The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-09
RIGHT TO THE PO/NT.

RIGHT TO THE PUNT
The Providence News has been much
improved by a new dress of t"pe aud
new head. The head is especially to be
commend ed.-Westerly Weekly.
Our militiamen will be soon metam or
phosed into sharpshooters IL individual
zeal to capture Capt. Boylan's bronze
Roman statue is in any proportion to the
artistic merit and appropriateness OF
that trophy. Look to your sights,
soldier laddies-
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President Olcott Of the Union Railroad
syndicate trust company-The city 10
yours IL the acts of the future back up
the statement of the present, that you
twill give the best possible service that
money can secure" Money can accom-
plish everything where the will Is good
in expendipg it. The beginning is prom
ising. Let the good work 60 on. Provi-
dence can stand 1t.
II President Cleveland and Assistant
Secretary OF State Josiah Quincy stick
managing poll ticians In Office what will
become OF the Bay state Democracy. OF
whose organization the crafty Josiah
has of late obtaiped such autocratic con
troll as TO become almost its be-all and
end-allf
Apropos, the Tammany braves profess
to be much delighted with Mr.. Quincy's
appointment. which they regard as q
conc ession to them. Verify, a little sop
goes great ways sometimes. But it il
not unlikely that Grover will keep an
eye on fat consular appointments and
disappoint the Gotham warriors who ex-
pect such great things from the Boston
chieftain.
Moral Of the attempted murder near
Pawtucket: Never comment disrespecI-
fully of he product of your neighbor's
tailor.
Was the strangers comment that
Providence seems more particular t.
remove snow from its streets than from
It's sidewalks" altogether undeservedf
Not even the i'll wind of crinoline fails
to blow some good. Its faint puffs have
given a boom to the business Of the Paw
Falls. But after the i'll wind gets at the
crinolIne, when made up and adorning, or
the opposite, our fair ones, then but
that's quite different story.
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Tie a string to your straw hat. The
steamboat companies are swabbing up
their decks for summer action.
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1t scarcely speaks well for the back bone
OF Massach usetts pris N officials that the
youthful governor feels forced to try aud
suppress the disorder in the state prison
by a personal visit.
The attendants Of the Dover, n. H., in
sane asylum who furnished their patients
matches should be given secure cells
when the new asylum building is COM
pleted.
The telephone patent has expired, but
unfortunately the same cannot yet be
said of the man who swears through the
telephone.
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The crying need Of the times is an ap-
paratus that will put out the firebuR
rather than the fire.
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BY the way. Mr.. Cleveland, how about
that extra session of Congress-
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The attention of Mr.. Mcleod is re-
spectfully called to the fact that he does
not appear to be in it.
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Yes. gentlemen of the House, Gov.
Brown is right in wishing that the
charges against the Soldiers Home be
investigated. The fullest light that can
be turned upon worthy institution can
not injure IL. On the contrary complete
publicity as TO he methods at the Home
should be courted by all interested in IL
that the stigma which, however unde-
served, is always left by the circulation
OF such reports, may be effectually
blotted out.
The vanderbilts are doing heap Of
quiet chuckling these days.
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Certain Indians gamblers, whose daily
bread has been endangered by advocates
Oh law duu OTutf, ndNc Ttbailtbeu Dl Sc
curing indictments against their perse-
cutors on charge Of playing progressive
euchrs. The professional gam bier is very
much at Lome when 10 comes to bluffinx.
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The patents on the original telephone
were expired 1t Is true, but still 1t is not
safe to talk back at Central" The
telephone girl Is patented by process
unknown to governments. aud the patent
will never run out IL IL should there
would be no danger of intringsnt. The
"Helloi what number" girl inilnitable.
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Princess Kaiulani is all ready TO inter
view President Cleveland. The Ameri.
can reporter is awaiting the process with
deep throbs Of sympathy.
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The cyclone is Fastening the season
somewhat, but it is probably discouraged
| by the seeming reluctance OF spring.
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II Igo had gone he wouldn't have been
stabbed
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