Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-26
AS YOU LIKE IT
Some Stray Leaves from Reporters
 Note Book.

Note Book.
 There is a bank at the corner of Eiohth avenue and Fourteenth street, Now York. and across the way crip- DIed boy sells papers every day. He is not very strong and on sultry sep tember day he became ilL There are other newsboys there. all rivals, put not all bad, by any manner of means One of them hurried into the bank Why he didn't go into a corner saloon only the unreasonable reasoning of a juvenile mind would be able to figure out. Going straight to the receiving telIer's window he unburdened his mind thus: Say. mister, de bloke wid de bum pins cross the street tux sick Give me a glass of ice water fer him. The ice water was forth coming and the boy was soon sufdc- iently revived to go home.
 Once upon a time-to be more pre- c:se in the latter part of the eight ecn.h century-there lived worthy Connecticut divine named the Rev Samuel Peters, writes q man i'll Les lies Monthly. Peters was pictur- esque parsonage in his way, but ms fame rests entirely upon the fact tn;tt he wrote book. This is one Of the most marvellous works ever issued from the press. It was Mir Peters. fo. example. who first discovered and made known to the world, that the founder of Yale college was Rev Thomas Peters, evidently one of his own ancestors; that at Bellows Falls the water flowed so fast that 1t De- came as hard as marble, making IL possible to float a crowbar upon 1r, that two most marvellous quadrupeds, the sswhappermocker" and the "cuba- (evident1y the ancestors of the JaDDef- wockl roamed wild in the Connecticut forests; and it is also from MT Petefs that we first learn of the famous ln- cIIrsiGn of the Windham frogs. But it was in the early jurisprudence of Connecticut that this eXpatrlate made his most interesting discoveries. lie infcrmed his English readerS-and most of them believe the story de youtly to this day-that the citizens or the state were forbidden by law to make mince pies, to play on any lh- struD,ent of music except the drum, trumpet or jewsharp, and that every male must have his hat cut round; 'sacCcrding to a cap''-the model pres erabIv being the hard shell Of |; pumpkin. In other words, MT Peters was the original promulgator of the Connecticut ssblue laws" and his fame as the inventor of many of them IS secU1c.
 sI'n push in your face" yelled man on the platform of one of the railroad cars bound to this city the other morn ing. carrying home as many as could hl7,g on from the Yale celeDfatlon. People were damned so close together thas it was difficult to turn about, put the As You Like It man manased to get q line on the man who had shown s,1cn q bad temper and was very much surprised to see him out Of sorts, but when he learned that his remarks were addressed to d lady he couldn't tell wl;a1 to make of the situation anu though he hated to think so llghtly oI him concluded that he had been dflnk- inn else he would never have been guilty of such ungentlemanly conduct. But before the train reached Water burv a few facts were unearthed thal put . different face on the man con, duct sn that it was hard to tell whether 10 blame him or not. The IaIv to whom the insulting words had bern addressed was in a measure fe- snousil;Ie for the exhibition and prop- ahiv after she thought the maLter over she didn't have any sort of baG feelings toward the fellow. she was having a hard time to hold her place among the crowd. and fearing that her hat might be knocked off and tram. am, pIs.fI under foot. she removed It anu held it in her hand The long pin that held it on her head was left Ill the hat ard in the swaying backward ana fcrNaTd the man was forced asaILls. the sharp point of the pin. and It was wt:le suffering from the shock that he used the language credited to nm. The girl was so close to him that sne could not move an inch, and althousn inc man kicked and roared and yelled ar Ter to stop it she didn't have el- bow room to pull the pin out or nm, and le remained impaled upon It un- til jolt of the car forced the erowl ,.l in t1e opposite direction. Evidently thc fellow thought the girl did 1t on nI-rnnse but in this he was mistaken, for while the trick is indulged ln 70 sorre extent it is far beneath the dlg, n;tv of the young woman who ngufeu e, tIo caca wa are talking about.