The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-19
LOOKING CLASS.

Jewish New Year cards are already on
display In some Of the store windows.
The cards differ very little In fashion
from those of the Gentiles. save for n
short greeting in Hebrew, and are still
somewhat OF a novelty. but are growing
in popularity. September IL Is the First
of Tishri. the first day of the Rabbi
New Year. The Jewish calendar, having
continued unchsnged by the Christian
era, now bears for its date not the year
1893, but the year 565l The Jewish New
Year season is always celebrated with
many ceremonies aud closing festivities.
The fast of Gedaliah is afterward sue
ceeded by the Feast Of the Tabernacles.
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The Fall River and Providence Steam
boat company will. by request, give
another excursion to Marthas Vineyard
on Wednesday, Aug. 23 The steamer
Mount Hope is to carry the party, leav-
ing the Fall River Steamboat wharf at
the foot of Power street. east side, a.
$50 IN the morning. AM returning leave
the Vineyard at $3.50 in the afternoon, ar
irving home about 0 clock. This Is one
of the prettiest trips afforded the people,
and IL pleasant will be taken advantage
OF largely.
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A canine Of the poodle sort, pet OF
.ady on Federal street near Bradford. is
indebted to good natured w. A. Cooley,
well-known secret society AMI fireman. /.
for the rest of its days Of comfort upon
this sphere. This is how 1t happened.
The other evening Brother Cooley was
taking his after tea walk when be heard
pitiful howl and at once set out to see
II could find the victim, and all OF the
time the howl was being pitched In a
higher key, lie had not gone far
when he saw thecause OF the
'umpus A haodsone little poodle
was what Cooley supposed tryiag
to get into a house through par
tally open door, but seemingly was not
Moved To do 70 by "A very pretty young
ady who appeared to be in very Ler-
yous state of mind. The rescuer AT once
tame TO the conclusion that Mr.. Poodle
vas in fit and the handsome young lady
vas afraid of him. Now Cooley Is not
afraid OF a dog, fir or no fit, aud he
marched right up to the steps, and was
lbout to dispatch the Ioodle, when to
ois establishment he fonnd "A large, fero-
cious bulldog attached to the ex RENE
end of the POODLE. This called for a
change of tactics. The hero OF the story
at once made search for weapon 10 end
the days Of Mr.. Bulldog. The irst thing
that came under his observation was
portion Of an old peach can, and with
the force of modern Slmson, he
hurled the peach can at the bulldog, who
4ooseped his grip upon its cute little
victim and decided ina. he would give mp
the fight, and started of. Mr.. Bulldog
did not 20 great ways when lie changed
his mind and made one more atJack upo !
his victim; this made Cooley mad, and
this time he went into the street aud
picked up a pave stone, and rs he tells IL,
made the best snot Of his life. IL ended
the struggle. But the reward, that is the
portion that he loves to tell: the hand
some young lady thanked him and smiled
upon him to such an extent that he could
hardly remember his name when
lie was asked by the lady what 1t was
He finally got his thinking cap on and
endeavored to make he lady think that
stopping dog fights was one OF his hob
bies. but the outcome OF the whole mat
ter is that he Is nov keeping company
with the handsome youag lady and is
happy to think that the aft air ended with
yo little bloodshed and that he won such
aprize.
An inquirer writes to the Looking
lass as follows. "It may seem strange
20 you that any one claiming TO be in-
telligent does not understand the term
'l6 to l. used so commonly in discussing
the silver question. hut such Is the fact
and wish GU would insert paragraph
stating its meaning SO clearly that "A man
though fool need rot err in compre-
hending the meaning thereof" 1t means
simply that using gold as the unit OF value
the pure silver In the silver dollar
should be in proportion to the pure gold
IN the gold dollar as sixteen is to one.
That is, there should be xteen times more
grains Of silver In the silver dollar than
grains of x Id in the gold dollar. That
to be OF equal value such a ratio be es-
tablished.
Providence bail cranks are not in the
most pleasant frame of mind at the
present time, ald as the seasoa pro-
crosses they grow more and more DIS
x isted. Que Of them yes erday was seen
in front of he D9rrance aud he was
wildly lamenting tue decsdenc, OF base
ball clubs SO far as the CT y is concerned.
1T was just IL years ago today" he
said, "that the Providence team won
that famous game at Providence from
Detroit, when In the Is Ia innl ~ Charlie
Radbourn made a home run. Up to hat
point the score stood 0 to 0. aud the
crowd was wild with excitement. Cheer,
well, never heard such cheering in all
my life. and that was ball playing Now
a-days the games put up by clubs bearin
the Providence name are purely childish
affairs, and we stand pretty near the foot
aud will get there IL hard fighting will
do it. Then we led the National league.
Nov we are struggling to get at the
foot Of uaion league, aud l guess we'll
get there"
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Isaw funny thing in The electric this
morning, and the more l thought of IL
the funnier IL seemei. A man in semi
clerical dress got on the car carrying a
little hand satchel. AID no sooner was
he fairly seated than he opened the
satchel. pulled out religious monthly
paper and tackled the man sitting besi de
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