The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-08
RiGHT TO THE POINT.

A new state house, OF course. That's
settled. The question now Is, What sort
Of new state house? Another ques-
tion. secondary. is. When shall we have
new state house
Col. Lyman is the right man In the
right place for the right man. lie works
as well as he talks, which is equivalent
to saying that he is prodigious worker.
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Labouchere saws in Truth that mo alien
can hold real estate" in New York. Oh.
Labby. Labby; you may be in Truth, but
the truth is not in you when you make
such statement.
What a shame IL is that a dead man
needs to lie where he falls five hours be-
fore he can be removed A law that per-
mits such thing ought to be amended.
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The snow has to bear a great burden of
responsibility Just now. When 1t is gone
new excuses for the advertising solicitor
will have to be sought
Some of our Democratic exchanges are
claiming that there will be no dead wood
In the new cabinet. And yet il will no
be all live Hoke, as cockney would pu
it,
1t is battle royal for that $500 prize
now. II any of the competing societies
feel sure of it tn y had better consider
"a tau xxtll ha arta in,
after the coupons are counted. Then
they'll probably wish they had put in a
few thousand more coupons. There's q
surprise In store for the confident ones.
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Pity the SORROWS of the poor Demo
Gratis They don't know where they are
AT. nor how they came to be there.
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There's nothing whatever the matter
with Gov. Brown. He'll be all right on
the 5th Of April
"Gross carelessness is what Coroner
Brennan calls the running Of trains at
night over ungarded grade crossings,
anent the Lonsdale disaster. The Con-
solidated may as well draw sundry good
sized checks.
The Kansas legislature is no gold bug
It proposes to forbid the making of con-
tracts payable in gold. Why not pass a
law regulating the size of potatoesi
During the eight years from 1881 to 1855.
inclusive, Great Britain annexed about
100000 square miles of territory in differ
ent parts Of the world.
The Massachusetts state prison appears
to be the most escaped. from institution
now in evidence. That week is dull, in
deed. during which there is not recorded
at least one serious attempt to gain free
dom by the Bay State convicts.
The Board of Trade takes the right po-
sition on the great question of road i'm
provement.
1t looks quite as though Mr.. McLeod's
star has ceased 10 be in the ascendant. at
least. The Consolidated seems to be re-
garding him with distinguished cousid.
GRAFTON.
Commissioner Smith and Engineer
Shedd are bound Providence people shall
know how Pawtuxet water looks and
tastes when it is filtered.
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Figure cranks claim there were 236
lynchings in the country last year, bus
none OF them venture to state how many
there ought to have been.
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daily paper can be sent from any part
Of the United States to Stanley Falls, in
Africa, 1000 miles from Stanley Pool, for
cents.
IL is we'll TO re member now, as the first
bain OF spring is occasionally recognized,
that an open window Often leads to an
oren grave.
The Democrats are To in fringe the Re-
publican copyright by calling their con-
vention upon the day selected b. the
latter. What do the politicians think
newspaper men are made of Two po-
litical conventions the same day will
break their hearts.
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The New York Herald headlines "Mc-
Leod's Days Are Numbered" So are the
very hairs of our heads, according to Holy
Writ.
President Cleveland Is an accom-
plshed preacher, though his preaching
would never drive people out of his
chu ch because it wai too definite or too
personal
Leland Mason, who was once a Provi-
dence newspaper man, is becoming
known as a clever litterateur in Boston.