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


An enterprissig saloon keeper In the cen
tral section OF the city has invented an in.
genious device whereby lao has increased
his income and added TO tie comfort OF his
customers. He calls HIS Invention "bar.
straps" and they are used thusly: When q
customer comes In who has paid 80 many
visits to other resorts as TO be almost uli,'
able to keep on his feet. tho straps are
brought into use. The bartender holds the
customer close to the bar and passes the
straps around his waist. buckling the ends
securely TO the bar rail. 1t Is then impos-
sible for customer to fall. even IL be
wants to, and lie may stand and call for
dginks as long as his tongue is able TO
''nominate his pizen." There are often as
many as five sets of straps in use at one
time ia this barroom.
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Robert 10 uis Stevenson has written
letter TO the society for Psychical Re-
search, in which he announces that he
has discovered that he has dnal person.
aity, one intelligent and reas enable and
the other illogicsl and even mad.
These ''two fellows" rs he calls
them. have on several occasions
Tough for the mastery over his physical
body and sometimes one has succeeded
~ d sometimes the other. He Is always
conscious OF the . ruggle aud is always
indignant when the ''other fellow" or the
mad man, secures control of him. The
"other man" is n convenient fellow To
have about the house under some circum-
Stances, but the public generally takes
little stock In dual personalities.
Do not grow old--there is too much to lose;
The world has need of all these precious
things
This fresh young face, these eyes like wood
land springs,
This shadowy hair which every zephyr wooA
.'kese subtle graces, all these lovely hues,
This voice like echoes from melodious strings.
Do not grow old-there is too much TO lose;
Tho world has need Of all these precious
things.
The latest fad among the pipe-smokers
OF the city is to use common Tommy
Dodd" clay pipe, which after belug
smoked for some time gets to look like a
cross between stick OF licorlce and two
ior-live cigar. IL must be a cultivated
taste. as putting the end of clay pipe in
ones mouth is much the same as eating
dirt. Some prefer the "Home Rule" pipe
but the old ~. ID. seems To hold its own.
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At recent Lair a. inventor exhib-
tied machine that be had constructed for
converting grapes into sugar and sirup.
Experts who witnessed the operation and
others affirm that the process is complete
success. The experiments were mostly con-
fined TO Muscat and other sweet grapes
ito carry alarge amount of saccharine
matter. Heretofore the difficulty has been
in granulating grape sugar. But by this
new process i y claiped thst granulation
Is perfect.
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The styles In engagement rings are
changing as in everything else. There
used to be time when only solitaire
diamonds were used. but now this is be-
in given up aud emeralds, opals and tur-
qloises. surrounded by diamonds, are COM
ing TO be the correct thing. There ia one
good point about the solitaire diamond
in that when you see one on the tbird
finger of young lady's left hand you
can be pretty sure that she is engaged,
while the same viii not apply with re-
gsr1 TO the mixed stones