The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-11-22

becoming scarce. The animal offers toe
many chances to fate to get hit in the
neck.-Minneapolis Journal
Girls were formerly so modest that
they would blush IL small star winked
at them, but when the man in the moon
casts Sleeps eye at one of them now
she asks him what he is giving her
Galveston News
--Wife-"John, the Morning Daily
states that you got into disgraceful
fight at your club last night. Who did
you fight with?" Husband-"Ia am sure
do not know, dear. ! haven't even
seen the Daily yet."-The Club.
AT the time of the Talmud pigeons
were used in amusing games. The Tai
mud tells us that betting was INDUCED
in at the pigeon play, The owner OF
the pigeon which reached first the point
designated was the winner.
The Rev. DIR. Joseph Stockbridge
who is Al tie head of the lot of chap.
lains in the United Statcs navy, is the
only one VINO mas .he rank Of conmo-
dore. He resides "a Ph lajclphin. he
has been in the service orer Aftv gear.
--Merritt-''That was "a pretty hard
doctors biz had 20 pay" DeGarry-
"How WAS that?" Msrri,t-~You see II
was for injuries | roecivsd by being
thrown frala Aesse MAS rapidly rid
ing by the doctors advice. IN. \. Sun.
"A curious spot has been noticed as
the selection of pair of wagtails for
the propagation of their species This
is on the railway near Stanton, Eng
81, - ha in Ia.
hollow of a sleeper on the main track,
over which something like dozen or
more trains pass in day.
Down in Connecticut the other day
Stiles Belfields family was startled by
binding fash during thunder
shower There was a crash of glass
and the family rushed into the parlor.
The bolt had entered AT the back of the
motto God Bless Our Home" broken
the glass covering into a thousand
| pieces, Clipped off the gilt in the frame
and gone out.
The most expensive municipal hall
! in the world and the largest in the
| United States is the city building OF
| Philadelphia, upon whose get unfinished
| tower the largest clock in the world is
! TO be displayed. Nobody knows exact
! ~ how much money it has cost, but II
cannot be far in the aggregate from the
amount invested in the state house o.
| New York.
There are fifteen national banks in
New YorxCity which have deposits ex
ceeding $3.50 900 each, the larges
amount being sS3, 200, 900 in the Ma
tional Park bank, and the next largest
amount, s25, ,0O0 900, in the Chemica
National Ten banks have over sl5,
600 900 each loaned, the National Parl
having the largest amount, and tn,
First National the second largest.
! -Brownstone fronts on Fifth avenue
| New York, used to be considered tn,
abodes of wealth and gorgeousness ex
clusively. Subsequently they came Il
be transformed into shops and now tn,
national committees of the two grea
parties have taken up their abode
there for headquarters The glory o
the Fifth avenue brownstone front mal
be said to have vanished before the
march of business and politics.
The dam porpoises are said TO hell
their young in their efforts to breath,
by bearing them up to the surface o
the water on their flippers. The spira
Gle or blowhole appears to be a sensi
tive part-nf the head, for wheI
touched with the hand the porpoise in
variably shows signs of great discom
fort by lashing the tail very violentl,
and beating the sea into foam, as |
does when wounded.
There is now on exhibition in Pari
boat which. il is said, is as exact a re
production as can be made of the cara
vel which took Christopher Columbu;
TO America. The ship floats around il
large basin, whose edge is made L
represent the shore of the island ol
which Columbus landed, and there ar
Indians and other accessories to Civ
realism to the picture. A pantomin
representing the landing of Columbu
on the shores of the new world is given
Hunting dogs, when they grow old
become rheumatic, or at least debili
tated with pains. We know, too, tina
they crave heat, and get as near the fir
as possible-a craving which increase
as they grow older. One such dog
older than the Others and slower i
getting into the lodge on returning
from the hunt, was often crowde
away from the fire by the other livelie
dogs getting all the best places befor
him. Finding himself thus turned ou
in the cold, he would dash toward tn
door barking, when the others, sur
posing il was an alarm, would rus
away too while the old rheumatic wen
TO the fire and selected place to SUI
| him