The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-02-27

Talked About.


Entertainments This Evening.
PROVIDENCE OPERA HousE-"Patent APP
piled For"
p. y. KElTHs OPERA HousE-"siberia"
LoTHRoPs OPERA HoUsE-"The Devils Mine"
WESTMINSTER THEATER-"Razzle-D Dazzle"
Corsets have been found on the mum
mics OF Egyptian princesses OF the royal
family.
Lobsters have great dread for thunder,
and when it is loud they swim to deep
water.
are used to restore broken down horses in
Germany.
Since Christianity dawned IL is esti-
mated that more than OOO,OO0,O 600 per-
sons have perished in war.
Nathan Douglas of Durham, Me-, a
prominent minister of the Society of
Friends, is visiting this city.
In the Sixth District Court this morn
ing jeremiah Egan was ordered commit
ted to the State Asylum. He is insane.
A mission for women is being conducted
at st. Mary's Church this week. The
mems mission will be opened next Sum
day.
Rev. Lindsay Parker, PHI. d., rector OF
st. Peters Church, Brooklyn, n. Y, will
preach at Grace Church this evening at
1880 o'clock.
Il. II. Burlingame will address the
Franklin Society this evening on
"Twenty- Years in the History of
American Water Works"
In ton of Dead Sea water there are 1S7
pounds OF salt, Red Sea 90, Mediterranean
IS, Atlantic 81, English Channel 72,
Baltic Is, Black Sea 70 and Caspian sea ii.
Rhode Island Yacht Club are already pre-
pairing for the summer festivities and 1t
is intended to make the events more en-
ioyable than ever.
liberia is the only country where clocks
are almost entirely dispensed with. The
sun rises exactly at 6 a. m. and sets at p.
IN. throughout the year and is vertically
overhead at noon.
A slight fire in T.. l.. Logee's jewelry
shop i'm the Mckenzie building, corner
of Friendship and Eddy streets last even
ing, caused S25 damage. IL started In
pile of oil waste under one of the lathes.
Those who imagine that Providence is
not musical city should have seen the
anxious crowd that faced the snow storm
for hours yesterday for the purpose OF OBJ
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to hear Patti sing.
The license commissioners have received
applications for 266 licenses, $50 of which
are second-class. There are opportunities
for 80 additional solicitors, and then
comes the tug of war to secure the appro-
baton of the commission.
The Charity Building is now the Mecca
of the city's unemployed, the citizens
committee having closed up their agency.
From present indications Overseer Cum
ming's slender reserve fund will have TO
be replenished from the city treasury.
The Fourth OF July celebration COM
mittee met yesterday afternoon to talk
over warm weather festivities. The bliZ-
Zard outside must have furnished great
inspiration to the conferees in laying out
the program for out door demonstrations.
The members of the Rhode Island Phil
atelic Society are making preparations for
a most successful year. A large number
OF new collections have recently come TO
the front and il is expected that the So
ciety will soon be able to open rooms OF its
own.
Under the ordinance creating the office
OF commissioner of public works, the ap-
pointment Is vested in the Mayor subject
to the confirmation of the Board of AL
dermen, and not the City Council as was
inadvertently stated in last evenings
issue.
Clerk Sweetland makes an excellent
substitute for Judge Cook of the District
Court. He is well acquainted with the
old offenders and can weigh their Gle
excuses and decide just what they are
worth with as much skill as that of the
Judge himself.
Few of the electric cars ran on time
during the early part, OF last evening.
The storm was so hard for short time
that traffic would have been completely
blocked il the electric ploughs had not