The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-27

ana displaying ner Dainty wares. LOOK
now for anemones, violets, saxifrage,
marsh marigolds, cinquefoil, wild straw
berry blossoms and all the pretty things.
The annual meeting of Company b, i.
J.. /. Regiment, was held last evening.
Lieutenant Colonel Rose presided and the
following officers were elected: Captain,
II. S. Pearce, first Lieutenant, Foster IL.
Townsend; first sergeant, Arthur
j. Joyce; second sergeant, w. ii. Thomp-
son; third sergeant, J. II. Stafford; fourth
sergeant, George A.. Il. Townsend; fifth
sergeant, Il. q. Dexter; Corporals, William
q. Laird, Nj. ID. Peck, G. B. Briggs, A.
NJ. Jeffers, Il. w. Alexander and G.. III.
Peck; secretary and treasurer, l.. q.
Dexter.
Work will soon be resumed upon the
erection of General Grants tomb In River
side Park. Nothing has been done in the
way OF construction since last fail. III IS
expected by the trustees OF the Grant
Monument Association that the structure
will be carried up To a height OF eighty
feet this year. The present rate OF pro-
gress indicates that the main structure
can be completed in about two years from
this date. or the total sum in the treasury
$4,000 had been expended during the
year, leaving Si33 ,23S.16. General Grant
died ten years ago this summer.
The annual meeting of the Homeopa-
noon. The elections of officers resulted
as follows: President, Hon. George M.
Carpenter; vice presidents, William A.
Spicer, Rev. III. l. Cusbman and w. IL.
Henderson; trustees, Charles Nj. Greene,
NJ. D., Merry ID. w. Mathews, NJ. d.,
IIoppiD, George ii. Bunce, Rev. r. G,
Moore, Mrs. Thomas j. Hill, Mrs. j. w.
Rice, Mrs. Robert Knight, Mrs. +. w.
Harlwell and Rev. Thomas ID. Anderson;
secretary and treasurer, Charles w.
Bowen.
The advantage OF bicyling, long ago
admitted, grows apace. Philadelphia au-
thorities last season adopted the use OF
the wheel in their park department, and
elsewhere il is a matter of record that
much time has been saved, and otherwise
almost impossible results secured by using
the wheel. Boston intends, as usual, be-
Ing at The 'front.' III All mHtters pertaining
to expediting important business, and the
park commissioners Of the city have voted
to adopt the bicycle for the use OF the
park policemen. An order for a full
equipment of the famous Columbias was
placed with the Pope Manufacturing
Company last week.
One OF the principle features Of the AL.
g. Fields Columbian Minstrels, which will
appear at the Providence Opera House,
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and
Wednesday matinee next week, Is the
beautiful song and dance, entitled "The
Barber's Picnic" in which twenty agile
dancers appear. This feature has created
universal comment wherever the minstrels
have appeared and will prove highly in
teresting to the patrons OF Manager Nor
rows playhouse. The grand military
band, will make an imposing street parade
at IL 80 a. m. on the day OF the perform
ance, which Is said to be far above any
thing ever offered by a minstrel organiza-
ton. The sale of seats began at the box
office this morning.
Washington, ID. G.. March %, 1891 My
Dear Sir: lam receipt of your favor OF
the eth inst, together with the first
three copies of picturesque Hawaii"
Having been year in that true paradise
of the Pacific" j can assure you / an
deeply interested in all that relates 10 that
part OF the world. t.< .st
am we'll acquainted with Minister
Stevens, and assisted in taking some OF
the photographs from which the excellent
pictures of your pottifolios are made.
Permit me to thank you for the kind
ness in sending me the portfolios, and
shall take pleasure in calling attention TO
the superior work shown in this publica-
ton. Very sincerely yours, III. Webster,
Chief Engineer, u. b. M
The late Sir Andrew Clark, the famous
simple diet and cheerful mind as rem
edial agents. He once visited patient
whose bedroom walls were covered with
paper OF most depressing color and
pattern. That paper" said Sir Andrew
decisively, "is quite enough to send
healthy man melancholy mad; its effect
upon an invalid, who is compelled to lie
sti11 and gaze upon 1t all dHy must be
awful. You'll have TO move tho patient
into more cheerfully papered room"
"But, Sir Andrew, this is the best Of them
ALL" was the remonstrance. Then" said
cretonne or something, and hide these
dreadful walls" And cretonne was pur-
chased accordingly.
One effect OF the hard times Ia TO be seen
in the great number ofsmall yachts which
will be raced this year by men who
formerly went In for sloops and schooners
OF size that involved big racing crew
and an expenditure of good many
thousand dollars for a seasons sport.
Two new classes have been formed and
filled with great promptness in the
yacht clubs, and men like the Bel
monts aud Iselins, VINO formerly
thought n d5-foot boat a toy, will be
racing yachts OF little more than half that
length. As there will be no cup race this
year, the patriotic yachtsmen who re-
sponded so literally last season will not
be called upon to reach down into their
pockets for money, and they have ap-
parently resolved 10 even up matters by
racing sloops away below the average in
stead OF away above IL. There will be as
much sport forthe spectators in the re-
gattas Of the small yachts as in those OF
the large ones, as the course will be
smaller, the time shorter, anu the racers
more numerous.
The largest piece OF cut glass ever made
in America IS now ON exhibition i'm New
York. lt was made az the pioneer cut
glass factory ot the United States now
about forty years running. The piece
weighed seventy pounds before Il was
decorated and lost about twenty pounds
in the cutting. II IL punch bowl
eighteen inches nigh and twenty four
inches in diameter. The actual cost OF
production was nearly $500, and five men
were busied dve days in decorating IL.
American cgt-glass makers admit that
one English house surpasses them la
some Kinds OF work, but insist that the
Continental glass cutters do not equal
their American rivals. English glass cut
ters earn very moderate wages, but the |
pay OF skilled men in the United States is