00O yearly out of her reduction plant. There's chance to learn how the thing is one.-Bridgeport Standard.
 A good idea of the completeness of the devastation in the burned dis trict of Chelsea is given by Wor- cester man who took number of pictures of the ruins and then hunt ed around for some wood to frame them with. A Worcester paper is authority for the statement that he had to give up the plan, "as there was nothing left in the form of veg etable matter except the tall stumps of trees standing about like waste.' .''-Providence Journal.
 Strawberries are sprouting well, but. a Hamden farmer who has looked over 40-acre patch says that they will be scarce and high. This, to keep pace with the times. | You know that strawberries always do make one break out and pro- yoke rheumatism-and consequently | you will cut out strawberries along with high priced meats, coal, ! ice and all the so-called necessaries | JhlS SuHllllel anu LlS lo bSIuule dh | orchid which fattens on air or | comes somewhere near to doing so. 1 New Haven Palladium.
 Home rule democracy was born in Utica. N Y, Saturday, when 20 rep of as many counties | met, not as bolters but as conferees, | with the object of unseating Charlie | Murphy of Tammany and Fingy l Connors of Buffalo from control of | the state organization. It was an conference and deserves 10 awaken enthusiasm among the 1 right thinking men of the party in he purpose to save the organiza ion from the kind of corrupt poli- tics represented by Murphy and London Telegram.