Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-03
HEARD IN PASSING. .

A prudent Pennsylvanian has just sworn off smoking at the age of ninety-seven years. That is about the age at which the average smoker believes he is going to swear off. B, Ellhu Root says that Timmie 'Woodruff's refusal to be d candidate for senator Is patriotic utterante. Wonder who will be the patriot when Depew's term expires Nov Britain Herald. .s.
 Fifteen hundred newsboys in New York ate for their Thanksgiving dm- ner, 1000 pounds of turkey, 1000 pounds of ham and I2 iarrels of po- tatoes, besides the auxiliary dishes desserts, etc. That's eating some.--- Hartford Post.
 A California veteran of two wars has purchased his coffin and bought the suit of clothes in which he de- sires to be dressed after be has de- parted this life. Some men have so little confidence in the judgment of their relatives that they decline even to permit them to choose their burial robes.-Woman's National Daily. China, it is reported wants MT Roosevelt to help her revise her laws but neither Mir Roosevelt nor China seems to have heard anything about 1t, except what has appeared in the newspapers. Great as the need lis, it is an unlikely story. Moreover China little by little,- is educating young men who will do the revising for her without other aid.-Ansonia Sentinel.
 While Captain Hobson has been spouting about the war to come with Japan, the administration has quiet ly gone and affected an agreement with the Mikado's government to re- spect the status quo and by peaceful means to defend China's indepen- dence. The state department has made denials, but they are purely diplomatic, it is supposed. Bridge port Post.
 David Warfield during his recent visit to California talked to a club in Los Angeles about plays and act ing. Touching on plays drawn from the classic poets, he declared that their ideals could not be realized on , the stage. There is no etherea actor.' Touching on the public taste of the hour, he averred that it craved characters in the theater that had the same kind of tears and the same kind of laughter as you and have.-New Bedford Standard.
 A few days ago the news reported ! an apparently authentic case" of a woman actually frightened to death at the sight of mouse. Ergo, tn common belief that women are mOr- tally afraid of mice must be true. Now We have as we'll proven case of big, husky drayman, whose only injury consisted of having had d | stone fall on his foot, dying of fright at the sight of the surgeons instru- ments at the hospital. Shall we therefore reason that all men are mor- tally afraid of the sight of blood and the thought of surgery?-New Haven Register. .:. ~5 ~~. n.e,t,,. I President Roosevelt in answer to the interrogation of newspaperman in regard to the statement that he | ldu dohSu lOl CeItdlI ldNUES HUH Judge Taft in regard to appoint ments in the cabinet declared that j." had rot made any such requests anC that he had nc intention or do- icg so. inc stat amenr of the presi- d"ut can readily be believed hy these who have followed his career As lars he is in otf;ia Dc will coEdnct .h.nSs a. he thin;s best. hut, when | ie steps cut he is ,Co much of | man 1 to try to embarrass his successor, even with suggestions.-New Lon don Day.
 We think the Waterbury American makes bulls eye the first time, when it opens it's comments on the purposes for which public service commission are wanted in this state | by the declaration that the first want 1 of all is ito secure immediate at tention to complaints of bad service and their rectification.' Nine-tenths of thee omplaints against corpora. tions could and would be done away with and the general sentiment which stirs the people that corpora tions are above the law would. dis appear, if prompt consideration were given to complaints that are genu- ine.-Bridgeport Standard.