The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-01

OF man, wheel and low gear. Mcdonald
soon untwisted himself with little dam
age.
Hardup LEFT the store just at noon with
his mind made up 10 have an norr OF solid
comfort eating dinner. But he was dis
appointed, for he saw oysters on the bill
OF fare and was reminded that in was the
first OF the month and the rent was due,
SO he let himself down with piece of pie,
and worried through till the blowing OF
the one O'Clock whistle.
Oxygen is likely to play an important
part in the submarine boat soon to be
built for the navy. 1t hss been found
that comparatively small quantity OF
oxygen from time To time admitted to a
submarine chamber will keep the air of
such chamber for hours in the condition
TO sustain human life. Instead, then, OF
carrying large volumes of compressed air
in many heavy metallic receivers, single
receiver filled with oxygen may be car
ricd. This makes possible an important
economy of weight and space.
The Summer Debating Society held its
last session last evening at \. NJ. {. A.
Hall, and the final vote of the season was
for the negative of the questions "Re-
solved, That female labor should be pro-
hibited in industrial pursuits" The
aembers extended a cordialvote of thanks
- President Elliott, Secretary Steere and
a.. A. Slocomb, for their efforts which had
met with such satisfactory results.
"Your key winding watch is old FASH
ioned, !" said matchmaker to a customer.
"and it wouldn't fetch more than a dollar
and half il you sold it, but don't give it
up for the sake of S4, s. or 50 stem wind
er. 1t will be more satisfactory to you
n fOnr a "a
good as those now put into S12 or SIS
stem winder, and although it is probably
20 years old it will last a long time yet."
Machine made mems shirts are produced
by a remarkably economical and effective
adaptation Of means to ends. The device
OF cutting out the parts by wholesale
from the material is nicely calculated to
avoid waste, and great sewing machines,
a hundred or two hundred or three hun
dred together, run cheapy by single
steam engine, sew together the parts,
make the buttonholes and sew on the but
tons, aided only by touch here and there
from the hands of one, two, or three hun
dred girls, earning from "a to 81 a week
each.
Kaiser Wilhelm has not kept still dur
ing the past year. calculation has
lately been made showing where he spent
his time since Ang. 10, 1893. He was in
Berlin or Potsdam 1866 days and travelling
the other 199. He gave 81 days TO man
euvers and reviews in II different places,
from Kiel and Salzwedel TO Stuttgart,
Strass burg and Metz; he went
for state ceremonies to Schwer-
in, to Bremen, to Dresden,
to Coburg-for the funeral OF Duke Ernst
and again for tho wedding of the Grand
Duke of Hesse; be bas hunted in Hun
gary, Sweden, Wurtemburg, Upper Silesia
and Baden; his trip to Abbazia, inclading
his stay in Pola, Venice and Vienna, took
three weeks, and he has gone o the North
Fjord and to England. Altogether, the
Emperor travelled by land and water
IL, $50 miles in one year.
The Steamer Tourist that has been serv-
ing for the Continental Steamboa Co.,
during the summer months will probably
sail for New York Tuesday, Sept. II,
where 1t will be fitted up with steam
heating apparatus, painted and an
electric search light placed on
its pilot house, after which
she will sail for Florida. 1t will run
Tampa aud Key West and will beengaged
i'm the fruit and passenger traffic. During
the first month of the Tourists work
here 1t was quite unsuccessful, for on
several occasions its machinery got out
Of order, and propoling wheels were
either lost or broken, but recently il has
been doing nicely. She IL owned by Cap
tain Pitt of New York, but has been com
manded by Captain Sanford for the past
three months.