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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-11
THE TESTERS BELL.

One of the greatest mistakes a man can
make is to sit down at a desk and worry
himself sick over business, and then call
it a days work.-Washington Star.
Shells Mr.. Johnson's engagement with
that Boston girl broken OFF, He-Yes.
She-What was the cause' He-She
quoted from Ovid in one OF her letters,
and johnson telegraphed her for the ci-
pher.-Life's Calendar.
Mrs. Gaxzam-(as she came In from
church)-Sometimes u is very hard WORK
TO listen to DIR. Thirdly's sermons. Gaz-
zam-That's the reason i don't go 10
church. / don't believe in working on
Sunday.-Harper's Bazaar.
Smith-Your wife doesn't seem to be In
a very good humor to-day.
Jones-She has had some very bad luck
this morning poor thing. She went out
shopping to buy some ribbon, and she
found Just what she wanted in the hrst
store she went into.-Texas Siftings.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-11
LEGAL NOTICES.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
INSTR UCTION.
VERBATIM REPORTING.

EDWIN r. GARDINER. formerly oficisl Court
stenographer IN Chicato. y stIn and other cities,
will furnish verbatim reports ~ testimony before
courts commissioners. &C.. and attend ~ all short
hand ana typewrting work. Instruction given IN
verbatim reporting. Apply At s3 Westminster
street room n. or Commtn Pleas Court Room.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-11

DIED.
b. widow OF Capt. Rice Arnold. In the osd year
Of her age.
ARNOLD-In woonsocket. 10th inst. AMtsA >.
ARNOLD, aged 90 years, IL months ana l2 DAYS
BUCHANAN-In this city, sth inst, ALLIE Z.
JR. eldest son of Alexander Z. and Louie A
Buchanan, in the Esd year OF his age
RUTIER-In Boston, 9Th inst, H. VINCENT But
LER, formerly OF this city.
CROMPTON-In Cranston, 10th inst, RICHARD
CRoMPToN, aged s. years
DAyIS-In Bristol, 9th inst, NANCY BiscoMB
DAVIS, widow Of William Davis ana daughter oi
the late John Wilcox, aged 20 years ana ~
months.
FENNER-In thi. city, 10th inst MISS rHEo-
DosIA r. FENNER, daughter Oh the late ihoihas
Fenner, aged NJ years.
FISCHER-In this city, sth inst, NORMAN HILL
RICK, son Of Herman and ElisaJeth tlscher, III
tn, 9TH year OF his age.
UIGGI NS-in this city, 9th inst, CATHERINE
wife OF James Higgins. IN her Doth year.
MAN~ELI.-In this city 9th inst, ANNIE L., wife
OF Martin Mansen
MOTT-In this city. sth inst, RUTH j. wife Of
John G. Mott.
McCAFFREY-In this city, 9th inst, MAR
GARET. daughter Of John and Margaret McCaf-
fiey In her 10th year.
O'BRIEN-In this city, 9Th inst. CoRSELIus, son
Of Patrick and Margaret o'Brien, aged year
and 26 days
daughter OF Abraham and Mary Taylor. ana
wife OF Patrick o. kourke, aged 80 years.
POTrER-fn Smithheld 9th inst, JAMES W.
POTTER, Ia nis Oath year.
ZELENkA-In Pawtucket, Sth inst, OTTO w. Il.
ZFLENKA, in the 90 year OF his G..
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-11
Local ITEMS.

THE Joint special committee of the city
councii ON special franchises will give
public hearing on Monday next at 2 I. M.
On Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock Prof.
Thomas Davidson of New York will lee
ture on ARISTOTLE, the Great Mind OF An
tiquity."
MEMBERS of the Brown University. Y.
NJ. C. A., will lead the Sunday evening
services at the Academy avenue Congre-
gational church.
THE twentieth anniversary of Pilgrim
lodge of odd Fellows will be appropri-
ateiy observed in the lodge room on Green
which street this evening.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-11

rI,o orr on IN GERMAN. HTLP. DAY OR
Il evening, 80 cents a lesson. Address TUTOR,
4. q. Boa 1861.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-11
DIED.

Marriage and Funeral Notices, one i''se' tton'
20 each additional ilser ton, 15c.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-18
Old Wood for ViOIins.

When the old Pierce building, that had
stood at the corner of fremont and
Court streets for more than two hundred
years, was torn down six or seven years
ago, got a lot of pieces of spruce joists
out of it to make violin tops. That's it,
now. Most people think violins are
made from some queer and costly foreign
wood. They are not. The top is of
spruce boards or timbers, and the strap,
the back and the scroll from curly maple.
The essential, however, is that the wood
shall have been seasoned for generations.
Cheap violins are made from wood that
has been seasoned only four or five
years. I want wood 100 years old.
The old spruce is easier to get than the
old maple. For that we have to seek in
old farmhouses, where there are vener-
able chests of drawers and old fashioned
bedsteads of maple, with headboards
and footboards. We buy these for what
we can, but they cost a great deal, for
people usually value them highly as heir
looms. The posts and frame of the beds
we can work into necks and scrolls, and
the headboards, etc., into scraps and
backs. Here is an old piece of board nc
more than two feet long, as you see, that
I couldn't replace for five dollar BILL
Interview with Violin Maker.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-18
Breaking 1t Gently.

In the province of Holstein, noted for
its superior breed of cattle, the country
people are not only very thrifty but ex-
ceedingly fond of their cows, as may be
gathered from the following character
istic story,
Farmer Jan was walking sadly down
The road one day when the village pastor
met him.
why so sad, Farmer Jan?" said the
pastor.
"Ah, have sad errand, pastor" said
Jan.
"What is it?"
Farmer Henrik's COW is dead in my
pasture, and am on my way to tell
him."
ga hard task, JAM"
Indeed it is, but shall break it to
him gently"
"How will you do thatr'
II shall tell him first that it is his
mother who is dead. and then, having
opened the way for sadder. news still,
shall tell him that it is not his mother,
but the cow!'-Youth's Companion.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-18

The matter of opening and extending
Maple avenue from thu Childs' tract to
Pico street, was deferred one week for
the purpose OF further consideration
concerning the assessme 1T district.
SsRecommend that in the matter of pc
tition No. IT'S, of d. v. Waldron ct al,
asking that Queen street (now Twentieth
street, in front Of petitioners property
be vacated as public highway, the same
be granted, and that the city attorney be
instructed to prepare and present the
necessary ordinance.
Recommend that petition No. 235 of w.
b. Stradley, asking for the laying OF
cement sidewalks on Pearl street be-
tween Eleventh and Thirteenth streets,
be referred back to petitioner with the
request that he obtain thereto the sig
natures OF majority of the frontage in
terested.
Recommend that petition No. 236, of
w. ii. Wells, be referred back to petit
toner, with the request that he state
definitely the locality of the run for
which he asks.
Recommend that petition No. 237,
from L. R. Harrison, asking for the es-
tablishment ola grade on Court street
between Grand avenue and Flower
street, and for the appointment of COM
missioners to inquire into the reason for
existing conflicting grades and the dam
ages thereby incurred, be referred to the
city attorney.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-18
LONG BEACH.

There are several large vessels riding
at anchor in the aquarium" off San
Pedro. While this is pointer" as to
where the harbor will be located, it is
rather rough on our whales, who have
got up and emigrated around the point
to waters where they know they will
not be disturbed by passing vessels, and
where premature claimants for harbor
are not in It," When the Union Pa
cific, Missouri Pacific and Denver and
Rio Grande come laundering through
our town to meet their steamers from
the Occident-and that will be sooner
than some people think-Long Beach
will be the metropolis of Southern Cali
fornia.
Jim Cashan, the Grant Bros facto-
tum, is rushing the grading of the Ter
minal road and will be over this side of
the river the latter part of next week.
The river is the city's western bound
ary.
There has been 200 tons of barley
shipped by the Alamitos Land company
from their warehouses here lately.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. G. Fife and Miss
Eastman, of Santa Ana, were over visit.
ing Mrs. d. F. Pratt and her daughters
Mabel and Maud, for couple of days
last week.
Mrs. E. w. Terry, of Los Angeles, is
here putting her handsome cottage, on
Cedar avenue, in shape for the season.
Mrs. F. S. Grey's many friends here
will be sorry to learn of her departure
for San Francisco, where she has gone
with her children to join her husband.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pike, of Pasadena, were
down on short visit the early part OF
the week.
Mr.. Spurgeon Reilly, assistant county
superintendent of schools, spent three
days recently inspecting our schools,
and is very complimentary to the teach
ers and scholars for their proficiency.
Miss n. NJ. Fette, secretary of the
flower festival society, and who worked
80 hard to make the authors carnival
the success it was, returned home Tues
day evening.
General Passenger Agent Wincup and
Engineer w. F. Mcclure, of the Ter
minal, were down in the interest of theiI
road Thursday.
Dick Mcknight, of Los Angeles, and
Lin Lovett, of Cerritos, took up theil
Chesapeake "fish dogs" for exhibition
at the dog show.
Major George Kinds drove over on
business from an Pedro last week.
j. M. Woodworth, of the San Pedro
Lumber company, was over on business
Wednesday. MEMO.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-18
Holes in the Air.

81. Hennequin, of Paris, France, who
has had some experience in aerial navi-
cation, stopped in the city from San
Francisco ON his way home. Mr.. Henne-
quin was in Fontenay at the time lis
sindier and Cover had their startling
adventure in balloon. The traveller is
an intimate friend of Cover, and tells
the story of their fall of mile as the
balloonist related it to him:
"They assembled from Tssindier's
house in Paris and foated off toward
Vincennes, and, as the wind was some
what strong from the northeast, the two
men soon disappeared from the view of
Paris, having risen to height of 1900
feet. When they had reached Fontenay,
however, they were fully 5000 feet above
the earth. They were sailing along
smoothly, watching the scenes below,
when suddenly they seemed to fall into
a hole in the atmosphere, and down they
went at terrific rate. Cover glanced
at the needle of the vertical scale. 1t
was travelling with lightning speed. A
roar filed their ears, and both men
thought their time had come.
Nothing had happened to the balloon.
It was in perfect condition, but there
seemed to be no air to hold it up. Tis-
sindier desperately threw out sandbags.
They were falling so rapidly that the
bags were left far behind and disappeared
above them. The earth seemed to be
rushing at them with the speed of a
comet There seemed to be no atmos-
phere left, and they could scarcely
breathe AS a last resort Tissindier
threw over the anchor and the remain
ing ballast, and the big balloon, after a
rush of mile through the air, regained
its poise and they were saved. The
earth was but fifty feet below"
"This goes to show" continued Mr..
Hennequin, "that too much precaution
cannot be observed in carrying plenty of
ballast There are in the air occasional
rarefactions, and when balloon once
gets into one of them it drops like piece
of lead. Cover and Tissindier sailed
into veritable pit in the air, and had
they not had lots of ballast aboard they
would have been dashed to pieces. -
Chicago Tribune
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-18
REDONDO.

Redondo was visited with heavy
rain last night and another shower this
morning, which has frightened things
up considerably.
Mr.. E. F. Spence, president of the
First National bank of Los Angeles,
with Mrs. Spence, registered at the Re-
dondo yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. M. G. Pendleton, proprietress
of the Hotel Pleasanton, at San Fran
cisco, is guest at the Redondo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. P. Morrow, of
Oakland, are at the Redondo. They
are old friends of Captain and Mrs. Geo.
j. Ainsworth.
Ben E. Ward, the well-known real
estate man of Los Angeles, is also at the
Redondo.
Other arrivals are: F. O. Downing,
Miss Gusie Royce, Miss Gasie Woodard,
Mrs. j. Brandt. Portland, Ore. Mrs. M.
r. Hall, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. W. Shea,
San Francisco; Edgar Moore, S. B.
Johnson, j. Cohn, Los Angeles.
The steam schooner Farrallone left
100000 feet of lumber here and de-
parted for the north yesterday.
The Alex. Duncan arrived from San
Francisco with 240 tons of freight.
The steamer Eureka, in charge OF Cap
tain Smith, arrived today with seventy
five tons of feight for this place.
The barkentine Tam O'Shanter arrived
from the Columbia river, with lumber
for the Terminal railroad company at
Los Angeles.
Due to arrive from San Francisco:
Steamer Bonita, Captain Leland; steamer
Santa Cruz, Captain Nicholson. B.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-18
PASADENA.

Mr.. and Mrs. Park and family, who
have spent the winter at the Raymond,
are at Hotel Green.
Miss Nellie Manlove has sold her
home on Marengo avenue, to eastern
parties for $1,000.
Miss Florence Gleason's dancing
school closes for the season this even
ing. The occasion will be celebrated by
full dress ball for the younger class.
About $50 invitations have been issued.
Prof. Kramer, of Los Angeles, will !stake
Miss Gleason's class next winter.
Mrs. Fair and daughter, after de-
lightful year in Pasadena, returned east
Wednesday. They will spend the sum-
mer in the White mountains.
Mrs. Hoffman will lecture on The
Problem that Faces Us, at the taberna-
Gle Monday evening. The lecture is
free.
The valley hunt captured four prizes
at the bench show.
The conservatory of opera will appear
in the Bohemian Girl some time in
May.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrews and daughter,
Mrs. Cushing and family, will return
east early in the week.
Mrs. Ducker and maid will leave to-
morrow for New York city.
Mrs. Granger is suffering from a severe
attack of bronchitis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred McNally and child
rem return to Chicago tomorrow.
Mayor Lukens is in receipt of a very
enthusiastic letter from HI. HI. Waite.
Pasadena's exhibit at the carnival is
second to none, and is a grand adver-
tising card, in his estimation. To use
his own expression, 1--WE are driving
Chicagoans crazy"
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-18
PUBLIC WORKS.
The Recommendations Made at the
Meeting Yesterday.

Meeting Yesterday.
The board of public works at it's meet
ing yesterday adopted the following rec
concentrations
We recommend that the matter of the
construction of a culvert under Yale
street between College and Bernard
streets be referred to the bridge COM
mittee.
In the matter of the opening of Koh-
Ter street from Eighth to Ninth street,
we recommend that the city attorney be
instructed to prepare and present the
necessary ordinance, and that the assess
-ment district be comprised within the
limits named.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-18
NEW SUITS.
Complaints Filed Yesterday With the
County Clerk.

County Clerk.
Among the documents filed with the
county clerk yesterday were the prelim-
mary papers in the following new cases !:
A. B. Hogan and w. j. Davis sued
Marcus Ball and G. Longley on an ac-
tion to recover a street assessment.
&c. Worden sued E. P. Virgin to set
aside fraudulent conveyance.
G. H. Par sued J. d. Gillelen and
William Burr for 1926 alleged to be
due on contract.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-18
Our Homo Brew.

Philadelphia Lager, fresh from the brewery
on draught in all the principal saloons. de-
hvered promptly in bottles or kegs. Office
and Brewery, 238 Also street. Telephone 81.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-18
$500 Reward !!

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stipation or Costveness cannot cure with Vests
Vegetable Liver Pills. when the directions strictly
complied with. They purely Vegetable, and nevor
fail to give satisfaction. Sugar Coated Large boxes
containing 80 Pills. IS cents Beware of counterfeits
and limitations. The genuine manufactured only BY
THE JOHN G. WEST COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL.,
Sold by H. NJ. SALE & SON, 220 s. Spring st
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-18

For biliousness and headache Simmons Liver
Regulator is the best medicine the world ever
saw.-H. H. Jones, Macon, Ga.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-18

ERENCH MASONIC LODGE-THE "A
II Union No. /, Scottish Rite. under ~
IN the jurisdiction nsadons OF Supreme Council Xxx
meeting every Friday at 723 Also
st., East Side, at 7:3O pm, and invites all
brother Masons to come and visit them.
3-27 limo
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-18

COUTHERN, CALIFORNIA COUNCIL, NO
rl kaUya seonf ano
p. Hall, No. 1l91z 8. Spring street; visitin
brothers cordially invited 8. X. LEWIS
BOX 117S. Secretary
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-18

Mullen, Bluett e. Co.'s 9Oc white shirts.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-18

Mullen, Bluett & Co.'s star shirt waists.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-18
WINTER RESORTS.

II SO minutes from Los Angeles. Everything
new, elegant and first-class; will give you lower
rates than any hotel Of Its class in the State;
families and invalids. FRED H. MILLER.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-18

DR. g. STEVENS & SONS, 1O7 N. SPRING
teeth A,lsd lesdnsmnmacher am block, rooms 1s and 10;
to $40; hours, a. m. to 5 3. P"' in, Snndars Q
m. to p, m. ssoE. IL
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-18

r w. WELLS, COR. SPRING AND FIRST
LIZ. sts, Wilson block; take elevator; teeth
filled and extracted without pain; gold crowns
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-18
MEETINGs.

nR. TOLHURsT, DENTIST, 10e1S N. SPRING
~ st., rooms 2, and z. Painless extracting.
The Critic and record., 1891-04-15
Iinlinns Cnnlinr am.

F1CW N6 NelD lOlk SHH, april 10.
The Italians in this city have cooled off
finely within the past few days. When
they first heard of the troubles in New
Orleans their minds were inilamed in an
alarming way, and their language and
gestculations were of the most energetic
Latin style, Their fever abated as soon
as Rudini changed his tone; it was still
further allayed when Rudini changed his
attitude, and it has almost wholly disap-
peared since Rudin began to show that
he had changed his mind. A SIN re-
porter who mingles with the Italians
hereabouts has found that they can now
talk with more sense than they displayed
q fortnight ago. II is safe to say that the
Italians in America would be less likely
to suffer from the tantrums If they would
learn the English language.
The officials who inspect the Italian inn
migrants arriving at the Barge Office,
ninetenths of whom reof the male SEX
find that nearly all of them come here
with the expectation Of making money
that will enable them to go back to Italy
and live there. The lists of the passen-
gers who have gone from here to Europe
during the decade of Italian immigration
give evidence that the hopes in which
Italians indulge when coming to America
are rarely realized. Very few Italian
names are TO be found on these lists.
The Critic and record., 1891-04-15
PhiIIips Brooks,

Apparently some Episcopalians, who
most heartily admire Phillips Brooks,
and sympathize most thoroughly with his
general attitude toward the Churchs
doctrines, are opposed to his being elected
a bishop. One of them in the Boston
Transcript puts it this way. "Phillips
Brooks is not only the greatest preacher
in America he is, perhaps the greatest
preacher in the world, one of the greatest
preachers Of all time Can he afford TO take
a step which would limit this power, and
can the earnest people Of Boston and of
the country see the possibility of il with
ont protest, or without regret2 And who
can doubt that the official position would
limit this prophetic powerY
"The conflict between the great preach
er's preaching and the doctrines of his
Church as commonly held is notable and
deeply felt by all, whether welcomed or
deplored by this one or that Did he
preach the same sermon as a bishop the
conflict would be felt vastly more deeply.
One Of two things would surely follow;
there would be strife and trouble in the
Church, or the boldness aud abandon
which now mark the great preacher 8
sermons would grow less and less marked
and, while it is quite impossible that lac
| should ever decline 10 the commonplace,
| the prophet and refOrmer in him would
| inevitably suffer, II is precisely because
| they desire this latter and because they
| expect 10 would follow, that many Nom
| bera Of The Episcopal Church to-day wish
| 30 make Phillips Brooks q bishop. They
| wish 10 do what the conservative folk of
| England have always done or tried to do
| with their Pitts-shelye them in their
| lIpper House
The Critic and record., 1891-04-15
TheOaoro Thomas or 70 chicago.

IfOW Ote ANttV IOfN fftOdNCs
Mr.. Thomas has for so long a time
been the chief factor in the sum of New
York's musical life that il seems strange
to contemplate future activities on which
he will not put an impress. When an
aggressive, forward man was needed to
win appreciation for the new tendencies
in art the man was found in him; when
the new art had become terra oognha,
and there was need of a restricting and
conserving influence ii was again sup
piled by the conductor of the Philhar-
monic Society. There is no question that
Mr.. Thomas deserved better than he has
received at the hands Of the people of
New York, but the fact that he can now
leave the city without checking IN the
slightest the progress of our artistic insti-
tutions is itself monument to the en-
during character of the work which he
has done. By going 10 Chicago he is
simply continuing and expanding his
mission. The metropolis of the great
West needs him as much as New York
needed him twenty-five years ago and
infinitely more than New York needs
liz he will maintain the standard in Chi
cago for which he fought so long and
valiantly here, the cause of art will within
a year take long step forward. He will
leave behind him more admirers than
friends, but it is entirely natural that it
should be so. An imperious nature
which stood in the way of warm attach
ment q narrow vanity which could not
brook difference of opinion, oonyic.
ton that all ought to defer to his view in
artistic questions or keep silent, lest art
should suffer, repelled many who might
otherwise have been his helpers from con-
siderations of friendship and personal re-
gard as well as of artistic prediction.
Nevertheless, all fair-minded lovers of the
art to which he has devoted his life will
see him depart with regret and while the
ton goes rolling on steadily and more
gloriously year after year, they will cher
ish a higher and ever higher regard for
the services which he rendered to the
cause of good music.
The Critic and record., 1891-04-15
"MALA VITA"
The Rites and Ceremonies of One OF
Italy's Noble secret Societies.

The Rites and Ceremonies of One OF
Italy's Noble Secret Societies.
AIala Vita, the name borne by the Sc.
cret society, the members of which are
ON trial at Bari, Italy, is the title of q
once popular novel.
During the proceedings the informers
disclosed the curious initiation rites Of
the order, in the dialect peculiar to mem
bers of the society. The applicants for
membership must first satisfy the officers
of the Mala Vita that they have never
been policemen, gendarmes or excisemen
When the oath is administered to the
novices they are required TO stand with
one foot in an open grave. They are
sworn in the most solemn manner to
abandon all ties OF kindred for the inter
ests of the order, and the neophytes are
informed that the most fearful penalties
will be imposed on them for any betrayal
of the society's secrets or for any disobe-
dienoe of its DEGREES, especially when they
visited judgment on an intended victim.
The booty which the society secured
through brigandage and ransom was TO be
divided among the members according to
rank. Fantastic and obscene tattooings
mark the members of the grade "Camor-
riste," the chief of which still continues
to correspond with the prisoners.