Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1896 — DROPS OF WATER. [ARTICLE]

DROPS OF WATER.

The Awful Pain Their Continual Pall* ing Inflicts. One of the Chinese modes of punishment, especially when a confession is wanted from a criminal, is to place him where a drop of water will fall upon one certain spot in his shaved crown for hours, or days, If neoessary. The torture this Inflicts is proved by an experience of Sandow, the strong man. When he was In Vienna a few years ago a school teacher bet him that he would pot be able to let a half litre of water drop upon his hand until the measure was exhausted. A half litre la only a little more than a pint. Sandow laughed at the very idea of his not being able to do this. So a half-litre measure was procured, and a hole drilled In the bottom just sufficient to let the water escape drop by drop. Then the experiment began. Sandow laughed and chatted gaily at first. The schoolmaster kept count upon the number of drops. At about the two hundredth Sandow grew a little more serious. Soon an expression of pain crossed his face. With the entrance into4he third hundred his hand began to swell and grow red. Then the skin burst The pain grew more and more excruciating. Finally, at the four hundred and twentieth drop Sandow had to give up and acknowledge himself vanquished. His band was sore for several days after.