The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-07-30
Talked About.
Fntertainments oday.

ROCKY p~oINT-Forest Casino and Biiou Theater
Georgia Minstrels and vaudeville
CRESCENT PARK.Great American HIPPO
drome and ~Iuperiai japanese Troupe.
ADELAIDE PARK-Providence aud Troy, s46
O'Clock.
Over 90 per cent. Of the business OF the
United States is done by checks.
There are $50 beasts, 1891 birds, and $50
reptiles in the London geological gar
dens.
A13O-ton cannon costs nearly 100000,
and can be fired about % times al Q cost
of about S470O per shot.
Today the Tobey street Children's Home
received a renewal of its three-year writ
of exemption from responsibility for IN
Jury to inmates in case OF fire.
OF the 100000 inhabitants Of London
more than 100000 have to live on less
than S5 a week for each family, while
more than 100000 are in chronic poverty.
Hose Is and Hook and Ladder 4 re-
sponded to a still alarm yesterday after
noon and extinguished a roof fire at
| Charles Corey's place, ia Wickendon
street.
Henry st. George Of C~entredale, had a
! leg broken on Bnllock's Point wharf yes
| terday as the result OF too many people
accepting his invitation to fight simulta-
neously.
Colonel John p. Fl. Wilbur Of the Arm
| of Flint Il Co., died of heart failure at his
home on Olney street Saturday. night.
The captain formerly commanded the
Slocum Light GUARDS. The deceased was
40 years old.
Thomas McOsker, an ex-police officer,
had his pockets robbed yesterday morn
ing at Fields Point. He was digging
80 LaI Iaff htQ rinthoa nm on the
bank as q temptation. John Lay 10 sup
posed to have yielded to the temptation
and later in the day was arrested.
Every man with q bicycle pedsled away
from the city yesterday and laid Oh 1t the
first cool spot on the run. A delegation
of the Rhode Island Wheelmen went TO
Na~rragansett Pier n the N~arragansett
and Pswtucket clubs joined forces and
rode to Newport by wheel n same pack
aboard steamer Day Star.
The Chinese population OF Providence
crowded into one laundry yesterday on
Weybosset street and IL is supposed that
their motive was to see what action might
be taken to keep their fellow countryman
Lee Ting, out of Jail by raising bail for
him. Ting Is to be arraigned tomorrow
on the charge Of keeping an opium nuts,
ance, and will undoubtedly be bount
over.
One trick Of the coffee shippers 10 II
put a s~tovepipe into the middle OF tn
bag, FIJI all round It with good coffee
1.-THE pipe itself with an inferior COT
fee, draw out the pipe and tie up Tn
bag. When the coffee comes TO b
sampled q tube IL sunk for some inche
through the side of the bag, and from tn
sample the whole is judged and appraised
The tube, however, seldom reaches tn
coffee that was put into the stovepipe, an
so the whole bag Is rated much above tn
I quality OF tho core.
Near the grounds OF the North En-
Cemetery, in the Moshassuck river, ther
Is a pool OF gold fish which disport In tn
turgid and redolent stream, and they seer
TO thrive and multiply upon the stray bug
a and flies which hover on the surfac'
= Residents in that vicinity declare tha
a few years ago the pool was barren of fs
aud that Immediately after q heavy freshs
% IL was populated by the inny tribe. I'll
.e owner OF the adjoining property has rea
= lied n considerable sum by capturin
them with adragnet and ~disposing OF the
70 TO persons DESTROYS Of adding to their co
, lection OF household pets. The supp
z. seems to he inexhaustiDle notwithstan
re ing the frequent removals. Various the
RIGS have been advanced for their presen'
al IN the stream. They are i'm evidence, ar
h, the small boy has caught on TO the schen
O. and manages to share In the revenue.