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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-02
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE
CITY OF PROVIDENCE.
THE CITY or PROVIDENCE.

CHAPTER 500.
An Ordinance In Amendment OF Chapter bi5 Of the
CITY Ordinances. entitled AN Ordinance Max
Ing Appropriations TOR the support OF the City
Government for the Financial Year Ending
september 80, 1894" and Transferring the Fol-
lowing sums To the Following Appropriations;
city Engineers Department, $500. 90; Water
works Maintenance, sioooooo, and contingen-
oies, si63Is.0i
approved September %, isH)
IL Is ordained by the City Council Of the City OF
Providence as follows;
sEcTIoN l. The following sums are hereby added
TO the several appropriations hereinafter men
TONED as made by Chapter 6ib of the city ordi-
nanees, entitled IAN Ordinance making appropra.
lions for the support OF the city government for
the hnancai year ending September so, 1884," and
the ordinances IN amendment thereof and In ad-
dttion thereto, viz;
To the appropriation for the city engineers de-
partment $500
To the appropriation for water maintenance,
$1,000.
To the appropriation for contingencies, si5,s7soA
said sums 20 be transferred from the following
appropriations as made by said chapter bl5, and
the the ordinances in amendment thereof and In ad-
dition thereto, viz:
Election, siOOO.00; from interest, slsi,0ss; from
interest on the City hall and sewer loan, due July
l. $780, szoOSSi and from water supply, sil,DsS.s5
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-02

IL Is ordained by the City Council Of the City OF
Providence as follows.
sECTioN The sum of one hundred and sixty
lSlc0l dollars Is hereby transferred from the ap
preparation for contingencies made by Chapter i5
approved Sept. rs, 1898, and Chapter 544 Of the
ordinances, approved Feb. 8, 1884, 10 the appro-
pristion for PuSiie Parks as made by Chapter Sl5
OF ordinances, approved Sept 23 iss3
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-02
CHAPT nR COL
lApproYed sentemher al IaQlA

An Ordinance Transferring. $3.50 from the Appro
ion for Public Parks
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-02
CHApIER Coz
IApproved septrmhcr q7

An Ordinance Permitting the Union Railroad
Company TO lay Rails and Erect Poles ane
Wires in Francis street
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-07
Tests for Color blindness.

America is far ahead of Great Brit
Ian In protecting its travellers by sea
from the dangers that might occur
through color blindness. The visual
examination of all British shipmasters
and subordinate officers is left to the
examiners in seamanship, which is no
test at all. Any person that has made
this subject study is aware that none
but surgeons or experts in optical sci
ence are competent to locate color
blindness even in mild form. The
test OF color blindness is not in how
well one can name the colors of lights
but how well he sees them. Four per
cent. of the males and one per cent.
OF the females of all civilized nations
are more or less color blind. The law
requires that all deck officers of Amer
lean steam vessels shall be examined
by marine hospital surgeon, and il
found color blind, or partially so,
they must not serve in that capacity,
New York Advertiser.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-07
TO KEEP HOGS HEALTHY.

Cleanly surroundings, pure, clean,
good food of the proper kinds for
building the growing frame work
whilst growing or for fattening when
finishing off is rs essential to the health
of hogs as to any other animal, says
Colman's Rural World, and to reverse
these is to induce frailty, weakness,
loss of appetite, and, sooner or later,
disease. 1t may be in individual cases
only, or it may attack and decimate
the whole herd and bring ruin and dis
aster to the owner. Filthy pens, filth
fed with food, filthy, rotten, and de-
cayed food, sour swill, the dead car
casses of diseased animals, the drop
pings of diseased animals, etc, etc,
and like line of feeding and keeping
are all conducive to unthrift and dis
ease, just as surely as that dry wood
will burn when heaped upon big fire,
and we do well to recognize the fact
and act upon it. Hogs as raised and
fed for market nowadays are the
merest kind of hothouse plants any
how. They are crowded, and crammed,
and made gluttonous from their earliest
feeding days and unless great care is
taken very easil y become feverish, ex-
cited, overheated, and fit receptacles
for floating microbes or other animal
cule in the air, the grass, or on their
food.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-07
The number of red foxes in Mis-

The number of red foxes in Mis-
souri, is increasing very rapidly. In
some places there are enough to do
considerable damage to crops. There
is no known reason for this increase
except that fox hunting, which was at
one time the most popular sport in
the country, died out to large extent
on account of the scarcity of foxes, and
has not been renewed. 1t would not
be at all difficult now to find the ami
mails, and that too, within a very short
distance of st. Louis.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-07
MAKING AND MENpINa FENCES.

Building and maintaining the fences
on the farm is an item of considerable
expense. 1t will be found advisa BILE
to plan the farm SO as to lessen the
quantity of necessary fencing as much
as possible. In many cases the greater
part of the cultivated land can be put
into one field and in this way con-
siderable saving be made.
What fences are necessary should be
good ones. A fence is intended either
to keep stock out or in, and if it fails
OF this purpose it is an expense with
out benefit.
In the spring go carefully over the
fences and see that they are in good
repair, as it certainly is not good
economy to risk crop where there is
chance of stock breaking into it.
One OF the best times for driving posts
is in the spring when the frost is all
out of the ground and the soil is soft.
Ii the posts are well sharpened they
can be set more rapidly in this way
than in any other. At this season there
is always more or less time when the
ground is zoo wet to work, and the
fences can be overhauled without in
terfering with the other farm work.
Wire fencing is SO cheap and so
convenient that it has largely taken
the place of other kinds. One decided
advantage with it is durability, while
a good barb-wire fence will restrain
stock that no other kind of fence
Will.
One of the best fences, especially
when small hogs are to be restrained,
is made with wire netting eighteen to
twenty-four inches high at the bottom
and three or four strands of barb-wire
above this.
By using four-point hog wire at the
bottom, making the first three or four
strands of this kind, and the rest of
two-point cattle wire, a hog-proof
fence can be made entirely of barbsd
wire When this is done it will nearly
always be best to set the posts eight
feet apart, taking care to stretch the
wires tight. One important item in a
good, all.wire fence is to have good,
stout end posts, and to set them deep
in the ground and see that ta.ey are
well braced
A very good fence of all-smcoth wire
can be made by using niLe or ten
wires ard putting in an upright stay
not further than every taree feet.
Two planks at the bottom and three
or four strands of barbed wire above
them make one of the best kinds of
fences that can be built. At present
prices it is doubtful if it is good econ
omy to make an all-rail fence. Work
the timber into lumber, ties, posts or
cord wood, and better, cheaper and
more lasting fence can be made buy
ing wire. One great advantage OF
wire fence is that it takes up much
less room and is much easier kept
clean. st. Louis Republic.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-07

Great alarm was created the other
day in one of the principal courts of
justice at Berlin by the presiding
judge suddenly becoming insane on
the bench. His lunacy was first made
apparent when, without the slightest
provocation, he sternly inquired of
the witness whether she liked potatoes.
The surprise created by this question
was intensified when the judge pro-
ceeded to make the most horrible
grimaces at the witness, and to talk at
random on the most incongruous sub
iects, until finally led away by the
court attendants.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-07

A great many people have laughed
at the old lady who started an alarm
on the brick battleship Illinois, at the
Worlds Fair with her fears that the
vessel was about to sail and carry her
off, 1t is now announced that the yes
sci is actually to make cruise at an
early day from her present moorings
to the station in front of Van Buren,
street, where she will be permanently
moored as a practice ship for the State
naval reserve. The Illinois is the
most perfect counterpart of battle
ship ever built. She is 34S feet long
by 69t feet beam, and weighs about
1900 tons. The plan is to hoat her
by means of scows after tying her to-
gether so that she cannot tumble to
pieces, and then tow her to the posi-
tion which she is to occupy perma-
nently. The cost of moving her is
estimated at from $50, 900 to $50, 900.
If successful, this will be one of the
greatest engineering feats ever accom-
plished.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-07
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES,

A hen should lay about twelve dozen
eggs year.
Always see that the milch COW has a
good milk-forming ration.
You can feed clover to laying hens
fonr or five times a day with profit
Be sure to fix up a warm poultry
bouse for next winter. Cold heus are
profitless.
Sprinkle good dressing of copper
as under the grapevines as remedy
for mildew.
Land that cannot be proftably culti-
waited may often be planted with trees
to advantage.
Between hay and grass is a precari-
GUS period for the cows They will
bear attention.
In the growing of large strawberries
rich soil thoroughly prepared is an
important factor.
Good drainage should always be pro-
vided before the planting is done,
rather than afterward.
Unless SOW has shown characteris-
tics of early maturity she should not
be used for breeding purposes.
A weak, delicate horse is poor prop
erty. Breed for vigorous action. Breed
sound mares to sound stations.
In building your poultry house
don't put too much glass in it. One
third of the south front is sufficient.
The best time to prune the plums is
in the spring, between the last heavy
freezes and the breaking of the buds.
If given plenty of room the white
and sugar naples are fine door yard
trees for shade. A lawn set with
naples and evergreens presents hand.
some appearance.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-07
THE WATER LILY.

In the Shiny bed of sluggish mere
Its root had humble birth,
i And the slender stem that upward grew
Was coarse OF fiber dull OF hue, -
With nought OF grace or worth.
The goldfish that floated near
Saw alone the vulgar stem.
The clumsy turtle padded by,
The water snake with lidless eve
! 1t was only weed to them.
But the butterfly and the honey Doe,
The sun and sky and air,
They marked its heart OF virgin gold
In tho satin leaves of spotless fold,
! And its odor rich and rare.
So the fragrant soul in its purity,
To sordid life tied down,
May bloom to heaven and no man know.
Seeing the coarse, vile stem below,
How God hath seen the crown.
James jeffrey Roche.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-07
porr1NG COMPOST FOR PLANTS.

The soil used for potting is made of
one part of clean leaf mold or decayed
sods or rich garden soil free from
weed seeds, one part of clean sand
from stream, and one part of thor
oughly- y-decayed COW manure. For
bright Towering plants some powdered
charcoal is often added, this giving
great brilliance to the bloom. A good
liquid manure for house plants is
made by dissolving one pound of nj
trate of soda, two pounds of good su-
perphosphate of lime, and two pounds
of fresh wood ashes in a barrel of rain
water. New York Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-07
How He Spelled His Name.

The late Ottiwell Wood, one of the
leading characters of New England,
was once summoned as a witness in
court. When he was called and sworn,
the Judge, not catching his name,
asked him to spell it, whereupon Mr..
Wood began:
80, double t, j, double u, e, double
], double u, double o, d."
The Judge was too thick witted to
grasp the meaning of this string of
words and letters, and, throwing down
his pen in despair, exclaimed "Most
extraordinary name l ever heard; will
you write it for me, Mr.--Mr.-Mr.
Witness. st, Louis Republic.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-07

Professor G. Fillmore and Gardner
P. Stickney form the nucleus of n
branch of the American Folklore So
ciety, which is being organized in Mil
waukee, Wis, to preserve the legends
and traditions of the region there
about that were settled by the French
and Spanish, as we'll as those of the
English-speaking communities and of
the aborigines of the state.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-07
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

The circulation of the blood is af-
fected by music.
An ordinary locomotive is said to
consist of 5416 pieces.
A new metal named powellite has
been discovered in Idaho.
The only quadruped that lays egg
is the ornithorhychus of Australia.
1t would take about 1900 globes 90
large as our earth to make one equal
in size to Jupiter.
Pasteur's patients for treatment
against hydrophobia sometimes num-
Der rs many as 100 a month.
DIR. T. G. Duncan, of Chicago, says
that smallpox epidemics are coincident
with great atm ospheric changes due to
sun spots.
1t is estimated that by improper
methods in the Pennsylvania mines,
thirty to forty per cent. of the an.
thracite coal was formerly lost
Professor f. E. Barnard has pub
lished two striking photographs which
COlllueu
with some other body on October 1st,
1898.
The Paris Academy of Medicine has
decided that milk and cheese arc
great brain restorers. Pure casein
contains 753 parts in n thousand of
organic phosphorus.
The fastest time recorded was by
the Empire State express on the New
York Central and Hudson River Rail
road, May l1th, 1898, one mile being
made in thirtytwo seconds, equal to
112 miles an hour.
The phosphate marls of New Jersey
have been worked for fertilizers since
l16S. In surveying mari beds Dor.
ing apparatus made of half-inch gas
pi2ing is used. 1t gives good results
to depth of thirty feet.
1t is said that red parasol destroys
in great measure the actinic power
of the sun and must therefore keep
the skin from freckles. Photogra
piers long ago availed themselves of
this popularity of light transmitted
through a red medium, and it seems
reasonable to suppose that red shade
might protect the complexion.
Mr.. Chandler, the astronomer, in
recent Investigations into the period
of the star Algol, which is subject to
remarkable diminutions and eclipses,
says that there is no doubt that the
eclipses are produced by a far distant
and larger body than Algol. 1t is pos.
sible that this is new world so far
distant that light from it has not yet
reached this earth.
On Wednesday, January 18th, at
Brocknell, England, the Rev. G. W.
Langmore observed beautiful lunar
rainbow 1t appeared in the shape of
circle of brilliant white surrounded
by broad band of brown, next came
another band of violet, followed by
bright band of green and a narrow one
of yellow. The whole series was en-.
circled by band of brown orange.
If there was no dust haze above us
the sky would be black. That is, we
would be looking into the blackness of
limitless space. When in fine, clear
weather we have a deep, rich blue
above us it is caused by haze. The
particles in the haze of the heavens
correspond with those of the tube in
the koniscope, and the blue. color is
caused by the light shining through a
depth of the haze.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-07
SPRING REPAIRS.

1t pays to look the farm over before
the hurry of spring work comes on,
and find out what ought to be done to
keep everything about it in good con-
dition. If time is taken by the FORE
lock in this matter, a great deal of the
hurry and worry of spring work, as
usually experienced on the farm, can
be avoided, and the sundry jobs neoes-
sary to keeping things about the place
in good shape can be done more salts
factorily, because more leisureIy. -
American Agriculturist.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-07

The bill which has been passed by
both branches of the New York Leg
islature and signed by Governor
Flower, popularly known as the
"Greater New York. bill, submits to
popular vote of the communities in
terested on the 9th of November next
the question of consolidation with the
metropolis under the municipal incor-
poration. The annexation proposition
not only includes Brooklyn, with
population of nearly 1000, 900, and
Richmond County, with over $4,000
inhabitants, but thirteen towns and
villages, of which Long Island CITY.
with a population of O,506. is the
most important. Among the otbors
are Flatbush, Flushing, New Utrecht
Gravesend and Jamaica Bay. The oc.
gregate population OF the territory
which it is proposed to take in ia
1,164, 053, which, added to that of
New York, would give to "Greo+a,
New York, population of , 9e5 roo
and make it second only to London j.,
the number of its inhabitants anon d,
the cities of Europe and America. Its
area would be abou. 3l7 square
miles.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-07

With one simultaneous convulsion the
old mill fell crashing down in cloud of
dust that hid the daylight, and threw
a sudden darkness over the scene.
Then, in the darkness and stiffness,
and the horror of it all, womans
voice was softly audible:
Dear Edward, only you and I are
left now!''
She nestled close to him-closer
STILL and burst out crying.
From THE PARISH REGISTRY.
marriage. The year 1795.
No. Al, page IL.
Edward Gray, of this parish of Penrave,
and Lucy Deal OF the same parish, were
married in this church by banns, this I'd day
OF August, in the year one thousand seven
hundred and ninety-flve, by me,
ALFRED MAyERs VICAR
This marriage was solemnized between us
EDWARD GRAY,
Lucy DEAL,
In the presence of,
GEORGE EDWARDS
ELIZA JONES.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-07

Last year foreigners did not flock to
the United States so fast as in former
years; the decline was 125, 900. 1t is
strange, remarks the Drover's Jour
nal, how the great bulk of the immi-
grants avoid the South; the great
West attracts, but the South is now
arying to get larger share.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-07
THE WINDMILL,
-A OWARD

)WARD summer
one day, in the
years when Burke
swayed admiring
senates by his elo-
quence and pas
sion, and Wilkes
thundered against
civic abuses, and
set all Lon d O n
ahame; ; in short,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-07

POTATO RAISING MADE EASY.
In deciding upon speciality, loca-
tion must be considered, thinks y. Il.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-07

Out of so, 900 Sioux, over 4 1000 are
now members of Episcopal, Presbyter.
ian or Congregational churches.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-06-20
cotton wash fabrics, batiste, chambra,r,
lawn, etc., the ruffles being edged with
narrow embroidery or lace.
Girls and Boys Compared.

DR.. J. A. Gilbert, of the Yale psy-
Geological laboratory, has been con-
Quoting series of very interesting
experiments touching the mental and
physical development Of the pupils of
the New Haven public schools. Many
of his tests are entirely new, and i'm
portant results have been reached.
The tests were made on 1900 boys and
girls, aged from six to seventeen.
The professor has embodied the re-
suits of his experiments in O number
of charts, which show that boys ore
more sensitive to weight discrimina.
ton, that girls can tell the difference
in color shades better than boys, and
that boys think quicker than girls.
Altogether the charts show that boys
are more susceptible to suggestions
than girls. The charts show also that
both boys and girls between the ages
of twelve and fourteen years are not
so bright, quick or strong in propor-
ton, nor do they develop as fast as
they do before anil after those years
The object of the test is to enable
teachers to better understand the
mental requirements of the pupils
Detroit Free Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-06-20
FFRru1zER FOR POTATOES.

The potato has rather curious COM
position, as thus, the ash of the tubers
contains sixty per cent. of potash,
ninteen per cent. of phosphoric acid,
and only two and one-fourth per cent.
of lime while the vines have in their
ash thirty-nine per cent. of lime, four
teen and one-half per cent. of potash,
and six per cent. of phosphoric acid.
Consequently, if the lime is applied in
excess and potash in deficiency, there
may be large growth OF vines, but
few tubers, and this happens at times
when leached ashes have been used
with this crop. The dominant fer
tilizer seems to be potash, and the
tendency of this is always to increase
the tubers and make but a light
growth of vine, which is exactly what
is wanted. But, as wood ashes have
much more lime in them than they
have of potash, it is not advisable to
use this, but to apply some of the
special potash salts, as the sulphate,
having twenty-five per cent. of potash
in it, or the muriate, having fifty per
cent. The chemical fertilizers are
preferable to common manure, as this
tends to encourage rotting in the crop.
1t is also advisable always to spry the
vines early in the season with the
Bordeaux mixture, as preventive OF
the rot.-New York Times. n
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-06-20
The VirOt Bow.

The Virot bow, either made of wide
ribbon or bias silk, is always placed
against the back of the hat, with the
let or rhine stone buckle that confines
it resting its edge on the hair. 1t re-
auires an almost inimitable deftness
and surety of touch to make this
Frenchy little bow. The fashionable
ribbon is watered. It requires about
a yard to make q stylish Virot bow.
The ends of the ribbon should be
sewed together into four loops, two on
either side; the upper ones should be
a trife longer than the lower ones. 70
tie these together the loops IRE held
firmly in the fingers and the left ones
are turned over the right ones, form
ing knot in the center, which is
either fastened with buckle OF With
ornamental stick pins. A frontal
bunch of flowers or lo1 buckle OF
rhine stones is usually SO placed in
front of the hat as to preserve the ar
tistic balance when the Virot bow
spreads its silken sails at the back. By
the way, this pointed effect of the loops
is acquired by drawing the lower edge
of each loop tighter than the upper. =
New York Advertiser. e