The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-24

There has been a great boom in white
ribbon since the gathering of the female
temperance clans in Boston.
These are the days that cause the blithe-
some, CHEEKY cricket to hunt a nice, warm
corner down by the kitchen range.
Confucus, 500 years B. c., was the first
man on record who admired and popular
lied the chrysanthemum.
The Interior depaI tment has leased the
entire Iuter-Ocedn building in Washing
ton for one year at rental OF SlS,OOO Tor
the use OF the Census bureau.
Boston is doing all she can to civilize
million dollars worth of rum TO the ma
tives of that region last year, not to men
tion few missionaries.
The late Baron Martin Of England never
would engage a servant who had not come
out of racing stable. He attached the
highest importance to the moral qualities
which he believed to be acquired under the
strict discipline of these establishments.
NJ. M. Lamoureux, orcestra leader at
the Paris Opera House, and Gailhard, one
of the present lessees, are thinking OF
founding an opera house at Versailles in
connection with special service Of trains
from the French capital.
Some of the Connecticut Democratic
town clerks who refused 10 recognize Gov.
Bulkeley as the legal governor have
pigeon-holed their copies of his Thanks
giving proclamation; The same treat
ment was accorded the Fast Day procla-
nation.
Next to the discovery of gold in Colora-
do, one of the significant Developments
of that State is the cotton-weaving indus
try. The first yard of cloth ever made in
the Rocky Mountain country was turned
out of loom 369 in the new cotton mill in
Denver on Thursday, Nov. ~ 1t was
made from cotton grown In Texas.
Baron Won Kutzeleben whose lands in
Germany are very valuable, Is the father
of Salvation Army lieutenant in Keokuk,
Iowa, the latter being the eldest son and
heir. As his father is dead the greater
portion of his possessions and title OF the
Baron revert to the son, who has been liv-
ing in Keokuk, az he says, on little more
than 40 cents per day.
Citizen Carter II. Harrison, ex-mayor
Of Chicago and owner of the Times of
that town, has such remarkakable infiu-
ence over Carter IL. Harrison, editor of
the Times that he can persuade him to
publish anything he desires. Some day
the citizen ex-mayor's personality will
get so mixed up with that of the editor
citizen that there'Q be trouble in the
Times office.
Miss Anna Dickinson is in New York at
one of the leading hotels. Many cruel
things have been said in the pages OF met
ropolitan journals about this gifted wo-
man, whose superb patriotic services in
the old days can never be known until the
final accounting when all things shall be
made plain. Her legions of friends and
admirers will be glad to be told that she
is not the physical or mental wreck the
enemies she has made have painted. On
the contrary, she still possesses the old
genius, the, the old fire and the old en-
thusiasm that used TO electrify the conti-
nent in the years when her addresses on
the platform were almost rs important as
the victories of the generals in the field.
Fair play, generous, loving treatment for
the noble woman who has deserved so
we'll of the Republicl