The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-11-18
LOOKING GLASS.

We have had, or rather are having. a
lovely autumn. 1t is eight years or so
since we had SO long continuance or
pleasantly warm weather, but our last
remarkable long protractsd autumn
was followed by a severe, though brief,
winter. 1t may be hat we are TO un-
q, rgo like experiences. liz the winter be
severe the coal question will be vary Sc
riCus one to most families at the
present price OF coal. A mild winter
would be godsend TO the poor In many
ways this year.
A gentleman in this city who takes u
deep interest in marine architecture.
says that at last jules Verne's dream OF
the Nautilus has been fully realized. A
new submarine boat has just been COM
pleted in TIE West aud has been
under trial for the past few days
with complete success. The boat is a
steel shell. cigar-shaped. fifty feet long
aud eight feet in diameter, with a dome In
the center. which is hermetically sealed
when In operation. Electric machinery
by storage batteries propels the craft.
lights il. and raises and lowers il In the
water There are also machinery aud
chemical apparatus for manufacturing
dle-power search light swings in
the dome, which has lenses on all
sides. All the mac 1inery works auto
matically and the craft rises and falls and
speeds under water like fish. Much OF
the apparatus came from France. Several
people have been down in her during her
successful experiments the last few days
and tho boat is pronounced marvel OF
inventive skill by all who have seen it.
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Henry Marteau. the celebrated French
violinist, will appear at Infantry hall,
December 10, under the auspices OF the
Stsr course. Marteau has been n musi-
clan from infancy and is now
ranked among the most famous
violinists OF the aye. La 1882 he
obtained the first prize from the Paris
conservatory. He visited this country
last season and appeared in few con-
certs. He is now making an extended
tour of the United States under the
direction of Rudolph Aronson aud X. L.
Johnston.
It is no fairy story when we tell of
children who are frightened into nervous
and hysterical conditions simply because
Of the awful tales that are told them by
nursemaids whose conscences, il they
have any, are so dulled that they feel
no compunctIon in terrorizing their
charges, and so long as they can get
away for an hours gossip or good time be-
low stairs they think nothing of the poor
little frightened baby who lies in the dark
with fluttering heart, awaiting in tear
full anticipation the awful things that will
take him IL he raises his voice in protest.
It is no wonder that children gro Y up to
be cowardly men aud women when at the
outset their lives are shadowed by the un-
truthful statements of those who thing
nothing Of converting even the best of ma
lures into some horrible bogy for the
simple purpose of Tightening children
almost out of their existence. Many
mother little dreams that the child whom
she thinks so good to go to sleep without
rocking lies awake half the night in abject
terror, owing to the tales that have been
told It by ignorant servants or others TO
whom the care of the child is irksome II
should be mothers duty to thoroughly
investigate the daily intercourse between
the child and it's paid attendant, and
make so certain of the kind of things that
are being impressed on the growing mlnd
that she need never have TO look back TO
the time and wish regretfullv that she
had known the sort of training that was
being fiiven to her little ones.
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Mrs. Heeise- Simmons of this city is
visiting Miss Lille Greene OF Pontiac
Miss Maude Wilson Of this city has re-
turned to her home after q few days
visit with her friend, Miss Bertha NJ.
Wood, Of Centreville.
Mrs. Henry Seamans of this city is
visiting relatives in Washington.
Mrs. A. E. Vars of Mantle spent yester-
day with her friends in this city.
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An enthusiastic kodak fiendin Ed gewood
says that the uses of these little cameras
are manifold and gave me clipping
from Western paper which related how
three burglars in Grand Rapids, Micn.,
were trapped By it's means. For some
time a prominent firm has been a loser
by persistent till-tapping. aud all
other devices failing two elec,
tricians arranged "a camera 70.
cused on the cash drawer, and an electric
connection was made with the Edison
company's plant to operate 1t. A burglar
alarm d vice was fitted in the cash drawer
so that when the till was opened the cleo
trio connection was made and the
shutter OF the camera opened expos
ing the lens and at the same instant set
ting off calcium fashlight. AS soon
as the hashlight fuse burned out il broke
tie circuit and the camera lens closed
automatically with the photographs OF
the tiIl-tappers imprinted on the iustan-
taneous plate. The three young men III
the job were startled by the hashlight,
but a. no demonstratlon followed they
finished thej job in peace. The suspects
we're arr sted and when confronted by
the Photograph broke down and made
tull confessions.
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THE peremptory sale of 16 600 packages
CT domestic cottons by auction, advertised
In New York. shows wha, kind OF de-
pand the factories have" said n we'll
known manufactures today. THE only
way you can get rid Of goods today is 60
rifce them and take what you can get,
for no one knows how soon foregn-made