The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-10
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The sun never sets on American soil.
When IL is u. NJ. at Attoo Island, Alas
ka, it is 936 A. NJ. the next day on the
eastern coast of Maine.
The census reports that there are 4,000,-
600 simon pure red-headed persons in the
United States. Then there must be 4,oOo,-
600 white horses, too.
Two drachms of sal amoniac with an
ounce of German cologne, the solution
mixed with pint OF distilled water,
makes an excellent wash for freckles, says
an authority.
An "anti-bird in bonnet" league has
been organized by number of German
ladies under the title of Dautscher Bund
gegen don Vogel- Massenmord fur Modez-
wecke," the president of which Is the
Duchess of Mecklenburg.
In Liberia the people have no time
pieces. The growing chanticleer arouses
them in the morning. The sun rises at q
A. NJ, sets at 9 Il. NJ, and is vertically
overheard at IL NJ. every day in the year.
In their guesses the people are rarely a
quarter of an hour out of the way.
Verify this is the age of iconoclasm.
Now it seems that Barbara Fritchie never
lived. Yet Whittier's poem is based on
fact. Instead of one patriotic old woman,
there were three Union girls who waved
the stars and stripes as Stonewall Jack
son passed through Fredericktown.
The highest building in the world has
Just been completed on the Signal Peak of
Monte Ross. An Alpine club and Queen
Margaret of Italy contributed the money
for this hut, which boasts of an altitude
of nearly 1900 feet. 1t is supplied with a
copper roof, to protect it from lightning.
Ella Smith, of Argonia, Kan, a leading
and handsome woman suffragist, pro-
posed marriage to Walter Tifiin, and
within three minutes Justice Gibson was
sent for, and she had him married and
her deed to him in her pocket. This goes
TO prove the old adage that man never
knows when he is safe.
The death of Monsignor Preston recalls
the name of another great convert to
Catholicism in James Kent Stone, at one
time the president of Hobart College,
now Father Fidelis, head of the Passionist
Order in Brazil. His eloquent sermon be-
fore the last Catholic Congress is vividly
remembered by all newspaper readers.
From 1867 to 1886 inclusive, there were
granted in the United States 32S, ,7i6 de-
crees of divorce, the increase being steady
and rapid yearly, showing an increase of
157 per cent. in the twenty years, in which
the population increased only 60 per cent.
OF the 23S, ,716 divorces granted in the
twenty years specified, PIG, l76 were granted
on the petition of the wives.
Atlanta, Ca, possesses a young Amazon
in Miss Amber Corley, u miss of 5. She
weighs 100 pounds and can easily lift "a
weight of $50 pounds from the floor. Here
are her physical proportions: Height. 43
inches; breast measurement, 30 inches
waist measurement, 43 inches; measure of
thigh. IA inches; calf measurement, 10
inches; at the biceps, 10 inches; instep,
101S inches; size of shoe, child's number,
z.
The Parisians have new insurance
scheme Riders in cabs can, by placing a
penny in the slot of a little machine in the
cab. obtain certificate which will give
their friends 81 900 in case of fatal acci-
dent. or themselves 1900 In case total dis
ablement, and 500 for partial disable
ment. OF course, the insurance only holds
good whilst the assured is in the cab.