The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-06-15
AS IN A LOOKING GLASS.
The Dongs, Sayings, Happenings ana
Sights of a Day in the City.


club house. This was the pioneer shore
club and from it have sprung all the 9TH
ers which have found u summer habita-
tion in the shady groves that overlook
the bay The late Ben Buffum ana ms
companions who first conceived the IDEA
of establishing summer cluo on tne
rocky promotorv at old Ocean Cot!aHe
lit le thought that In after years iheir
example won be followed Dy SO many
of the business men Of this city ana VI
cinity.
The Andrews estate on South ANGER
street is 10 be purchased by the hhode
Island Bethany Home. and as soon as the
transfer Of the property Is mace .ne
TO suit the needs Of the home.
There would be decided addition TO
the sum OF male happiness from now un-
til September If heavy tax could De
put upon starch and all perpetrators Oh
starched linen. Everything mas its np-
.proprfntc- -scusup,-rnd the season Tor
starcn is not during the months that
taboo the oyster.
The Fourth of July is upon us. The
Glorious Fourth has always been greaI
day and it is getting 20 be long day.
1t has begun out Prairie avenue way
cracker and the plink-plink o. the snappy
torpedo stirred the placidity OF the air
usually sacred to scrub baseball, marbles,
pitcb-penny and other classic games OF
youth. Doubtless 1t is the same else
where IL is pitiful, but from now until
July at 1859 p. m. We must expect
boom-tzz-baugplink. with the customary
odors
There is q loud demand for all-night
street cars on certain routes, or at least Tor
one or two more cars later than they are
now run, aud one or two earlier in the
morning. IL has been suggested that the
matter he brought to the attention OF the
Union Railroad company by means OF n
petition from the men who are now ire
ouently compelled TO walk home or take
"A coupe Providence is blossoming into
"A metropolitan city with great rapidity,
and there is no doubt that there is need
OF more cars between midnight and the
first morning cars on some or the routes.
Perhaps they will be put on when the
electric motor entirely supplants the
horse.
The brief prepared by the Democrats to
set forth their side OF the case In the en-
broglio In he general assembly VIII De
presented TO the supreme court next Sat-
urday. a hearing will probably DO set
soon.
There is rooster up In my neighbor-
hood who is laboring under singular
delusion. About half-past nine every
evening lie begias TO crow; and he crows
and crows as though the bright orb OF
day had arisen aud put an end TO the
slumbers OF his whole harem. IL rs not
an occasional CROW, such rs all cockerells
are prone TO indulge in Of an evening. but
real op-o'-the-morning, break-o'-day,
get-up-to- breakfast heraliing OF IA new
day. The rooster is evidently n fool or a
knave. All the neighb)rs believe the
latter and are watching out for genuine
aark-skinned henroost depredator TO give
the tip to.
''The fast racing yachts npon which
the attention of the yachting world is ut
present concentrated are absolutely use
less, so far as practical purposes are con-
cerned." " said well-known yachting en-
thusiast today. 80 much OF the weight
is put into ballast that the boat above
the water line becomes mere cookie
shell and it is with ditlicnity that the
sailor can maintain mis- equi ibrium.
Owing To The great depth OF tue Keel OF
these boats IL IL impossible TO put into
most OF the ports. One of the celebrated
racers draws twenty feet or water aud
cannot get into any port except New
York The impracticability or RI GERS
Las put them bes ond tie reach. of any
one except professional miliouaires"
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Probably everybody has notices that
many people contract the habit OF hur-
rying when to hurry is necessary ami
Keep it up all through life. when hurry
becomes not only unnecessary but in
furious. Some men are possessed with
the ambition TO get ahead Of everybody
on the sidewalk, ant when they get To
their destination they have TO wait for
the man they are to meet On a railway
train there Is a scramble to get of before
Ion tnh. A han H.. lanN
station before Providence on a Boston
train has been passed about every man
who intends 10 stop here becomes uneasy
and edges toward the door. Four-hfths
o. all this appearance OF haste Is wholly
unnecessary aud decidedly har nful. 1t
= does not promote economy OF time, but
waste. IL also ruins nerve and temper,
and produces indigestion anu u long list
Of other bodily ailments
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1t is pity that there is not some city
ordinance which would protect ths
householder against the nuisa CO of cir
culars aud haudblls. Daily mans hail
is Int cred and mis- waste basket gorged
with this trash. Ghastly publications,
detailing cures of disgusting disea ses,
are thrown into the faces Of your wife
and children, coupled with invitations To
purchase Jersey lightning whiskey for
"family use" Patent medicine PAM
phtts drift into the doorway like De-
cembers snow. IL occurs TO some fellow
TO send out his circular ia the form of a
telegram. 4 bis OF course Is received
when you are absent from the city, aud
your family have a bad five minutes be-
fore the cheat is discovered. Some great
mind has lately devised the brilliant idea
of sending TO your house what purports
To be bill, which on examination proves
To be receipted, aud on further reading
turns out To be the smart advertisement
of firm of would b. fashionable stati-
oners," ana these mistaken men seem TO
think that by trusting this ex'tsp psratin x
trash into the faces OF well-to-do people
they are going To secure their custom.
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The Roger Williams Baptist church
was the first in the field with company
OF the Boys brigade, and now the
Friendship Street Baptist church is fol-
loving SUIT.