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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-10-09
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v,o LEr-FISE UPPER TENEMENT OF NINE
l. rooms; six on floor; SEPARATE entrances: all
nrdern improvements. Addrcfs HIS. care Proyi-
d"nce News. Oct7-in-3t
no LET-ON HARRISON STRkET, UPPER
Il tenement OF ak rooms with all modern impr,ve-
ments, Including sptakirg tubes. Rent S,52DU.
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l. tenement In new house. entirely separate from
fcsto house,. Eleven nac rooms and every tom
yenirnce. Address H-2i. Prov. News. oct U-2n-i2t
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1NO LET-ON ELECTRIC al ROUTE NEAR
l. city. A very desirable house OF tor rooms
with bath room, hot and cDid water. SCI bowls,
furnace, open fireplace In Ave roo ns; W. acres %
land With plenty OF fruit ana sha lie trees; rent low
10 desirable party. Address C-2J. News ofhcs
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-10-09
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no LET PREMISES CENTRALLY LOCATED
II for shops. suitable for carpenters blacksm tbs
vheelwtight- or anything IN that line. Isaac H..
''' oct -.is
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-10-09

LOR SALE IN PROVIDENCE A SMALL
i cottag large lot, fruit trees, vine. etc.; $1,000;
$3.50 cash. balance on easy terms. See photograph
octs-7-0t
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-10-09

ON THE EAST SIDE FOR SALE-MODERN
cottage house Z 700; 9 $40 down. b alamo easy,
monthly payments. Isaac l.. Con, weybo.set
corner Dorrance streets. oct7-l3-6t
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-01

If it could he possible, one could al
most believe there were microbes CT
crime IId suicide floating in the air as
well as microbes OF diphtheria and
smallpox. Numerous and desperate
train robberies have been committed
this year. Men masked and armed to
the teeth suddenly beard train and
hold loaded pistol to the engineers
head while their coufclerates proceed
to rifle the express Car. Two of the
desperadoes engaged in the Oliphant
train robbery We're caught lately and
taken to Little Rock. They were
found to be wealthy farmers belonging
to the best families in their neighbor-
hood. They were themselves married
and the fathers of families. Why should
sane men of this class, men who have
all the necessities of life in plenty,
throw to the winds their whole standing
as decent citizens henceforth by engag-
ing in vulgar train robbery unless
there was such a thing as contagion of
crime?
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-01
The British Farm Laborer.

English editors certainly ought to
know their own country. Serfdom was
prevalent in the days of William the
Conqueror and afterward But in the
reign Of Elizabeth, in the year 1874 it
was said that the last serf on British
soil had been manumitted.
The reader will find, however, by
perusing the following paragraph from
All the Year Round that this was a
mistaken impression. Serfdom still
fourishes in free Britain in form as
ubiquitous as it ever did, apparently.
The tiller Of the soil does not begln to
be as comfortable and well fed as the
four footed animals upon the farm:
An agricultural laborer who is married and
has family never buys meat. He never
| tastes il unless it is given him as a dole. Ee
| never takes "a holiday. When holiday is
| forced upon him, it means short commons
that is, nothing to eat. The only prospect he
| has in life is not alone the prospect but the
| certainty OF getting poorer-poorer and poorer
| with the house" in the end.
| If he is luCny, and the parson and the SQUIRE
| and such like look after the parish, he Will be
| recipient OF clarity from the cradle to the
| grave. He will never have anything in the
shape of rational amusement, neither he MOI
| his. Were anything of that sort to come his
way, he might cape and stare and Taught
| you can call the houting sound he makes laugh.
ter. But not only would he not enjoy himself
he would not understand what was meant
| He lis imbruted-a mere animal. That is what
Sweet Auburn, loyeliest village of the pain,
in the present year of grace has made him
| His only enioyments are material-beer and
'baccy. The wise folk who speak of improving
his condition seem disposed to begin by depriv.
ing him of those.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-01
Our Commercial supremacy.

Mr.. John R. Proctor, writing in The
Forum, says that ENGLAND seems to be
either trying to fetter the commerce of
the world or insure the good behavior
of mankind by acquiring strategic
points all over the world and fortifying
them, in addition to having coaling sta
tons scattered through all the oceans.
He does not like to see England having
everything her own way, but declares
that the United States should enter the
struggle for commercial supremacy and
wrest it from the mother country's
grasp He mentions fact rather to
our discredit, as follows: A New York
merchant not lcng since desired to ship
a cargo of camel coal from Norfolk to
Rio Janeiro and found that he could
send it from Norfolk to Liverpool, then
reship it to Rio Janeiro cheaper than he
could send it direct from Norfolk to
that place,
The United States now possesses IS
per cent of all the coalfelds of the civil
lied world. In 1891 the United States
turned out 81 per cent Of the worlds
output of pig iron, England only 80 per
cent. The United States produces so per
cent of all the cotton grown. Yet we
only manufacture one-sixth of the
worlds supply. Great Britain manufac-
lures three times as much and distri-
butes throughout the world not only
that product but nearly all the rest.
Mr.. Proctor does not believe that the
war caused the decline in the American
merchant marine. 1t began before the
war, he says, Immediately following
1856. The cause of the decline he at
tributes to the immense development of
our own west and south and the build
ing of many railways. This gave a
more profitable investment for our CAPT
tai than the putting of it into ships for
commerce. Now, however, producing
so great proportion of the worlds raw
material, it is our duty to get back the
commerce we formerly enjoyed. The
first step toward this is the completion
quickly of a canal across the isthmus,
thus connecting the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans. ...
Mr.. Proctor does not believe in tar
! iff. He says that England's commercial
supremacy on the seas dates from her
| adoption Of free trade. But Great Brit
ain subsidies her ocean steamers liber-
| ally on condition that in case of war
they form part of her naval reserve. To
match this Proctor thinks our govern
ment should aid in building the isthmus
canal, and then allow to pass through it
free such American ships as agree to
form part of our naval reserve.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-01
About High Art.

Who is the greatest, the person that
gives the most pleasure and profit to the
largest number of people or the one that
does a work which pleases a few critics
and nobody else knows anything about2
1t is a question ambitious young artists,
authors and musicians may well put to
themselves at the start of their careers.
It has happened not seldom that the
music, pictures or books which the orig
inator of them himself thought least of
have been those that made his fame inn
mortal. The great public itself often
has a truer critical instinct than the
learned .,..
Criticism is u fashion of the hour, like
bonnet. If he painting or poem, like the
bonnet. is out Of the fashion. the critics
sheer at it. The very same style comes
to be fashionable again by and by. Then
the critics applaud. The pubic, on the
contrary, knows what it likes and trou-
bles itself no further.
Abat 10 thC llNVSI, SItdleSG dTIlSI III
any walk who strives to at once please
the public and cultivate and refine their
taste. Tie carpet and wall paper artists
who changed the crude, gaudy patterns
Of generation ago to the soft, rich,
tremendously bIendedhues and patterns
of the present day have done a greater
service than il they had painted some
Of those stat'y od pictures in the Euro
pean clurchcs and galleries. The com
poser who ahall write q song that viii
thrill and inspire the common people
holEg ho l,,aa more than lie who gives
it d;lloul. oEera.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-01

There are two or three clever actresses
now in the city who have discovered a
new wrinkle. Whenever they don a cos
tune for the first time they HE away to
the Crystal Maze on the corner of Thir-
ty-eighth street and Broadway. There
they walk through the labyrinth of mir
.ors and study the effect of their raiment
rom every point of view. In one place
hey can see themselves walking appar-
emily 90 or 80 feet ahead and observe
themselves exactly as they appear to the
audicncein front of the footlights. Harry
Miner, Charles Frohman, Rice and other
managers are parties to the scheme, and
tits through their intervention that Man
ager Secnal viii turn on the lights in
the morn tng or aftet hours and give the
women the opportunity they desire
New York Sun.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-01
THE NICTHEROY's DYNAMITE GUN.
profcssor ncwar,s Achievement.

Since Professor James Dewar has sue
ceoded in hquefying oxygen, and other
chemists have been able to liquefy other
gases, it has been suggested that the 5rue
definition Of gls is that it is the vapor
given OF by liquid. This win not do. If
pressure at low temperature can be ap-
piled to make liquid out of gas, there
is reason to believe that if.greater pres
sure We're applied at still lower temp era
ture then the liquid could be reduced to
a solid Water as we usually see it is a
liquid, uut at a higher temperature it is
vaoor; at lower one Il solid. Professor
Dewar's great achievement favors moth
ing less than the startling theory that
all substances, whether we know them
commonly as solid, liquid or vapor, can
be reduced to all three of these forms.
Thee question is, Which isthe original one?
We know that the first form of mat
ter, so far as science can judge, was
| gaseous-star mist or fire mist. That
was the original form of matter, if we
can suppose it to have had at all an
original form. The right way to put
the definition, then, would be that asolid
or liquid Is gas which has been sub,
jected to pressure at the proper en-
perature. Both pressure and tenn erl-
ture are of course different for diffe eat
substances, if indeed all substa ices
may not some day be proved to be one
identical form of matter, differentiated
by diverse arrangement of atom and
molecule and varied conditions.
Dowur's discovery Will add to science
a new cxpression-namcly, the critical
point Or temperature of u gas. The
earlier attempts to liquefy oxygen were
unsuccessful, because they consisted OF
the application Of pressure at too high d
temperature. The exact degree Of cold
to which gas must be reduced before
1t viii liquefy under pressure is called
its critical point" The critical point
for oxygen gas is 1G6 degrees below
freezing point-that is to say, 1874 de
gre.s below zero. In obtaining liquid
oxygen Professor Dewar has succeeded
in reaching temperature of 25G deg .ees
below zero. Professor Dewar isa SEQ oh
man by birth. He was the pupil and as
sistant Of Sir Lyon Playfair, and he is al
present professor Of natural experiment
tai philosophy in the University of Cam
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-01
FRIDAY MORNING, DEC. /, 1898
The Real Poor.

The class that during the coming win
ter will need all the help that people
who are provided for can give are the
respectable persons ont of employment,
Ordinarily they earn sufficient for them
selves and their families, perhaps even
laying up a lutte. But this winter many
of them can get no work. Mills and
factories are shut down, commercial
houses have closed or are reducing their
force, Terrible indeed is the prospect
for the man or woman thus thrown out
to face tine cold world on nothing a
week. OF course, the unfortunate of
real pluck will strain every nerve to
catch ON again and at least earn bread.
But with all such plucky ones can do to
help themselves there will still be many
left temporarily without bread or a roof
to shelter them. Almost everything can
be done temporarily except starving
That man cannot do.
The really high spirited among these
at first feel as though they would rather
die than ask for food. Then hunger
drives them on, and they appeal with
beating heart to the well to do individ-
ual who passes by. This class should
never be denied. Help them to food and
lodging wheasyor they ask. You can
always tel the really deserving poor.
Hundreds of well dressed, honest per-
sons walk the streets today not knowing
where tlleir next meal is to come from.
! Everybody must help them.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-01
of them need praying for badly.

The first case under the new Russian
extradition treaty has been settled with
credit to the United States. Nine con-
victs recently escaped from Siberia and
after horrible sufferings found refuge on
American ships bound for San Francisco.
They were landed there in due time.
Then the attempt was made on the part
of the Russian authorities to make the
men out criminals of the worst sort
One was counterfeiter, it was charged;
another an embezzler; still a third a
murderer, and SO on. This was natur-
ally the resort of government not
scrupulous in its diplomatic and detect
i've methods. 1t was the fear of such
misrepresentation as this that caused
the American public last year to protest
so vigorously against the ratification of
the new treaty with Russia under the
form in which it was presented. How
ever, in case of the refugees at San
Francisco, the American government de-
cided that they We're bona fde political
prisoners in Siberia, and that the United
States had no right to hold them. The
Russian minister was notified of this de-
cision, and Secretary Carlisle ordered
the release of the men.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-01
One Lack In America.

II Is worth while TO pay heed to the
criticisms of intelligent foreigners who
wish well 10 the United States. Such a
foreigner is NJ. Henri de Vilmorin, sec
rotary of the Agricultural society of
France, and himself an eminent profess
sional hortieulturist and floriculturist,
He says the thing that impressed him
most strangely and unpleasantly was
the lack Of private gardens in America.
He thought our people were kept so busy
moving Yves ward that they had no time
to wait till trees, flowers and shrubs
would grow properly about home,
The finest gardens he found were,
rather oddly, in the vicinity of Boston,
where the climate is as unfavorable to
flowers as that of almost any part of the
Union. At Beverly, Mass, he found
some very beautiful gardens and some
extraordinarily pretty flowers, He no.
ticed with peculiar satisfaction, how
ever, that we We're improving in this re-
spect and that our private houses, rail-
way stations and public parks displayed
many more flower beds and well kept
lawns than was the case three years ago,
when M. de Vilmorin was in America.
He was sure the trade in cut flowers in
our cities had quite doubled in tie last
three years, and the quality of the roses,
pinks and chrysar themums was higher
than it is in Europe The charges for
these beautiful flowers he found very
moderate, He hoped that this love for
cut flowers would develop the taste for
flower cultale in private homes The
greatest PERCUSSION Of flowers and the
most enthusiastic flower lovers NJ. de
Vilmorin found in California.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-01
ODDS AND ENDS.
Russian farmers hold an average of Q:
acres to each family.


Russian farmers hold an average of 2.
acres TO each family,
On an average there are 10000 adver-
tiseInents week in the II London morn
ing papers.
Sierra means a saw, and its applica-
ton to a range of pointed mountain
peaks is very apt and poetical
Aristotle defined law to be reason
without passion, and despotism or arbi-
trary power to be passion without rea-
son.
Some insurance companies will allow
the use of none but the old fashioned
sulphur matches in the houses they in
sure.
PGsteboard in shoe soles, chicory in
coffee, aloes IL tea, sticks of wood in
baled hay, make trade lively and keep
ihe language vigorous,
Tie greatest fortress is Gibraltar. 1t
IS considered impregnable to military
attack. 1t was besieged by the Span
iards for three years without success.
In every land between Spitzbergen and
Patagonia there is some species of the
common blood sucking mosquito. In
British America and Alaska they are
very large aal troublesome,
The full bench of the Boston supreme
court has decided that man is justified
in preventing dog fight. and that if in
doing such a thing he gets bitten the
owner Of the dog must pay damages.
The English sovereign's sons and
grandsons, when created peers, are en-
titled to seats in the house of lords at
the left of the throne, but when, by the
death Of their father, they become only
collaterally related to the sovereign
! they sit among the dukes.
People need not suffer from corns or
other pedal troubles if they will change
their shoes three times day." asserts
man who has tried the experiment.
Where one pair pinches another sets
easily, and frequent changes Of footgear
keep the circulation il order and the toes
untisigured."
The fashion of decorating the dining
table is not modern one, but is the re-
yival Of an ancient custom. Old French
tables Of any rretension to elegance
were adorned with permanent center
pieces called surtouts, made Of glass and
silver mounted. From these branched
silver and gilt candelabra.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-01

Across the Harlem river at New York
is bridge unique of its kind in the
world. 1t does duty as drawbridge
for the New York Central road, but in
stead of being composed of the familiar
span and turn table which belong to
other such structures this is a drop
bridge. When vessels pass through the
Harlem waters at that spot, the bridge
is lifted bodily in the air at one end,
leaving the river free. The span is 60
feet long, and it is lifted by an engine
which raises it up between two giant
iron frames 100 feet high. When the
steamer passes, the drop bridge is swung
gently down again.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-01

The "GibrHltar of Repablicanism, as
Philadelphia has been sometimes called,
seems to be ia Il bad way over the col
ored police question. In Brooklyn, ruled
till the last election by Democrats for
some years. the colored policeman hunks
in with his White brethren of the force,
occupying the same headquarters and
sleeping room. AT first there seemed to
be some friction and nervous irritable
ity in regard to it on the part of some
police gentlemen of Hibernian descent,
but this rubbed itself out after a time,
and there was no further trouble In
Philadelphia, however, color feeling rose
so high in police ciaoIes that at the Nine
tenth district station house q separate
room was provided for the colorad po-
lice officers, and one of them was re-
minded by white officer and brother
that lie belonged with the niggers up
stairs. Thereupon a committee Of col
ored citizens waited on his honor the
mayor, and informed him Of the caste
and color line that had been drawn by
some of his white employees, likewise re-
minding him that colored votes made no
small part of the Philadelphia Repub-
ican party. Then they gently limited
that colored voters did not approve of a
policy in police quarters like that Of the
Jim Grow car" system on southern
railway lines. The hint was sufficient.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-01

Women will sometimes gush with
sympathy over condemned murderer
when they ought not to, but on the
other hand they sometimes withhold
the same sympathy where it is appar-
rntly needed. Some time since boy of
l6 was condemned to be hanged A
very influential lady was appealed to
earnestly to sign a petition for his re-
prieve, but she refused to do so, al
though she acknowledged that it was
shame to hang him; and so the lad went
to the gallows.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-01
Gardeners have found it hard to get

Gardeners have found it hard to get
at the truth about the effect of electric
ity upon growing plants. The truth
seems to be that just enough of it is ex-
cellent, while too much of it is worse
than none at all. It helps plants under
glass when judiciously applied and is
therefore benefici Cor early garden veg
etables. 1t makes the leaves and stems
longer and hastens the growth. 1t like
wise makes tie green parts of the plant a
deeper green, but at the same time the
plants must not be flooded with it and
drowned out. The exact amount each
gardener must determine for himself by
experimentation.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-01

Coffee drinkers have cause to rejoice
The contract for the completion of new
line of railway--the Tehuantepec-from
the City of Mexico to the richest coffee
plantations in the world has been signed,
and possibly the road will be completed
In time to bring in next years coffee
berries. Then Brazil can smuse herself
as much as she likes with revolutions,
and it will not raise the price of coffee.
In addition to this the Tehuantepec road
will bring to the United States much
trade that now goes to London.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-01

In the practical application of cleo
tricity, there are two laws to be OBJ
served-one the law Of the dynamo, tie
other the law Of the motor The law Of
the dynamo is that q current. of cleo
tricity is excited by an armature reyolv-
ing in magnetic field, and this current
may be taken up by a wire and conveyed
away, returning again to the place Of
beginning. The second law IS that IN
the application of which the motion
caused by electricity comes in. 1t is
this: When current is passed through
an armature within the magnetic field
the armature is made to revolve.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-01

Delicate sandwiches are nice addi-
ton to any menu for an evening COM
pany. They are generally placed on
some fancy dish and passed to the guests
by the maidservant. The ladies are gen
orally provided with seats, but it is not
unusual for the men to stand and even
assist in serving if the affair is an in
formal one.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-01

A quartz grinding machine has been
invented, which, it il claimed, will Sc
cure much more gold from the ore than
any apparatus yet known The new
machine grinds the quartz to powder
so fine that most of it will pass throagh
sieve containing IA, 400 holes to the
square inch. The powder passes into a
stream of water, which washes away the
lighter particles of dross, leaving them
to float off, while the gold falls upon a
bed of mercury. with which it alnalga-