Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-25
As YOU LIKE IT.
Some Stray Leaves From a Reporters
 Note Book.

Some Stray Leaves From a Reporters Note Book.
 Lovers of dogs as well as those who don't care continental about the canines felt sorry for the trials of c0lored woman, who was wend- ing her way down North Main street this morning. The woman had basket filled in one hand. and with the other was trying to guide a>dog, which accompanied her. even to let ting the. cur gnaw and chew at her handkerchief, which she held in her hand. At least dozen other dogs tried to pick fight with the colored lady's animal, an it times pedestrians had to take to the road, or kick the brutes out of their way. The last seen of the woman, she was in front of Dr Rodman's, making .a lunge at l one dog which seemed to be more persistent than the others. If ever | there was n time when the dog law should be enforced. it is right now. If there is no law strong enough to keep the CUTS in bounds. the city au- thorities should take 1t upon them selves to make one. If a person committed one-tenth of the nuisances | attributed to the bowling and roaming | CUTS. he would be in the police court | in short order A dog in his right l place Is all right, but dog snapping and snarling at people on the streets, ! and even in the stores is all wrong. Tie'up the dogs.
 More than s5,O6O was received at the dead letter office of the post office department in May. Only a small percentage of this amount can be returned to the senders, for the reason that the writers give insuffi- cient addresses. The majority of I these letters are written by poor perS sons. including many foreigners, and are, for the most part, intended for mail order houses, but on account Of wrong addresses finally reach the dead letter office. The total number of pieces of unclaimed matter re- ceived during the month was S05.- 66S, against 667.100 in April. but notwithstanding the large increase in receipts every piece of mail received was opened and treated, leaving no accumulation at the beginning Of this month. A new record was made in the percentage of letters returned to senders, 30 p& cent being the ] average for the month It is esti- mated that not more than 3b per cent of the so-called "returnable' letters can in fact be returned the number of letters returned last month was 125,018, against 115,S in April, 1906, and 109,332 in May, l19O5. Money was found in 7,243 letters, to the amount of $5,167.51. In May, 1905, $4,56S.03 was con tained in 7,259 letters, showing slight decrease for 1906 in the num- Der of letters containing money, but quite considerable increase in the amount of money inclosed.
 "The most mathematically exact thing created by man, and the per- lection of accuracy in registering the flight of time Is the famous Reifel clock, which has been installed in seven of the obseryatories of the United States. This clock, which costs $1,000, is inclosed in an air tight case in vacuum. It Is wound every seven minutes by electricity to keep it always under the same pres sure, and has nickel steel pendulum that does not expand or contract un- der the changing atmospheric condi- tions 5-1, ,000 of a degree of second. The one at Washington stands in a room which is almost dungeon, be- ing heated by electric lights, so that there shall not be as much as hair breadth change in the temperature registered on the microscopic ther- mometer. And still this clock is not as perfect as one created ages ago, and which was known to earliest lman-the earth is the only perfect clock. If We take the position of liked star at a certain moment of time tonight we know that exactly at that corresponding moment to- morrow the earth, in its revolution, will arrive at the same point, and will not vary as much as even 1 = 000,00 part of a second. And still, again, the earth is not wholly exact, as it has been estimated that our day is 1-S4 of a second longer to-day than it was 2,500 years ago. This Is due to the tremendous effect of the tides in the revolution of the globe from east to west.
 The chief words tne spelling Of which is changed by the presidents order are these, given in their new form:
 Accouter, accurst. acknowledgment. sd- drest, adz. affixt. altho. anemia, anestne-
 sia. anesthetic. antiplyrin. antitoxin. apothem apprize archsolcgy; Ina, aftSan; har.,,s, aS
 blest. blhsht. bun. bur.
 Chapt. check. chimera. claspt clapt ! slfpt. clue. c0eval. comprest. comprize. | controller. coquet. cropt. crost. crusht, cue. curst. cutlas. cyclopedia. careS tnot caressed). catalog. center.
 posit. dcprest. develop. dieresIs. dipt, dis cust. dispatch. distrest. domicii. draft tnot draught). dram. drest. drip. droopt, dropt | dulneee.
 Ehvslop. epauiet, era. esophagus. es- thetic. e5thetics. ether. exprest
 Fagot fantasm. fantasy, fantom. noer.
 Gage Ino; guase). gael. gelGtin. siId tnot guild. giycerin. good-by. gram.
 Harken. heapt. hiccup. hook lnot hough). homeopathy. husht. hypotenuse.
 Judgment.
 Kist
 Lapt. lasht. ieapt. liter. iodsment. iookt.
 Mama. mnneuver. materialIze. meager.
 medieval. meter. mist tnot missed). miter. mkt. mold.