The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-11-06
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81 keep . monthly account OF what I
spend, but somehow it never balances
straight" laughingly declared house
wife whose bookkeeping proves serious
annoyance This Is too often the case
with American aud even English women.
1t is the French woman who N cireful TO
account for every penny received or spent,
and she is enabled to do this because
household bookkeeping is taught In the
common schools; because IL Is rec
ognized fact In France that a girl needs
as coed business education rs
man, for as wife she is expected to help
her husband In his business. In the small
store she saves him the services OF clerk
and in the big one she is often his equal
partner, capable Of entire control IL he
dies, as was Nine. Boucicault, whose sys-
tenn of great kindness and consideration
toward her employees gained her the title
of the good lady Of the Bon Marche. Very
few American women, no matter how
capable they have shown themselves in
the management OF business affairs. have
the slightest idea OF how to invest money.
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There is in Elmwood a little boy who,
II he Is spared, will astonish creation. La
one of the Sunday schools there the
OineI uHy uc SbdTtSu w Itpt1o VIZ AH~'s
familiar OF the Psalms, and this Ia his
beginning: "The Lord is my Shepherd,
which do not want" The deep silence
which Immediately ensued was remark
able.
"what does the sea weigh" was asked
of the Looking Glass recently. little
thing like that Is no puzzler. yet TO arrive
at any conclusion as to the weight OK the
sea would be difficult in the absence or
sufficiently accurate and exact figures as
TO area Mr.. Schooling, writer In Long
mans Magazine. has confronted aud dealt
with the problem. He has been measur-
ing and weighing the sea, and according
to his calculations "the number of gallons
in the whole sea is 373 trillions (million
million million), which, II it
could be poured away at the rate OF
1000 gallons q second, would take nearly
1900 million years TO get rid OF. III
we could sell IL even at so low price as
one shilling for 10000 gallons, the bill
would come to 1860 billion pounds. Sup
posing the sea TO be formed into n round
column reaching 10 The sun, the diameter
OF the column would be nearly 2H miles.
The Pacific would form 81 plillion miles
OF its total length of 90 million, and the
Atlantic IS million. IL it were column
OF ice, and the entire heat OF the sun
could be concentrated upon ii, IL would
all be melted in one 50 .oud and converted
into gas in eight seconds; which Illus
trates the heat Of the sun rather than
the size OF the sea. The weight of the sea
is trlllon aud Cos, 900 billion Q,665, ,000.-
OOO, 600 600. .OO0) toas. and if contractor
took the job to move il at even so mod
crate a price as 1000 tons for penny be
would require to be paid the amount OF
the national debt 10000 times over in re-
ward for his labors." 1t will be observed
that the values referred TO arc English.
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My watch has been making the entire
twenty-four hours In twenty-three min
uues one day aud the next day would be
four hours behind when the sun went
down. / knew something was wrong and
took it to matchmaker. After holding
the inquest he said the "king-bolt" had
swelled, the running jewel" was cracked
in three PLACES, the "whole jewel" was
gone, new "main pinion" was need d.
it also needed cleaning. But / breathed
easier when he Informed me that the
monogram on the case vas all right.
"The collection OF internal revenue in
to me the other day. is much more diff
cult than in Rhode Island. Cigarmakers
aud distilleries are scattered all about the
northern part OF Connecticut aad they
must all be visited. In Rhode Island
most of the revenue collec ed is from the
great amount of oleo III argarine manu-
factured in Providence, nearly 10000
pounds year. and that can be collected
with little trouble"
Mrs, William BRAY and laughter. Inez,
OF this city. were the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Elliott Brooks of Carolina. Friday.
Mrs. A. G. Nichols of Hope Valley Wis
tied in this city last week.
COL Raymond Mowry visited Woon-
socket last Friday.
Mrs. William Orrell of Glendale visi-
ted this city Friday.
Mrs. John Cottrell OF this cltv Is guest
of Mrs Joseph s. Cottrell, of Newport.
Mr.. Slas Ward of this city has bee in
Middletown for few days. the guest Of
Mr.. Restcom S. Peckham.
A peppery parson in one OF our neigh
boring towns. who was disturbed by bis
choir during PRAYER time got even with
tileIn TtCtbtly WISH uc GdNc ouI INC ClOs-
ing hymn by adding. II hope the congre-
cation will join In singing this grand old
hymn, and know the choir will for /
heard them humming it during the
prayer"
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1t has been suggested that when tho
next police alarm is to be sounded the
chief OF the FIRE department be allowed
TO notify his department few seconds
before the alarm is sent in, as an alarm
without notice is apt to work disadvan-
tageously. On the last occasion all of the
companies In the city that responded to
box 10 started for that box as soon as the
number bad reached nine and was about
TO strike ten, as they were positive
that was the box pulled. Bway
Sey went not thinking that eleven
was the number. This would be pre- We nted
had the captains OF the companies been