Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-09

AS YOU LIKE IT.
Some Stray Leaves From a Reporter's
 Note Book.

Some Stray Leaves From a Reporters
 Note Book.
 The recent ceremonies attending Paul Jones at Annapolis inspired some of the cadets lacking a proper reverence for the sainted memory or the gallant admiral to compose the following ungrateful lines, a copy of which has reached the navy depart ment:
 Everybody works but John Paul, . He lies around all day;
 All pickled up in alcohol,
 On a permanent jag, they say.
 The midshipmen they march round And do honor to his boness
 Everybody works in 'Crabtown' But John Paul Jones"
 The following ode to the printing office towel is again going the rounds of the papers: When 1 think or ithe towel, the old-fashioned towe,, that used to hang up by the printing house door, think that nobody F.. these days of shoddy can hammer iron l to wear as it wore. The tramp, who abused it, the devil, who used it, the makeup and foreman, the edlto., (poor man), each rubbed some gr.me off while they put a heap on. h. over and under, twas blacker than thunder, twas hardy than poverty, rougher than sin; from the role. suspended, it was never pended, and it Tapped on the wall like banner of tin It grew thicker and roughef' and harder and tougher, and daiiy but on an inkier hue, until one Wlndy morning, without any warning, 1t fell to the floor and was broken in two.
 The speed of the Baldwin street
 trolley cars is the talk of the town
 now. as well as the North Main
 street line and if you don't hear some
 body or something drop up that way soon it will be miracle. Talk about
 a seven and a half minute headway, | but a ear travelling at that pace
 wouldn't be in it with one of those
 Baldwin street chariots that rush down the hill and shoots over Sco-
 wills bridge with the speed Of a
 whirlwind. Probably this is more no ticeable between Stone and Pleasant streets than at any other place on the route. Here the big poles on the
 way don't look much bigger than a pipe stem to one on board the car
 and the largest block keeps diminish ing until, as man said the other
 day. 1t gets down to where you can't
 see it at all. This may or may not be
 the fault of the company. but some.
 body is responsible and it Is high
 time, that the business was stopped
 and the cars run at speed that will
 insure some measure of safety to life
 and limb. It is not often that parliament ir 5 Great Britain is called upon nova Il days to dissolve a marriage. and the ], Beaumont-Wallisc case, which has ,c , gently been engaging the attention oi : the house of lords at Westminster l has served to recall the fact that Ire land is one of the very few countrie: , in Europe the courts of which do no } grant divorces-a relic of the tinies when all Ireland was Catholic, say:
 Marquise de Fontenoy in the New , York Tribune. The Irish tribunals , like those of Italy, will grant a jul
 dicial separation, but no more, ar, ! | if an Irishman-that is to say, cit! , zen who has his legal domicile il , Ireland-wishes to get divorce. tn only manner by which he can do s' . is the terrible costly and lengthy pro } cess of having bill passed throug! , parliament dissolving the union. o
 course, only rich people can affor' , this procedure of special parliamen
 tary legislation in order to rid them | selves of matrimonial bonds tha
 have become obnoxious. But it is drawback confined to the kingdom O l, Ireland, to which until now not eve' |. the most ardent nationalists ar' ' home rulers have taken exception ! The only other instance of legislativ l, divorce that 1 can recall in recen years, besides that of Beaumont
 Wallis. of Drishane Castle, Count
 Cork, is the case of Sir Robert M' . lConnell. who received his baronetc <. while mayor of Belfast.