Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-28
AS YOU LIKE yT.
Some Stray Leaves from . Reporters
 Note Book.

couple of days been keeping hel handkerchief in her sleeve. She dit
 not imagine that any of the children
 had noticed the fact until one morn
 ing she perceived one of the smal
 children trying to pull something from her sleeve. The child was hay
 ing some difficulty in pulling out tht
 object, but at length she succeeded
 in drawing it out. It was large bandanna handkerchief. A few
 minutes later boy pulled a large
 blue kerchief from the knee of his trousers.
 The most interesting experiments
 in telephoning without wires are those
 of the French scientist, Ducretet. He
 places an ordinary telephone trans
 hitter in direct communication with the ground, and at a considerable dis
 tance away, on the other side of some
 buildings with thick walls and cellars
 he has d receiver, connected by one
 wire to the earth, and by another wire
 to small metallic sphere let down
 through an opening to the floor of the
 catacombs beneath Paris. When
 words are spoken in the transmitter
 they are heard in the receiver with
 much greater clearness than in an or
 dinary telephone. Monsieur Ducretet
 is continuing his experiments at in-
 creasing distance.
 The civil service examination for
 the police and fire department will
 now have to pass by order of the
 board of safety, makes the AS You
 Like It man think of the answer a candidate for the police force in Meriden recently made to one of the
 questions of commissioner. The candidate had been going very we'll
 until the commissioner said: Do you know the distance between Meri- den and Constantinople?" It was a stickler for the candidate; he scratched his head and thought deeply; he then made the following answer: If you fellows think I am going to cover any beat as far as from Meriden to Constantinople, your job can go to -" The con- missioners roared.
 Charles O'Brien of the north end who is now on visit to relatives in Ireland, is remembering friends in Waterbury by postal cards containing a picture of one of the most interest ing spots in that country, the bridge of Finea, in the county of Cavan, where the Irish forces under Myles O'Reilly held the British. commanded by General Monroe, at bay until the arrival of Lord Castlehaven with the soldiers of Owen Roe O'Neill, who put the enemy to flight, but not before OReilly had received a mortal wound. Although the row occurred about 300 years ago it is as fresh in the minds of the people of to-day as some cur rent event. William Collins, the poet and novelist, made it the subject of his best known effusion entitled "Myles the Slasher." In selecting famed Finea for a card Mir O'Brien hit upon something which very con siderable number in Waterbury would like to get hold off.
 The As You Like It man as we'll as many others is wondering if every thing connected with the Bank street station goes with it to the Union sta ton when the change takes place to- morrow. Summer Is coming and the crowd of young men and young wo- men that were accustomed to con- sregate on the platform of the Bank street station, especially on a Sun day afternoon, will be compelled to abandon their favorite stopping place. But the change to the West Main street station will be many per l ,ent better unless the police and the authorities determine to | nave some regard for persons coming rom and going to trains. For there | $ long platform at the West Main | street station, which will make an | deal promenade In the opinion of | he Sunday afternooners." The As You Like It man is of the opinion | hat if an attempt is made to con- yregate at the West Main street sta ion as at the Bank, it should be lipped in the bud.
 A drop of water, even three or four lrops, falling on the head, seems | hing unworthy of attention; never heless, in China a slow and continu- JUS dropping of water on the head las been found to be a method of tor ure under which the most hardened abjectly howls for mercy. When professor in the Sorborne tated this to his class recently one if his students laughed incredulously. md said 1t would take a good deal of hat sort of thing to effect him. The professor assured him that even one Iuart of water dropped slowly on his and would be beyond endurance. He greed to experiment. A quart meas Ire filled with water was brought in,
 microscope hole was bored fin the 'ottom, and the performance begun, he professor counting. During the rst hundred drops the student made fry remarks. With the second hun red he began to look less cheerful hen gradually all his talk died away, nd his face took on a haggar,l. tor nred expression. With the third hun red the hand began to swell and look ed. The pain increased to torture. finally the skin broke. At the four undred and twentieth drop the skep- c acknowledged his doubts vanished nd begged for mercy. He could bear 0 more. r