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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-16
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The Trail of q Meteor Discovered In
Andromeda.

The Trail or Meteor Discovered In
Andromeda.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Jan. 1e.-John E.
Lewis Of Ansonia has made an interesting
as well as highly important discovery in
attempting to develop plate secured in
photographing Holmes comet Thursday
night.
The plate has been exposed to the con-
stellation Andromeda from 7.19 to 7.52
O'Clock, and In developing 1t the trail Of
an immense meteor was discovered across
the centre OF the plate. The trail was O
little north of Beta Andromeda and al
most directly over p Andromeda, running
in northwesterly diHction. 1t was in
tensely bright and the illumination was
vivid.
The meteor was apparently too distant for
the detonetion to be heard, and it is
hoped that the fragments will be picked
up in the northern part OF the state or else
In Massachusetts. Prof Herbert A. New
ton OF Yale has been communicated with
on the subject, and expresses lively in
terest in the unusual means by which the
discovery was made and substantiated.
There is about one chance in n million
for meteor to be photographed as was
this, and the fact that distinct negative
OF 1t was obtained leads permanence and
verification to the discovery.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-16
New York Market.

NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-The plethora OF
money $ 80 great ms to warratt the ex-
pectation Of easy rates for some months
TO ,mr. France having c,asei TO buy
gold aud hnviag Increased her reserve TO
the necessary point now proposes TO in
crcase the circulation Of the bank bv
500,O01O0)f.
The reports Of serious blockades In the
West d. not affect the prices of the Gran
ger stocks. Their strength is remark
able, parti ularly in view OF the fact that
the I, ming months will be- dry" I'm
serrai aud food freights.
The decline IN Manhattan continues.
lt viii DE t0n,embered that "A few months
agOs. V White in DISCUSSING the stock
said; Il is vsry uncertain nc all times
You dros vJur nickel In the slot aud GET
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-16

Time has proved the impractibility of
nearly all Of the so called Endowment
Orders and Bond Companies. Con-
ceived regardless OF the principles of
Finance and nourished by the hard
earned dollars of well meaning but de-
ceived people, they have met their fate,
and to-day there are none SO poor as
TO do them reverence" But the Endow-
ment Orders have not lived in vain.
Hundreds have been taught the neces-
sity and value OF good Life Insurance.
Savings Banks are chartered for the
express purpose of providing a means
for the accumulation of small savings
and the formation OF habits Of economy
and thrift.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-16

The best half OF life is in front OF the
man OF 40 II he be anything Of a man
The work he will do will be done with
the hand OF a master and not OF raw APP
prentice. The trained intellect does not
"see men as trees walking" but sees
everything and in just measure. The
trained temper does not rush at work
like blind bull at hsystack, but adj
yances with the calm and ordered pace OF
conscious power and deliberate determi-
nation.--Vick's Magazine.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-16

Life Insurance Companies are char
tered TO protect the family and depend
ent ones. This Rhode Island Company,
the Columbia Mutual Life, was organized
by some Of the best known and most con-
servative business men OF the State, and
combines both Life Assurance and in
vestment.
II is an institution that everybody may
safely patronize, and as the NEWS is
cesirous of doing the greatest good TO its
readers, it has arranged with the Com
$500 each and will give one without
charge for medical examination, to every
insurable person (who applies TO the
office of the Company, Room PA Butler
Exchange), upon presentation of the
COUPON on the first page ii the same Is
applied for Immediately.
To accommodate everybody the Office
will be open from A. NJ. until 1890 p. NJ.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-16

The Columbia Mutual Life Assurance
Company OF Providence Is the only as
surance company chartered In the stale
that confines its business strictly TO Life
Assurance. IL was originated by men
who have had n practical training In the
Assurance field and KNOW tho REAL
WANTS OF the people. IL was started
for the benefit OF the laooring class OF
people, giving them sGual privileges
with tho capitalist. iW plans combine
Life Assurance aud Invest ent- In fact.
It's policies are equal IN a Savings Bank
Book, as money can always be obtained
upon them after three annual payments
have been made. This Company issues
Its policies on the monthly payment
plan, which places them within the
reach OF every working person.
lt Issues POLICIES 10 WOMEN at
the SAME PRICE as MEN.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-16

what you can: But it Is going I'D now.
Keep your Manhattan until it touches
truer description OF this stock for years.
The prediction has been almost exactly
verified. The high iignre reached was
l54st. within Is of the price which Mr..
White set-and that after an advance of
20 points within a ear
Sterling rates continue firm, but there
is little prospect OF any gold going before
Saturday If any goes then
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-16
ANOTHER NEW YORK THEATRE.
The Empire, Nearly Completed at
Broadway and 10th Street.

The new theatre, the Empire, which is
rapidly approaching completion at
Broadway and Fortieth street, will be
not only one OF the handsomest OF New
York's many places of amusement, but
one of the safest. SO little wood is used
in the construction that were fire
started in any part it would soon die out
for lack of material.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-16
A VIOLENT STORM.
Snow. sleet and High Wind Along thu
EngIish Coast.

e@e"s cAcct anu WIuQ Along Nno
English Coast.
LONDON, Jan. ia heavy storm from
the northeast Is sweeping over England.
Snow, sleet and high wind prevail along
the coast. Many small accidents to ship
ping along the coast are reported.
The steamer Brighton, belonging to the
Brighten Railway Company, and plying
between New Haven and Dieppe, left port
In gale yesterday morning. She had a
terrible passage. A deckhouse and the
smokestack were washed away, one Of her
boats was smashed, and part OF her port
rail was torn away by heavy piece Of
baggage.
the storm was SO binding that the pilot
could not see beyond her bow. The
wind was blowing sixty miles Ea hour
and the seas were breaking over her deck
80 rapidly that none OF the passengers
were allowed on deck.
Without any warning the steamship
crashed into the pier. A large hole was
stove in her bow and for a minute she
stuck fast. Ropes were got aboard and
were made fast before she was driven
more than twenty feet from the pier. A
long gapgway was improvised and the
passengers were hurried ashore. There
was little panic.
Half the baggage had been got of when
the captain ordered the men to leave the
ship, which was settling. He had hardly
followed the last man to the pier when
the vessel went under.
On Dartmouth five pilots were drowned
while trying to put man abroad a cutter
The cutter was pitching heavily when the
gig approached her. The bowsprit caught
the gig and lifted it out Of water. All
seven occupants of the the gig were
thrown out but two caught the life lines
thrown to them, and were saved.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-16
Noon Quotations.
QUOTED by wILBoUR. JACKSON q co.

For late financial news and closing
quotations, see page 2.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-30
Visiting the Convict Relative,

Nearly every train that goes to Sing
Sing week days bears at least one Ut
terly sad-loOking woman. She is, as Il
rule, neatly but poorly dressed. She
takes the long walk, and a dreary one
1t must be, to the prison. The lovely
view across the Hudson she cannot see
for the gathering tears in her eyes. But
the ugly gray stone prison is distinct
enough. Down the long steps she de-
scends to the office, where a big man
in blue treats her kindly and gives her
seat on one of three hard benches. 1t
Is hardly necessary to consult the books
to find if the rules allow her to see
the prisoner she asks for.
These heartbroken women keep q
sure count of the days, and every two
months find them waiting patiently for
the husband or the son to come in his
hated stripes. The meeting is almost
without exception very, very quiet. The
convict is shamefaced and nervous, but
determined not to show his feelings or
break down as he sits there talking in
n low voice, twiddling his ugly cap.
The woman struggles braYely to keep
back her tears, but she cannot restrain
the sobs that again and again convulse
her frame. Then it Is, Times up"
and the tears break out at the parting
One can nowhere else find so utterly
pathetic and hopeless sight, yet it is
daily occurrence at Sing Sing.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-30
The ObeliskS.

The obelisks of the Pharoahs are
made of red granite called sycnite. In
tne quarrleS at Syene may yet be seen
an unfinished ObeliSk, still adhcring to
the native rock, with traces of work
mems tools so clearly seen on its SUP
face that one might suppose they haG
been suddenly called away and intend
cd soon to return and finish their work.
This unfinished Obelisk," says Rev.
j. King, in his "Clcopatras Needle"
shows the mode in which the ancients
separated these immense monoliths
from the native rock. In sharply cut
groove marking the boundary of the
stone are holes evidently designed for
wooden wedges. After these had been
firmly driven into the holes the groove
was filled with water. The wedges,
gradually absorbing the water, swellcd
and cracked the granite throughout the
length Of the groove. The block, once
Diet" ched from the rock, was pushed
forward upon rollers made of the stems
of palm trees, from the quarries to the
edge of the Nile, where it was sur
rounded by large timber raft
1T lay by the river side until the
next inundation Of the Nile, when the
rising water fOated the raft and con-
veyed the obelisk down the stream TO
the city where it was to be set up.
Thousands of willing hands pushed it
on rollers UP an inclined plane to the
front of the temple where it was de-
signed to stand. The pedestal had pre-.
viously been placed in position, and Il
firm causeway of sand covered with
planks led to the top of it. Then by
means of rollers, levers and ropes made
of the dat Dalm the OhpljSk was GRAD
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-30
A Census of AnimalR.

The most populous horse country in
the world is Russia in Europe. 1t has
2O,OO0,O0O of horses. The United
States comes next, with a horse popu-
lation of more than 100000. In pro-
portion to the number of inhabitants
the United States is far richer in horses
than Russia. But in that proportion
the United States is in turn far sur
passed by the Argentine Republic,
where, according to the latest accesSl-
bic figures, there are few more horses
than people.
The countries of western and south
crn Europe are thinly populated with
horses, compared with the American
continent and Russia. Italy, with Il
human population of more than 80
100000, has only 100000 horses. But
1t has almost twice as many mules and
donkeys as horses. Spain has only Il
few more than 100000 horses, or about
one horse to every sixty people. Most
of the "cavaliers' of Spain ride on
donkeys. The United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland has only
about 100000 horses.
The United States is the most popu-
lous mule country in the world. 1t is
also, by many millions, the most popu-
iopS plS NouhllSJ poSScSSlllS over fO,
100000 of swine. There is, also, Il
larger proportion of pigs to the hui.
man population than in any other
country-larger even than in Ireland,
country which is popularity but mis-
takenly supposed to be the Utopia of
the pig. The country of the sheep, par
excellence, is Australia.
On that continent there are q few
more than 100000 people, but there
are 62,OOO,0OO sheep-that is to say,
twenty sheep to every man, woman
and child. In the United States we
have only about 100000 sheep,
which, though a larger sheep popula-
ton than that of any other country ex-
cept Australia and the Argentine Re-
public, is not proportionately so great
number as several other countries
possess. British India has more cattle
than any other country, but the United
States has almost as many-upward Of
100000.
However, the Argentine Republic
again leads in the number of cattle in
proportion to human beings If the
cattle in Argentina were divided equal.
ly among all the people, every man,
woman and child would have five cat
tie to take care of, and there would be
enough left to give one additional crit
ter each to almost a million of the peo-
pie. Considered from the point of
view of farm animals, the Argentine
Republic is probably the most import
ant country in the world.-Youth's
Companion.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-30
The Tigers Tail.


Whats the matter with nv handr'
repeated the man who was shorn of
thumb and foretinger and otherwise
MANNED. I've had many a good sur
gcon look at it and ask the same ques-
ton. The general idea is that l got it
caught among cog wheels or revolving
knives, but the fact is tiger had hold
of it for about fifteen seconds
Were you hunting tigers?
NO. L was simply making a fool Of
myself. | was visiting the geological!
gardens at Philadelphia about ten years
ago, and among the animals was one
of the largest tigers in captivity. 1t
was warm day, and he was sound
asleep on the broad of his back, with
his paws in the air. The end of his
long tail stuck out of the cage Il bit,
and | thought it would be a smart trick
to pinch it and see the brute Jump
None of the keepers were in sight, and
the more l thought of the idea the
smarter it appeared to me- l was
twenty years old then, and of course
imagined that l was the smartest Of
smart Alccks'
And you pinched, eh?"
Il did. The guard rail was only two
feet away from the cage, and after Il
Soou iooh ttlOult l. Tedcneu over ana
nippcd that tail with great heartiness
Something roared and something moved
about five times as quick as a flash of
lightning, and the first thing | knew
the tiger had my hand in his mouth
he grabbed it before 1 could Jerk 1t
back, you see. AS he growlcd and
chcwed he also pulled backward, and
but for a keeper coming up he would
have pulled me up against the bars
and got at me with his claws
He bit the thumb and finger clean
off, and his fangs went right through
from back to palm. The keeper pound
ed him loose with an iron bar Just in
time to save me, and it took about
three years to get the hand in the
shape you see it. The doctors threat
ened to amputate it at the wrist time
and again"
And you are satisfied?"
Perfectly. A hundred tiger tails
waiting to be pinched would be no
temptation to me. I'm not one of the
sort that want the earth. If you want
to know how the old thing works drop
into a 200 some day and do some pinch
ing. '-Detroit Free Press
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-30

From some statistics Just returned to
the Governors office by State Treas.
urer Hardeman it becomes painfully
apparent that the old soldiers of the
Confederacy and their widows are
passing fast away. Col Hardeman this
morning sent in his report of the money
paid out for pensions since the first Of
March. 1t shows that the crippled
soldiers of Georgia have received dur
ing the year $1S1 ,225. There is a de-
cided falling off in the number of old
soldiers who have been drawing $1OO
year for the loss of limb or for
total disability. In 1888 there were
1000 pensioners under this head, but
from Col. Hardeman's figures there are
now only 773 pensioners under this
head, showing that nearly 800 have
died since 1883.
Capt. w. III. Harrison of the execu-
tive office, who receives all applications
for pensions, stated this morning that
the widows of the Confederate soldiers
were decreasing at an alarming rate.
Since last year ninety-one of them have
died, and as quite number have not
renewed their applications for pensions
it is presumed many of them are dead.
Last year there were eighty-three deaths
among the widows, but this year there
will be more than one hundred, besides
three marriages. Journal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-30
FREAKS OF MEMORY.
Here are Some Queer Facts About Var
Gus Noted Men.

Here are Some Queer Facts About Vari-
Gus Noted Men.
Great men are always eccentric, and
men who want the world to think they
are great begin the jugglery of eccen-
tricity early in life and keep it up. The
genuine genius has a great deal Of
trouble with his memory.
Henry Clay couldn't repeat a verse of
any poem. He couldn't repeat the old
long metre doXology, Praise God from
whom all blessings flow but he never
forgot an argument, a name or a face.
Dr. Leyden, the intimate friend of
Sir Walter Scott, could repeat an act
of Parliament after hearing its first
reading. 1t is an old story that Milton
could repeat Homer.
Charles James Fox once paid a visit
to the town of Gorcum. He was rclat-
ing an incident that occurred there.
but could not think of the name of the
town. The next day he was giving Il
dinner, and while carving he startled
his guests by calling, "Gorcum, Cor
cum" The name of the town had just
occurred to him.
Syndey Smith pretended to dcspise
memory. He said he saw no more
sense in remembering all he had read
than the dinners that had made him
fat.
The story has been told for 100 years
that Cyrus knew the names of all his
soldiers. Emperor Hadrian could re-
peat 1000 words in the order he heard
them. Angelo had. all Of Dante and
Patriarch i'll his memory. 1t is said
that Pascal knew the Bible by heart
Leibnitz could repeat nearly the whole
of Virgil
A London reporter took no notes, and
yet, when an unexpected debate sprang
up, and he was left alone he could
write it out verbatim. When listening
he closed his eyes. He called it being
held up by the ears
Prof. Lawson boosted that he could
If the Bible were lost, repeat the whole
of it with the exception of few
verses. Lord Macaulay made the same
boast about "Pilgrim's Progress and
paradise Lost" 1t will be remem-
bered that none of the works named
We're lost, so that the gentlemen We're
never put to the test. 1t is a fact,
however, that Macauley had a wonder
full memory. When boy he went
with his father to call ON gentleman
upon whose table lay SCOTS Lay Of
the Last Minstrel" Young Macaulay
read it, and when he reached home he
repeated it.
The most remarkable feat of memory
on record was that of an itinerant ac-
tor of England, William Lyon. He
won a bet of crown bowl of punch
that he could repeat the whole of an
issue of the London Daily Advertiser
after hearing it read. This was the
more remarkable because, as readers
of newspapers know, there is no sort
of connection between advertisements
and the variety is endless.
Jedediah Buxton was illitcrate. He
could tramp over a tract of ground and
tell its contents in square feet or inches
with CXactneSS.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-30
ONE LEGGED MEN.
What Becomes OF the Odd Shoe WheB
One Foot Is Fitted?

Ono Foot Is Fitted?
Just what becomes of the shoes which
should adorn the missing foot of a one
legged man is a matter of some inter
est and should furnish food for thought
TO minds of a speculative tendency
While the number of men who actually
have but one leg is not large, there are
many who from one cause or another
wear but one shoe, or from some dis
crepancy in their feet have to have one
shoe of an especial pattern. There are
also the men with artificial legs, who,
although they wear a pair OF shoes,
tread much more lightly on the arti-
hcial leg than on the natural one, MAX
Ing one shoe last about three times as
long as the other. There are some
shoe stores which, buying their goods
directly from the manufacturers are
willing to sell one-legged man a single
shoe, sending the other back to the fac
tory to be mated; but almost the uni
versal custom is to sell only whole
pairs. The question then arises: what
becomes of the large number of new
shoes which are entirely useless 10 their
owners| The solution of the problem
seems to be at present yelled in OBJ
security and known only to the ore
legged shoe wearer himself.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-30
A LIMITED TRAIN,

and, best of all, no extra charge is made over
the usual ticket rate; its running time speedy,
and equipment will consist of but one bag
gage car, one chair car two sleeping cars and
a dining car.
Tourists en- route for Pueblo and Colorado
Springs can bv this train go direct i'll sleeper
from Chicago without change. Travellers will
note the fact that this train leaves Chicago
after the arrival of all fast trains over trunk
lines from the east The train is vestibuled.
Its equipment has been built especially for it..
The cars are lighted by gas and heated by
steam from the locomotive.
The pOpnlarltY of the "AOck LNnnd'
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-30
The Infinita Number of Islands.

If we We're to count all the islands
in the world we should find that they
mounted up into the hundreds of thou
sands. There are over 1000 islands
under the flag of Japan, and in Geor-
gian Bay, the north extension of Lake
Huron, where we find very few islands
on the maps, there are in reality sey-
eral thousand islands, most of them,
of course, quite small 1t was among
these beautiful wooded little islands
that the Huron Indians took refuge
when they We're assailed in 1919 by
their implacable foes, the Iroquois.
Among the labyrinthine channels the
Ipoquois could not successfully pursue
them, and those who escaped to the
islands saved themselves from the eX-
termination which befell their friends.
A coat of paint adds no warmth to
the house.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-30
Miscellaneous Advertisements.
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-30
Observation-Disclosures

ITO sell our choice and hardy Nursery
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both in fruits and ornamentals, and controll-
ed only by us. We pay commission or
salary, give exclusive territory and pay
weekly Write us at once and secure choice
of territory. MAY BROTHERS,
NurScrymcn,
July l5-tNOv % Rochester, n. Y.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-30
DINING CAR SERVICE

is another guarantee that this train will Sc
cure, patronage, and all passengers en- route
have this luxury through to destination over
the "G,eH Rock Lsdnd." No money is spared
to make its service what our patrons always
Say-"the best
The travelling public are advised that our
"Big 5" will continue to run as usual, leaving
Chicago at 10 p. m. daily, and arrive at Den
yer, Colorado Springs and Pueblo the second
morning, being but one day out; and our
No. IL will leave at 6 p. III. daily, and ria
Kansas City will reach Denver at same hour
as the big s."
Tourists should remember that this is the
direct line to Manitou and other important
summer resorts, and by taking the
"GREAT ROCK ISLAND"
time is saved and through sleeping cars Sc
cured.
The Colorado service of the "Hock klnnd"
is now made perfect by this new Limited
Train and the Big 5''and gives to travellers
two flyers daily each way.
JOHN SEBASTIAN,
General Ticket and Passenger Agent,
4. ST. JOHN, Chicago Ill.
General Manager,
Chicago, Ill. [April Slot