The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-18
LOOKING GLASS.

The combined influence cot good
weather and the new elecirics brought
out 5000 people to the fair grounds yes.
terday. The new line operates beauti-
fully and will materially increase the
comfort OF travelling to aud from the
grounds this ssason.
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A Providence man recently went to
Keene. N. H., to visit his brother, n horse
dealer. The latter had just traded for u
strange horse that he thought would suit
. customer in Dana, Mass. about thirty
miles from Keene, and so he proposed
to his brother that they ''hitch mp" aud
drive TO Dana. The Providence man
readily assented to to proposal, and
early the next morning the two brothers
started on their thir y mile ride.
They had to cross several railroad tracks
during the journey, aud each time eros
slug WAS made the horse would rear and
plunge so wildly that the Providence man
was frightened half To DEATH" and
wanted to jump out OF the LuRgy. They
finally reached u point in Athol, where
the highway and the railroad ar. close
together for some distance, and here, for
the first time since lenving Keene. they
heard the whistle OF a locomotive. A
train was coming around curve few
rods ahead. Judging from the
way the horse hGd acted when
crossing the tracks, the Kesne man
naturally supposed he would make
quite demo onstration when the train
went by. "Pll get out and stand by the
horses head" he said to his Providence
brother, but you sit still and don't be
alarmed. There's no danger" So he got
out aud stood by the horses head. Tue
train wont by. and that pesky horse did
not make q move, looked the engine
fright In the face" without blinking |
This rather surprised the Keene man,
but he was more than surprised
when he turned TO the buggy and
found that his brother was not
In it. A moment later he saw his
brothers. plug hat. cane AMI u nbrella
lying in the middle OF the roa /. and bis
brother was just climbing over five-rail
fence about four rods away. With that
fence between him and the horse. the
Providence man probably thought he was
safe, for as soon AZ he got over he shouted:
'Hold him, Natl Hold him! Don't let
him get away Z" And the Keene man
merely said: "Well. I'll be d--dl Il
was as afraid of a horse as you are, I'd
soak my head"
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Judge Carpenter OF the United States
district court is lover Of good tobacco
and connois eur In the art Of applying
the principle of nicotine. His Office in
the Federal building is supplied with all
the paraphernalia necessary for
IN artistic consumption Of the
weed. The judge draws his smoke
through meerschau pipe of costly
quality and delicate workmanship. 1t is
his companion when he settles him Sc II
down to ferret out the fine distinctions
IN problems of he law aud on every oc
casion is associated with the judges
personality.
Congressman Lapham or this city was
In Newport last Saturday.
Mrs. II. ID. Walker # this city will be
one OF o speakers at the annual meet
Ing of Young Womens Christian
Temperance Union in Newport next
Thursday.
Mr.. William 4. White VIII hss been q
resident OF Woonsocket for over half
century will hereafter make his ho ne
with his daughter In this city.
Miss Lucy Brown aud her sister waity
have taken up their res dence In this city.
Their former home was in West Green
wich.
An amusing incident happened In the
city postoffice one day last week. A pack
age came addressed TO ene OF the letter
carriers. He left 1t on a table and went
out for few minutes. During
his absence another letter carrier ex
amined the package and discovered that
1t contained eggs. He hunted up q box
similar to the one In the package, and
after filing 1t with envelopes, substi-
tuted it for the ORIGINAL package. He ex-
planned the 'joke" to third letter car
rier. who watched his chance az put the
original package In its proper place.
When carrier number one came
in carrier number two. not knowing that
the orig nal package OF eggs had been
substituted for the package OF envelopes,
asked In a careless manner, what have
you got in this PACKAGE f' As he spoke
he picked up the box and dropped it
violently on the f)or. When 1t
struck. all hands were hor-
rified at the result. It was some time be-
fore the matter was explained to the sat
isfaction of the man who owned the eggs.
The 'joker" had to pay for he demolished
hen fruit, and he Low threatens to MUIR
der anyone who even aliudes to eggs in
his presence.
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Rev. Edward Holyoke Is mountainser.
Every sumner when he leaves his pulpit
for his vacation he seeks some mountain
region. This year he visited his old home
in Illinois aud the Worlds sair. and then
made his way to the top Of Pixies Peak
in Colorado He Is u deep student aud
fervent lover of nature, aud seeks on her
high places the inspiration and revivi-
fcation his earnest work in the Friend
ship street Baptist pulpit renders neces-
sary.
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The record commissioners of the city
are doing excellent work in publishing
the EARLY Records of the Town of
Providence. so important AMI timely
is the task they are engaged upon. and
so faithful and intelligent is their
labor. that even suggestion OF criticism
seems ungracious. Thers is indeed small