The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-25
Talked About.
Entertainments This Evening.

Midnight sun"
.LoIHRors OPERA HousE-"Punishsd at
WEsrNrssrER THEATER-dus Hnps Novelty
Company
BLACKSTONE HALL-conoert.
ALTAR DRAMATIC HALL-''Proiessor Raxters
Great Invention"
plRsr UNlvERsALIsF cHuRcH-old Folks
Concert.
MANNING HALIs-Oratorical Contest
ESKIMO yILLAGE--2s9 Westminster street
UNION CONGREGATIONAL oIURcH-Leciure.
YIN. c. A,-Address by George $. Avery, 1899.
PROF. HAAs-Reesption, tSa Westminster street
Butter has reached its lowest price OF
the year in the wholesale market.
Deputy Sheriff Frank G. Wall will act
as chief marshal at the next state FAR.
1t looks as though ''The Black Crook"
will entertain large number OF citizens
this week.
The ball game between the Bangor and
Providence mines tomorrow Will attract
q big crowd.
ssProfessor Baxter's Great Invention" is
The play that the Altar Club Will pro-
duce tonight.
Isaac Amfelt's horse fell in fit on
Market square last night. 1T was bled
and recovered.
The members OF the General Assembly
left for Bristol this morning where they
viii inspect the Soldiers Home.
Rev. John l.. Pitner OF st. Augustine,
Fla, will succeed Rev. A. Cameron as pas
tor of the Asbury Nj. Il. Church.
The young folks of the First Universal
list Church will ''make up" this evening
and appear as old folks in concert.
Professor Maurice Haas will hold his
18th annual reception tonight at his
apartments on Westminster street.
Here is point for epicures Good
Queen Bess used to eat sucking pigs that
had been fed a fortnight on dates and
muscatine.
Representatives from Princeton, Wes-
]eyan, Yale and Brown will meet at Man
ming Hall tonight and strive for oratori-
cal supremacy.
A London court recently decided that
D mistress is not justified in discharging n
cook without notice, because she smoked
in the kitchen.
The animal convention OF the Master
Plumbers Association of Rhode Island was
held yesterday afternoon, at Newport, III
Foresters' Hall.
Those who have seen "The Land of the
Midnight Sum-" at Keith's Opera House,
unhesitatingly say that II is an interesting
play, well acted.
The shore dinners given by the Me-
Xcnzie Brothers, at their establishment
ON Dorrance street, has proven to be
popular enterprise.
Manager Murray has gwen notice that
the Providence pitchers will have TO get
down to good hard practice until they
have worked into shape.
The Fall River boys made some aston
ishingly sharp plays yesterday and the
Providence club soon discoved that they
were not playing with Pawtucket.
Colonel G. S. Wheaton has denied the
statement that he has contemplated the
foreclosure OF the mortgage that he
holds on the Sprague estate at Canonchet.
Mr.. Jaegers addressed the Germania
Club last night on the subject of studio
sketches. Hans Schneider provided music
for the entertainment that preceded the
lecture.
A very pleasing entertainments was
given at Y. M. c. A. Hall last evening by
Miss Eva Orendorff, soprano, Mr.. 5. III.
Eaton, elocutionist, and Miss Florence X.
Beail, pianist.
The remains of Edwin Forrest, the
tragedian, will soon be removed from the
old vault in st. Paul's churchyard, Phila-
dciphia, where they now rest, to the
Forrest Home Mt Holmesburg.
Parliamentary law is parliamentary law
AL the world over, but the new book of
Reeds Rules explains it more concisely,
plainly and simply than any handy book
on the subject yet published.
TIE Mashapaug Gun Club is arranging
Tor q select social, the proceeds of which
will be devoted towards lquidating the
indebtedness caused by the erection OF
their new and commodious quarters.
A concert was given at the Central Bap-
list church under the auspices of the
Rhode Island Musical Association last
evening. The program was furnished by
Mrs. Emma Winslow Childs, pianist; Mr..
Herbert T.. Brown, tenor, and Miss Alice
J.. Brown, accompanist.
Hon. Amos j. Cummings will intro
duce into the National House OF Repre-
eentatiyes a bill providing for the
punshfnent of the manufacturers OF
silverware who mark their goods ''ster-
ling or "coin" where the amount of sill
Yer used is less than .92l.
Lightning caused considerable damage
at Riverside and vicinity during the noon
time storm yesterday. II burned out the
cent Park and the electrics at the street
ear barn. IL also struck ;. b. Anthony's
and j. Darling's houses.
Said . Boston intelligent workingman
last night, apropos of Swift's army, 81
attended the meeting on the Common
two or three times, and so far as / could
see those who were going are men who
won't work anyway, or else work one
week and drink up their wages on a spree
the next"
Evidently the appearance OF Swifts
"1ndustrials" yesterday did not come up
10 the expectation of the Crawford street
Cadets. AT any rate this corps after one
look at the little band wheeled silently
about and marched back TO their posi-
tions on the bridge where they Will do
duty throughout the summer.
Washington, ID. c., March 29-Dear
Sirs: Ihave received the first three num-
bers OF your picturesque Hawaii and
find the work OF great interest, especially
at this time. The illustrations are excel
lent and furnish pleasing and instructive
Information of those beautiful isles OF the
sea. Yours truly, {. B. Boutelle.
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