The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-14
LOOKING CLASS.

Ing the hot spell last week her llttle
grandson. who is full OF mischief. thought
he would play u joke On his grandma her.
The next morning when the pan WAS PUT
on the step, h filed IL partly with wair
and then yelled 'I-c-ev' IL was nearly
five minutes before the grandmother
started to take the ice into the house.
She was surprised /, find the ice had
melted so quickly. Meantime the iceman
had come and saw no pan for the ice
He did not leave the usual piece, and the
grandmother was telling her neighbors
of the unusual heat until the young hope
full told his big brother about the joke he
played.
While America leads the world In the
manufacture Of shoes, and the amount Of
money involved In the shoe trade. yet no
American has ever had SO much money
Invested on a pair of shoes as did Sir
Walter Raleigh. They were probably
not "A quarter a. serviceable as the-S3
shoe,I but they cost more than whole
team load of them. The shoes Raleigh
wore on court occasions Of great
distinction were of buff leather,
covered with precious stones end valued
at $35, 900. The dan dies OF the Eliz ibethan
era spent money royalty. Sir Walter had
the seed pearls that ornameute the seams
now and then detach itself and fall
upon the floor, where it would lie to
be picked up or crushed beneath
the heel of some passer-by,
this was merely to show his indifference
to money i am told. however. that there
is a pair OF shoes In Providence that can
not be purchased for love nor for money.
1t is a pair that Greeley's party had with
them in the Arctic regions and upon
which they were to make their last meal
when they were rescued. Already
two pairs OF boots had been
eaten and this pair was about
all that remained TO check
that terrible hunger which it Is said only
ca nibalism stayed. These shoes were
gwen by one OF the survivors to a friend
living in this city, who keeps them as a
constant reminder of the awful peril To
which size exposed one who loved her be.
cause OF mere woman's whim which
drove him into the frozen North.
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An observant Providence man has dis
covered that every man carries com
pass in his watch -pocket-that is, III he
carries a watch. Whenever he gets in
one Of the other An efican cities, not
SO geometrical'y laid out, he pulls out
his chronometer and it tells him at
once. not only the tine, but the four
cardinal points as well. "All watches
are compasses." he declares and with
mine 1 could find my way out OF an
African 70 est or over the trackless sea
i simply point the hour hand to the
sun. aud the south is just halfway be-
tween the hour and the fgure XII ou the
watch. / is o'clock now, for instance.
Pointing the short hand TO the sun, the
figure VII on the dial is due south and
the tick-dash celotng 22ll minutes
after the hour is due east. A bewildered
traveller could thus box the whole com
pass upon his timepiece. The nan who
made the first watch was really the invea
tor Of the compass"
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An east side girl hastily threw her
br Tiers blazer on h r few days ago
to run around the corner. o the way
she encountered SOM frieuds, and one OF
them embarrassed her extremely by pull
ing pipe a. d bag OF tobacco out OF the
pocket.
Things haint what they orter be-"
snivelled n dilspidated looking tramp
Saturday afternoon in the vicinity OF the
clrcus grounl. 'T've ID bti luck, /
have. Last night / was Urful hungry
and / couldn't stan it no longer so laid
for a feler out in the park. 1 went
through his pockets d all L got was
one little bottle / took it To an electric
light aud blame NE IL didn't read on Il,
'PepSin, for that full feeling after eat
Ing Nice tow, this Providence" and
be kicked out at stray cat AMI slouched
of towar Is the centre of the city.
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The mail received by a newly. married
couple is something horrible TO con-
template. The announce . ents 20 out
one day and the de uge of circulars be-
gins the next. Several frms offer 10
pack wedding presents and ore them
for almost nominal charge. O0e trust
company volunteers to place the mar
riage certificaie, with the wills OF the
contracting parties In sale deposit
vault free Of charge. while another begs
TO present a select list of houses Tor r,nt
and foI sale. Physicians send their cards.
aud the managers of orphan asylums
solicit contributions. An uphols ere
submits his ca d OF rates, and art dealers
rward catalogues OF bri:-a-bcac,
pictures aud the like. Proprietors of
circulating libraries seld their addresses,
W Tn catalogue, and hair dressers mail "A
pamphlet on bleaching hair and the re-
moval Of ffacal blemishes.
Nearly seven hundred people OF this
city boarded the steamer City OF Rich
mond last Saturday night for the trip to
New York and Bay Ridge. The entire
trip was one OF the smoothest
and pleasantest of the year. The wind
was favorable during the entire trip aud
the voyage was unmarried by acci-
dents or delays of any kind. The
steamer let Hopkins wharf
at 730 p M. Saturday, and reached New
York at lO:45 the next morning. n ary
100 OF the passengers disembarked here
and the remainder vent on TO Couey
I,laud, where some time was spent in
viewing the attractions of the famous
pleasure resort. The steamer left the
island Mt $3.50 D. m. yesterday and
New York at 5 p. M. reaching
this city at 1:lJ this morning