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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-09
Died al Homeopathic Hospital.

Mrs. William Vaughan died at the
Homeopathic hospital last evening while
undergoing n surgical operation.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-09
Mendonca Hasn't Heard of 1t.

By The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 0.-Senor Mendonca,
the Brazilian minister, has no informa-
tion which would bear out the dispatch
received in Paris from Rio de Janerio that
President Peixoto has resigned.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-09

to pittengcr a Carver. ~ weybosset street and
they will call and show you the work on The
Parliament Of Religions"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-09
Much Knowledge, starvation Wages.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-The civil service
commission will hold an examination
January 2S to fill vacancy in the posi-
tion of pathological clerk, with
; knowledge of mammology, in the de-
anrtment Of agriculture, at salary of
j560 per annum. The subjects in the ex-
animation will be photography, penman-
ship, letter-writing, geography, ornithol-
ogy and mammology.
Persons desiring to compete in this ex-
animation should secure application
blank from the commission and file their
applications at once. II applications are
received in time, arrangements may be
made to hold the examination in other
large cities.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-09
A Postal Ruling.

bU TWt HssDctuttU I-FtNS.
WASHINGTON, Jan. assistant Gene
raj Thomas Of the postoffice depart
ment has ruled that parties
sending through the mails counterfeit
money violate the green goods act and
therefore incur the penalty OF fine Of not
more than $500 and imprisonment for not
more than Is months.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-09
Guess Not, Bnrnt up last Night.
By Tho Associated Pres.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.--The chief
of the editing bureau OF the department
of agriculture has given out the
information that the market
California tree which ornamented the
rotunda Of the Worlds fair, will find
itself in resting place on the grounds Of
the department Of agriculture about
30 yards east of the main building.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-09

Money loaned on real estate at per cent. d. +.
Pot,er's new once, 70 wtybossel street.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-09

Try Fried oysters, at rrcoman's, 80 weybosset
street.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-09
HAS PEIx0TO RESIGNED ?
A Rumor to That Effect I'm Paris This
Forenoon.

BIZ The Associated Pres.
PARIS, Jan. GA dispatch received
here today from Rio de Janeiro says that
President Peixoto has resigned.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-09
Thos. +. Pcircc a Son,
EX-PRESIDENTIN COURT.

Westminster and Dorrnnce Streets, having theil
Annual Sale of Good Shoes at very low prices.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-09
Bank VIII DO what is Right.

Mr.. Perry also stated that there was no
question but that every claim OF the GUS
toners Of the bank would be recognized
and paid. While there wpre a num-
ber OF persons who had made deposits
that had not been placed to their credit
on the books, and while there were in
stances i'm which these amounts had not
been entered in the pass books, there
The Washington bee., 1894-01-27
HE SPEAKS WE'LL OF ALL.

MR.. ED1ToR:-On last Tuesday while
riding on the Belt Line cars, a colored
gentleman arose and left two COPIES of
your paper in the corner seat, by acci.
dent. Shortly after the gentleman leav.
ing, tall, fine looking man came in
TOOK the seat and commenced to read
All at once he gave out an eXultant
laugh. Turning to me he incurred:
''Who is the editor of this paper?n ]
said to him: ''W. Calvin Chase. very
prominent lawyer of this city," "Oh, 81
said he, Il have heard of Chase, but
from what | read here, am convinced
that he is longheaded man; and in fact
is the only colored man in this country
who follows his own convictions. Why.
here In one editorial he applauds Prof.
Brown, a rank Democrat. and in the
same column he applauds ex-senator
Bruce, who is a known Republican part
lsan. | know both of these men we'll
W: L.. Brown is as rank a Democrat as
Ihos, b. Reed is a Republican, and is
as outspoken as a man can be, and as
fearless as he is outspoken. I know
Senator Bruce to be all original man.
full OF good ideas, and splendid poll
tician.'
Leaving the car he said: :sChase is
a remarkable man, and l would like to
meet him.
l afterwards learned that this man
was a distinguished Democratic senator
"OBsERvER."
The Washington bee., 1894-01-27
HON. THOMAS SETTLES, NC.

The report of the election com
mittee of the House of Represent
atives last week in the contested
election case Of Williams vs. Set
ties deserves more than a glancing
notice. Indeed we were not SUR
prised at the committee repor!.
ing in favor of Mr.. Settles, the sit.
ting member, because there was
nothing in the case that We could
see, that even gave Mr.. Williams
the slightest pretext for contesting
the seat, unless it was to tell the
Democratic House of Representa-
tives, that his party allies in North
Carolina failed 10 steal enough
votes at home to give him the
seat, and he wanted the House to
complete the j>b. In this he failed
and we congratulate the young
gladiator # the 5th congressional
district of North Carolina on the
splendid victory he has just
achieved. Indeed, Mr.. Settles de-
serves the congratulations of every
Republican and every Democrat
who loves fair dealings and honest
elections. To have turned dowu
this rising young Republican
statesman from the South would
have been a national calamity and
IFS ia reaching influence of such a
result would have put the Repub-
licans OF the South in position
from which they could not have
recovered in twenty years.. The
people of the ath district of North
Carolina should be proud Of the
gallant young representative who
80 ably represents them at the
Nations Capitol. He is what ia
termed a clean statesman, honest
in all of his dealings with his
North Carolina friends and their
interests as we'll as those of other
sections. To-day he stands in the
front row of some of the brightest
in the American Con-
greSs. Now let the voters of the
9Th district return him to Congress
not because the House refused tof
unseat him, but because he is
man of the people, a good Repub-
ican, and a friend 10 the poor
man, let him be black or white.
1t would do the people of his dis
.rict good to see this young Re-
publican gladiator of North Caro-
ina marching down the aisle in
he House of Representatives with
ance in hand, demanding respect
md silence, defending the princi-
oles of his illus.rious father and
he rights of the people Of the old
North state. Let the Republicans
If MIR. Settles district stand by him
md see that he is returned toI
Congress, as he will be, by rous-
ng majority, SO large that a con-
est will be out of the question.
The Washington bee., 1894-01-27
He Wanted TO Play.

There are few people who care to
risk an encounter with lunatic Most
of us would consider discretion the
better part of valor" in such a case,
and make good use Of our feet.
Recently one of the inmates Of the
asylum at F'latbush, Long Island, made
his escape A gentleman, walking
through the grounds, came across him,
and his suspicion being aroused by the
mans manner, quickened his pace and
turned in another direction to avoid
him.
Much to his alarm the lunatic started
after on the run.
The gentleman was elderly and stout
but fear lent him WINGS and he few
over the ground at a pace which would
have done credit to professional
sprinter
He ran for two miles, his pursuer
close at his heels, and then his wind
gave out and he could get no further.
Trembling with fright and painting for
breath, he leaned up against a fence
and gave himself up for lost.
The lunatic dashed up and stretching
out a long, bony hand at him, cried.
"Tagr'-The Household
The Washington bee., 1894-01-27
Where Fish Get Their Shells.


There is not much lime in the sea-
probably not more than there was In
Falstaff's ''sack"-but there is enough.
And the use it is put to Is one Of the
curiosities OF natural history.
Every inhabitant of the ocean which
has a shell derives the material of
which that hard covering is composed
from the water. Besides, the lime Sc
creted or rather separated from its
food, as birds do it for making a cover
ing for their eggs, mollusks take I'D the
largest amount directly out OF the wat
er they breathe.
Every time an oyster draws water
through its gills, some Of its lime.
which Is held in solution, is taken DOS
session Of by appropriate vessels, and
goes directly to the living membrane.
which deposits it, and thus the shell
grows.
1t is assured that single drop of sea
water contains only about the ten thou
sand six hundredth part of a grain of
lime. But the incessant respiration of
the dweller, in one or two years, makes
house weighing in some cases many
pounds.
When the animal dies most of the
shells gravitate and aggregate at the
bottom, where, becoming broken and
impacted into solid masses, mixed in
fine, earthly deposits under immense
hydrostatic pressure and chemical
forces, they become marble.
ALI marble quarries are supposed to
have thus originated In the abysses of
primitive seas, and were afterwards
elevated to where they are found by
upheaval.
The Washington bee., 1894-01-27
RIGHTS OF ANIMALS.
Perhaps We Ought to Treat Them Will
More Ciyility and Respect.

Perhaps We Ought to Treat Them with
More Civility and Respect.
Sir Arthur HELMS insisted on "cour-
tesy'' to animals. We are to be civil
spoken to them, and not to bully where
we might persuade. Count Tolstoi
never uses the V hip; he simply talks
to his horse. Mr.. Bright long since fol
lowed on the same side as Sir Arthur
animals should be taught at school.
This is awkward, says writer In the
London Daily News, for he loved to
hook some of them by the gills, for
sport. 1t is needless to say that every
form of sport is barred by Mr.. Salt
and his school. There is, Of course, no
lack Of champions on the other side.
Some writer's argue that because anil
mails, have mo souls" we are entitled
to do what we like with their bodies.
Mr.. Wood-the naturalist-altOgethe
declined, to accept the premises. What
do we know about their souls? he ask
ed: and it is clear enough that he hoped
his faithful dog would bear him COM
pany in the next world. The brutes,
he said, have reason, language, mem
ory, sense of. moral responsibility, un-
selfishness and love, and there are no
higher qualities in the spiritual bag
gage of man. If they have no hope Of
a future life, argued Primatt, one OF
their earliest champions, there is all
the more reason for ackno wledgng
their right to good time in this one.
Bentham pleaded logically in their
favor, but rather gave, them away in
defending roast beef on the ground that
their pains in providing it were not
equal to our pleasures in the use.
The 'vermin" argument Is said to be
worthless. "Vermin'' is mere phrase.
The animal feels or it does not feel,
Hindoos apparently have no diMculty
about that, and in Theosophical houses,
we believe, beetles have been known
to range freely about the drawing
room. The rule is absolute: nothing
must be killed. But then how does the
walk abroad, or even breathe:
He must put hundreds Of things to-
death in each operation. Probably
every morning stroll of innocence
through the meadows imports a whole
hecatomb of slain. Small birds are
pretty plain sailing We are all agreed
that the murder for millinery goes too
far One dealer in London is said to
have received. as a single consignment,
81, 1000 humming birds, $4,000 aquatic
birds and $4,000 pairs of wings.
A thousand songsters slaughtered in one day;
Oh, Angelina, mediate upon it,
And henceforth, never, never wear j pray,
A redbreast in thy bonnet
But Edwin was inconsistent. He
had no sooner ended his appeal than
ne said grace and carved the chicken"
There it is. The best Of us of this sort
nave always chicken to carve, and in
The long run our prohibitions are only
such as touch other peoples pleasures.
The Washington bee., 1894-01-27
Builders Exchange Hall Filled to See Dr.
Damon Cure the Sick by the Laying
on of Hands.

1t is a fact that the wiSest. best edu.
Gated, aud most enlightened people OF
Washington are daily becoming converts
to these new princi pies and methods
which are supported by such grand and
overwhelming evidences and proofs that
no reasoning mind can dispute: reali-
ties that echo and re-echo in the human
mind as they witness the grandest and
most sublime panorama of living truths
as presented by this; wonderful phvsi-
clan. DR.. Damon is to the medical
world what Booth was to the theatrical.
Beecher to the theological, and Inger-
soil to the oratorical, man towering
above all others in the art of healing by
these newer methods. BY a touch
without even removing the outer gar
ments of the patient-all in full view of
the vast audiences, he heals the sick.
causes the lame to walk, the decrepit
and deformed, the paralytic and rheum
attic to throw away their crutches and
canes.
People from all sections flock to see
him, and are spell-bound with wonder
and astonishment as they witness one
after another go upon the stage and re-
SSisO Se OASh1ciiiS5 LII SllS way vi d cure
relief from the most intense suffering.
OF course, all cannot be treated free.
SO those who are able and willing to
pay go to the doctors private office. 13o
Twelfth street northwest, where the
doctor or one of his able associates, who
are masters in this great art quickly cure
them. Saying that such cures are i'm
possible and cannot be done does not
change the fact. They are done--not
behind the door,nor in the secret recess
es of dark office, but in public, on the
open stage, before large and intelligent
daily. These free clinics have
been given every fall and winter since
DIR. Damon came to washington. Thou
sands have witnessed them; thus it isan
assured fact. beyond dispute, by even
bis most bitter rivals.
Some twenty or more were treated
yesterday; among them Were two cases
of paralysis that brought forth round
after round of applause. DR.. Damon
will hold a free clinic every afternoon
at ago O'Clock, excepting Wednesdays;
also special clinic will be given Sun
day at 7:3O, for those who cannot come
at other times.
The Washington bee., 1894-01-27
SENATOR BRUCE SUCCEEDS
BISHOP BROWN.

At meeting of the Board of Trus-
tees of Howard University, held in
this city January 10th. Senator Bruce
was unanimously elected trustee to
succeed Bishop ]. M. Brown, de-
ceased, A better selection for this
important position could not have
been made. Mr.. Bruce is a broad
minded, progressive man of the new
school; he has had large and varied
experience in public affairs, and, taken
all in all, is probably the best equipped,
all around man among us. His cleo
tion is an additional guarantee to the
country that the management of the
University are determined to keep
that institution fully abreast of the
times and to make it what its founders
intended it should be-a great na
tional anti-color line seat of learning.
We were pleased to meet, among
those who attended the meeting of
The Washington bee., 1894-01-27
Defes La grippe. :

The editor Of the yaldosta Telescope
Is suffering with the grip, but he ex-
poets to recover. He says: when Ia
grippe jumped down on mankind four
or five years ago it was the most royal
malady in existence. For a time a
fellow might have thought that its
rayages were confined to kings, cars
emperors and the like, until ii crossed
the ocean, tackled the President, intro.
duced itself to a few Congressman and
Senators, and then whetted up an ac-
quaintance with the millionaires and
public generally. 1t continued its
march and broadened its scope until It
swept the whole range Of vocations,
and this year it has begun missionary
work among the Georgia editors until
you can hear them sneezing from Red
Clay to Tfton. mfuenza, La grippe,
you have saved the toughest bird for
the last, and odds are on the editor
now and hereafter"
The Washington bee., 1894-01-27
Snakes in the Home Circle.

One would hardly expect to find rep
tiles domesticated, but they are found
in that position at Para, not far from
the mouth Of the Amazon, says the
Pail Mall Budget. The stores and
warehouses of that city are overrun
with vermin Of all sorts, and more es-
pecially rats. To keep down this
plague young boas or jibolas are placed
in the cellars, and subsist comfortably
on the plentiful supply Of food thus af-
forded. The Brazilians say that they
keep down to reasonable limits the
rats, which would otherwise play havoc
with any goods they could get at. The
fact that boas feed only at somewhat
long intervals accounts for the fact
that there always seem to be just rats
enough for their subsistence, while they
perform their catlike duties most salts
factorily. But, as we have said, they
also act as very efficient WatchdOgs.
The skin Of the boa is an article Of
commerce both in the Brazils and East
ern Asia. In the latter its chief use is
to form the heads Of banjos and other
native musical instruments, it being
extremely tough and hard. In Brazil
it is also used at times to make riding
boots, and forms an excellent SubSd
tute for upper leather, that Of the
anaconda being the best. AS to vital
ity, a specimen in my possession, which
had attacked visitor, lived eighteen
months with an open hole in it's skull
about an inch deep, caused by bar
used to beat it off the men it had seiz-
ed. The land boa may be said to have
but one enemy apart from man, and
that, curiously, one Of the most insig-
nificant Of insects, the ant. A certain
species, peculiar to northern Brazil,
make annual pilgrimages from their
jungle retreats to some other point,
often distant many miles, and destroy
every living creature that stays in their
track, except man and domestic ami
mails or cattle. The monkey Or the
jaguar knows enough to flee before the
invading host, but the snake does not
appear to realize his danger until at
tackled by millions of his tiny but per-
sistent foes. Twistings and writings
are alike in vain to shake them off,
and the passing traveller may often
see, as / have seen myself, the bleach
ed skeleton of a huge snake which has
thus been literally devoured alive. The
ants are, of course, considerably larger
than the British varieties, but seem
puny enemies to successfully demolish
a reptile monarch Of the jungle.
The Washington bee., 1894-01-27
The Locomotive Whistle.

When locomotives were first built,
and began to trundle their small loads
up and down the newly and rudely con-
structed railways Of England, the coun-
try roads were Tor the most part cross
ed at grade, and the engine-driver had
no way of giving warning Of his ap-
proach except by blowing a tin horn.
This horn, as may be imagined, was
far from being sufficient warning.
One day In the year 1893 farmer Of
Thornton was crossing the railway
tracks on one of the country roads with
a great load Of eggs and feutter. Just
as he came out upon the truck train
approached. The enginemanN blew his
tin horn Justify, but the farmei. did not
hear 1t. Eighty dozen of eggs a I'D fifty
pounds of butter were smashed into
an indistinguishable. unpleasant mass,
and mingled with the kindIing wood 4 to
which the wagon was reduced. ,Me
railway company had to pay the fav-
mer the value of his fifty pounds On,
butter, his $50 eggs, his horse and his
wagon.
1t was regarded as a very serious
matter; and straightway a director of
the company, Ash1en Bagster by name,
went to Alton Grange, where George
Stephenson lived, to see if he could
not invent something that would give
a warning more likely to be heard.
Stephenson went to work and the next
day had contnyance which, when at
tached to the engine boiler, and the
steam turned On, gave out q shrill dis
cordant sound. The railway directors,
greatly delighted, ordered similar con-
trivances attached to all the locomo-
tives, and from that day to this the
voice Of the locomotive whistle has
never been silent.-Cardiff Mail.
The Washington bee., 1894-01-27
RAILROADS.
BALTIMORE AND OHIO r P

Schedule in effect Nov. 18th. 1so.
heave washington from station. n.eorner of
New Jersey Avenue and Cstreet
For Chicago and Northwest vos,,h,,,.,
Limited express trains l1:30 a. M. S:I5. n ~
For Cincinnati, st. Louis, and Indiano,,oIa
night r A' "a press E5b
,a, For Pittsburg and Cleveland express
uaily It:5O a. m. and $40 p. M.
For Lexington and Staunton. ll:SO q. m
FOR winchester and way Stations 1880 n ~,
For Lnray. Natural Bridge, Roanoke. Kno~,
HGne, HGle, chattanooga, and Memphis and NJ
through. 'eeLils cars
For L1ray. $50 p. m. daily
F4r 6aait1more weeks days 1885. 5.po s.sz.
KID KID s1O. 45minutes), xS05, sSj. r9 991' az.
xS1S. IS tson1esJ; 90 45luaeJ;,a.m a. M xlOO. xl2O5 I2I5.
1920 5.35, x620, 80. xSO SIS 10 i NJ &9sU 40 W.
15- m alu Log Y: no; o. Sundays, 1855 500
K15a5 ~ Ine esl' \ 5Seo, $50 1880. a. M. xi20
Ai1,oo' NJ LUZ x2l5, 600 45-minntes] 2 25 81
x90 65Q xS.00, x90O, x95O, 1000 XII iSd S6
.. ror annapolis, 7.l5 and $50 a. m. I2I5 and
4'Zo p. IN. Sundays, $50 a. M. 4.SI o. m. "iiU
For Frederick. t1l.S0, am, sLB f4.sO +5s0
FOR Hagerstown. tll.SO a. m. and $50 n. m.
For foyd and way points, t7.G5 D. m.
20 r0r m3 Ga1thersburg and way poIuts. 4e 90
~ 40. f1l,S0 p, m, ''''O ''''' ''Oo
=, for washington Junction and way points
sio.uO a. no, $l:lo p. ID. Express trains stppninc
~ prineipai stations only 1880 1880 D. M.
RofAL BLUE LINE FOR NEW YORK
AND PHILADELPHIA.
For Philadelphia, New York. Boston erd
the East, daily 3.95. O0, qOOO a. m ex Snm an"
DinlDg Carr Q2.OO Dining Carl. 800. I5Wj
Dinlng Garl, $40 Ql 30 p. M; Sleeping Car,
open at 1000 O'clock.) N"i'
Buffet Psrlor Cars on all day trains.
Sundays, II % noon ''' "'o"
fExcept Sunday. *Daily. Sunday only,
Express trains.
Baggage called for and checked from bota,s
and Re sidences by Union Transfer COmnsnS
on orders left at ticket offices, GIG and 19y
pennsylvania avenue. and at depot.
X. b. CAMPBELL, CHAS. o. SCIJLI,
Gen. Manager. Gen, Pass. aga,,+