The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-29
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.. 1AsEBALL- Providence and wilkesbarre. s:l
- o'clock.
Is The suburban police squad of Paris il
% mounted on bicycles.
The Prohibition people will hold thei,
city primaries tonight.
q There are eight cases of typhoid in thu
village of Arctic Center.
0 Officer Thomas Rooney of Station 3 re-
/, turned from MS vacation this evening.
The Mount Hope left this forenoon with
J large party of excIrsionists for New
, Bedford.
The valuation OF real estate at Maria
gansett Pier is s3,039, ,049, and of personal
property s372, 400.
The Princess of Wales has the most
beautiful set of furs extant. which she
wears occasionally at state ceremonies.
There was a 400 pound turtle caught
near WEXFORD yesterday. Ii will be one
Fair.
Persons whose middle fingers are longer
than the palm are always ambitious of
snlning intellectually, and generally have
good memories.
large wagon, owned by Moses Hen
nessey and loaded with coal, broke down
MS morning ON South Water street and
delayed travel for awhile.
AT Rhodes on the Pawtuxet this after
noon the members of the Pawtuxet
Baptist Church are adding TO their funds
the proceeds from clam bake.
Buttons are TO be the fashion pretty
soon and hooks and eyes will be tabooed
Rhinestone buttons will be .he proper
thing. Rows of big buttons will be the
style.
| Rhode Island needs rain because the |
onion crop is light, rye cannot be plowed, |
| corn Is caring poorly, potatoes are small, |
peacnes are scarce and turnip seed is dry |
Ing up, so they say.
The officers of the Third Police station
had their first drill for the year in the
freight shed OF the Merchants 81 Miners
transportation Co., today at 4 O'clock
under Captain McGill.
The schottische was so called from a
popular idea that it was a scotch dance.
IL really originated in Bohemia was in |
lroduced into England in 1S4S, and was at
first called the German polka. =
illumination Night" which a dozen
years ago was one OF the things that made
Cottage City famous, has been long aimee
done away with on that island, and now
Narragansett Bay has taken it up.
There was a fire in Neil Anderzen's bake
..N p at the corner of Borden and Eddy
streets early this morning. The contents.
OF three hour barrels were prematureIy
baked, but there was no other damage.
An ingenious Pittsburger has devised
a clothes wringer which is operated bv
electricity. 1t works automatically, and
whsn the last piece is squeezed out bell
rings and the washtub is turned over and
emptied. {
According to the Statistical Abstract of
the united States, the total cost of the
liquors or all kinds consumed in this |
country Is over slo per capita, about $50 | r
year Tor every family, twice as much as !.
Ine totai amount OF the federal revenues
Two rather careless people attempted r
20 sleep off the effect of too much llauor =
ast night by lying across the railroad
'racR at Woonsocket. They were discov- "
RED and pulled out of danger five minutes | h
before the arrival of an express over the =
anne track.
Hon. w. z. Howells, father of the famous
loVeilst, died at Long Island yesterday,
ctive newspaper worker from 1890 to 1874 "A
nu since then he has served the United "
tates in the capacity OF Consul at Quebec
no Toronto.
The steam yacht Norma, formerly
wned by the late Horace Daniels, and
ne craft which formed the basis of an al
sged legal scandal in Central Falls is Mt ti
nchor at Newport mar Dor, and looks like g.
mother boat since her extensive repairs y :.
Electric welding has been used To W.
smedy blowholes in defective castings bv ,,r
rst drilling out the defects and then =
ea.ing the casting and introducing -
'raps OF steel, which are melted by cleo WI
'lclty, making perfect joint without a gr
am or haw OF any kind. go
) Inc annual meeting of the stockholders M.
toe Providence Gas Companv will he
ED In the Office OF the Company. 2o Mar
~ square, on Monday, September 3. at tn'
o CLOCK, Tor the purpose OF electing q TIT
'aru ot nine directors, and the transact no
'n oi other business OF Importance. no
The time limit in which acceptance. s sl
ust be forwarded to the executives com lor
ittee OF the Press Club, to participate in Iur
g outing on Sept. 3, expires TODAY. Th
iere are indications that jolly and we
mpanionable party will take possess;on shi
the King Philip at the appointed bour the
The State House commissioners an wa
ln.eu 10 appraise dammages by the M
n9ennation OF land and improvements
state House purposes, will meet upon ~
land described in the locatiou next
iday at go o'clock for the purpose of
and to listen to interested
rites who may be present.
The cottage season OF 'o4 on the East fro,
2 2 OF the bay will go out in a blaze of abo
NJ tomorrow evening. The residents -.
Narragansett Terrace, near Crescent prll
TX, are gong TO illuminate everything Owe Owe
IN housetop TO water line that will hold Sta'
intern or pan of colored fire. HIM defe
us OF boats will be in line for the torch -
o. = procession afioat, and light artillery
1 hgure In the general display.
fish e1erts its great propulsive power
m ts tan, not its hns. The paddle
eel was made on the fin theory OF pro-
SION, and the screw propeller had its
.a,,. ,m "a no.ing the action ofthe tail. IL
low SHOWN thnt the d,a -