The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-08-09


burial plot containing many Of his relatives or de-
scendaHts the last ntefment being Betsy Williams,
who gave her property tc the city for pubic
park
Providence IS making So artificial lake ont Of an
unsightly, muddy slough; steam dreGge dips up
mud and peat by the carload, and stumps are torn
out by the roots and loaded cars for removal as
II they weighed only pound instead OF over a ton
each. would advise visitors TO talk with Whlttle-
sey the bOyish-lOoSiug contractor who Is doing
the work. The contract price Tor forming the lake
Is about $4,000.
a trip down the Nsrraesnsett Bay in steam
boat ~ worth going many miles to ENJOY. We
soon reach Squanturn, picturesque island, held
by the Squautum Club Of Providence. This is
where Gen. Grant was brought for entertain
ment on the occasion Of his first visit TO the
city. POmham. held also Icy another wealthy club;
Silver Spring, Camp White Buloek's Point Rocky
Point and many other Shore Summer resorts Gu
terrain crowds daily and thousands of cottages are
occupied during the Summer heat. Oakland Beach
and Buttonwoods Beach, situated Ia the neck OF
Greenwich Bay, are also delightful resorts.
The bay has also a Revolutionary interest, Ior
here the armed British schooner Gaspee, on June
s, I172 was captured and burned by indignant cti-
zcns of Providence who resented the aggravated
indiEuities OF its commander, Capt. DuGuiugton'
Had time allowed should have eude5vored TO
find some of our c. q. frie0ds of Provd enee and
exchanged greetngs.-E. III. IInkhRiIas Springfield,
Mss.
CLUB WHISPERS.
Ho7T are the G. G. spending their Summer
an busy in q general store IN Corning; mem
Der OF but enc secret society, the GOOD Iempiars.
Hope 20 see the C. Q. at National Eucampment-
~. -
Hattie L. Goodseu expresses my views on card
playing. 1t leads to vice and crime and ruins the
human soul+-I4iliian Ferguson & Prairie Lily }
Scottville, Neb.
am fond Of resdingi ais; fancy work, crochet
and decorative painting. Ny fayonte poet ls
Whittier; uay fRy8Tte uovelists are Dickens,
George Eliot, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary j.
Holmes and Agnes Fleming. VIII graduate next
yesT.-Aaude Reed, Howard City, Mich.
think . better idea Of the world can be received
from the higher class OF fiction than other litera
ture. History states great facts but fiction, by
porITaying things OF less Importance shows society
as Il Is. ana an admlTeT OF Miss AlcGtts works.
liked Clio Harper's " Coming Age, and have
studied geography with TIE NATioNAL TRIBCNE
between the pHges.-E A. Sulth. HuFiburt, Ind.
Welcome, Miss Sadie. One Of my acquaintance
Is q deaf-mute; intelligent and entertaining
gentleman lac is. lie can bow 80 politely, aud you
would surely think he spoke 10 see the movement
OF his lips. Now, friends, live $50 miles north OF
Columbus. II il Il IN your way 10 make VISIT
do so. Annie l.. Marsh am nov prepared 10 ex-
change cabinet photos win you. Emmett Searcys
viii you also please exchange ?-GTace q. Hunt.
never inclUsed a novel Ia my HOOl-bOoks, but
that is no sign have never read them IN school.
Among my favOrites are - Scottish Chiefs - Thad-
deus OF Warsaw" John Halifax, . A." From Jest to
Earnest, b" Rose Waters " and Alone" q" The
Gates Beyond, by Miss T.. Phelps Is just splen-
did signing the Contract, 10y Finley, IS also
I good novel, think. How many Of the C. 9. agree
/ with me ?-Eiia Price, Laredo, No.
/ Seeing the discussion of authors could not re-
sist asking # any Of the C. c. band have ever read
any OF my fayOrite authors (AIrs. i. ID. l.. n South
/ WORTH works? / think - Ishmeal" and Self
/ raised the Two finest books / ever read and /
think If any young man viii take Ishnleal for
an example, aud follow his preceps, he is sure TO
succeed.-J. j.. COwsn, Dixon Valley, Wyo.
Clio Harper, had quite laugh over your arti-
4 Gle on The Coming Age" It was interesting and
amusing, but hope THAI such state Of thingsn
NiiieFeF come 70 pass. tHluk ~ YCuilh De at ali
nice for the women and girls 10 co the voting and
counting. Let tine sterBgr sex continue 10 monoPo-
il1e the franchise and do the COurtug instead Of
+ the reverse Helena ID. Whitney, ] have been
rather slow shout t. but viii say now that l. too,
have read Owen Aeredths Lucille" and cannot
HsHN hrw rnr.h F ga
VIII the Q. c. exchange postal autographs with
! me2-Eell II. Hoffman, Edmund street. near Penn
4 sylFailia avenue, FIttsburg, Pa.
TO EXCHAEGE-W4NTED
To Exchange: Eight novels and six volumes
Yoftths Companion for good bugle or other reed
Z ing matter. Reading matter and Republican cam
paign ballads for good fe.-W. A. keier, Box IO7,
AuGersonvIiie, Ind. 4 plush autograph album for
best photograph before Aug 30: letters with young
! ladies % to 25.-Delia L. B5xby Box 1874 Afavfied
! n. \. Books by Agnes Fleming. Miss BFaddon
and Bill Nye, and volume Popular Science Monthly
and dress model instruction book for books, maya
I zines, Indian relics cGriOsitle5 Of any kind
/ Lydia Minor, FeedeTsburg, Ind. Package foreign
postage stamps Tor indian relies, or dimes or half
! dimes Of 1854 or older dRtes-Charies o. Heubest
I Marshall, III. Photographs for same mot auto
1 graphs a. per July ls).--htbert 3 Bean. Pocket
piece Of 1850 and my photosT aph for beat photo
graph Of soldiers daughter. is 10 CIV u. Nc
l7inuis JeffersonriiIe 81 CAPTURING a Jocon,o-
tive J" for largest number Of 4. s. stamps before
! Aug. SL-Leo Nagaer, HilisbOro, I'LL Prize for
two tubes OF paint, any color, by Sept. l-Bertha
i've specimens OF wood Tor 70 obsolete U. s. sampz
I Chase Newman. Portland Mich. Picture Brook
lyn Bridge 10. book shell and arithmetic for 200
! indian relics minerals, etc.-Bcrt johnson,
Brownsville, MINI. BUlhs, seeds, etc, for rare
coins, stamps, relics and cuFlosties.-O.W. Burger
( Dallas Center No Samantha az SARATOGA . Cor
BEST odeT-Euily Pettibone Miles Grove Pa
Bouquet Of hair flowers for every collection ST TX
! crazy pieces bouquet and directions for making
/ for best-lonia Richardson, Wesiiand, III. Con
certina, 70 keys, for best offer; 22-caber rife
I waGled-OTestes Lathrop, Prescott Iowa White
feather fan tor best shell collection curasities by
last week IN tel1oer.--AlaFy lngcrs0ll, Poto-
mac, IL Bicycle for rife breceh- loading shot
gun.-O. C. Miller, SwapIon Eeb Violin and bow
for breech-iOadlng shOiRuu.-M. r. MaFcun Mon
tlcello, Ky Prize for preiliest piece Of music and
postal autograph before Sept. 6.-Gracia Barnes.
ROssvilie, III. Prize Tor beat cabinet Of lady and
gentleman by Sept. l, with letier-Cora Weaver,
Waldron, Mich. Drunkardis Lone Child i" for
( - Rosewood Casket. Lillian Ferguson seotta-
vile heb. The Ship That Never Returned for
ailRauEee FIRE. Emma Smith, Huri6uFt, Ind
Piece decorated painting for prettsst crazy work
block "a inches long.-ARude Reed Box 323, How
ard City, Mich
Postal autographs: Ella L. johnson. Mary f.
Donalau, Boz 80, SOuthington, Conn; holiie r.
Gallagher, HHrmar, o.; also letters and photo
Smith, Huriburt Ind
Letters with the C. c.: Florence c. Martin. June-
ton City, Kan; Emma a Smith Hurlbut, Ind
Iona richardson, Restiand, Ind; Charles r. Gale,
1 Box lJG, Asiburnhatn, Mass.
I With soldiers childrea-CeliR T. Waters juno
ton City, Kan. With Indiana Ohio Illinois Nicltf-
gan and other girls who neither paint powder nor
/ dBnce--Alter Egs ~, AudersoBville Ind With
gOlolers dEughteTs.--C. i. Dine, Pierce O. With
laulss.-W. H. Guthrie, lS3 Water street Tiffin o !.
Edwin Thatcher, Gearing, Iowa. With young gen
4 tiemen.-REoda Sanders, McCalsburg Iowa
Wanted: Correspondents from Seymour No in
order 10 ind my uncle, George W. Stear ms grand
father asked me 70 make this request through THa
4 &ATIOSAL IEIEUEE on his dying bed-Adella ID
I Fink, Fleming, Pa. Defamation for family re-
4 unlon.-Steiia Chenoweth, Lyme Ind All 10
know that my address is Pawnee, H. not Kansas
as IN TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE July - Emily Nj
Bishop Correspondents to know that have no
shells tu exchange, u being the writer associated
with me.-Fiola a. MOak, Port Huron, Mich q
G. gentlemen 20 know cannot answer letters but
like to hear from them through TIE NATIONAL
IEIEISE-l1va A. Pryor, Providence, II. l. Thai
90 not cisAppFove Of cards, but like TIE Ma.
IIoEAL IKIKusE best.-John Benny.
The Curious Corner.
ANSWERS to questions will not be published with
in Two or three weeks after questions epuear 9,
all will have chance 10 send replies and reoeiv.
honorable meatiOn with the number answered
Virginia has furnished the largest number o
4 Presidents.
Daniel Boone was known as the Columbus 0
! the Wilderness"
The greatest depth ever sounded in the Atlantis
Ocean was 25.720 feet. The average depth betyeeJ
CO degrees north and 60 degrees south is abon
three miles.
Euclid told PtoIeny Softer that "a there f. no roya
road 70 learning"
The dying words Of Thomas Jefferson were.
, resign my soul 10 God and my daughter 10 m,
I country"
} The name America was first engraved ,,y,ov