The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-04

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be at Infantry Hall this evening.
A 10 per cent increase i'm wages has
been granted at the Belleviile Mill.
The greatest bee owner on earth is Har-
bison OF California, who owns 5000 hives.
The members of the Y. NJ. G. A. Lyceum
| Will hold their annual election OF officers
this evening.
The largest bronze statue in the world
| is that OF Peter the Great at ST. Peters
burg, Russia, weight 100 tons.
The patrol wagon at the Central Station
| made III trips during the month OF April.
Among the prisoners there were AZ women.
| There are $4,000 postoffices i'm the
| United States, andx about sixty-seven
thousand do not pay their running ex-
penses.
| Miss Fannie Coiwell won the Demorest
| gold medel in the elocutionary contest at
the Park Street Free Baptist church
| Wednesday.
The fire alarm bell rang eight times at
| 1910 O'Clock last night. The blows were
caused by ground wire at the Richmond
| Street Station
Mr.. William Steinway of New York
Monday received notice of his election as
member of the Royal Academy of St.
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| The patents applied for in Washington
last year number 10000. The total num-
| Der OF patents outstanding on Jan. was
$4,000. The receipts OF the patent office
are sl,2OO,OOO year and the expenses
| $4,000 less. New York stands first in
the number OF patents applied for.
James Fitzgerald, who resigned his
position as foreman of the Providence
Steam Engine Company on May /, after
80 years service, was surprised by visit
from his former employers last evening,
when he was presented with a handsome
gold watch and chain.
In the statistics of insurance from the
Protection Department returns published
In THE NEWS showing the amount of
premiums received in the last six mont hs
OF 1888, A. III. White & Co. should have
been credited with $50, 900 instead of So
600, which typographical error made it.
President Andrews of Brown has been
engaged TO deliver the grafton before the
graduating class of the Attleboro high
school next June. The grafton will take
the place ofthe usual essays by the scholars.
The choosing of DIR. Andrews is radical
change in the order OF fgraduation exercises.
The entertainment of the Providence
Press ubnext Saturday mig at s o'clock
Is in the hands of George A. Rice, Arthur
n.
something particularly galore is promised
by the committee all of whom have had
personal experiences on the professional
stage.
The first election of the u. It. A. Drum
Corps resulted in tie snd yesterday
another election was held. Colonel Van
Slyck presided and as nine men were
present there was an election
which resulted as as follows: Drum Ser
ax.t Il
Charles Z. Dillon; secretary and treasurer,
+. w. Davis. A banquet was served after
the election.
The May banquet of the Rhode Island
Woman Suffrage Association will be held
at Blackstone Hall at o'clock this even
ing. Mr.. Arnold B. Chase will preside and
addresses will be made by Colonel John
G. Wyman, Hon. ii. b. Metcalf, Hon. T..
l.. Freeman, Rev. +. w. Hamilton, DIR.
Helen Z. Putnam, Miss Susan c. Kenyon
and others.
Writes Garrett =. Serviss i'm New York
Sun; In view of she theory that when
the moon is nearest to the earth and nearly
III line with the sun and the earth there
is greater tendency than at other times
Tor earthquakes to occur, it will he inter-
esting to watch what may happen in
Greece between Saturday and Monday
next. On Saturday the moon will be
III,
the new moon phase occurring here at
9:42 q. m. and at Athens about 4:15 %. IN.
Az such time, as well as at full moon,
the sun and the moon unite to produce
spring tides, and the deformative strain
of their attraction on the earth is greatest.
The very latest fashion in uncovering
the head for bow consists in lifting the |
hat from the head and then suddenly |
thrusting it straight out before youeat |
arms length. In New York no other style |
of salutation is recognized as good form. |
1t Is not unusual for a novice who at |
tempts II 10 not only smash his hat, but |
to waste 10 minutes in apologizing to the |
people who were too near him when he |
executed the salute. Ii has to be done |
with such jerk TO be effective that one |
stands good chance OF giving the person |
IN front OF him notion that he has bean
sandbagged, and it is difficult to explain
away an Impression like that.
T. jefferson Coolidge, Jr.. of the New
York * New England reorganization
in speaking of the opposition
OF second mortgage bondholders, says
that number of large bondholders had |
the plan submitted To them before its an
nouncement and expressed themselves
perfectly satisfied. He is of opinion that
opposition comes chiefly from Connecti-
cut and from New Haven interests, holders
of the bonds. He expresses the opinion
that the exchange proposed will give bond
holders bond that is really worth 1O6,
having, as il does, an increased security
back OF il. OF course the second mortgage
bondholders can foreclose il they see fit.
but il il to be remembered that il they do
they will have to put up money to meet
the needs of the property.
The yellow violet and the wild geranium
are among the newly opened blossoms
that greet the first of May. The dog
tooth violet, which is also yellow, but
with a difference, has almost disappeared,
but the spring beauty is as plentiful as
ever. The first buttercups are here, CLASSY
and golden. There l. a hint for the anna
teur gardner in the fact that the earliest
blossoms appear in the woodlands,
and that many OF the loveliest OF the
spring wild flowers seldom bloom i'm the
open fields. Some varieties stop short at
The very edge OF the fields, but bloom pro-
fusely In the woodlands foot beyond the
division line. Others, especially the vio-
let, suffer a change in character when they
bloom In the open. The dog-tooth violet
is seldom found save beneath the shade of
4 tree, and its favorite habitat is the deep
woodland The aprinU hoantv !